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Redline wrote:I'll have to wait till Nov 6th when the movie is on TCM.If Warren Oates is in it, it's got to be good.Honestly, it almost amounts to a bit part.If you think of the sort of character that Holden/Borgnine/Johnson/Oates/Ryan/O'Brien played in The Wild Bunch, Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea played that sort of character much earlier in Ride The High Country.The film is largely those two actors.

numberthirty wrote:Redline wrote:I'll have to wait till Nov 6th when the movie is on TCM.If Warren Oates is in it, it's got to be good.Honestly, it almost amounts to a bit part.If you think of the sort of character that Holden/Borgnine/Johnson/Oates/Ryan/O'Brien played in The Wild Bunch, Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea played that sort of character much earlier in Ride The High Country.The film is largely those two actors.I'll still watch it. I just watched the Criterion Two Lane Blacktop and I'm ready to read the Warren Oates : A Wild Life biography, as soon as I have time to shit or wind my watch...

Ride The High Country ruled, I have no idea why it wasn't popular when it came out.

I recently saw 24 Hour Party people and really liked it, i recommend it.

Mid 90s is terrific. Really good filmmaking.

I enjoyed Suspiria, Mandy, and Mid 90s recently. Varying degrees of hilarity and heaviness in each.

When I first saw it a few weeks ago, I didn't think The Other Side of the Wind was all that great; it was an uneven, radiant, phantasmic patchwork of a love letter to / effigy of the old guard and 70s Hollywood as well as European arthouse. But I saw it again today and, excepting the rough edges (there are still a couple of scenes with Rich Little that I guess they didn't get around to shooting with Peter Bogdanovich and the allusions to phallic severance in the film within the film were a bit heavy handed, although that's probably the point?), I think what came out of it is pretty much flawless, which is pretty stunning given how much of a colossal fuck-up the whole process of getting it made was. The dialogue and narration are surprisingly memorable, and John Huston is fantastic, as were all the other actors, even Bogdanovich, who I find mildly annoying most of the time, and the editing is incredible. It's pretty much as if a film was made by Robert Downey Sr. by way of Cassavetes, by way of Lumet.A classic exercise in art imitates life imitates art.

Redline wrote:Me Again wrote:That's a vague rating. Somewhat tenuous. But the gist of it is, The Other Side of the Wind is worth seeing if it's not too much trouble. Am trying not to be too picky about it, since it could have easily never seen the light of day.I don't need any more trouble, that's for fucking sure. The Other Side of the Wind is the Chinese Democracy of the Orson Wells stuff, I can't wait to see it. Even though I never even heard Chinese Democracy. Ok, you know what I mean.That seems a bit harsh.I rather liked it, however, my tastes can run a bit crude. It is worth watching for the editing alone. I really enjoyed the different film stocks. These things made me think of Brakhage at times. I can indulge in basics like that and have a good time. That said, I still think it is pretty good and funny. It is also of interest for it's other general formal choices, stilted or not (I think it was supposed to be a bit stilted). Isn't it a found footage film. That's kinda neat, if nothing else.

Oh, I still want to see it.I don't want to hear Chinese Democracy though.

Ballad of Buster Scruggs was great.