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Hi,
finally got 'O Brother, where art Thou' today. I think I like that movie better every time I see it, goofiness and all.
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I just saw this not long ago. A good, silly, lighthearted flick. I watched it twice before returning the video to my friend. "Man of Constant Sorrow" won the CMA award for best song. I was mildly irritated with the ending. When a valley is dammed there is no big rush of water. It fills up slowly. that took away from the realism of the rest of the movie.
I enjoyed it alot. Have a feeling this flick will hold up in the long run (as opposed to some of the poorer choices of DVD's I've purchased - - can anyone say "Mr. Bean"?)
Unlike most of what passes for "film" these days, I find myself almost always appreciating a Cohen brothers movie even more after 2nd and 3rd viewings. Especially, "Miller's Crossing" which I wasn't that fond of after seeing in the theatre. I've really grown to like it after repeated viewings. Yeah so they stole a story from Homer, it's still a fun retelling.
I saw it twice at the theater. It's been eons since I've gone back for a repeat viewing of a film. I'm sure I'll rent it and watch it again soon. There's also an okay (but not great) concert video of the artists who performed the music entitled "Down from the Mountain". Worth seeing, eventhough it wasn't as good as I'd hoped.Another film that has recently made it to video you might like is "Songcatcher". It's about a music professor during the early 1900's who documents the folk music of the North Carolina backwoods. The plot is hillbilly melodrama but interesting, and it's worth seeing for the music even if the story doesn't grab you.
Hi,
the dvd also has the music video 'Man of Constant Sorrow'. I will look for Songcatcher'btw, this is almost too obvious to mention,,,,but have you seen The Buena Vista Social Club? The dvd is cheap, and I liked it a lot, it's some mighty fine pickin' n a singin' from some old Cubano club performers.
Yep, I've seen "Buena Vista Social Club". Very nice. I especially liked the pianist(Gonzales?). That guy that played the laud and the bassist were also impressive musicians.
Agreed, it was clever and humorous. The sound track also won the CMA for Record of the Year.
...it was a soundtrack in search of a movie.clark
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... IMHO, of course! ;^)Respectfully,
AuPh
Hi,
when I first saw the movie; I simply did not know what to make of it. It takes great liberties with the era the movie is set in. Then there are moments I find jarring, like the Klan's 'Busby Berkely' march, or a politican doing the 'steam heat' move. If the Klan ever got that organised, there'd be hell to pay.
But it stuck in my mind, I saw it a 2nd time; and is often the case with movies.....the flaws are overlooked, and what the movie does well continues to entertain. You didn't say what your reservations were; or how strongly they were held; but you might want to give a 2nd chance sometime.
... but the Klan WERE that organised back in the twenties and thirties. At it's strongest there were over a million members in the KKK (i.e., partly due to the influence of D.W. Griffith's revisionist silent epic "Birth of a Nation", which is also widely considered to be the first U.S. feature length film)! You are also correct that there was "hell to pay" from the Klan being that organized. In addition to over a hundred thousand white-sheeted klansmen marching in Washington in the early twenties there were many lynchings, beatings, vandalism and various other criminal activities. From what I've seen in newsreel footage, some of the Klan ritual isn't that far removed from what's parodied in the movie (i.e., except that the Klan takes theirs quite seriously), which makes the Coen's "Busby Berkley/Wizard of Oz" parody just that much funnier, IMHO.Anyway, I hope some of the naysayers will give this film another look. For those who haven't seen it yet, please do, because you can't imagine what you're missing. See it several times; it should grow on you, if you give it half a chance.
BTW, the only way to keep a hair-raising comedy down is with Dapper Dan! ;^)
Cheers,
AuPh
Roger Ebert you're not! :o)AuPh
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