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.
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Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2004 8:53:44 am PDT #3703 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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"
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 08, 2004 10:30:22 am PDT #3706 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm not sure that would be necessary, as whatever they were looking for was always in some Sunnydale crypt or forgotten amongst Giles' Velvet Underground records.
sumi - Sep 09, 2004 6:28:50 am PDT #3707 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Zap2it interview with Paul Bettany.
sumi - Sep 09, 2004 6:37:01 am PDT #3708 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Milla Jovovich is going to be in a movie called Ultraviolet which they say isn't anything like the tv series even though it involves a disease that turns people into "vampire-like" creatures.
Okay.
Nutty - Sep 09, 2004 6:51:23 am PDT #3709 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Silly sumi, it will be a expose about the Hollywood beauty ideal.
What, you don't think there's an interesting correlation between unnaturally tan people and scariness?
Maysa - Sep 09, 2004 8:41:26 am PDT #3710 of 10001
Has anyone seen the silent The Passion of Joan of Arc?
A few weeks ago I watched My Life to Live which shows a scene from this (and I thought just that one scene looked like a masterpiece) and then I happened to catch the whole thing on TCM last Sunday. Amazing.
Dana - Sep 09, 2004 9:14:17 am PDT #3711 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay, love Paul Bettany more now.
Paul Bettany is in great shape. The 6-foot-3 British actor definitely looks the part of a tennis pro, but the star has an definite aversion to working out.
"I get into a gym and there's heavy things to lift and I go, 'I could do this or I could go home and read and book,' and I'm out of the gym like that," says the handsome blond.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2004 9:14:54 am PDT #3712 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I also loved his bum shoulder excuse. Nummy treat.