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Posted by frame609 on 2004-09-07 20:14:59 +0000

That photo on the left looks like it was swiped from like a Civil War documentary or something. Yow!

Posted by frame609 on 2004-09-07 20:20:14 +0000

So I was too confused as to which of the two (2) posts about this movie to post to (though not as badly confused as when I have something to say about the Pixies.) Anyway, The Brown Bunny: Julie and I saw it the other night at Kendall. For the first hour and a half of that film, I sat there thinking that it looked like something me and Terry G. would have done in high school (remember the vague plans for 'Apocolypse Later'? Like that.) Then I was waiting for the blowjob bit so I could go home. Everyone that was in the place knew it was coming, and was waiting for it. (About said blowjob: Gallo = Genoa salami.) That scene, though, the blowjob scene, tied everything up in such a way so that I was forced to re-evaluate everything I saw. Totally redeemed what I thought was a big pile of shit.

Posted by rladew on 2004-09-07 21:47:08 +0000

Dual Brown Bunny Posts were Human error on my part :) Pixies threads: I was trying to link together in case someone was only checking one - but I can see now this makes it confusing. So if Mike F has the feathers, Im sure someone else on this board will have the Tar.......

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2004-09-07 22:14:35 +0000

In particular, Roger Ebert called the film "the worst in the history of Cannes" to which Vincent Gallo responded that Ebert was a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader". Ebert paraphrased a remark of 'Winston Churchill' 's and responded that "although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of 'Brown Bunny'". Gallo then put a "hex" on Ebert's colon, to which Ebert responded that "even my colonoscopy was more entertaining than his film".

Posted by rladew on 2004-09-07 22:34:46 +0000

I Love this story!!! I was reading about this the other day. Ebert is the only film critic to win a Pulitzer prize, was involved as writer for the script of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and really knows his stuff if youve had the $$$ time or patience to hear commentaries he's contributed to citizen Kane, and Dark City DVDs amongst others. I find he does seem to largely overpraise some films while being way too harsh on others. (IE being favorable of Phantom Menace, but shitcanning Blue Velvet) Its hard to know whether Ebert has one of his Lynch type hangups with Gallo or if the movie is really shitty. An interesting side note is that if you check the print ads for the film in places like the Globe, it has Ebert praises on this new re-edit of the original film screened @ the film festival wher him and gallo went at it. be careful with the Winston Churchill stuff... If this gets too political I'm outta here :)

Posted by frame609 on 2004-09-07 23:27:48 +0000

Ebert also got involved with Malcolm McClaren in the writing of early drafts of a Sex Pistols film (and let's face it, 'The Great Rock And Roll Swindle' is a big piece of shit.)

Posted by rladew on 2005-08-18 18:15:02 +0000

= saw it on netflix last night. whatever. _______________________________

Posted by frame609 on 2005-08-18 18:23:56 +0000

Really? The ending didn't make the rest of the movie make more sense?

Posted by rladew on 2005-08-18 18:42:26 +0000

It made more sense, but i had a hard time liking 'Easy Rider', but that at least had classic moments like when P. Fonda casts his wristwatch to the desert, or the "We Blew It, Man" line towards the end of the film. The Warhol asthetic of having a camera fastened to a dashboard and capturing the behaviors of the van's occupants was fine, the grainy art house thing makes it look almost beautiful in a way (ie sunsets, driving along at night, etc.) but I'm good for maybe 25-20 minutes of that (if its going to be pure style / mise en scene without any dialogue) as opposed to 80 minutes and a 10 minute bad dialogue-drugged out-unecessary view of Gallo's salami w/ sevigny attached. Gallo is a great businessman and he got lots of people to see this, but it just left me cold... _______________________________