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Aww Pretty Maids... is not available on Netflix.
re: Heath Ledger. I can watch Knight's Tale and I would like to see Dark Knight again but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to rewatch Brokeback and I felt close to tears a couple times during Doctor Parnassus but damn is that a great movie! Did we already talk about what a fantastic film Doctor Parnassus is? I thought I remembered the critics being disappointed. I have always been a fan of Gilliam. I even enjoyed Jabberwocky.
From Nolan? Or just in general? I'd love to hear Nolan's thoughts but he seems reluctant to do commentaries.
Really? Chris Gore mentioned commentary on Following, and I thought Memento had commentary. Did he stop doing them?
I liked Parnassus a lot...mostly because I have an unhealthy love for Gilliam, but I recall the public discourse being pretty negative.
Parnassus was typically confusing/enthralling/heartbreaking--ie, standard Gilliam. The idea of story as the power of the universe delighted me.
And they dealt with the loss of Ledger in all those scenes very well, because the character had so many faces that he presented that it made perfect sense that he would be different people in the other universe.
I missed Parnassus in the theater, dammit, due to dating the hermit. Must rent. I hae the audio for Heath Ledger singing Can't Take My Eyes Off of You on my iPod, and I get so sad when it comes up. Don't know when I'll feel up to watching Brokeback again.
I was just about to put out a request for the hivemind while doing my homework for my Reference class tonight. I had to pull together a bunch of sources for teaching a little class to teenagers on HUAC and the Hollywood Blacklist, and I was having a serious brain freeze on the name of the film about the performance of a 1930s musical which was banned due to the Red Scare and which was performed from the audience by the cast members due to union issues. Then I hit the right combination of search terms and figured out it was The Cradle Will Rock, which I still haven't seen but really want to.
"I have a job
Three days a week.
But other days
It's nice to eat."
I believe HBO ran a remake of The Cradle Will Rock back in the late '80s.
I looked that up, and it's already in my queue. Here's the trailer [link]
Was that HBO? I thought that was theatrical. I've always wanted to see that, too.
The theatrical movie that I was thinking of was from 1999.