Film critics - what's that all about? Here's Joe Queenan in The Guardian and here's Manohla Dargis in The New York Times on Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. (In Queenan: what is a strunt, by the way?)
They move me to point out that A Scanner Darkly contends with Blade Runner as the best adaptation of a Philip K.Dick novel. In fact, it is better than Blade Runner at capturing Dick's Chandleresque side - his baffled and not quite sentimental humanism. Philip French - here - gets it right.
Friday, September 08, 2006
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Critics...tut. I seldom believe a single word. I prefer to be my own critic. We all have different tastes, although nothing really excites me at the cinema anymore. I do find the word 'Hilarious' over used, (tabloid talk), to me, it usually translates as 'Mildly humouress in a couple of scenes in an otherwise mediocre movie with not much of a storyline.'
ReplyDeleteRevive your flagging cinematic spirits, Lee, see anything by Wong Kar Wai, notably 2046, and the critics were wrong about Speilberg's Munich as well.
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