i hate vince gallo more than jesus hates cry-babies
so i finally got to see storytelling last night. ifc is playing happiness next week, so i'll wait until i see that before i make any judgements about todd solondz's talent
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also, i liked storytelling.
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his '+' must be broken by now
i like his reply 'poor Mr.Innocent, don't worry ,you can change your account name again and again'
yah. i might watch it again, if i have a chance, to get things sorted a little more, cause solondz is definitely a writer-director whose stories have depth, but i don't think i'd recommend it to others.
side note: did you see brown bunny? from all the nasty things i've heard, i wanna see it like i wanna survey the damage of a train wreck. i was looking at the credits, and gallo did like 3847629345872435 things for it. it would be tough to put that much into a film, then have critics walk out at a screening.
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i actually haven't seen much of vincent gallo on screen, although i like his music. i'm more fascinated with his huge ego. i'm assuming you've read vincent gallo interviewing vincent gallo?
i like where someone leaves him feedback: "An Excellent buyer, Highly recommended, FAST payment, Thanks A+A+A+A+A+!!!!!!!!!" & he replies "thanks ming, i wish i had even one nice word to say about you"
i wish i knew this guy in real life. cat power even has a song about him. that's how special he is.
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buffalo '66 didn't exactly give me a fat boner, but i was a kid when i saw it. i knew he did the score for brown bunny, but i didn't realize he did other musics. i should check him out.
and, yes, his hall-of-fame worthy ego is why i wanna stab him in the skull and/or eye with my penis.
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storytelling = -
todd solondz = +/-
jesus = fish
cry-babies = -
I too JUST saw Storytelling...and as well, I was not impressed. A friend actually introduced me to Happiness, this is a movie I always walked by in blockbuster and always had the urge to rent, but never got around to it. So after I saw it, I just wanted to see anything or everything by Solondz because I think Happiness kicked ass. So, then I junmped on Storytelling...it was just...boring. Maybe it was just Solondz trying to top off the dark humour in Happiness, but he wasn't successful in this attempt...it was just so dry. Yay...the moral of Fiction was that a white student succumbs to getting drilled by her black prof...how mind blowing. In non-fiction...I don't even know what the hell...happened...lol, I will too agree that Mikey left me homocidal. Overall, I just have to agree with you, it was just way too over the top with having that mix of being artsy fartsy.
*I thought John Frusciante did the majority of the score for Brown Bunny?
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i'm willing to bet we both watched it at the same time on tmn. it's like in an american tail where fievel and his sister are looking up at the stars singing 'somewhere out there'
i have a man-crush on philip seymour hoffman, so i'm eager awaiting happiness.
i think storytelling was really self-critical for solondz. a lot of it was about how cruel he is to his characters, and how that's not at all cool. like, the whole argument in the english class was him arguing with himself about whether to make trite, romantic stories (marcus' story), or to write stories about people get severely fucked... up the ass. it's like he portrayed himself as both the weasely documentarian, who has no faith in his work, and does, in fact, have some compassion for his film's subjects, and the commanding english teacher, who is always being told by people how much they like his work, when really they hate it.
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How dare you...a reference to American Tail.
This is actually one of the best takes I've ever heard on this. Perfectly said, and I guess in some degree this can be applied to non-fiction where Toby does have compassion for the story and people in the documentary, but then there's the opposing side(Elizabeth) who wants to see a train wreck and not take the story as it is.
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