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i don't think any serious film person would argue w/ you on that one van basten. Network, All The President's Men, and Taxi Driver are/were all superior films. hell, avildsen wins for director on Rocky while scorsese didn't even get nominated for Taxi Driver?! insanity... but i still love Rocky...

agreed on all accounts. i love it when the museum guide (if that's what she is) refers to the 'pompous know-it-all' as "the pedantic one." and owen's character says, "Yeah. Good word." or something like that. this movie was just fun fun fun. and the analogy of woody's familiar themes appearing in movie after movie being "like hearing one of your favorite jazzmen play some of his familar licks," is an excellent one! but just like musicians can play their regular bag and have off nights, woody has had quite a few off nights in the recent past. but for me, Midnight In Paris was an excellent gig! as for the 1976 oscars, agreed that there were some ridiculous picks. however, i do love the original Rocky. great movie.

i wouldn't be so sure. can't too many. 4 bars is pretty short! in my book "Light Blue" is 8 bars. but there's a version of "Friday The 13th" from Thelonious Monk Orchestra At Town Hall that's only 4 bars. cool idea for a thread webbcity. if i come across any other examples i'll check in... edit: forgot about this one: "Timeless" from abercrombie almost cuts it! 6 bars...

i got rid of my cell phone a few months back. pretty happy about it. unnecessary waste of time/energy/money imo. yeah yeah, convenience is great yada yada yada... all said and done, i'm very happy to be back to just a 'land line.' "how could we ever have lived without them?!" just fine thank you. i know this doesn't help you david. i'm just sayin'...

try here bertrand: Dewey!

just got off the phone w/ my nephew jeremy who lives in joplin with my sister. they're ok. very lucky. they got next to no damage to their house and car etc... he told me about the insanity comparing the devastation to scenes in hollywood disaster movies he's seen. his high school is destroyed and a couple of his friends have lost their homes. it appears he hasn't lost any friends. terrible situation. haven't been able to reach my sister yet but she's ok. she's no doubt out helping whoever she can. thank you rooster for posting this. i just got home from work and hadn't heard. i was scared when i read your post. i will dream of my sister and nephew being safe tonight. thank you.

these "studies" come around a few times a year. every time i hear/read about them i want to vomit. it'd be easy to go through the article, and the larger related 'real' article here, to pick out all of the jive, pop pseudo-science, cutesy nonsense - but it's just not worth doing again. as far as i'm concerned, the appropriate response to any one of these articles that are about some science project/department "proving scientifically" how music "makes you feel," and exactly which particular rhythms or harmonies do this-that-and the other thing to some specific region in the brain and that that must mean that Bb makes little jimmy's neurons flutter in such a way that he'll end up asking helen to the prom, is "fuck you." be on the lookout for pfizer to market the "Mozart Pill" any year now. didn't you hear? the scientists located the synapse/neuron that gives you the feeling of listening to Mozart. side effects may include vomiting, depression, and wasting money.

Good clip -- and no music! I guess when you play the book long enough, you remember the charts... i seem to remember hearing that a lot of that band's music were "head charts." thad's own big band not so much, but for me, just as amazing.

Looks to me like it's probably Thad Jones. But that pic is pretty rough...

got 'em today thanks!

pm sent on the helge hurum and rob garcia.

these posts make it sound like this dvd was never released. is that the case? i have a copy and it looks like this: do i have something i'm not supposed to have, or am i reading your posts wrong? my disc and case say "filmswelike," "sphinx productions" (studio?), and "distributed exclusively in canada by morningstar entertainment." it is, of course, classic. i thought this doc was widely owned and viewed...

cool excerpt from Sorkin's acceptance speech: "I wrote this movie but David Fincher made this movie. And he did it with an ungodly artfullness. Someone this talented has no business being the nicest guy in the world. But he is. And he made the movie of any screenwriter's dreams... Roxy Sorkin your father just won the academy award. I'm gonna have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig." Sorkin is totally the man. a couple years ago on this board i was raving about his pilot episode of Studio 60 which apparently nobody cared for. it blew my mind and i thought it was probably the best single piece tv i'd seen - maybe ever. gone after one season. too good for network...

it's likely that everyone here has already seen this, but in case you haven't: Michal Levy: Coltrane's "Giant Steps." A video art interpretation. 1st time i saw this i definitely said "wow" to myself

totally agreed. i thought Social Network should've also won best picture. at least it won adapted screenplay. if it hadn't won that i'd've had to burn down a building or something though King's Speech did have have one certifiably great line imo. anyone wanna guess which line i'm thinking of? three little words. it immediately blew me away. it was the duke's response to something his stutter coach said to him. of course, for every good line in Speech, Social Network had 30... i also had no problem w/ Firth winning for actor. i'd seen all the other nominees (except bardem) and he was certainly more impressive than any of them. pretty weak year in that category imo. but Firth was terrific and i thought the picture as a whole, while certainly by the numbers (as someone else noted above), was very well done. formulas exist for a reason. if they're used well, they work. edit: additionally, aside from Social Network - Inception/Black Swan/The Fighter all should've won over King's Speech for director imo. that really was a bogus choice.

seems to me she could be singing that tune directly to some posters in this thread. good for her.

i'd say if anyone is on the fence about the Clusone Trio I Am An Indian, just go for it. great recording...

it's not just your perception. it's a sad fact. no question about it. the public did not look at him the same ever again. and i believe it ruined his career. there's no way to know, but i believe he would have made better films in recent years if he didn't have that horrible experience over his head. i don't think anyone would ever be able to shake off an episode like that - and all played out in front of the public. crushing. and, of course, it's his own fault. but i assume woody would simply say, "The heart wants what it wants." well, yes woody. but... what paps said. perfect. and i would add that woody was certainly found not guilty of farrow's molestation claim and it seemed to me that farrow was simply being vengeful w/ that suit. ugly stuff... Celebrity was the very first woody allen movie that i did not enjoy. after watching his movies when they came out in theaters every year for over 20 years and essentially loving all of them, it was a very strange feeling leaving the theater knowing i did not like a woody allen movie. it was some kind of shock. i wouldn't say it was as bad as some of his more recent movies, but i really did not like it, and i assume it was mainly due to brannagh's "woody imitation." i've read that woody did not want him to play the part that way and spoke to him about it. but brannagh said it felt right to him to play it like that and woody said that he deferred to him because he had great respect for him as an actor. it didn't work. i will say that dicaprio was terrific in his little part in the film... i think he made a lot of very good films through the 90s after Crimes And Misdemeanors: Husbands And Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says I Love You, and Deconstructing Harry. that's a strong decade. Husbands And Wives is, i feel, his best movie. and i believe that Bullets Over Broadway is probably his flat out funniest. i laugh my fucking ass off every time i watch that movie. just a perfect comedy. and at the same time it deals w/ a very deep idea: being able to face the fact that you're not an artist. it's a terrific movie. plus: Chazz!!!!!!!!@#$% for me, it's been pretty much since 2000 that i've seen anything from him that i think i needed to see. Sweet And Lowdown was the last movie i've been totally satisfied with. great, great movie that was. in the book Woody Allen On Woody Allen, he speaks about Purple Rose Of Cairo being "closest to his original vision": Bjorkman's question: Are you never content when you've finish a film? Don't you ever have the feeling that 'This time I've made it, or almost made it?' Woody's answer: "Only on The Purple Rose Of Cairo. That's the closest I've come to a feeling of satisfaction. After that film I thought, 'Yes, this time I think I got it right where I wanted to get it...[and the following from earlier in the book]...The Purple Rose Of Cairo. That to me has always been a favorite, because I had an idea, and I got that idea on the screen as I wanted it. When it was finished I said, 'Yes I had a script and an idea - and there it is!' I managed to express myself the way I wanted..." these comments were made before he did Match Point. but in my mind there's no comparing the two. Cairo is a far superior film. where did you read the woody quote on Match Point?

what a fuckin' drag.

got 'em john b! fast and perfect. thanks...

arrived yesterday perfect in every way. thanks colinmce!

one more PM to add Secret Museum...

PM sent on Clinkers...

Hurst is absolutely underrated. simply doesn't get enough mention. phenomenal bassist!!! i will be checking these out. thanks GA...

interesting. i'd never heard of it before. and i saw lovano (w/ scofield) last weekend. he didn't break it out. just the soprano and tenor...