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The Pillow Book (Score:1)
Peter Greenaway should be flogged with Ewan McGregor's wang for making that (and all his other) self-indulgent crapfests. But from him we do learn the valuable lesson that:
HORRIBLE STORY + GOOD CINEMATOGRAPHY + "EDGY" SOFTCORE = "ART"
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Re:The Pillow Book (Score:2)
Yeah, I know not everyone appreciates Greenaway's work. Perhaps what puts it into perspective is realizing the Greenaway hates D.W. Griffith. D.W. Griffith was one of the pioneers of film, with the horribly racist Birth of a Nation [imdb.com]. What made that film interesting is that he focused heavily on telling a story in a linear fashion and its success pretty much set into stone the "Visual Novel" idea of film-making.
Greenaway, by contrast, feels that film is primarily a visual media that should be used as suc
Re:The Pillow Book (Score:2)
But I must admit, I've never seen "Titanic" completely. Not in one go, anyway.