tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post4762367786261185610..comments2024-03-24T20:15:00.996-04:00Comments on Critic After Dark: Oh God! (Carl Reiner, 1977)Noel Verahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-26117338031246410882022-04-15T13:58:14.639-04:002022-04-15T13:58:14.639-04:00Oops, deleted the comment.
Here's a copy: So...Oops, deleted the comment. <br /><br />Here's a copy: Sorvino is a fantastic actor.<br /><br />I found this part interesting: "Paul Sorvino, near-unrecognizable as a bullying Bible-Belt reverend (I remember how Anthony Hopkins on the set of Nixon (1995) admitted that Sorvino (who did a spot-on impersonation of Henry Kissinger) played Nixon better than he ever could)"<br /><br />May I ask where you've heard this from?<br />Is there a clip or snippet of it online somewhere?<br /><br />My answer: I remember reading it in a Hopkins interview in Premiere Magazine. Can't remember the issue tho. Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-53611697963563910572007-11-20T13:25:00.000-05:002007-11-20T13:25:00.000-05:00What are "obvious, gaya-gaya" movies? Dolphy does ...What are "obvious, gaya-gaya" movies? Dolphy does a parody, Tatay Nick, is it a low form of borrowing from the movie Titanic? I actualy prefer Dolphy's parody. <BR/><BR/>And it's not like the Japanese don't do their own form of copying, or that Kurosawa's borrowing isn't obvious. The way he frames horsemen against the landscape, that screams Ford so loud it's deafening. <BR/><BR/>Comedy's comedy. The only crime is not being funny, and who's to say what's funny? I'll admit, our comic portfolio's not as extensive, but we have our practitioners--Bernal, both Ishmael and Joyce, O'Hara in his lighter moods, Joey Reyes when he's not trying too hard, Michiko Yamamoto and Armando Lao with whatever director they happen to work with. <BR/><BR/>I wouldn't put down our Agent Falcon, or Weng Weng in For Your Height Only (Leavold can tell you that much). Comedy's comedy, and I appreciate it where I find it.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-12955880501456316202007-11-20T12:47:00.000-05:002007-11-20T12:47:00.000-05:00The thing though is that Kurosawa, whatever it was...The thing though is that Kurosawa, whatever it was he borrowed, imitated or copied, he made Japanese! <BR/><BR/>Naturally, I don't think this critically when I watch a movie, unless it is brought to mind or when I know I am watching an obvious gaya-gaya movie like those James Bond secret agent or lipsing "pinoy comedies."<BR/><BR/>"Pinoy comedies." Hehehe, what is that? It seems like a parody of how life is like in the PI. If movies reflect culture, hopefully, this is not what a representative pinoy movie is. But, as you might put it, a part of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-57882061034638212862007-11-19T19:48:00.000-05:002007-11-19T19:48:00.000-05:00I don't consider Yojimbo representatively Japanese...I don't consider Yojimbo representatively Japanese either--Kurosawa borrows heavily from Ford, among others, and the inspiration for that particular film is Red Harvest, by Dashiel Hammett. A 'purer' kind of Japanese filmmaking, if you like, would be Yasujiro Ozu's--but pure as against what? Chambara films, which are very popular in Japan, are also a part of Japanese pop culture, and Yojimbo despite its Western sources is a prime example of that genre.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-57141265220810937332007-11-19T08:51:00.000-05:002007-11-19T08:51:00.000-05:00Pity!Pity!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-4420026207940334692007-11-16T12:14:00.000-05:002007-11-16T12:14:00.000-05:00Representative as typical, or one that shows all a...Representative as typical, or one that shows all aspects of the cinema. I don't believe there is such a creature. You can come close to a typical type, a statistical mean, but you know what Samuel Clemens--sorry, Mark Twain--said about statistics. That's why I don't believe in awards, or aggregate lists.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-33419169282345574002007-11-16T10:11:00.000-05:002007-11-16T10:11:00.000-05:00Thanks for the quick reply. To be clear, I was jus...Thanks for the quick reply. To be clear, I was just following up on the your reply to my first comment:<BR/><BR/>"It's not completely representative of Philippine cinema-..."<BR/><BR/>So, what film would you consider completely representative of Philippine cinema? That is to say, distinctively pinoy. It does not have to be the best or the worst - just pinoy. For example, when I see Yojimbo or the like, I'd say, Japanese movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-14855418167298985412007-11-15T23:17:00.000-05:002007-11-15T23:17:00.000-05:00I don't know what the question means. If you mean ...I don't know what the question means. If you mean represents most audiences, that would be whatever makes money nowadays; wouldn't know, maybe love teams. If you mean the best of what cinema has to offer, there's a list of favorite films in the blog sidebar.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-68907452316568570062007-11-15T10:40:00.000-05:002007-11-15T10:40:00.000-05:00Noel, What would you consider to be completely rep...Noel, <BR/><BR/>What would you consider to be completely representative of Philippine cinema and why?<BR/><BR/>Pasensya na pards, kung parang interview na ang dating ng comment ko.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-85046359826646008432007-11-14T08:57:00.000-05:002007-11-14T08:57:00.000-05:00Dejavu, Noel. That's exactly what's happening righ...Dejavu, Noel. That's exactly what's happening right now.Oggs Cruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041599863258946384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-84841489398220615152007-11-14T01:04:00.000-05:002007-11-14T01:04:00.000-05:00Luciano Carlos, 1965, actually. The film industry ...Luciano Carlos, 1965, actually. The film industry by then wasn't in good shape; the big studios were in decline, and stars were looking to independent outfits for bigger talent fees. The indies went for low production values and quickies, the big studios for tired formulas. One of the tired formulas was the melodrama with a popular American song for a title. <BR/><BR/>It's not completely representative of Philippine cinema--Gerry de Leon was doing some of his best work around this time--but it was one aspect of it.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-53063087505129814892007-11-13T23:23:00.000-05:002007-11-13T23:23:00.000-05:00I saw and liked the movie. Just now wondering if y...I saw and liked the movie. <BR/><BR/>Just now wondering if you could do something on Americanized pinoy movies in the 50's. I was surfing Youtube on pinoy movies when I came across a few old films, e.g., "portrait of my love," and others of the same flavor -- lipsing American songs. Shook me a little bit. What's with that, I thought. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, what's with those films?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-67556486764686685632007-11-11T17:19:00.000-05:002007-11-11T17:19:00.000-05:00He's funnier than Morgan Freeman.He's funnier than Morgan Freeman.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-12292354234123669162007-11-09T20:49:00.000-05:002007-11-09T20:49:00.000-05:00Thanks for reminding me about this movie, which ha...Thanks for reminding me about this movie, which has a way of almost-vanishing only to pop up again. That's staying power, I guess. George Burns was born to play God.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01450775188328918558noreply@blogger.com