Comments on: Euphoria #15 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/ The wilfully eccentric film blog of David Cairns Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:36:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: alex http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-373 alex Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:59:00 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-373 maybe his films have to be short because they are so wide maybe his films have to be short because they are so wide

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-372 dcairns Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:33:20 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-372 You'd think he'd have been cured of his wide-angle obsession after he shot a hardcore porn film early in his career and got drenched in faeces after an anal scene "went wrong". Sorry to give you that image, but there it is. He does seem like kind of a showy character. The one thing I respect about him is his desire to keep his films short. If they can't be good, at least they're not LONG. You’d think he’d have been cured of his wide-angle obsession after he shot a hardcore porn film early in his career and got drenched in faeces after an anal scene “went wrong”.
Sorry to give you that image, but there it is.
He does seem like kind of a showy character. The one thing I respect about him is his desire to keep his films short. If they can’t be good, at least they’re not LONG.

]]> By: alex http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-371 alex Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:57:14 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-371 yes, both films are wildly feeble. i think sonnenfeld's love of wide-angle lenses also has to do with him being a bit of an attention seeker and, since he can't run around with a camera going "look at me!", he runs around with a camera going "look at what i'm looking at!" yes, both films are wildly feeble. i think sonnenfeld’s love of wide-angle lenses also has to do with him being a bit of an attention seeker and, since he can’t run around with a camera going “look at me!”, he runs around with a camera going “look at what i’m looking at!”

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-369 dcairns Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:53:15 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-369 Roger Deakins has been trying to wean them off the wide angle lens for years. They actually used a long lens at the start of Fargo. Sonnenfeld's theory is that wide angle lenses are funny and long lenses aren't. When Billy Crystal was making City Slickers 2 he put in a panic call to Sonnenfeld. "The director's using a long lens! It's not going to be funny, is it?" Sonnenfeld: "No, it's not." But, having said all that, Sonnenfeld's Wild, Wild West and Men in Black II are among the least funny films ever made in North America. Roger Deakins has been trying to wean them off the wide angle lens for years. They actually used a long lens at the start of Fargo.
Sonnenfeld’s theory is that wide angle lenses are funny and long lenses aren’t.
When Billy Crystal was making City Slickers 2 he put in a panic call to Sonnenfeld. “The director’s using a long lens! It’s not going to be funny, is it?”
Sonnenfeld: “No, it’s not.”
But, having said all that, Sonnenfeld’s Wild, Wild West and Men in Black II are among the least funny films ever made in North America.

]]> By: alex http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-368 alex Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:39:48 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-368 barry sonnenfeld decided not to use wide-angle lenses on miller's crossing when the coen brothers told him it would be "a handsome film about men in hats" barry sonnenfeld decided not to use wide-angle lenses on miller’s crossing when the coen brothers told him it would be “a handsome film about men in hats”

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-367 dcairns Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:29:08 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-367 It's the hat. People look smarter in hats. I glimpsed Walken once at Nice Airport. His hair was perfect! It’s the hat. People look smarter in hats.
I glimpsed Walken once at Nice Airport. His hair was perfect!

]]> By: alex http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-366 alex Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:52 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/euphoria-15/#comment-366 has christopher walken ever looked handsomer than he does here? handsome walken is more unsettling than regular walken ps, i think denis ought to be pronounced as either "d'nee" or "deenis" has christopher walken ever looked handsomer than he does here? handsome walken is more unsettling than regular walken

ps, i think denis ought to be pronounced as either “d’nee” or “deenis”

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