One Great Bad Film, One Great Good Film
One Great Bad Film, One Great Good Film
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1One Great Bad Film, One Great Good Film
Posted: 9/30/11 at 11:25am
Warner Archive is now selling Made To Order DVDs of
LOST HORIZON (the musical)-- one of the greatest of all bad films.
HOUSEKEEPING -- a wonderful little film by Bill Forsyth that is making its long overdue appearance on DVD. Strange and haunting and essential viewing.
Drop what you're doing. Buy HOUSEKEEPING now. LOST HORIZON is great fun, too.
HOUSEKEEPING -- One of the best films of the 1980s.
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#2One Great Bad Film, One Great Good Film
Posted: 9/30/11 at 12:04pmI love "Housekeeping", but it's an even better novel.
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2One Great Bad Film, One Great Good Film
Posted: 9/30/11 at 12:13pmI'm not going to say that Marilynne Robinson's novel is "better" than the film, but it is really something. I'd never have read the novel if it wasn't for the film, and both novel and film deserve to be better known.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#3One Great Bad Film, One Great Good Film
Posted: 9/30/11 at 3:30pm
A friend and I were discussing Lost Horizon. We agreed that "they", meaning Hollywood-types, don't know how to make bad movies like this anymore possibly because they don't know how to make book musicals at all anymore. It seems like a musical nowadays is a concept musical.
Lost Horizon is a true stinker of the highest (lowest?) order, but at least somebody tried.
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