Is The American a Jarmusch film?
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Sean K - Sep 05, 2010 9:03:30 am PDT #11103 of 30000
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Scrappy - Sep 05, 2010 9:28:02 am PDT #11104 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
No, but it has the same deliberate pace as his films. Some people get into it and some hate it. One couple walked out of the film last night, even though the DH, our friend Andy and I all really liked it.
Sue - Sep 05, 2010 9:51:38 am PDT #11105 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Is The American a Jarmusch film?
It's Anton Corbjin, best known as photographer to the rock stars. I really liked Control, his Joy Division biopic, so I'm willing to give The American a shot.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2010 3:50:35 pm PDT #11106 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been curious about The Final Programme (1973) since I read about it in Cinefastique, and tracked down the Anchor Bay reissue at my local Le Video.
I can see why Michael Moorcock hated it as the director changed the ending to something stupid and jokey, but overall it's pretty cool.
It was directed by Robert Fuest who is best known for the two Dr. Phibes movies and directing some Avengers episodes, which you'd think would make him a perfect director for Jerry Cornelius.
And he gets a lot right. The casting for one, Jon Finch (Hitchcock's Frenzy, Polanski's MacBeth) plays Jerry and he's suitably handsome, dandyish and dark. He's got black painted fingernails and ruffled shirts and Edwardian cut coats! And a needle gun. And Jenny Runacre (who also worked with Pasolini, Cassavetes, Antonioni) is great as Miss Brunner the bisexual, duplicitous vampire (she doesn't suck blood, but absorbs them whole).
There's some really cool pop art sets and scenes and the two leads are fab. It plays a lot like a polymorphously perverse supergroovy Dr. Who. (This association driven in part by the soundtrack which is very Who-ish and the sometimes cheap effects.)
Here's a link to a review (a bit more laudatory than I think it deserves) but with some great screencaps that give you a feel for it.
Atropa - Sep 05, 2010 3:54:31 pm PDT #11107 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
John Carpenter's The Thing holds up really well. Of course, part of that may be that I haven't seen it since it was originally released, when I was 12. But *damn*, those are good effects.
beekaytee - Sep 05, 2010 3:59:08 pm PDT #11108 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
But *damn*, those are good effects.
I can remember the sound of the wire going into the petri dish of blood as if I had seen the movie today, much less, a decade ago. Seriously good effects.
Typo Boy - Sep 05, 2010 4:43:07 pm PDT #11109 of 30000
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Never liked the Jerry Cornelius novels. Wonder if I'd "get" them more in movie form, even if flawed.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2010 4:54:48 pm PDT #11110 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
John Carpenter's The Thing holds up really well. Of course, part of that may be that I haven't seen it since it was originally released, when I was 12. But *damn*, those are good effects.
Jilli, I saw it for the first time a few months ago, and I felt the same way.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 06, 2010 3:43:07 am PDT #11111 of 30000
"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
Oh, that cicada-ey sound the creature makes when changing and its screams when burning are the most horrifying sound effects I've ever heard in a movie.
Though Melanie Griffith singing in the Viva Laughlin pilot may outdo them...
sumi - Sep 06, 2010 6:02:12 am PDT #11112 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Though Melanie Griffith singing in the Viva Laughlin pilot may outdo them...
Another reason for me to be thankful that I didn't watch.
ION, I looked up the casting for that new Katherine Heigl movie and discovered that she was cast as Stephanie Plum in the movie adaptation of One for the Money.
Really?
Although, Daniel Sunjata as Ranger is an excellent idea and as much as I like Jason O'Mara he is not at all what I thought of when I imagined Morelli.