tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post5917699224620506950..comments2024-03-10T07:42:17.071-04:00Comments on The Film Doctor: ababeel linksThe Film Doctor http://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-57493760616813424852012-03-04T10:01:15.274-05:002012-03-04T10:01:15.274-05:00"Damsels" is one of those movies I can s..."Damsels" is one of those movies I can see others outright loving or hating. For me, it's one where I feel both, often at the same time. I'll be curious to see what you and everyone else thinks of it; the audience was with it for a while, but that affection petered out.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01450775188328918558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-82132505570595484802012-03-04T09:15:20.931-05:002012-03-04T09:15:20.931-05:00Thanks, Craig, for pointing out the weaknesses of ...Thanks, Craig, for pointing out the weaknesses of the documentary. Welles seemed incapable of shooting any scene in a conventional way, and I like the way he subversively went after one of the largest targets (Hearst) of his time period. <br /><br />Too bad about <i>Damsels in Distress</i>. Since <i>Metropolitan</i> is one of my favorite films, I hope to like Stillman's more recent work more than you did.The Film Doctor https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-76503365599674082582012-03-03T19:54:05.031-05:002012-03-03T19:54:05.031-05:00Great links as always. The problem with that "...Great links as always. The problem with that "Battle over Citizen Kane" doc, though, is it makes the seductive yet utterly false and misleading claim that Welles and Hearst were a lot alike. It also promotes the well-worn Welles-as-failure storyline (as does its awful fictional counterpart, "RKO 281"), which, as Jonathan Rosenbaum points out, is accurate only if you think of Welles as a Hollywood filmmaker, rather than an independent filmmaker who got Hollywood funding for his first movie. To take nothing away from "Citizen Kane," as history is showing us, his entire career left a whole bunch of pretty damned interesting and important films we're only beginning to understand (and see).Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01450775188328918558noreply@blogger.com