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BlogNosh 12/12/07

Under discussion:
New York, New York (1977)

Under discussion:

New York, New York (1977)

“There are all these people who are like a non-people living here in caravans, 15 to a house in parts of England. Completely under the radar, completely unprotected. Like Dickensian England, it???s all here. These people are working for Sainsbury???s, Tesco???s and ASDA, [they] all pretend they don???t know it???s going on. And the government pretends it doesn???t know it???s going on. They???ve designed everything so that those people can be used to keep the cost of living low. There like this sub-human race and I realized that this is really widespread.” From RCRD LBL’s “exclusive interview” with Nick Broomfield, whose narrative feature Ghosts just came out on DVD in the UK.
Coen Brothers blogathon alert: “Seeing as the Coen Brothers and their new movie haven’t gotten enough blogosphere attention, we here decided we would talk about the Coen Brothers and what their new movie has done to and in their body of work.” The show goes down Friday the 21st at Vinyl is Heavy.
“At the moment, it looks like a good chunk of my annual top-ten will be dominated by Westerns and Musicals,” writes Filmbrain. “Go figure.” I totally agree with him on Michael Clayton, which I finally saw on Monday and which is such a disappointment–if there was an award for the Best Final Reel Totally Undeserved By The 90 Minutes That Precede It, this one would win in a landslide.
Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York is, according to Nathan Rabin, “unmistakably a coke movie. It has coke???s jittery, paranoid rhythms: the maddeningly repetitive circular conversations, the pummeling emotional intensity, the screaming matches, and ragged, overreaching ambition. It???s the kind of movie that shows up at your doorstep at four in the morning looking bleary-eyed and desperate and angrily demands $400 for something it doesn???t feel comfortable talking about.”