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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:04:20 +1000
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [film] Re: American Gigolo - 1980



Yes, its a pity.

Haven't see "Gangs of New York".  I think historical and religious content
have little effect on the artistic value of a good movie.  IMHO, itt's what
it movie does to the audience, not what it does to religion, history and
politics that should matter.

> yes, Days of Heaven is one of the greatest films since 1970, but isn't it
a
> pity there have been so few of that calibre?
> any ideas on scorcese's Gangs?  My thought is that it is too laden with
> italo-Catholicism, too many corny images of gang killings juxtaposed with
> crucifixes.  However, it is a very good history lesson, a pity the
> characters seem to have stepped out of a Victorian melodrama.  Or is this
> telling us how the other half are supposed to have lived?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hbone" <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
> To: <film-theory-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [film] Re: American Gigolo - 1980
>
>
> > Roger Ebert saw "Days of Heaven", which came out in 1978,  once more
while
> > Terence Malick was making "The Thin Red Line",   See Ebert's
comprehensive
> > review at:
> >
> > http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/heaven.html
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > > In a message dated 1/24/2003 12:33:55 PM Central Standard Time,
> > > sheldan-AT-erols.com writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Wasn't Gere the guy who killed Diane Keaton in the terrible "Looking
> > > > for Mr. Goodbar?"
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, although I didn't think "Goodbar" was all that bad. Three years
> > before
> > > "Gigolo," however, Gere appeared in Terrance Malick's masterpiece
"Days
> of
> > > Heaven," which, even with this year's magnificent "Chicago," ranks as
> > Gere's
> > > all-time best film.
> > > ===============================================> > >    "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
> terror,
> > > murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
> and
> > > the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of
> > > democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
> > > --Harry Lime (Orson Welles), "The Third Man"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> > >
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