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>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:29:03 -0400
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>From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Noir Films:
Gerlach
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>[...]
>Hell, as far as that goes, which Hawks's Big Sleep?
The original
>release or the original, but only recently released
cut? Then again,
>aren't both on the DVD?
...both are on the single disc (but double-sided) DVD I
bought quite some time ago, along with a documentary
analyzing the differences between the 1945 & 1946
versions, There is only two minutes difference in the running
time between the two....
Having said that, no, I've not yet watched the documentary
[according to the dvd liner notes the 1946 version is "full
of reshot scenes of incendiary Bogart/Bogart chemistry",
fwiw], nor the longer 1945
"prerelease" version...
RSN
I'll stay out of the General Pontificating, but, while he is
terribly uneven, I _like_ most Altman. But then, in most
things these days, I prefer irrelevance, rather than
slavishly attempting to port one medium to another.
If I were to _limit_ my film viewing to "faithful
adaptations" of works I'd read first, that would pretty much
limit my viewing, out of thousands seen in over-compensation
from a media-free youth over the past 45 years ... to the
three Willeford films....
Not that that would be such a bad thing, now that I think
about it.....
[BTW: Minor gripe ... but these things fill up rather rapidly
... when someone backquotes the entire previous Digest! As I
said, _minor_ ...]
--
Bill Bowers
This reminds me of one of my favorite literary quotations, being
what Joyce's brother Stanislaus wrote to JJ about his Finnegans Wake:
"It is unutterably wearisome, the last gasp of literature before
its final extinction. I should not read a word of it, if I did not know you."
--- Douglas A. Anderson | fictionmags
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