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Why am I not in Chicago why don't I own a teleporter this is a festival of British film noir which includes a 35 mm print of Cash on Demand (1961) and I'll settle for a digital restoration of The Fallen Idol (1948) and if I were programming the thing it would also include a print of The October Man (1947) but I didn't even know it was happening until tonight which means I am in Boston not watching Eric Portman in his home genre even on DCP and in conclusion I need a budget and more time. Just because I've seen five of these movies doesn't mean I wouldn't jump at the chance to see them again on a big screen and the ones I haven't seen sound fascinating. Argh. Maybe the Brattle will decide to branch into British noir. Maybe I'll build a teleporter.
Okay, Brattle, I appreciate that you are doing a series of Shakespeare on screen and claim to have a double feature of Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (1991) and Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979) lined up for later this month. That is not small change. I will resign myself to digital Jarman if you can get a print of the Greenaway. But I still want British noir.
Okay, Brattle, I appreciate that you are doing a series of Shakespeare on screen and claim to have a double feature of Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (1991) and Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979) lined up for later this month. That is not small change. I will resign myself to digital Jarman if you can get a print of the Greenaway. But I still want British noir.
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No, I hadn't! Thank you.
I like that some of these figures were understandable to me in advance; others make sense when explained; others made the most sense to Greenaway. If you have Jonah, you have to have Semiramis. If you have Dido, you have to have Aeneas. I thought those were both ages of Moses and I was right. I didn't get Vasco da Gama or the wreck of the Medusa at all.
And he has spun many of these stories one way or another to draw more water out of them, but I like it.