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Saturday, 9 February 2002 |
One Down, Several To Go.
The same night I found Blue I passed the little cinema in Mount Lawley, saw they were now showing Iris, and bought a ticket immediately.
The poster for Iris.
Not a bad film at all, great acting of course, as you would expect from a cast that includes Judi Dench—lovely person, met her on a photo shoot once—and Kate Winslet, but as a biopic with a focus on then and now its storytelling is limited and the outcome is of course predictable. Worth seeing but not something I will want to buy on DVD.
On the other hand Mulholland Drive is now playing in yet another of those tiny suburban cinemas and I might take a long walk over to it this afternoon, after I scour the CBD bookstores and record shops once again. Thank God for David Lynch and his so very alternative view of human existence, not to say his unconventional approach to filmmaking!
In The Bedroom is playing in the James Street, Northbridge, movie house so if I don’t make it to Leederville then I will go see that one instead.
The poster for Mulholland Drive.
2:13:40 PM 
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Another Piece of the Puzzle…
…falls into place.
I was down at Planet Video returning some rental videotapes last night when I cast an eye over their discount DVDs stand and spotted a copy of
Three Colours Blue, just released in Oz.
I bought it immediately. Now I just have to find the last one in the trilogy—White. Not my favourite out of the three—for personal reasons—but necessary to the set. I have had a copy of the script for some time, and now that DVDs are becoming more popular and available in Oz I want to collect scripts, DVDs and soundtrack CDs for the films I think I can learn the most from.
None of the bookstores in WA stock
Faber & Faber’s
film script books, nor those by any other publisher. But there is a specialist theatre/film bookseller in Sydney I will get in touch with on Monday. Soundtrack CDs are easier to find here though.
“Cinema is the definitive art form of the twentieth century, having projected its rich and diverse imagery deep into the consciousness of successive generations.”
I couldn’t agree more with those sentiments published on the Faber website. Ironically, just now I don’t own a DVD player nor indeed a VCR either. The latter is borrowed. I’d been planning to buy an
Apple
PowerBook
as soon as they got DVD/CD-R combo drives as standard, under an advertising agency scheme to get portables into the hands of its employees, but the agency began crumbling just before the new models appeared.
Now I have resolved to get a multizone DVD player and a VHS player for rental tapes as soon as I get a job, and save up for one of the next generation PowerBooks, when they get faster processors.
A multizone player is, I think, absolutely necessary in Oz as there are still
so many
DVDs that don’t get released here. The
Three Colours
trilogy has been released by a tiny little independent—Siren Visual Entertainment, and I have only seen the disk in just one store here.
I’m so pleased we’re now in the DVD era—I never much liked videotape. The thought that every time you play your favourite tape you are contributing to its destruction is an appalling one.
The only VHS tape I ever owned was Wim Wenders’
Wings of Desire. I would
love
to have a copy of that and its sequel
Far Away, So Close,
on DVD. The sequel is not anywhere near as good as its successor, but hell, I like it anyway. Number two behind
Three Colours, in my opinion.
Number three would have to be Kieslowski’s
Decalogue, so far only available as a region 1 DVD. Or maybe it should be number two on my list of must-get movies? Just read the reviews on the Amazon.com page.
1:30:06 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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