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...viewings back when I was around 17, and that was a very long time ago. I'm sure the count stands at over 50 now. I'm not sure it's the most significant film in my canon, but it's a big one, like "Citizen Kane" or "Vertigo" or "Taxi Driver" or "La Dolce Vita." "Kong" was the first film to which I ever gave a close reading, in the narrowest technical sense. Seeing the film as often as I did made it possible for me to examine each contribution in depth - fortunately, it's an unusually rich film...
...leave you someday," a slim beguiler (Zhou Xun) asks her beau, "would you look for me forever?" This being a film noir, Shanghai-style, she has to drown in the dirty Suzhou River, then re-emerge as someone else. She could be Kim Novak in Vertigo, hijacked into a James M. Cain plot and photographed in the grainy, high-contrast glamour of a Wong Kar-wai romance. Lou Ye lays out a ravishing wasteland of femmes fatales and lovelorn tough guys--all in 79 minutes. So it's in Mandarin? After Crouching Tiger that's no longer an excuse...
...Quality Control come immediately to mind, while Eminem is undoubtedly talented as hell. In the soul/R&B section, D'Angelo's second album was competent, but the stunner was Jill Scott. Dance music did well by compilations, and even managed a few good albums (Groove Armada's Vertigo, David Holmes' Bow Down to the Exit Sign) in what is generally a singles-driven culture. As for pop-well, some records were set by various assortments of platinum-bleached boy and girl wonders. But Aimee Mann's work on the Magnolia soundtrack was impressive, and despite the fun I poked...
...Third row seat, right in the middle, the huge Zeigfeld Theater on 54th Street. It's the premiere of the restored "Vertigo" and Kim Novak is sitting about ten seats away. Sonic Youth is there - I talk to Thurston Moore about Bernard Herrmann. The ecstatic moment: Judy walks out of the bathroom, bathed in green light, the French-curl hair style finally in place and Madeline's reincarnation complete. Herrmann's score swells...
...live bass guitar and keyboards and added cheeky touches of humor (a sample of a woman moaning "Oh Groove Armada" had the crowd visibly laughing). Of course, some self-promotion was in order, and indeed it seemed to be what the crowd expected. The upbeat tracks from Vertigo were aired out, with the cheeky "shakin' that ass" line of their own "I See You Baby" receiving the biggest reaction of the night...