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16/06/2023 12:22 pm
in search of something entirely unrelated,I ran across these two productions from user "Steve"
this one prompted me to put the "Baby Driver" movie in my short-list rotation
and THIS one will come in very handy next October
not from "Steve",but rather from "Cher"........although "bigly" processed,quite well done.......
16/06/2023 7:39 pm
Well chosen John. Baby Driver is not one that I had considered watching. I should.
All three interesting.
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16/06/2023 8:14 pm
Well chosen John. Baby Driver is not one that I had considered watching. I should.
All three interesting.
thank you David........If i get around to watching "Baby Driver" (for the second time), I`ll stop in here and comment......
..............in line with your eclectic tastes,you might enjoy this movie for which the Cher performance seems a good fit to me .............
............"Mystery Train is a 1989 comedy-drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film is a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists, unfolding over the course of the same night. "Far from Yokohama" features a Japanese couple (Youki Kudoh and Masatoshi Nagase) on a cultural pilgrimage, "A Ghost" focuses on an Italian widow (Nicoletta Braschi) stranded in the city overnight, and "Lost in Space" follows the misadventures of a newly single and unemployed Englishman (Joe Strummer) and his reluctant companions (Rick Aviles and Steve Buscemi). The narratives are linked by a run-down flophouse overseen by a night clerk (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and his disheveled bellboy (Cinqué Lee), the use of Elvis Presley's song "Blue Moon",[3] and a gunshot.
The starting point for the script was the ensemble cast of friends and previous collaborators Jarmusch had conceived characters for, while the tripartite formal structure of the film was inspired by his study of literary forms. Cinematographer Robby Müller and musician John Lurie were among the many contributors who had been involved in earlier Jarmusch projects and returned to work on the film. Mystery Train's US$2.8 million budget (financed by Japanese conglomerate JVC) was considerable compared to what the director had enjoyed before, and allowed him the freedom to rehearse many unscripted background scenes. It was the first of Jarmusch's feature films since Permanent Vacation to depart from his trademark black-and-white photography, though the use of color was tightly controlled to conform with the director's intuitive sense of the film's aesthetic."
..............in the following clip from Mystery Train,the red jacketed gent @0.35,is none other than the legendary Screamin Jay Hawkins
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EDIT: I cannot recommend the movie "Baby Driver"
17/06/2023 3:36 pm
Thanks for the other suggestions here John. I just got around to reading this.
Interesting information about Mystery Train.
Regarding Baby Driver, what made you change your mind and not recommend it?
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17/06/2023 3:48 pm
Thanks for the other suggestions here John. I just got around to reading this.
Interesting information about Mystery Train.Regarding Baby Driver, what made you change your mind and not recommend it?
hey David.......despite an accomplished cast of "badguys",the movie was plagued by poor lighting and muddy overall cinematography.....the musical score was grating...the teen angst that prevailed throughout the plot was more of an annoyance that anything else......the writing suggested that the movie was thrown together piecemeal ......the longer the movie went on,the plot became more and more likely to have been retrieved from the trash simply to get a project that might generate a few bucks upon release.....jB
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