but it's a sillier film, in which the device of the heavenly screw-up allows for mistaken identities, screwball noir,
Heh. Sounds like something I'd like to see.
Claude Rains as God.
I'm pretty sure he is God, actually.
Edward Everett Horton as Messenger 7013 is clearly a Small God of Dithering. I love the man.
I like him, too. I only know him from the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies and Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_in_Paradise).
I keep seeing it referred to glowingly, which makes me wonder if there's some central point I'm missing.
I bet it's probably just that it seemed more palatable to mainstream Hollywood, and consequently got shown more through the years.
I'm not familiar with Philip Glass as a composer, so it's possible that this is a characteristically excellent example of his work and I just don't happen to like his music.
Here're a few tracks;
From an alternate soundtrack he did for the Bela Legosi Dracula (http://www.sendspace.com/file/fzjzqv).
From Kundun (http://www.sendspace.com/file/xxidnk).
From a violin concerto (http://www.sendspace.com/file/90hs5b).
If you have the Criterion edition of Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete, it includes an opera he composed for the film, which you can switch on like a commentary track.
He's also composed a couple ballets based on David Bowie albums. What did you think of Outside, by the way?
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Heh. Sounds like something I'd like to see.
Claude Rains as God.
I'm pretty sure he is God, actually.
Edward Everett Horton as Messenger 7013 is clearly a Small God of Dithering. I love the man.
I like him, too. I only know him from the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies and Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_in_Paradise).
I keep seeing it referred to glowingly, which makes me wonder if there's some central point I'm missing.
I bet it's probably just that it seemed more palatable to mainstream Hollywood, and consequently got shown more through the years.
I'm not familiar with Philip Glass as a composer, so it's possible that this is a characteristically excellent example of his work and I just don't happen to like his music.
Here're a few tracks;
From an alternate soundtrack he did for the Bela Legosi Dracula (http://www.sendspace.com/file/fzjzqv).
From Kundun (http://www.sendspace.com/file/xxidnk).
From a violin concerto (http://www.sendspace.com/file/90hs5b).
If you have the Criterion edition of Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete, it includes an opera he composed for the film, which you can switch on like a commentary track.
He's also composed a couple ballets based on David Bowie albums. What did you think of Outside, by the way?