'Shells'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Serial:
Even with the weird moment where I start to wonder if someone on the production knew my parents or something.
Heh. Some similarities to Terry Valentine?
I need to get out more, I think. I haven't seen any of these movies.
Yes you do. The Limey is great. Terrance Stamp totally kicks ass in that movie.
cool. I will add it to Netflix.
Heh. Some similarities to Terry Valentine?
It's the mention of my name as a could have been worse that makes me blink.
It's the mention of my name as a could have been worse that makes me blink.
I was thinking of you when that line went by.
P-Cow, the three movies that really re-set visual style in the 80s were (as you figured) Blade Runner, Road Warrior and (I think) Diva.
JZ and I saw Jacques Tati's Playtime last night at the Castro. It had a gorgeous, newly struck 70mm print.
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70mm! It had many genuinely inspired bits, but at times it just felt too consciously structured with all its recurring visual jokes and allusions. Still, charming, and aside from Jackie Chan, Tati is one of the few directors who can really work with silent film vocabulary in contemporary movie.
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The question of which version can also be asked of Brazil. Did P-C watch the "happy ending" version, or the director's version?
Another Soldier fan here. Kurt gives a great performance--especially considering he made most of the movie with a broken foot.
The question of which version can also be asked of Brazil. Did P-C watch the "happy ending" version, or the director's version?
jimi, AFAIK, there is no "happy ending" version. There was a lot of fuss because the studio (Universal, I think) wanted to release a happy ending version (leading to Gilliam's Variety ad - "Dear Sid Scheinberg, when are you going to release my film "Brazil"?), but Gilliam's vision prevailed and the director's cut was released at the time. The edited version may have been shown on US TV though.
Hah! Just got the following off IMDb:
Gilliam had trouble with studio producers over the black ending he wanted on the film. The producers wanted a "happy Hollywood" film which eliminated (among other things) the final transition and a critical line of dialogue which reveals the fate of Jill. These changes were made, and this "butchered" version was shown on US television at least once. Gilliam threatened to disown the film, and consequently the cinematic release and all videotape versions show the film essentially as he intended it to be seen (although the US cinematic release still omitted the line about Jill).
In case the line was missing in your version, P-C, the Jill line is something like: Jack or Helpmann says Jill is dead, and Sam thinks it's because he changed her records to make her appear dead, and then Helpmann says yes, but it's funny because according to our records she seems to have died twice .
I saw the happy ending version on TV once.
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"Brazil: The Love Conquers All Version", with audio annotation by David Morgan, this 94 minute version of "Brazil", rearranged in the hope of making the film commercial, stands as a fascinating document of the power of editing to change a movie
This is what I was referring too and it can be found on the Brazil: Criterion Edition DVD.
Brazil: Criterion Edition DVD.
I've been meaning to get this. I'm not sure whether the inclusion of "Love Conquers All" is an incentive or a disincentive, though....