Books in Film

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What do you mean?

I just mean he let's himself hang out most. Like schrader and DePalma there's a lot of artifice and they disguise where they are from in reality. Whereas scorsese is just going for it. But schrader is now going for it.

 

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I'd say that applies to Schrader more than Scorsese. These lonely, male characters he's been writing about his whole career can be pretty ugly self-portraits; Scorsese strikes me as slicker and less personal.

 

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when I hear 'letting it all hang out' I think making fun films for the guys without an apprehension or pretension

 

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Sarface is my favorite from this collection. though its the only de palma Ive ever seen.

 

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Sarface is my favorite from this collection. though its the only de palma Ive ever seen.

You should watch Blow Out, Body Double and Carlito's Way. You not seen Mission: Impossible? That's De Palma too.

 

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Wonder what @Corpsey thinks of Schrader. He's basically a Schrader character himself.

 

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Oh god here we go

 

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@luka @luka etc

 

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I feel my life turning. All it needed was a direction. You drift from day to day, years go by. Then a change comes. I am able to change. I can be a good person. What a strange thing to happen, halfway through your life. What luck.

 

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Carlito's Way

Craner's great in this one;

 

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new lrb essay on schrader

Alex Abramovich | Conversations with Schrader

For years, Paul Schrader was revered for writing Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, for his other collaborations with Martin...

www.lrb.co.uk

 

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There's a copy of The Soul of the Ape in The Passenger,

Watched this again last night and also spotted a copy of Alberto Moravia's Which Tribe Do You Belong To?.

 

[kid charlemagne]

He's a bit incelly isn't he. That nasal shifting tone, he's uncomfortable but also very eloquent and insightful. Like when he's talking about the masks and guises.

Clearly someone familiar with trying on different persons, so he foreshadows quite a lot of our "now" time.

I watched mishima years ago and seem to recall it's a bit of a mess, he has this way of trying to tell the story by smashing a traditional bipic together with sequences from the novels, so it's disjointed. Maybe better if you are already quite familiar with the work, which I wasn't.

Although I did go onto read 'confessions of a mask' but I couldn't get into it.

Mishima is probably someone worthy of revisiting.

Also Dick Cavett... I was watching the one with Cassavetes, Falk and Gazzara. And also the one with Scorsese and De Palma.





Maybe someone on here posted them?

Nothing startling, but he seems like a proper time capsule you could get lost in for a bit

fascinating we had talk shows like this comp to what u see now

 

[kid charlemagne]

the big nowhere in nolan interstellar.

 

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fascinating we had talk shows like this comp to what u see now

I made a thread on this.

The Decline of the Chat Show

YouTube throwing up Dick Cavett (and even Firing Line) clips consistently highlights this. I don't think you can pinpoint any particular moment as being the point of no return, but the 60s and 70s certainly seems like the peak. There are still good interviews into the 80s and 90s, but the...

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