Could be both...Levinson's a major cineaste. (As many movies as I watch I doubt I've ever used that word before, ever. Feel that I should raise my pinkie in the air after typing it, even,)
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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erikaj - May 03, 2006 8:55:50 am PDT #1645 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Strega - May 03, 2006 8:57:26 am PDT #1646 of 10001
At Swim-Two-Birds which I'm rereading right now
"My correct name is Good Fairy, said the Good Fairy. I am a good fairy."
...Yeah, I got nothing on Fellini, but I love that book.
I can't think of any notable movie-watching incidents with my parents, though my dad certainly loved Peter Sellers. Oh, but because I think it's neat: back in the day my mom was friends with a girl whose father worked at Grauman's Chinese Theater. So she got to go to a lot of cool premieres. To this day, she gets really irate about the cuts Kubrick made to 2001 after it opened.
DavidS - May 03, 2006 8:58:53 am PDT #1647 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"My correct name is Good Fairy, said the Good Fairy. I am a good fairy."
Heh. I love that section! The Pookha is so dapper and polite.
Frankenbuddha - May 03, 2006 9:03:42 am PDT #1648 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
AMARCORD is truly lovely though. I always flash on different things when I think back on it (rather appropriate that), from images that just permanently etch themselves in the memory, like the peacock in the snow, to sequences that are just hysterically funny, like the crazy uncle who refuses to come out of the tree and tries to make his family get him a woman. The visual punchline to that bit - the tiny nun who finally gets the man to behave - always makes me grin like a fool.
Hayden - May 03, 2006 9:51:32 am PDT #1649 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Roman Coppola's CQ plays the first Nico scene from La Dolce Vita from the main's character's perspective off to the side. Clever!
Kate P. - May 03, 2006 10:58:18 am PDT #1650 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
As a young girl my father brought me to the cinema to see Cool Runnings. Nothing's quite the same after your father breaks down in tears watching a comedy movie in a room full of your ten year old peers.
?? Why did your dad cry? What am I not remembering about that movie?
§ ita § - May 03, 2006 12:10:45 pm PDT #1651 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My dad would've cried about the accents. Don't know how global an issue that is.
juliana - May 03, 2006 12:20:09 pm PDT #1652 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Why did your dad cry? What am I not remembering about that movie?
Um, not that I would be anything like this, but maybe he's the kind who tears up at moments of extreme grace (physical/mental/whatever) during sporting events and/or movies?
Yes, I get a lump in my throat when I hear the Olympic anthem. Yes, I tear up when I see the torch go by, even if it's just on TV. Yes, I bawled at Hoosiers, among other movies. Yes, I am a dork.
askye - May 04, 2006 5:49:06 am PDT #1653 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I just read that George Lucas will be releasing the original theaterical releases of Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi on dvd. I'm sure it will be wildly overpriced but I'll buy it.
Kalshane - May 04, 2006 5:51:35 am PDT #1654 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The changes to Empire and Jedi didn't really bother me. I'm all for a Han shoots first, damn it, version of A New Hope, though.