I hear Gus Van Sant's semi true / semi fictional nod to Kurt Cobain in 'Last Days' is pretty good.
A few other good ones:
- 'Round Midnight (Dexter Gordon as himself)
- Bird (Forest Whitaker as Charlie Parker)
- Sid and Nacy (Gary Oldman as Sid)
-Immortal Beloved (Gary Oldman as Beethoven)
-Amadeus (F Murray Abraham)
I heard somewhere Andre 3000 from Outkast was working with the Hughes Bros (American Pimp, Menace II Society, From Hell, Dead Presidents) on a Hendrix pic...
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-20 18:14:17 +0000
'Last Days' = unwatchable. Ugh.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-21 16:07:08 +0000
I would say 'Last Days' or 'Sid and Nancy' were the best ones here.
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-21 16:08:30 +0000
what is the "unwatchableness" of 'Last Days'?
Is it unwatchable because the viewer knows ultimately what the film's subject is going to do?
I just got it in the mail from Netflix and have been looking forward to watching it...
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-21 16:20:03 +0000
I loved it! No, not much happens, and it is bordering on 'boring' but there is something wonderfully true to life about it. The music is quite good, yet sparse, and I really felt like I got a glimpse into Cobain's last few days, factual or not.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-21 16:51:46 +0000
On the other hand, I watched most of it in fast forward. Slow moving and dull.
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-21 17:33:01 +0000
your remarks on this film, frame, remind me of how I felt when watching the Brown Bunny...
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-21 21:25:59 +0000
Zing! I thought THAT film was great.
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-23 03:07:53 +0000
I Loved It , Too!
I will post more tommorow as to why...
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Posted by rladew on 2005-11-23 13:28:56 +0000
So glad that the end wasn't graphic.
Similar to 'Elephant', Van sant's "Columbine" flick, I had this impending sense of doom throughout the whole pic.
I liked how the viewer gets to feel as lonely and isolated as our rock star protagonist 'Blake' does. This worked most intensely for me during the scene where he seems to helplessly watching a ridiculously bad Boyz II Men video. A close second would be the talk the phonebook salesman has with Blake. The salesman calls him 'succesful' with the ad he placed last year, and through a lot of incoherent muttering , we hear Blake say that success is subjective.
Perception is reality, and when yr depressed - forget it! It's a hard world to get out of.
Very sad, slow moving film, but one that carried a substantial weight with me.
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