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serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on July 03, 2011, 12:25:48 am ---I liked Wynona Ryder better than Anne (sorry!) in the sick beautiful young female role.
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I haven't seen Autumn in New York, but I'm with you on Anne. I didn't think she was very convincing in that role. It's funny; I totally bought her as a middle-aged bleached blonde, but not as an artist with a degenerative disease.

Front-Ranger:
In honor of this movie opening in Sweden today, I rented it! I enjoyed it!


--- Quote from: Brown Eyes on April 16, 2011, 08:16:09 pm ---The extreme, almost overstated optimism of the ending was interesting to me.  Duncan borrows so much from his Dad's symbolic world (which is extremely well-developed and nuanced after all these decades... Bowie almost has his own language of symbols that recur in his lyrics, performance and imagery).  But, this very insistent optimism is something a bit different.  And, good for Duncan for that.
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Moon also had an optimistic ending. The dystopia is presented, and there is one person who triumphs over it, with the help of a sympathetic female/computer. It's not what I'm used to seeing in such movies, but it's refreshing!


--- Quote from: Brown Eyes on April 16, 2011, 08:16:09 pm ---The scene at the Glenbrook train station in the middle of the film still has me very shaken.  Honestly, it's a very brave thing to confront the train subject at all, IMO.  Certainly Duncan has taken on a huge family tragedy in not even close to subtle terms, and then blended it again with something like "Major Tom"-esque episodes (stuck in a capsule, etc.).  ...
To have Jake act out almost exactly the scenario of Duncan's uncle's suicide in that one particular Glenbrook scene... is beyond remarkable.  I can't imagine what Duncan would have had to go through emotionally to actively direct such a scene.  

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Perhaps he found it therapeutic. The genius thing is that he took a very personal incident from his life and told a story that every viewer could identify with. Now that's impressive.


--- Quote from: Brown Eyes on April 16, 2011, 08:16:09 pm ---And, this is an old picture of Terry from before his illness really struck.


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Wow, that looks like Shaun Fentress, the guy whose body Jake's character inhabits!!

Aloysius J. Gleek:


BUMP THREAD for Amanda's amazing Bowie info in 2011.

(And--is it really more than four years ago??)

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