New Forthcoming Foreign/Art/Independent Films on DVD Vol.3
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Cash Flagg
- Joined: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:15 am
Re: New Forthcoming Foreign/Art/Independent Films on DVD Vol.3
DVDTimes review of the second collection of Chosun Films from Korea. Has anyone seen the first volume?
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manicsounds
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:58 am
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
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tavernier
- Joined: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:18 pm
Re: New Forthcoming Foreign/Art/Independent Films on DVD Vol.3
Koch Lorber releases Visconti's L'Innocente on March 10:
The DVD, which has an SRP of $29.98, presents the film in 16x9 widescreen (anamorphic). Extras include an interview with the great screenwriter and frequent Visconti collaborator Suso Cecchi d’Amico, who adapted L'Innocente from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s classic novel. The film has been restored to its original 127-minute length and is in Italian, with English subtitles.
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justeleblanc
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:05 pm
- Location: Connecticut
Re: New Forthcoming Foreign/Art/Independent Films on DVD Vol.3
Mondo Macabro will be releasing Alain Robbe-Grillet's Gradiva later this year.
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colinr0380
- Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:30 pm
- Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK
Re: New Forthcoming Foreign/Art/Independent Films on DVD Vol.3
DVD Beaver on Derby. I'm curious to see this film since I very much enjoyed Robert Kaylor's 1980 film Carny and would be interested to see the director's earlier documentary work.
Carny featured Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson as carnival folk tussling over a just past jailbait Jodie Foster who has run off to join the circus! That film certainly did not gloss over the portrayal of a dark and shifty world of double dealing involving rigged games and con tricks. However this cynical view of carnival folk is balanced and softened somewhat with the contrast to the often drunk and bawdy punters looking to cause trouble (which eventually leads to the death of the lovable father figure of the troop played by Elisha Cook Jr.) and the various corrupt town officials supported by the local law looking to either be paid off or to ride the carnival out of town (often one then the other! Fred Ward turns up in one scene playing one of these officials).
The film suggests that all carnival people are outsiders in their own way, whether rejected by society and placed in a freakshow or people with emotional troubles and inability to commit to a long term relationship, either in work or love. This is mostly illustrated through Foster's character being torn between Busey and Robertson during the film and eventually being chosen for a night of passion in payment by a local gangster in return for letting the carnival stay in town, to which the carny manager initially agrees. However the resolution of that situation suggests the carnival does work a community of outcasts who look out for each other when things get too tough to cope with.
Probably the highlight of the film is Jodie Foster as Donna being taught by Meg Foster how to woo the punters into playing a string pull game, giving some players a winning string occasionally to show that the game isn't rigged. There follows a wonderful sequence of Donna standing in the window of the booth with the strings for the game laid over one bare thigh and teasing the customers, including an extended sequence with a group of girls where she exorts the shyest one to "come and give it a tug and see if you're a winner" which ends with the flustered girl running off, though not before telling Donna where to meet her later! More than sex though this scene is mostly about Donna learning to enjoy a more dominant role in relationships and it is telling that this sequence comes near to the end of the film as Donna starts to become more than just a naive young groupie passed between the two men and more of a true member of the community.
It is very much a film about growing up and taking over from the older generation as they move on to other things (or die) - from treating the carnival as something frivolous and fun or a way of releasing adolescent anger or getting girls the characters go through a period of disillusionment and upset with the life they've chosen for themselves before recognising that they need to engage more fully with their chosen profession in a more serious and responsible manner. That can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience in itself even if the day to day grind doesn't change much with this shift in outlook.
Carny featured Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson as carnival folk tussling over a just past jailbait Jodie Foster who has run off to join the circus! That film certainly did not gloss over the portrayal of a dark and shifty world of double dealing involving rigged games and con tricks. However this cynical view of carnival folk is balanced and softened somewhat with the contrast to the often drunk and bawdy punters looking to cause trouble (which eventually leads to the death of the lovable father figure of the troop played by Elisha Cook Jr.) and the various corrupt town officials supported by the local law looking to either be paid off or to ride the carnival out of town (often one then the other! Fred Ward turns up in one scene playing one of these officials).
The film suggests that all carnival people are outsiders in their own way, whether rejected by society and placed in a freakshow or people with emotional troubles and inability to commit to a long term relationship, either in work or love. This is mostly illustrated through Foster's character being torn between Busey and Robertson during the film and eventually being chosen for a night of passion in payment by a local gangster in return for letting the carnival stay in town, to which the carny manager initially agrees. However the resolution of that situation suggests the carnival does work a community of outcasts who look out for each other when things get too tough to cope with.
Probably the highlight of the film is Jodie Foster as Donna being taught by Meg Foster how to woo the punters into playing a string pull game, giving some players a winning string occasionally to show that the game isn't rigged. There follows a wonderful sequence of Donna standing in the window of the booth with the strings for the game laid over one bare thigh and teasing the customers, including an extended sequence with a group of girls where she exorts the shyest one to "come and give it a tug and see if you're a winner" which ends with the flustered girl running off, though not before telling Donna where to meet her later! More than sex though this scene is mostly about Donna learning to enjoy a more dominant role in relationships and it is telling that this sequence comes near to the end of the film as Donna starts to become more than just a naive young groupie passed between the two men and more of a true member of the community.
It is very much a film about growing up and taking over from the older generation as they move on to other things (or die) - from treating the carnival as something frivolous and fun or a way of releasing adolescent anger or getting girls the characters go through a period of disillusionment and upset with the life they've chosen for themselves before recognising that they need to engage more fully with their chosen profession in a more serious and responsible manner. That can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience in itself even if the day to day grind doesn't change much with this shift in outlook.