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I also prefer TOUCH OF EVIL

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In Reply to: Pauline Kael would agree with you. posted by rhizomatic on December 29, 2003 at 12:45:11:

...though I also liked CITIZEN KANE. I have been moved to see TOUCH OF EVIL about 3 or 4 times, but one viewing of KANE was enough.
But please don't put me down as a P. Kael fan. I've always had it in for her ever since I found out these two things:
a) she didn't like Ken Russell (this, I will concede, simply means we have differing tastes); however--
a) she praised FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, but panned THE SOUND OF MUSIC. One of the most illogical positions on any art form I've ever encountered.
About the only matter on which I ever agreed with Ms. Kael was her assessment of FORREST GUMP, the movie--"I hated it unreservedly" (or words to that effect)

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Re: I also prefer TOUCH OF EVIL - Ears 14:25:20 12/30/03 (0)
She also wrote audio reviews under a few pseudonyms. Died a couple of years ago.
Have you seen Mr. Arkadin? - Victor Khomenko 14:42:26 12/29/03 (1)
Some consider it superior to Kane, and I would probably lean that way too. It is far less bombastic effects driven, a more chamber type of presentation, if you will, but has more subtlety.
- No, but will add it to my "to watch" list - djprobed 07:38:05 12/30/03 (0)
  ...which is getting very large these days!
  
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He-he... sounds like my kind of a babe! - Victor Khomenko 14:23:49 12/29/03 (1)
I have the book here, but haven't read it yet, being pushed back by... OK, OK, watching films sometimes, sometimes work.
Between the Fiddler and The Sounds... if I had to make a choice I would have selected the Fiddler, but ideally I would like to keep both, although I can see why one might find the Sounds much more superficial than the Fiddler - that comes after all with a tremendous baggage attached, both good and bad... but certainly something that is bound to move the viewer far more than a pretty story of the Sounds. I know, there IS that small part the Nazi regime playes in the Sounds, but it is just a decoration, and in the Fiddler all the horror is far more palpable, so little wonder many were *moved* by it, while many *liked* the sounds.
- Re: He-he... sounds like my kind of a babe! - patrickU 07:27:45 12/30/03 (0)
  Both films are terribly dated.
  But Fiddler has the better music, and by far.

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