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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 4, 2022 15:53:33 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 5, 2022 12:27:15 GMT
Ha!
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 5, 2022 16:12:00 GMT
I really can’t wait for mine!
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 5, 2022 16:36:47 GMT
I just checked on Amazon USA because I pre-ordered mine there and they also have it with a 50% off! That’s great for me because they charge you the lowest price when you ore-order items with them.
Anyway, it’s 50% off at both Barnes and Noble and USA Amazon.
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 8, 2022 16:14:00 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 8, 2022 18:07:50 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 8, 2022 18:09:24 GMT
By the way, my copy arrives this Thursday! I can't wait!
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 8, 2022 19:16:23 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 9, 2022 1:00:06 GMT
I absolutely love Taubin. I just got lost reading some of her other essays for Criterion (I feel that I need to watch The Silence of the Lamb again after reading her beautiful appreciation of Jodie Foster and her character!) but about that quote above, I feel she is totally referring to Sam Elliot there! There is another part of the essay where she talks about how in the book the “cowboys” bought their “cowboy” attire from a departmental store catalog and how they based their whole “cowboy” personalities from the movies of the time and that’s the freaking point of the whole film! Phil and his men weren’t real cowboys in the mythological sense! Real cowboys who conquered the frontier were all already dead by then, you know, like Bronco Henry!
But the best part is when she says that such classical beloved western films that she mentions aren’t about real “cowboys” neither. They were just repeating the myth and their stars weren’t giving “realistic” performances neither. The difference with TPOTD and BC is that they weren’t reproducing the fake myth that Thomas Savage, someone who actually was “there”, was criticizing in his book. They are calling the myth for its name and that’s probably what bothered them! Why his character wears chaps on bed? Because his character is acting a character within the film for the other characters! That’s the point!
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 9, 2022 2:29:30 GMT
I used to read her on Film Comment magazines many years ago and I was sure she was an extremely intelligent and full of passion young woman then I discovered that she is actually an old lady! She is in her 80s! But she is more cool than any young people from at least the last 4 decades! She was part of Andy Warhol circle! She actually appears in Todd Hayne’s extraordinary Velvet Underground documentary (I think Criterion also recently announced it for a future release!) and she, of course, criticizes some of the misogyny of the group (Warhol’s group of friends and followers, not necessarily the band itself!)
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