After seeing Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE, I feel like I’ll be ready to write about it when I’ve spent as long thinking about it as Malick did making it. But I do note it as another entry in the remarkably consistent oeuvre of visual effects supremo Douglas Trumbull, dating all the way back to — what’s that you say? 1968′s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY? Well, possibly, but I was thinking of CANDY, from the same year (pictured).
Well, maybe I can be nudged into saying more in the comments section.
Maybe the pre-teen years of this century will be remembered as the era in which George C. Scott mash-ups replaced all other forms of art. Certainly, the video that intersplices Gorgeous George “emoting” in HARDCORE with the trailer for Adam Sandler’s JACK AND JILL is getting a lot of play, and I inadvertently anticipated it by mangling the poster for Scott’s self-directed vehicle RAGE. Now, my friend Brian Robinson draws my attention to the poster for DAY OF THE DOLPHIN, which has a unique tagline I can’t believe hasn’t been widely copied. The basic approach could apply to any movie.
DIE HARD: “Accidentally, he dirtied his vest, then killed everybody.”
GANGS OF NEW YORK: “Mistakenly, he set out to avenge his father’s death then didn’t do anything about it for hours of screen time.”
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD: “Unintentionally, they mooned around a big house, unable to make up their minds what was going on.”
I’d love to hear your own suggestions…
The Forgotten this week looks at IMPASSE DES DEUX ANGES, the one-hundredth and final film of revolutionary poet of cinema Maurice Tourneur. Thanks to La Faustin for the movie and translation — you can read her account of it here on Shadowplay, and mine over at the Daily Notebook.
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