For the record, I did not fall asleep. I enjoyed it.
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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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§ ita § - Sep 08, 2004 6:31:59 am PDT #3696 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hayden - Sep 08, 2004 7:39:33 am PDT #3697 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Has anyone seen the silent The Passion of Joan of Arc?
Absolutely amazing.
But there are a lot of other great quotable lines
Well, there's a fine line between clever and... stupid.
Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2004 7:50:17 am PDT #3698 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Absolutely, hayden. Even more amazing -- that was virtually Falconetti's entire movie career. According to IMDB, she only appeared in one other movie.
Hayden - Sep 08, 2004 8:00:15 am PDT #3699 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Really? I had no idea. I'd just figured she was a big star lost by time. Wow.
Lyra Jane - Sep 08, 2004 8:02:56 am PDT #3700 of 10001
Up with the sun
the phrase "Turn it to 11" is never actually said in the movie.
The usual quote is, "this one goes to 11," which is. Other 11=LOUD references are understood to be Spinal Tap related but are not theTrue Quote.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 08, 2004 8:04:57 am PDT #3701 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Really? I had no idea. I'd just figured she was a big star lost by time. Wow.
I can't remember which exactly it is, but making "...Joan of Arc" was such a traumatic experience for Falconetti that she either gave up acting or had a nervous breakdown (and subsequently HAD to give up acting).
DavidS - Sep 08, 2004 8:39:03 am PDT #3702 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has anyone seen the silent The Passion of Joan of Arc?
raises hand
Very powerful drama that puts the viewer through the wringer. The movie starts with Joan's trial and continues through her execution. Maria Falconetti is a miracle as Joan -- you can feel her anguish, and the camera spends a lot of time in close-up. Actually, much of the film is close-ups of the characters -- something that adds to the power.
Dreyer famously put Falconetti through the wringer for her performance. It's her only movie, but one of the great film performances. Antonin Artaud himself plays one of her accusers. The original cut was thought lost for many years, and film historians had to make do with a version cobbled together from alternate takes for years. Finally they found a complete print of the original cut about ten years ago (or so).
Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2004 8:53:44 am PDT #3703 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Finally they found a complete print of the original cut about ten years ago (or so).
...in a janitor's closet in a Norwegian mental hospital.
Not the first place you'd expect to find such a thing.
JZ - Sep 08, 2004 8:58:08 am PDT #3704 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
...in a janitor's closet in a Norwegian mental hospital.
Not the first place you'd expect to find such a thing.
Well, you know, it's always in the last place you look, and a janitor's closet in a Norwegian mental hospital is exactly the last place I would look for, well, anything except maybe a Norwegian mop, so I guess it makes some kind of sense.
Great, harrowing film with amazing use of forced perspective and quease-inducing not-quite-right angles and off-balance walls and ceilings that feel like they're about to slide off each other and crush everyone beneath them. And Falconetti is astonishing, but from all the accounts of the experience of filming it it's no wonder at all that she never did another film.
evil jimi - Sep 08, 2004 10:11:55 am PDT #3705 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
See, if Giles or Wes had just thought to look more often in a janitor's closet in a Norwegian mental hospital...woulda saved a whole lotta hassle at times.
"Oh look, a spare copy of the Books of Ascension"