Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) re-visited

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) re-visited

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9 January

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) re-visited

All ways and at the height of their game, power-play between Ricky Roma (Al Pacino), Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon), George Aaronow (Alan Arkin), Dave Moss (Ed Harris) - inventing not as if, but since, their lives depend on it, taking each other on, and trying to dodge wild balls !

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Alec Baldwin's mean cameo as Blake (unnamed) sets the tone*, and Jonathan Pryce's pliant diffidence and Kevin Spacey's reticent guile complete Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

* Tarantino may win on the rate of expletives, but these guys make every one sound heartfelt and personal. https://t.co/XmhbtYfBq5 pic.twitter.com/8OXU0xnVlc

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As I found to-night (with Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)), there's nothing quite as good as the greatness of a film that one already knows. :)

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Love changes everything ?

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2017 (19 to 26 October)
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25 July

At #UCFFF, @WorldsEndMovie (2013) engaged energies by its employment of delusional experience, and we analysed it :https://t.co/59LWIICBWt

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Re-seeing @BabyDriverMovie confirms that writer / director Edgar Wright works on several levels here, with lyrics in graffiti, notices, etc. https://t.co/reVxKNAu0V

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Edgar Wright's Baby Driver : A musical, in a Tarantino sort of way ?

This is a review, partly by Tweet, of Baby Driver (2017)

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3 July

This is a review, partly by Tweet, of Edgar Wright's Baby Driver (2017)

Baby Driver (2017) palpably cannot be about what it seems, any more than is writer / director Edgar Wright's The World's End (2013), but did the audience seem to be missing that* ?

Here, there is a quantity of humour - wry, grim, and worse - that, if one is too believing of the film as story, will perhaps not have one snorting, or shaking one's head, at the audacity of the film-making (i.e. concept / script / delivery)... which is unfortunate, because these shots, the quality and precision that Edgar Wright gives us in the framing, wording, and editing, deserve our respect for what they are, i.e. not just part of, say, another 2 Guns (2013).

No doubt that Wright's poking fun of - outright mocking ? - Drive (2011) and Gosling / Mulligan with the pseudo-psychology and 'Wanting out'

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By contrast, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011) really does take itself so seriously [as does [ ] The Neon Demon (2016) ?], with Ryan Gosling (credited only as Driver, though one choice of garment** suggests that he models himself elsewhere) as the man who can not only be wholesome to Carey Mulligan*** (Irene = Greek for 'Peace'), but buck an approach to and use of violence based on retribution.

No delusion that this is 'Real', or the film-references chance :

At a significant time, one's in a laundrette where a painterly RYB rotates

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Nerdist also picked up on that use of colour(s) in its posting about the film's trailer(s) :

If the trailers are any indication, it would seem Wright’s been itching at giving us some beautiful shots with vibrant color palettes and, in the moment Baby and his girlfriend are talking, a shot that just screams 'EDGAR WRIGHT NEEDS TO BE DIRECTING EVERYTHING !'

Centre right, Edgar Wright evokes a grander place than My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

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As in a musical, the songs of “Baby Driver” come first—it’s the digital version of a jukebox movie. https://t.co/d8dh17AU9o

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) July 4, 2017

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End-notes :

* In Screen 1, at 6.30 on a Monday evening.

** As mentioned in the #UCFF review.

*** Also known as Mary Culligan... :

Interesting list. Who do you really rate if you're being metacritical? https://t.co/yaMrul8fgW

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Mary Culligan : 'Her top rated films are Inside Llewyn Davis & An Education'

Not just compared to the latter, she's barely in the former ? https://t.co/9YwiYj7mrI

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