New York Film Festival 2006

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I'l likely see precious little due to Mets playoffs, but:

http://www.mcnblogs.com/reeler/archives/2006/08/lynch_coppola_apichatpong_among_28_chosen_for_nyff_06.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

NewYork Film Festival 2006

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

or New York Film Festival 2006

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Will Warren Beatty show to do a Q&A for Reds?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

They're showing Guy Maddin's new silent feature Brand Upon the Brain! at the Walter Reade Theater with a live orchestra. But I'm only ordering the Lynch and Tian Zhuangzhuang films for now.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The Janus retro sidebar:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/janus/program.html

I hope The Go Master isn't as dull as the Slant review said.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Warren Beatty in today's NYT about Reds: "This movie was so harmless that Ron and Nancy Reagan, who I always considered friends, arranged a screening in the White House.”

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to recall the Gipper's post-film comment was "Gee, I was hoping for a happy ending."

Wish I could go see the Panahi, but for baseball.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

So no one went to anything besides me?

If A's-Tigers is over or 3-1 on Sunday, I might stand in rush line for Brand Upon the Brain!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Woman on the Beach, Belle Toujours, Inland Empire one of the avant-garde programs and a couple of the Janus things. The only thing I really loved was Belle Toujours. I've got Maddin tickets for Saturday night.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

That is, Sunday night.

were you at the Monday matinee of IE like me? whatcha think?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I did see it Monday. I'm still not quite sure what I thought bcz there's so much material to piece together. There were a number of great individual scenes and I really liked the emphasis on how small and light the dv cameras are, i.e. how close he could get to the actor's faces. Though, as a friend of mine pointed out, the sound typically-Lynch sound design kind of overpowered the fragile image. I was disappointed that it was so...boring, though. One of my favorite things about Lynch is usually that he can create suspense/intrigue out of almost ANYTHING, but IE was so all-over-the-place that, for me at least, it failed to maintain narrative interest for 3 hrs.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

are they doing brand! full-tilt?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

with Isabella, orchestra etc, yeah. Did you like, I forget.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i did! i thought it got better as it went along too.

wait... with isabella? doing what?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

"The debut screening of Guy Maddin's silent feature with live orchestral accompaniment and featuring Isabella Rossellini as The Narrator!"

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I wouldn't call what Lynch does in his other films 'suspense' so much as DREAD, So the scant narrative/plot here just amped up the dread for me. I drifted away much less often than Straight Story (which I liked) or Wild at Heart (loathed).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

'Dread' is prob. more accurate, but I think that when Lynch is at his best the dread is tied to some bizarre narrative-engagement/suspense that seems to have little to do w/ the plot.

I'll certainly agree that IE is better than SS or WaH, though.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 13 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Brand! screening was a blast, and I managed to watch the screen and not the onstage Foley artists most of the time. (I won't give away when they used celery at the mike.) Isabella was a hoot doing the purple narration; they should tour so she can breathe heavily in halls across the land.

I'm slightly disappointed that the palette of the film itself was so close to that of Cowards Bend the Knee, so it's probably my least favorite of Maddin's last four features, but it's still a goofily brazen fucked-up Freudian hallucination.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

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