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Gerry.

new(ish) Van Sant film with Matt Damon & Casey Affleck.

Haven't seen it, but I think I can catch it before it leaves the thee-ater here. One of my fave critics liked it quite a bit; friend of mine (who I do not trust) ranted for hour upon hour abt its "self-indulgence" (good sign!)

Tell me about Gerry.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like how most reviewers are "eh" toward the movie but still single out Van Sant for praise for bucking the system, etc.--as if that's a virtue in itself. Obv. Van Sant is a successful Hollywood director now who has paid (in his find) for his experimentation with compromise. But in reality his "compromise" films are neither better nor worse than his "experiments." He seems like a shallow fellow to me. I usually hate to hold this over anyone's head, but his film is a little nothing compared with his avowed models (Tati, Tarr, Tarkovsky, etc.).

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like he took the most facile meaning from postwar European art cinema and proceeded to make a movie to reconstruct only that; little of the felicities and humor and etc. of those directors and others.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The aforementionedreview.

hmm okay Am. thanks. (Maybe soon enough I'll get around to seeing a Tati, Tarr, or Tarkovsky...)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, that was a stupid abstruse post. I guess it's worth seeing, but it seems to me that Van Sant has misunderstood Tarr et al as some kind of existential endurance test, like the supposed punishment of viewing the film was its main object...and has made a film based on that understanding. Obviously it's not as bas as all that--I mean, he's a reasonably talent filmmaker and the stars are OK to watch--but the film seems a too-obvious play for "cred" which he's predictably reaping from some critics.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude we're really butting heads today (accidentally)! lemme give you a hug, c'mere.

I think I got your point fine. A certain level of skepticism of intentions is probably healthy in this case. I'll try to see it this week I guess. (And I'd like to know what you think of Fujiwara, too)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

BTW Gus gets a pass for Anna Paquin and her strange wonderful cadences in Finding Forrester -- a movie which I surprisingly did not hate at all. And his name is Gus!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

He's talking about remaking Psycho again, the maniac.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

That would be classic (if he had already remade it).

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually like his reasoning: he made (will make) it so no one else has to. I mean, it's a generous gesture and it suggests his own lack of inspiration in one fell swoop.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

OK to see a recent film which takes the Tarkovsky, etc. influence and runs with it in unusual and interesting directors, run don't walk to Japón, now playing in NYC.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

now playing in NYC :(

― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Where are you? It will probably tour around soon enough. It's scheduled to come to Chicago in April I believe.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Minneapolis (though I shouldn't complain. there are 3 or 4 good arthouses and a university film society for revivals and under-released stuff and I make it to like .01% of that...)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

He's talking about remaking Psycho again, the maniac.

with courtney love* as janet leigh!!

(* possibly)

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

And it's somehow going to be set in the LA punk scene... oh wait, you already started a thread about that.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

i really liked how quiet this movie was, no music, no opressive dialoge, i really actually loved this movie.

― anthony, Sunday, 27 March 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

There was music, though.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 27 March 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The "I conquered Thebes" scene sticks with me hard, I can tell you that. The long take where Affleck's atop the rock and has to figure out how to come down is essential.

Humorous but solemn, dark but celebratory.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked it a lot. At first I thought it was "Bill and Ted Wait for Godot" but I was corrected by a friend who says it's "Dude, Where's My Tarr?"

Anyway, agreed on the conquest of Thebes and the dirtpillow.

Keep in mind I'm a long-take whore, though. I practically messed my pants over "The Russian Ark."

― Austin S (Austin, Still), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i posted this when the music became more obv. casey affleck died right ?

― anthony, Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

not according to his imdb page.

― Austin S (Austin, Still), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

He got kissed to death.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Where's My Tarr? is the ROFFLE!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

no shit!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 27 March 2005 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I think i should rewatch this on the big screen today? cuz it's hard to see unless you buy the disc, and it's really a theater film.

and it's better than going to the Mets game

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 July 2018 17:15 (seven years ago)

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