Lana should be forgiven for writing this (and also welcomed to the list with hugs and smiles!):
Who, pray tell, is "Dylan in the movies"? Did Bob Dylan make movies? If he did, what were they? And is this Bob at all or some other Dylan who was in movies? What other stars are named Dylan? Is it Matt Dillon, just spelled wrong? <<
...because she is new and probably doesn't know that the Dylan thing's been discussed before. The story is: There is a famous documentary about Bob Dylan by director D.A. Pennebaker called "Don't Look Back". So, if you don't look back, you're like Dylan in the movies. It's terribly sweet and clever, and explaining it too much can, like explaining a good joke too much, diminish the impact. But everybody should have the facts, I think. Also, yesterday somebody asked if any film critics on the list had an opinion of Hal Hartley. I have had (he ever-so-modestly and self-deprecatingly said) bits and pieces of my film criticism published, locally, and my opinion on Hartley is that he's very intelligent, I thought The Unbelievable Truth was okay, Henry Fool was quite good, but the Book of Life starring featured member of my Idol Parade PJ Harvey was crap. Any Hartley film will be more and more crap depending upon the degree of smugness he lets in, which at times is unbearably high. His 'humor' is like having a loud, foul person standing behind you nudging you and saying, "Get it? Get it?". Intolerable. Hartley is good to the degree that he can be serious and not let his Bazooka Joe humor invade his otherwise fine films. Sunshine, lollipops, rainbows... -Chris +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+