Jayne ,'The Message'
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In the early '90s I saw Crispen Glover do some weird multimedia presentation at First Avenue in Minneapolis. I don't remember much of it, but I liked it.
I think I was the same tour. Was there a slideshow, and then a movie where he was obsessed with Xanadu?
Except I hated it.
There was a slideshow. Possibly a movie. I don't remember the Xanadu part - perhaps I repressed it.
This would have been sometime after the fall of 94, when I moved back from BC.
The thing I saw was before that - sometime between '90 and mid '93.
I just got home from The House of Flying Daggers. The ending was like Romeo and Juliet, only much funnier.
Someday I hope to see a wuxia movie in which everybody survives and goes off to run tea-shops, train students, or possibly raise little martial arts masters.
Overview: Not as pretty as Hero, not as moving as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Some exquisite beauty, as usual. Some dramatic conventions that went so far over the top that I was laughing as people stabbed each other.
Saw a TiVo'd double feature from the '60s today.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a French musical take on a story that Hollywood has done a hundred times (boy and girl fall in love, boy gets drafted and goes off to war). All the dialogue is sung, and the movie has more charm than the law should allow.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is a fun romp about a London-to-Paris air race, c. 1910. Lots of fun, if you like slapstick and have medium-to-high tolerance for national stereotyping. If you liked Rat Race or It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, you might like this one.
Betsy, I just saw it too and had pretty much the same reaction. One thing bothered me though we sawthe soldiers creeping up on the Dagger house, but never went back there HEREto see it resolved.
Me, too, Quester. A crucial emotional point was the realization that we're all going to die anyway, we're just pawns on the chessboard. I thought they were setting up for a really powerful ending in which it didn't matter which choices the protagonists made because the big climactic battle destroyed everybody. Instead, we got that weird cut to the encroaching soldiers, then back to the soap opera.
On the other hand, people slithering head-first down bamboo trees? Coolness.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
In a similar vein is The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
One of my favorites. Silly fun. Balloons and blunderbusses! And I think it is the first thing I ever saw with Benny Hill.