| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
Hmm... http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080716/REVIEWS/55996 637 | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182 |
Excellent. I think this film is going to kick some serious behind. I can't wait. Lots of reviews are talking about an oscar worthy performance from Ledger. Nolan's last Batman film certainly proved that he is one of Hollywood's most talented directors. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
Joker kind of sounds like SAW. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.54.1.35 |
Ya gotta love Ebert, he's no snob. I just read his review of Journey to the Center of the Earth: "You are familiar with (it) because the Jules Verne novel has inspired more than a dozen movies and countless TV productions, including a series, and has been ripped off by such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who called it Pellucidar, and imagined that the Earth was hollow and there was another world on the inside surface. (You didn't ask, but yes, I own a copy of Tarzan at the Earth's Core with the original dust jacket.)" Ya gotta love a bibliophile! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
The Dark Knight looks fantastic - can't wait. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.228.239 |
Yep, the Joker will certainly be remembered. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
I do love Ebert! His style of writing and observations have rubbed off on my fiction! I'd love to meet him. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
Sigh. This reads like the best sort of fiction. A marvel. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/07/the_films_of_our_lives.html#more After reading it scroll down to Maya's entry. Phew. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
The Joel posting in Ebert's thread isn't me, of course. Maya doesn't understand 'Pale Blue Eyes'. It's a love song (about a relationship between two men – at least, that's how I've always interpreted it) from a character's perspective. The line she claims 'destroyed music' for her (!) relates to the need for a cover story between the two of them to maintain secrecy. I don't think she understands anything about real-life relationships if she thinks that makes the song itself dishonest. Does she assume that every Lou Reed song has to be about Lou Reed? If so, she must have found BERLIN utterly confusing. But then, since music has been destroyed for her, perhaps she hasn't heard it. I don't mean to be nasty about someone I don't even know. But if people post foolishness they are asking for a rebuttal – in the Homer Simpson sense. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
The rest of the post was a nice conjuring of Paris, though.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
There's a Joel in this Capote book I'm reading, too; one of the best books I'll ever read, it feels like, so far. 'Other Voices, Other Rooms', his first. HIS FIRST!!! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.12.14 |
When I can afford to - I'll get some Capote and Ellison. What do you like about the book Tony? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
It has no story, just a series of realizations and feelings. It's a god's eye view of a time and place, but not just one time but time in movement, past times and days to come. There's a line in it, 'Stars have fallen here, and arrows' that for me transcended much sci fi, and a description of a lake by an old abandoned hotel that makes horror and in fact genre either fall away or be part of everything, I can't decide. It muddies the edges of identity and reality, this book, and has, I think (I hope) changed the way I want to write. And just when you think the book has been good or you think you know where it's going along comes a character you maybe haven't encountered, or you think you know, and the whole book shifts or crystallizes. What a mind he had; an Einstein of the imagination. Also the book is strangely spiritual - something no-one who has read this author has ever told me. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.48.161 |
I'll add it to my list :>) | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.108.32 |
This looks like it might be good, Bat-fans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXrhcQ7M-K4 | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.108.32 |
And this is rather amusing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxgNjMTPIs | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.137.224 |
"Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner..." | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.228.239 |
To think I found a fat Capote tome in a 2nd hand bookshop in Gent last week . . . I don't know why I didn't buy it, for it virtually leaped into my right hand. I may return and buy it yet. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
It's because of that movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, that sort of thing. Retrain your lenses more toward Aickman and Jackson and his friend Harper Lee to conjure how he really is. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
And er, 'soften' Aickman a bit while you do it! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
I like the movie. Keep meaning to read the book, as Tony insists on it! |