Comments on: Quote of the day: King Zog Shot Back! http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/quote-of-the-day-king-zog-shot-back/ David Cairns' wilfully eccentric film blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/quote-of-the-day-king-zog-shot-back/#comment-588 dcairns Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:49:39 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/quote-of-the-day-king-zog-shot-back/#comment-588 The one I couldn't get on with was the Beresford, which seemed silly yet unimaginative: two naked people singing at each other, and isn't one of them Liz Hurley? Temple did a great job, embracing the daftness of the thing. Producer Don Boyd guests as a Vegas Elvis impersonator singing "Figaro." Mad Ken appeared at the Edinburgh premiere wielding an umbrella with a paper cup impaled on the end. Genius. The one I couldn’t get on with was the Beresford, which seemed silly yet unimaginative: two naked people singing at each other, and isn’t one of them Liz Hurley?

Temple did a great job, embracing the daftness of the thing. Producer Don Boyd guests as a Vegas Elvis impersonator singing “Figaro.”

Mad Ken appeared at the Edinburgh premiere wielding an umbrella with a paper cup impaled on the end. Genius.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/quote-of-the-day-king-zog-shot-back/#comment-587 David Ehrenstein Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:27:30 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/quote-of-the-day-king-zog-shot-back/#comment-587 Oh I love <i>Aria</i> ! It's so marvelously silly, especially the Godard episode (what is this thing he has for women naked under their white shifts? See also <i>Le Nouveau Monde, Alphaville</i> and <iOne Plus One</i>) The Charles Sturridge is really good, the Altman really strange, the Jarman and Bruce Beresford really lovely, and the Ken Russell really Ken Russell. Best of all there's Julien Temple running amok at the Madonna Inn with Buck Henry and Anita Morris. (Read Umberto Eco's description of the Madonna Inn in <i>Travels in Hyper-Reality</i> before viewing.) Oh I love Aria ! It’s so marvelously silly, especially the Godard episode (what is this thing he has for women naked under their white shifts? See also Le Nouveau Monde, Alphaville and <iOne Plus One) The Charles Sturridge is really good, the Altman really strange, the Jarman and Bruce Beresford really lovely, and the Ken Russell really Ken Russell. Best of all there’s Julien Temple running amok at the Madonna Inn with Buck Henry and Anita Morris. (Read Umberto Eco’s description of the Madonna Inn in Travels in Hyper-Reality before viewing.)

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