Comments on: Guney Toons

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:41:49 +0000

But all the satiric content comes from the book. Apart from shooting it in a near sepiatone desaturated look, what has Parker done with it? Softened the tone considerably, I’d say. He did get an “interesting” turn from Hopkins, I must say — a genuine departure for an actor who tends too often to mine the same approach for many films in a row.

By: david wingrove

david wingrove — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:33:16 +0000

Gay sex in Midnight Express?! Was I perhaps asleep at the time?

The one thing I remember is Brad Davis hitting the showers au naturel with a fellow prisoner, the steam rising, the screen going all soft-focus and the synthesisers starting to soar…and then Brad putting the other guy off with a chaste shake of his head!

Of course, pleasure – sexual, aesthetic or otherwise – would be totally out of place in that horrendous film.

Oh, but The Road to Wellville is a masterpiece! It’s perhaps the definitive expose of health fads and the ghastly industry that has grown up around them.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:53:25 +0000

Roger Ebert skewered The Life of David Gale pretty neatly. I still haven’t seen it: though the critical reviews avoided overt spoilers, I could infer pretty much what happens.