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#57419 03/07/02 02:41 PM
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Getting back to the original question -- I barely remember reading 'Howard's End' a few years ago. Then, when I saw the movie, I would know what was about to happen seconds before it did -- I guess I had SOME memory of the book, but it clearly needed triggering. The movie, on the other hand, has stayed with me. It was gorgeous to look at and listen to. I doubt I'd want to reread the book, but I'd sit through the flick again!


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I've been told for a long time I'm in the minority on this opinion ~ Merchant/Ivory films are my best cure for insomnia. They bore me to tears. Nothing *happens*. People stand around looking very solemnly out windows, engaged in some inner monologue that I don't even get to hear as an audience member. There's no big Busby Berkeley finish. I'm paying to be entertained, not to watch somebody *think*.

I've been told before that I'm just an ignorant philistine for failing to see their genius, so I promise I won't take it personally if everyone takes up arms in defense of Ismail & James. But to me, it's like wine. All the most esteemed critics in the world can tout it as the best cab since transubstantiation, if I think it tastes like yak drool I'm still not going to drink it.

Mercy, what's gotten into me?

And while I'm at it, what is it about this thread that causes me to lambast prominent movie directors when I post to it?



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What a relief that you wouldn't take it personally if I defended I&M (which I won't do), since I can't possibly take it personally that you don't like their movies.


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Alain Resnais's Providence (1977) which starred John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, and Ellen Burstyn. The script was by David Mercer.

Thats it! What a happy present for me. Thanks Paulb, if you weren't married you would be the stuff of a spinster librarian's dream.

And since there is no future wedding scheduled for me to dance in, if I'm ever in your neighborhood, I will mow your lawn, wash your car, remove your rubish...Anything!

Signed,
A Happy Milum.




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Paulb, if you weren't married you would be the stuff of a spinster librarian's dream.
Well, I'm not a spinster, and I'm not a librarian, but.




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I am compelled to contribute (belatedly!) what I know about Once Were Warriors: it is the first novel of Alan Duff, which was subsequently made into a movie.

Movie better than book: Enchanted April. Unfortunately I can't even remember the author (shocking! I hate when I forget an author's name) but the movie was brilliant. I read the book afterwards and thought it fine - until towards the end, when I realised the movie had made a substantial change in one of the relationships - and I liked the movie version MUCH, MUCH better. Made more sense and was so much more satisfying. It's still one of my fave movies and one I turn to when I'm distressed and need soothing and the rejuvenation of hope.


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