Thanks, Brian--good stuff. TL, what's up with your profile
claiming you're only 23?
Brian Thornton wrote:
> Just in case you've been hiding under a rock (as I
have, I had to read about this in Hockensmith's Reel Crime
column in the new AHMM), our own Terrill Lankford actually
directed that first chapter of ECHO PARK he mentioned
screening along with (*retch*) Altman's "The Long Goodbye"
the other night down there in LA.
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> Well, I just went and watched it on
YouTube:
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> http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ndCN3uHinE
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> And let me say this: when the time comes to have a
trailer of one of my books filmed, I know whose door I'm
gonna go knocking on: that's right, Terrill
Lankford's!
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> I thought this was very well-done, and the use of
the book-on-CD voice-over at the beginning was particularly
effective. Tim Abell's Bosch wasn't the man-mountain I've
pictured when reading the novels, but I liked him in the
role, and wanted to see more (always a good sign).
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> Lastly, I thought it was pretty funny that Robert
Altman was thanked in the end credits. For my money, if they
were going to thank dead film-makers, they should have
thanked Orson Welles before Altman. That claustrophobic
elevator shot there at the end looked a heck of a lot more
like something out of JOURNEY INTO FEAR than BUFFALO BILL AND
THE INDIANS.
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> (Joking, I know that the Altman thing is tied-in
with the whole "Long Goodbye" thing).
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> Anyway, I figured this might interest other Rare
Birds like myself, who hadn't caught the previous messages
about it.
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> All the Best-
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> Brian
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