Saturday, July 31, 2021

PLANE CRASH JUNGLE SOCIOGRAMMATICS OF "BACK TO ETERNITY (1956)......(remake of "Five Came Back").. Morning 'associations' before the Java Fix, but after the melting chocolate 'special effects' chocolate lozenge....




I was just wondering 'what a 3rd "take" by a current director would "be like".' 
  Lucille Ball in the 1st Version, Anita Eckberg in the 2nd.....and (?) in a new version.......
[.(?) = Haley Atwell, Margot Robbie, Scarlet Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence or Brie Larson...ie Larson? ]
 Who would/should direct it? 
Both of the 'older' films reminded me of an amalgam of Lost Horizons....
both versions......, 
Flight Of The Phoenix, Alive, and Sands Of The Kalihari.......
All of which, like the Farrow Films....now, largely forgotten........ 
 "LANSA Flight 508", directed by Sam-Taylor Johnson?......
Starring: Kristin Stewart, and the cast of A Million Little Pieces?  
What defines 'modern Cinematics'? 
 What elements make a Film 'Important' after a half century?
  I 'tried to re-watch' Ridley Scott's 'Final Edit' of his, now 40-year old, Bladerunner, just yesterday;
 but, despite it's 'Look'.......all the gimicy slips were showing and the Film looked really 'dated'
 in it's 1940-ish rainy 'noirishness'......
When I 'found myself' making critical assessments of every other frame, and hearing it's cast.
..stumbling through the clumsy dialogue....
against the tiresome backdrop of 'then "in"' composer, Vangelis,
 I just wanted to put away my wet umbrella for a 'drip-dry' 
and take the Wonder Woman translucent plane off to parachute into some Swedish Art Film
 with dark grey subtitles, against a black/vs/white Scenario........
or just recall images of Tallulah and William Bendix, being coached by Alfred Hitchcock

 ...  Morning 'associations' before the Java Fix,




Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Sorry Greg.....After the 'edit' there remained only transparent 'leader' film.......

This morning, a "friend" commented, "Reed.....you should watch some 'more wholesome' films."......."For example?", I replied.........."Like 'Heaven is for Real', for one"....she said.....[Even after noting that the film starred Kelly Reilly and Greg Kinnear, I remained suspiciously unmotivated]..........If the film had featured Eva Green, Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel, I may have considered it........"You are victimized by your own intellectual prejudices!", she retorted...."Ok, You watch This.....(handing her the challengingly huge boxed DVD set of Jacques Rivette's 'OUT 1'......)"......."and I'll watch 'The Last Temptation of Christ'......", I commiserated. "NO FAIR!", she whined......"This "OUT 1" box says that the movie is almost 800 hours long~!"..........I figured that since she thought she'd be around forever, she had time for it....whereas, I'd be dead not so long from now, with absolutely no interest in Film........