I took off a couple of days from SG to get some video-watching and reading done.
The Indian Runner- while People magazine n such focus on the pretty, pretty actors, the real acting folks pretty much know that David Morse is the real deal... he's probably prettier than a lot of these actors too, but that's neither here nor elsewhere...
This is as great a drama as Kurtz acknowledged. Written/ directed by Sean Penn, inspired by a Bruce song, starring Morse, Bronson (not Pinchot; you would be thinking of The Langoliers), Viggo, P Arquette... a view of contrasting brothers, a troubled American family... and I guess they're unhappy in their own way, as the saying goes.
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Bee Season by Myla Goldberg - ...as they are in theirs... but not only a heartbreaking story in turns, but at once starkly, harshly realist and totally mythological... follows conventions, predictable at times, and then totally mystifying, with an ending I had to re-read and think about to understand (I think...I'd like to meet Myla and compare my interpretation. Maybe I'll send a letter)... not to mention Myla has a hell of a way with a sentence. One of the best novels I've read.
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Mr. Show DVDs - I watched about 40 minutes of the first one. Sorry, folks; I just don't get it.
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Microserfs by Douglas Coupland - just starting it; I guess I'm around 80 pages in? Very clever, identifiable; a genial, down-to-earth sitcom-y style, but with an added depth and seriousness taken of its characters, and the 'random word' journal of Dan's has some zing to it. This is the first Coupland I've read, partially inspired by Cherry and the others who wrote in the Coupland thread (I think MrSATAN was in there).
The Indian Runner- while People magazine n such focus on the pretty, pretty actors, the real acting folks pretty much know that David Morse is the real deal... he's probably prettier than a lot of these actors too, but that's neither here nor elsewhere...
This is as great a drama as Kurtz acknowledged. Written/ directed by Sean Penn, inspired by a Bruce song, starring Morse, Bronson (not Pinchot; you would be thinking of The Langoliers), Viggo, P Arquette... a view of contrasting brothers, a troubled American family... and I guess they're unhappy in their own way, as the saying goes.
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Bee Season by Myla Goldberg - ...as they are in theirs... but not only a heartbreaking story in turns, but at once starkly, harshly realist and totally mythological... follows conventions, predictable at times, and then totally mystifying, with an ending I had to re-read and think about to understand (I think...I'd like to meet Myla and compare my interpretation. Maybe I'll send a letter)... not to mention Myla has a hell of a way with a sentence. One of the best novels I've read.
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Mr. Show DVDs - I watched about 40 minutes of the first one. Sorry, folks; I just don't get it.
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Microserfs by Douglas Coupland - just starting it; I guess I'm around 80 pages in? Very clever, identifiable; a genial, down-to-earth sitcom-y style, but with an added depth and seriousness taken of its characters, and the 'random word' journal of Dan's has some zing to it. This is the first Coupland I've read, partially inspired by Cherry and the others who wrote in the Coupland thread (I think MrSATAN was in there).
I don't understand Mr. Show either...