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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 4 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 4 Mailer, An American Dream Then the message came clear. “Walk the parapet,” it said. I did not want to walk that parapet. “Walk it,” said the voice, “or you are worse than dead.” . . . I would have to raise my foot uncomfortably high, bring my knee up almost to my shoulder, and then clinging with my right hand to the groove in the mortar of the wall of the building I would have to take a quick vertical step just as if I were springing into a high stirrup, and if I came up too hard, I might go over. My fingers scraped on the wall, one nail broke and came half off, and I was up, up on that parapet one foot wide, and almost broke in both directions, for a desire to dive right on over swayed me out over the drop . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim D. Ghantous Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 That gave me some pretty strong acrophobia! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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charles pappas Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Surely Coppola was paying a little homage to the Coen Brothers "Hudsucker Proxy," in that clip. I really hope this film gets some good big-screen distribution soon, ideally a real IMAX or 75mm release, but at least a theatrical release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim D. Ghantous Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 21 hours ago, Jeff Bernstein said: Good catch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 16 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 16 Apocalypse now. Monolithic doorway. Smoky 1979 Storaro doorway. Ladder of books. Mirror by the pure-white bed. Fairy-tale princess in bare feet, radiating light. Is he too late? Kandinsky—a complexity of vectors and transitions and scales. German expressionist eye. (Warm yellow light, cool grey : the naked woman very strongly recalling to Scrooby EWS—cannot be helped). A man seeing himself. We seeing him, and all else. A memory. A memory of the pastoral. Of the princess offering passage through a doorway, a special doorway, the smoky 1979 Storaro doorway. The princess as Muse. If the Muse dies? —If society lets the Muse die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Posted Thursday at 11:58 AM Share Posted Thursday at 11:58 AM (edited) Interesting backstory and not so good review. "Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script in the early 1980s, but the film was kept on the back-burner partially due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after filming 30 hours of second unit footage and holding table read with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey. However, the project was scrapped after the September 11 attacks, since a scene from the script (page 166) "predicted" the attacks. Coppola fully abandoned the project in 2007, and didn't begin developing it again until 2019." & "Just as the fallen Rome fell, the movie "Megalopolis" is a hopeless story against a dark background. The characters are not fresh, either. There are so many CGs and I don't understand what topics they convey. It feels like many stories are rotten. It's like we're seeing reality in 2024. The ratings for the critics are around 50, so the reviews are divided. It's a long-awaited movie, and I'm personally disappointed. I can understand why the production company opposed this movie when it was produced. I'm even more disappointed that the director is only this good. The narrative is a mess. I can't see the director's intention." Megalopolis (2024) - IMDb Edited Thursday at 11:59 AM by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim D. Ghantous Posted Friday at 03:20 AM Share Posted Friday at 03:20 AM I still want to see it, though. It's amazing that it took this long to finally make. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Uli Meyer Posted Friday at 06:31 AM Premium Member Share Posted Friday at 06:31 AM Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian's resident film critic, called it "megabloated" and "megaboring". I hope it is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Karim D. Ghantous Posted Saturday at 08:25 AM Share Posted Saturday at 08:25 AM On 5/24/2024 at 5:12 PM, Jeff Bernstein said: I presume you watch film analysis videos, like on this channel? https://www.youtube.com/@collativelearning/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted Saturday at 08:36 AM Author Premium Member Share Posted Saturday at 08:36 AM As a youngling Scroob read everything under the sun (so to speak), because all streams pour into Art. Nowadays Scroob is pouring out, and needs no topping up except by Art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Uli Meyer Posted 16 hours ago Premium Member Share Posted 16 hours ago (edited) Thread about Megalopolis and somehow we ended up with Anton Chigurh. Edited 16 hours ago by Uli Meyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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