tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post1007592324151279074..comments2024-03-24T13:26:57.317-07:00Comments on Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule: TARDY AS USUAL: Dennis Submits His Answers to Professor Kingsfield's Hair-raising QuizDennis Cozzaliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-32289398176151741312010-07-20T23:03:27.987-07:002010-07-20T23:03:27.987-07:00When I see your article, I really agree with you a...When I see your article, I really agree with you about the blog.I think people will know this after read the information. I hope you will share more with us. <br /><br />At the same time, you also can go to our website to find someting that maybe you like. 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For all she went through in her life, those eyes were pretty indefatigable.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-9386263406232434022009-02-14T00:57:00.000-08:002009-02-14T00:57:00.000-08:00It's lovely to see those pictures of your Grandma ...It's lovely to see those pictures of your Grandma Rina: I remember those bright, watchful, intelligent eyes so well. I hadn't remembered her love for old movies, but I certainly can't forget that look in her eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-58229613617286780432009-02-06T16:09:00.000-08:002009-02-06T16:09:00.000-08:00"The case could be made that Freebie thinks that t..."The case could be made that Freebie thinks that the gay character has killed The Bean, and therefore the whole ending is a crime of passion and <I>F&TB</I> could be read as a tragic romcom..."<BR/><BR/>Paul: The tag line <I>does</I> read, "Above all... it's a love story." :) That subtext-- the laying out of a professional partnership as very much like a romantic relationship-- seems pretty strong here.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-18095472179986522112009-02-06T16:02:00.000-08:002009-02-06T16:02:00.000-08:00Dennis> Wow, I never realised F&TB was an i...Dennis> Wow, I never realised F&TB was an iconic homophobe movie, I just watched it all the way through and thought, well, this is a pretty good-humoured movie with no real axe to grind until - hmm, slow-motion killing of gay character... it just feels weird and out of context, I certainly don't think there's an agenda and I do like the film a great deal (even the peculiar gay scenes) until that point. Of course, the case could be made that Freebie thinks that the gay character has killed The Bean, and therefore the whole ending is a crime of passion and F&TB could be read as a tragic romcom... but, nah, it just feels a bit overtly nasty and gloating.<BR/><BR/>Now that I know The Celluloid Closet made a point of attacking the movie, though, its Mandingoesque status as a great unseeable American classic is more understandable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-19149204792108476022009-02-06T09:24:00.000-08:002009-02-06T09:24:00.000-08:00I am so glad you chose Paul Dooley, too. I love t...I am so glad you chose Paul Dooley, too. I love that man.Ali Arikanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02293558856795196349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-43945173587247300592009-02-06T07:53:00.000-08:002009-02-06T07:53:00.000-08:00I feel bad that I thought Le Boucher was fine, but...I feel bad that I thought Le Boucher was fine, but nothing to get too worked up about. The only other Chabrol film I've seen is This Man Must Die, which I preferred.<BR/><BR/>Also, when I took this quiz, I was completely stumped about my favorite opening credit sequence, and didn't really give an answer. I have one now: The Exorcist III. This <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JseEJtewbFM&feature=PlayList&p=7E00740CF8E9874C&playnext=1&index=91" REL="nofollow">link</A> consists of the first 9 1/2 minutes of the film, but that's okay, because you at least need the first minute or so of build-up to the credits to get the full impact. (And again, I don't know about the word "favorite", but this right up there.)bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-53067274565805620272009-02-06T07:44:00.000-08:002009-02-06T07:44:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-42566091822941742992009-02-05T22:17:00.000-08:002009-02-05T22:17:00.000-08:00The best part of the quizzes is reading the answer...The best part of the quizzes is reading the answers. <BR/><BR/>I am still waiting for the Fay Spain-Yvette Vickers smackdown. Or am I the only one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-17798080123356331602009-02-05T15:20:00.000-08:002009-02-05T15:20:00.000-08:00Dennis:Yes! That scene always made me uneasy. Wh...Dennis:<BR/><BR/>Yes! That scene always made me uneasy. When I initially saw the film, I remember it being a very weird experience. I loved the film, but I remember thinking that I must have been sick while watching it. It wasn't until I re-visited the film much later that I noticed the stylistic effect (I don't think I would have known such a thing at 13), and was immediately taken back to the uneasy, borderline nauseous feeling I had in that theater.<BR/><BR/>A lot of the stuff seen through Crookyln's POV made me feel...off, the first time I saw it. <BR/><BR/>It's a rare moment in a Lee film where something out of his visual bag of tricks works. I'm usually put off by his style (especially in "Summer of Sam" and "Bamboozled"), but here it works.Kevin J. Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17275402809912728035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-84898789662612604002009-02-05T15:10:00.000-08:002009-02-05T15:10:00.000-08:00Larry: I got pulled away from Park Row when I was ...Larry: I got pulled away from <I>Park Row</I> when I was making your dub and never got back to it. But I could do that <I>tonight</I>...<BR/><BR/>Jim: <I>Le Boucher</I> is number-one on my Netflix queue, which has been startlingly inactive for the last four months. I sense a change in the air... Thanks for the link!<BR/><BR/>Kevin: Did that whole squeezed-anamorphic visit-to-the-relatives sequence in <I>Crooklyn</I> freak you out a tad the first time you saw it? Having grown up with a small-town movie theater projectionist, I just assumed somebody forgot to put the right lens on the projector at the reel change! But once I realized it was intentional, it seemed brilliant to me. What a great way of visualizing a child's alienation-- one of Lee's wacky stylistic moves that really works.<BR/><BR/>And I totally forgot to mention Lee's <I>When the Levees Broke</I>, probably the definitive portrait of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-45811647386736545082009-02-05T14:51:00.000-08:002009-02-05T14:51:00.000-08:00Dennis:I'm glad you love "Crooklyn", too. It's su...Dennis:<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you love "Crooklyn", too. It's such an underrated film. I really should watch it again soon (it's been a few years) and do a write-up on it. I remember only being like 13 when it opened in theaters and thinking what a great movie it was. It took awhile for me to revisit it (mostly because Spike Lee Joint's tend to leave a bad taste in my mouth), but what I found when I came back to the film was something genuine; a family picture made by a family (Lee's sisters, Cinque and Joie, wrote the screenplay). <BR/><BR/>It's refreshing to have this type of genuine film in the middle of Lee's, otherwise angry (or as you say, ranting), oeuvre.<BR/><BR/>The film also has two amazing performances from Alfre Woodard and the-always-great Delroy Lindo.<BR/><BR/>I hope more people (re)visit this film.Kevin J. Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17275402809912728035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-57852754373732105742009-02-05T14:06:00.000-08:002009-02-05T14:06:00.000-08:00When you see "Le Boucher" (and you will -- you mus...When you see "Le Boucher" (and you will -- you must! -- because it is an essential life experience), you will sense why I put Stephane Audran in a sequence of close-ups with Claudia Cardinale in "Once Upon a Time in the West," Robert DeNiro in "Once Upon a Time in America," Julie Christie in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," and Julie Christie in "Petulia," here:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/dbwswxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-469193306311025252009-02-05T13:57:00.000-08:002009-02-05T13:57:00.000-08:00"I haven’t seen it all the way through, but I susp..."I haven’t seen it all the way through, but I suspect that Sam Fuller’s Park Row may be a contender as well.."<BR/><BR/>What the hell, son?WelcometoLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05490618592042119755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-80609950458434045332009-02-05T13:15:00.000-08:002009-02-05T13:15:00.000-08:00Paul, thanks for your thoughts. It’s hard not to t...Paul, thanks for your thoughts. It’s hard not to think about that last killing pretty seriously, especially given that attitudes toward homosexuality were generally still pretty dismissive, fearful and downright hostile in most mainstream movies of this period.<BR/><BR/>I wouldn’t go so far as to say that <I>F&TB</I> is <I>not</I> among those movies that could be considered homophobic—clearly Freebie’s disgust, and Bean’s befuddlement, toward the character in question is meant to be shared by the audience to some extent. But as I discussed with a friend afterward, it seems to me this movie was done a disservice by the documentary <I>The Celluloid Closet</I> in how that documentary takes only the <I>shooting</I> of this character, who is in drag, and uses it out of context as Exhibit “A” in the case against Hollywood’s intolerance and fear directed at the gay community. I think that it is significant that the character is presented throughout the film not as demented but as thoroughly confident, not to mention a lethal fighter—he puts the hurt on Freebie pretty definitively with his martial arts abilities— all qualities usually not present in the typical depiction of gays at the time as mincing, weak and with one eye on all the little boys on the playground. <BR/><BR/>It is probably not incorrect that the character’s homosexuality is meant, out of intent or complacency, to stand side by side with the other aspects that could be checked off in the “evil” column, but I think it’s slightly unfair for <I>The Celluloid Closet</I>, and others, to have suggested that we’re to relish the character’s death because he’s a <I>fag</I> and not because he’s the most clever, deadly criminal in the movie, regardless of his sexuality.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-78034026138473635922009-02-05T12:58:00.000-08:002009-02-05T12:58:00.000-08:00Good call on Freebie and the Bean - I rewatched it...Good call on Freebie and the Bean - I rewatched it recently, and I reckon Shane Black used it as the model for most of his movies, the edgy racial banter and the mixture of serious violence and wild humour holds up brilliantly. The relish with which the film's final killing is carried out is pretty hard to read as anything other than homophobic, though, which might account for some of the neglect it's suffered since release.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-52292203432094983842009-02-05T10:40:00.000-08:002009-02-05T10:40:00.000-08:00Absolutely, Dave. Turns out there's a lot more goi...Absolutely, Dave. Turns out there's a lot more going on in <I>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</I> than just a raft ride down a river!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-26918333256898664922009-02-05T10:37:00.000-08:002009-02-05T10:37:00.000-08:00#1 on my list of things I forgot to say in my post...#1 on my list of things I forgot to say in my post to the original quiz:<BR/><BR/>"But of course probably the most interesting thing about seeing movies more than once is seeing films that meant a lot to me as a youngster or a young man and finding out how they seem different to me as an adult. [...] It is we who are different, and seeing a movie again after a long time can reveal as much about how we have changed, about the people we were and the people we are, than just about any other art form."<BR/><BR/>Works for books, too!Dave Fransonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104436081609850987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-17137637513948146752009-02-05T09:45:00.000-08:002009-02-05T09:45:00.000-08:00Dennis:I've just always had a soft spot for AHW--i...Dennis:<BR/><BR/>I've just always had a soft spot for <B>AHW</B>--it's by no means the most <I>accurate</I> R&R film, but it just <I>feels</I> right.<BR/><BR/>We are in complete agreement re: <B>Handle With Care</B>, though. Why that one hasn't made it to DVD yet is a question I'd dearly love the answer to.Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-30792211867839935522009-02-05T09:38:00.000-08:002009-02-05T09:38:00.000-08:00Ivan, I just remember AHW being kinda dull and fla...Ivan, I just remember <I>AHW</I> being kinda dull and flat up so close to Demme's movie. I love the <A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/d7obja" REL="nofollow">one-sheet</A> though. It's been hanging on a wall in my various apartments and houses for years. You're saying this is another of those movies I didn't much care for as a kid that I should see as an adult? Okay! (I do like Tim McIntyre.)Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-48575518459764357682009-02-05T09:32:00.000-08:002009-02-05T09:32:00.000-08:00I suffered through Floyd Mutrux’s movie two more t...<I>I suffered through Floyd Mutrux’s movie two more times just to see the Demme picture again.</I><BR/><BR/>I'd gladly suffer through <B>American Hot Wax</B> ten times that two and more. Best rock 'n' roll film ever made.Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-19267555936353664452009-02-05T08:32:00.000-08:002009-02-05T08:32:00.000-08:00Ray, it's on my calendar in ink. Between now and J...Ray, it's on my calendar <I>in ink</I>. Between now and June that means I'll only have to see about four Chabrol films a week to get up to snuff! <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/bbgypk" REL="nofollow">Claude Chabrol Blog-a-thon</A> at Flickhead's house in June, everybody!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-16703400280325952592009-02-05T05:44:00.000-08:002009-02-05T05:44:00.000-08:00Perhaps this will prompt you to see Le Boucher.Perhaps <A HREF="http://flickhead.blogspot.com/2009/02/claude-chabrol-blogathon.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> will prompt you to see <I>Le Boucher</I>.Uncle Gustavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08501032829800803300noreply@blogger.com