― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Lewis' plotless directorial debut. It doesn't have the highs of the ladies man or the errand boy but it is probably his most consistently paced self directed film. Lewis' titular hotel servant character Stanley Belt, as a tribute to silent film comedy, doesn't speak throughout the film until the very end. Lewis plays himself as a guest in the luxury hotel. This was the film that helped secure Lewis' reputation amongst the French New Wavers as it is shot in relatively low budget black and white for a comedy feature and is mostly improvised on the set by Jerry and his buddies.
― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)
The End of Violence
I rented it once, watched about 15 minutes, and then I think the tape screwed up. I never bothered to look for another copy. Wenders makes me think of something I once heard said about Wire, the band. Somebody or other was theorizing that every bad record you make negates one of your good ones. Assuming this formula translates to films, I think Wenders is in the hole at this point. That said, I loved the central notion of Until the End of the World: people addicted to their own dreams. Too bad that movie wasn't better.
The Longest Yard
More than the original version, I remember the edited-for-television version: "He broke his freakin' neck!" Good, solid '70s action-comedy.
While You Were Sleeping
I vaguely remember being somewhat charmed by this. Unlike most romcoms, the characters were pretty down-to-earth and quasi-normal. And hey, America's sweetheart. I also remember it being mebbe a little boring/slow. That's what you get for approaching realism.
― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)
It's sorta a megalist of lists I've been compiling. If you want to see the whole thing (quite scary, I do admit), feel free to - http://www.savonarolamustburn.com/movielist.php
[WARNING: List is 1.5 MB...I think...]
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Thanks, coz, it's nice to feel the love. (Not insane, just insanely devoted - that monster's something I've been working on for a few years now.) I've seen 943 of them, according to the database. So that's about 20% of the list.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)
Tim Roth's acting debut, dontchaknow?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)