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Roscoe

About Me

I blog: www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com

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The Descendants

OK -- watchable, certainly. I just wish I'd been able to work up as much interest in the proceedings as they seemed to want me to.

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The Trouble with Angels

Style

Auteur-driven
Inspired collaboration
Melancholy
Serene & subtle
Wildly romantic
Deliriously surreal
Canonical classics
Shh!—silent cinema
Of-the-past
High Art
Pop Art
Vanguard cinema
Other-worldly
Neorealist
Coming-of-Age

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Roscoe, can you send me an email? I wanted to see if you might be interested in writing something for my blog later this year. The address is in my Blogger profile. www.eddieonfilm.blogspot.com. Unfortunately, no payment would be involved as I'm a nonprofit blog.

Maximilian Bercovicz

23Dec11

Sim's the man indeed ;)

Maximilian Bercovicz

23Dec11

P.S. Nice review ;) completely agree about Scrooge's transformation, and the wonderful scene with the maid when he arrives at his nephew's house. I also love the scene where he exposes his new self to Cratchit by offering him a raise - there's just a really warm, sweet, delicate quality about the way Sim does it.

Maximilian Bercovicz

22Dec11

I saw the 1951 version of "Scrooge" on TV today - it's definitely the best take on the story I've seen, so thanks for the comments you made about it which made me want to see it. (and yes, Alastair Sim is THE definitive Scrooge!)

marsyas

19Dec11

I finished _A Single Man_ yesterday and I had a hard time putting it down it was such an engaging story. But so much of it was in the mind of George that the film was doomed as that really can't be transferred to film. I think also the depiction of Charley as a glamours babe in a fine house didn't help the film at all in catching the mood of the book. I also read _The Hustler_ by John Henry Mackay that Isherwood said was accurate in describing Berlin in the 30s when he lived there for the pretty boys. But I couldn't finish the last part as I knew it would be too sad. I left you a comment on your blog about _Tree of Life_ under a different ID.