Written and directed by Sally Potter, it's a spiky
piece of filmed theatre, an acid drawing - room comedy, shot in expressionistic black - and - white and performed with zeal by its ensemble cast.
A film of this kind must either be an adaptation, or
a piece of filmed theatre.
Not exact matches
If you placed a few hundred random people into a movie
theatre and asked them to invest their time in this
film, I can guarantee that at least 50 percent would either walk out or despise their experience, but that's okay because not everyone likes every single
piece of art.
The
piece proceeds in the mode
of cultural studies by analysing the racial discourses surrounding the
film: black rural folklorism, the representation
of stereotypical black comic or menial roles in
film, the commodification and packaging
of black culture, and what Naremore calls «a chic, upscale «Africanism», redolent
of café society, Broadway
theatre, and the European avant - garde.»
The idea
of spending millions
of dollars to
film a story about it, then have people pay 20 bucks a
piece to sit in a
theatre and munch Milk Duds and popcorn while watching people get sent to gas chambers is just plain sick.
As Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Boys II, and Legally Blonde 2 touch down in
theatres, Die Another Day, The Jungle Book 2, and the Brady Bunch movies land on DVD, and then there are the cross-promotions: It seems like everyone wants a
piece of the fallout from Universal's big - screen Hulk, with Fox, Buena Vista, Anchor Bay, and Universal itself issuing «Hulk» - branded discs prior to the feature
film's June 20th opening.
The
film is a wonderful
piece of comic book
theatre and it's so cool to see all
of these heroes collide on screen.
In the last room
of Regen Projects is a sculptural
theatre entitled Range Week, where the earlier movies Center Jenny (
filmed at Fitch and Trecartin's Los Angeles - based studio) and Junior War (a movie Trecartin
pieced together from footage he shot while in high school) are shown.