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Nicely put, Glenn. For a pretty fascinating first-hand account of the latter part of Krim's years at UA and then at Orion, check out Mike Medavoy's for-some-reason-little-read memoir YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR NEXT ONE. Not as essential as FINAL CUT, but a very engaging read nevertheless.
Department of overextended analogies
Over at Vanity Fair's website, Julian Sancton makes the inevitable Funny People/Annie Hall comparison. Which is all well and good as far as it goes (and for a lot of Allen fans who think that Apatow's not fit to be Woody's chauffeur, it has to be said that it doesn't go very far at all), except ...
I've always found it kind of silly when people try and watch BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ in one or two sittings. That just seems totally counter to the spirit in which it was made, and to the way in which it unfolds. I like it a great deal, but I would probably have had little patience for it had I been forced to watch 10 hours of it at once...
That said, I have no idea how Fassbinder intended it to be viewed (not that I particularly care).
Art movie marathon update
Walk seven hours in their shoes: Tarr's Satantango Wherein I admit that I both cheated and dropped the ball. As some of you may recall, the provisions of my plan as laid out in an earlier post at least implied that my viewing of nearly 30 hours worth of art cinema would not get started until...
No argument from me. My hatred of Grusin's film scoring work once even made it into my Facebook status update. Though I will say that his score for THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR is The Ecstasy of Fucking Gold compared to his score for THE FIRM.
It actually took me half an hour to write that last sentence because I fell asleep halfway through it.
Fear and loathing, film music division
Seriously. It's funny, I was thinking as I was writing up the new Criterion disc of Peter Yates' 1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that Coyle could actually have been that rarest of things, a perfect movie, had it not been for the overstated and thoroughly dinky electric piano-driven "jazz co...
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