William wrote:
"The other two films I have scheduled are In The Cut and Blow
Up."
I read In the Cut (have not yet watched all of the movie,
just clicked to a couple of the "good parts," which weren't
nearly as graphic as their rep, or as the book; guess it was
just that Meg Ryan was in the film that made some think they
were worse). I had mixed feelings about it. Moore seemed to
have mixed feelings about it, not quite sure whether she was
writing a literary novel or a crime novel. I'm certainly not
implying that these two things must be separate (for some
reason Sarah Schulman's After Delores comes to mind as a book
that succeeds as both), just that she seemed to keep them
separate. The whodunnit element was simultaneously pretty
obvious and pretty manipulative in its failed attempt at
diversion.
As for Blow Up, it's been a long time since I've read
Cortazar's short story, but as I recall it provides just the
seed for Antonioni's movie. Both very good.
Mark
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