but still haven't seen this...
I was a little frightened too, it's Towne movie too:
(see Chinatown), so that at least is enheartening.

I can't speak authoritatively yet though, although everything i've heard is that they took great pains to make it look exactly like the timeperiod, which is always nice.

I guess there's a foreign film of "wait until spring, bandini" with Joe "Fat Tony/David Mamet fave" Montagna.

-C.

cneutron wrote:but still haven't seen this...
I was a little frightened too, it's Towne movie too:
(see Chinatown), so that at least is enheartening.

This may not be so enheartening!

Robert Towne didn't direct "Chinatown." He wrote the screenplay.

He directed this "Ask The Dust" movie (and wrote the screenplay).

But hey, he directed "Personal Best"! And "Tequila Sunrise"!

Enheartening!?!

Angus Jung wrote:This may not be so enheartening!

Robert Towne didn't direct "Chinatown." He wrote the screenplay.

He directed this "Ask The Dust" movie (and wrote the screenplay).

oops.
My mistake about that.
Well... at least the screenplay should be good?

Angus Jung wrote:But hey, he directed "Personal Best"! And "Tequila Sunrise"!

Enheartening!?!

Never saw either of those, but they look pretty awful.
Ok, I am retracting my lukewarm enthusiasm now.

Also, Fante's name seemed to be nowhere in any of the promotional material.

bad sign or mere omission?

-C.

cneutron wrote:Also, Fante's name seemed to be nowhere in any of the promotional material.

bad sign or mere omission?

-C.

There was a spate of interviews with Robert Towne a couple of months ago regarding this movie, I saved some of them as links for later and naturally haven't found myself arsed enough to go back and read them. But they were definitely pushing the 'Fante as lost genius author' and 'film I've wanted to make me whole career cos Fante's so great' angles.

Which perhaps explains my reluctance to read them beyond the opening paragraphs.