Film Class of 99
Here's a Telegraph piece on some of my favourite film directors of late (my faves being the two Andersons, really) - the anti-Hollywood Hollywood set, if you will.
Watching Magnolia yet again the other night, I've started clocking the various filmic references - for instance the Cruise/Robards deathbed scene is lifted from Last Tango in Paris, while the final shot - the close-up smile - tributes Once Upon a Time in America.
Also: does anybody out there know why it's called Magnolia?
And while I'm there, here is an interview from the same paper with Mercury Rev, a band who, in a world ordained by myself, would be replacing the tired-out sound of the Big O in future David Lynch movies. Let's face it: "All Is Dream" is pretty much the latter's modus operandi.
posted by DD @ 15:06
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Magnolia's a great film - interesting to see the intertextuality, though - I'd missed that. I had a vague feel of Last Tango in Paris to Julianne Moore's scenes, bizarrely, but it was insubstantial.
I thought the magnolia was a symbol of death? I did read something aobut it online once, but can't recall where.
Vanessa / Sarsparilla
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Aha! I found part of it: on a lyrics website while looking up the words to Aimee Mann's soundtrack to the film. I'm too tired to find which song, now, though - probably 'Save Me' or 'Wise Up' ...? Sorry.
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Vanessa
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