Comments on: Haynes’ Pandemonium Carnival http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/ david cairns Tue, 21 May 2013 22:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/#comment-310 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:26:24 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/#comment-310 When I first showed The Apartment to Fiona, halfway through she thought it must have been a colossal flop (even though she was loving it) because it’s such a grim and bitter comedy. How could audiences have accepted this then? The ending explains it!

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/#comment-304 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:41:07 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/#comment-304 The cut from MacMurray seeing that Maclaine is no longer sitting across from him in the booth to MacLaine racing down the street with a big smile on her face as the music rises invariably reduces me to a sobbing wreck.

I always cry at happy endings eg. “L’Atalante, Lola.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/#comment-297 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:36:17 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/haynes-pandemonium-carnival/#comment-297 Well, we can always post a climax. My friend Nicola is thinking of going for the end of THE APARTMENT (also Volker Schloendorff’s favourite moment).

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