Saw this film on Saturday. Wow.

Based on the book by Patrick Suskind (there's an umlout in there somewhere), it is directed by the guy who did Run Lola Run. He truly captured the essence of smell.

An intriguing tale that is like nothing you've seen before, and put up on the screen with some dazzling visuals (the Grass setting is amazing).

Well acted by all involved (Hoffman and Rickman are dependable as always), the anti-hero (our murderer) is played beautifully, so even though his crimes are deplorable you still empathise with him. And the women he becomes obsessed by are gorgeous, you can smell how sweet they must be to him. Or maybe I just have a thing for red heads (calm down Lisa and Maggers ).

I saw it with someone who read the book beforehand, they enjoyed the film, said it stayed close to the book, but the book had more in it. Often the case.

I'm reading the book now and enjoying it. Some things are different from the film, but remain intriguing.

Check it out.

Dave

The reference to the "168th Street Armory" brought back many, many fond memories. I wonder, though, how may people know that it is (was?) officially the 102nd Engineers Battalion Armory. I'm sure that's still engraved on the facade, but I think it was "de-mobilized" as a true armory a few years ago. Last time I was in the neighborhood, it was being used for track meets and such.
For many years, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (across the street) tried to buy the property. Apparently, the armory is built on solid bedrock and nothing less than a direct hit by a small nuke would ever disturb it. (OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but the truth is pretty close.). The med center wanted the property simply because it was so solid.
Tid-bits......(not all of this is necessarily true today, but was in the early 60's)
Just up the street, towards Broadway, was a hospital-owned residence strictly for nurses working at the hospital.
One of our favorite places to play as kids was a big open field just east of the Henry Hudson Pkwy, right off Riverside Drive (you could look down onto the HH from a horseshoe-shaped lookout point). We were furious when Columbia-Presbyterian bought the land and put up tennis courts. The they bought yet another favorite area and made that into a parking lot.
There was a small hospital - I always understood it to be a cancer center - called Francis Delafield hospital - on Fort Washington Avenue between 163rd and 164th Streets. We used to use the delivery driveway of Delafield to get quickly from out neighborhhood to Riverside Drive. Heading west, it would take us to a street the name of which I don't remember, but we called it Snakey or Snake Hill. It was rather steep and somewhat winding and we'd ride out home-made scooters or clip-on roller skates (remember skate keys?) down the hill right to Riverside Drive.
Ah, nostalgia!

I saw Blythe Danner tonight in Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer." I discovered that I am NOT a Tennessee Williams devotee.

That being said, perhaps because the show has a limited run, there were some celebrities in the audience. No one radically well known, but Elizabeth Berkley, the lead in the notoriously rotten "Showgirls" was all tall and leggy and blond 2 rows ahead of me. Dylan Baker and his mom were 4 rows in front. He's a fine character actor who usually plays button-down lawyers, priests, or uptight characters. I've always enjoyed him. And in my row, author Eric Van Lustbader sat alone. I wouldn't have recognized him if he hadn't been part of the "Thriller" panel with FPW.

At any rate, the show was OK, but it was fun checking out the audience to see who was there.

Paul, get well and hang in there..............

Has anyone else seen this yet? We watched it on DVD on New Year's Eve, and really enjoyed it. A great road-trip with a thoroughly dysfunctional family. Wonderful cast, too.

I stumbled upon Repairman Jack recently and decided to give the series a try. I was amazed to find out that not only can I not find them, but I can't find anything by FPW at all at the local bookstores.

I finally found one a few days ago, Harbinger. I hated to get it because I haven't read any of the books before it, but I got it anyway. It was great, but now I'm hungering for more and can't find it.

What's up with the lack of Wilson's stuff out there? Was he blackballed from the industry or something?
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Nevermind, I read the faq.

The next movie coming up in my queue. I read about it in Fangoria and had to pick it up. It's an alien-napping in reverse about four guys who were abducted as teens (actually five, but one didn't survive). I'll let you all know how it was once I get it (if the post office ever opens again).

This is cool.

http://retrovision.tv/


You can see classic movies. My favorite film is "Suddenly".

Suddenly
This is about:Feature Films, Retrovision Video

Suddenly (1954)

Frank Sinatra plays a hit man who has been hired to kill the president in the small town of “Suddenly”.

Frank Sinatra …. John Baron
Sterling Hayden …. Sheriff Tod Shaw, Suddenly California
James Gleason …. Peter (’Pop’) Benson
Nancy Gates …. Ellen Benson

Just now I watched "Masked and Anonymous". I'm sure Bluesman Mike will love this movie! This movie was made for Bob Dylan fan. Well, but it's not only for his fan. For all music fan, too.

In near future, in a dictatorship nation, one man went free from jail. His name is Jack Fate. He is musician. His manager, Uncle Sweethart have a plan for charity concert. So Sweethart invited him to concert. But......

Bob Dylan played Jack Fate, of course. As I said, this is Bob Dylan's movie. He is main character. But other casting were also great. Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke, Cristian Slater & Chris Pen(from True Romance?), and Ed Harris! I think they are Bob Dylan's fan.

If you realized who's Ed Harris, you are awesome.



Bluesman Mike, if you haven't seen it yet, check it! It won't disappoint you.

I rarely see Japanese movies, but for some reason I found this in rental store, it was "Matango".

"Huh? Matango?!" :confused:

I took up it from shelf, and I saw details on package. Then I realized it was original story by William Hope Hodgson! Gosh! I didn't know Japanese film maker did make movie by W.H.H's story. I rented it and saw it.

If you spotted it in a rental store, check it! As you see the title, it seems comedy(Killer Tomatoes). But.....No! It was weird and some scenes were scary.

See the details.

http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2005...people.php