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| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
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| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
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579.0. "Drowning by Numbers" by SMAUG::LEHMKUHL (H, V ii 216) Mon Jun 27 1994 15:11
Checked this 1988/89 film out of the video store
this weekend.
The story of three women (mother and two daughters)
who kill their husbands and are blackmailed by the
coroner who covered up for them. Sounds like the
pitch for a fairly standard drama/thriller, right?
No way. It's more comedy than drama anyway.
If you saw any 5 minute clip of this film, with no
credits, you'd know it was Peter Greenaway's. Exquisite
soundtrack, good cast of actors (no movie stars),
strange and beautiful images superbly executed by
the cinematographer (deeply saturated colors,
sharp edges, wonderful lighting effects).
All creating an extremely strange film that I found
very entertaining.
It made an interesting contrast another film I checked
out. That was bizarre incomprehensible crap of which
I could not wait to see the end. This was bizarre,
incomprehensible art, and I enjoyed all of it.
Stars Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson,
and Bernard Hill.
Rated R for full frontal nudity and sexual Peter
Greenaway situations. Off-screen necrophilia in the
usual sense of the word. On-screen morbid fascination
with corpses of all kinds. Not much on-screen
violence. No coprophagia.
dcl
p.s.
I wonder if Greenaway (who wrote as well as directed)
got some of the ideas from Sesame Street's character,
The Count.
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| 579.1 | counting | 26523::BRANDENBERG | | Mon Jun 27 1994 15:28 | 10 |
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>I wonder if Greenaway (who wrote as well as directed)
>got some of the ideas from Sesame Street's character,
>The Count.
One of the 'gimmicks' of this film is that there is a counting sequence
throughout it (not the simple 1, 2, 3 of the bodies). There is a
book on this detailing the numbers and the scenes....
monty
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| 579.2 | | NETRIX::michaud | Ed Begley Jr. | Mon Jun 27 1994 15:43 | 6 |
| I caught this a couple of years ago at the Wilton theatre.
Very weird movie indeed. I think I had caught most of the
numbers, but I seem to remember missing at least a few.
Some of the numbers were in the same scene. If I remember, the
numbers were all in sequence through the film (1 to 100).
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