Keith Uhlich: Frames and Flashes
The ones that cut the deepest:
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The Black Dahlia 
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
INLAND EMPIRE 
Iron Island
Miami Vice (theatrical cut)
Neil Young: Heart of Gold 
A Prairie Home Companion 
The Promise (original version)
Three TimesUntil next year:
_____________________________________________________Keith Uhlich is managing editor of The House Next Door, a staff critic for Slant Magazine, and a contributor to a variety of print and online publications.
posted by Matt Zoller Seitz at 3:20 AM
6 Comments:
Beautiful. Poor poor Fiona Shaw.
But you forgot Rinko Kikuchi's Babel beaver, and you know, that, like, bus-van thing from Little Miss Sunshine with arms flailing about it in sitcom panic. (Okay, I still haven't seen it...)
So many blind spots...and one disagreement...but the one I HAVE seen and DO agree on: man, the effect of that cut to black is a dagger.
"Rinko Kikuchi's Babel beaver"
Is that really why people think she deserves an Oscar or some crap?
That Fiona Shaw exit was the funniest and most horrifying thing I saw at the movies last year. I nervously burst out laughing when it happened.
That Babel screener awaits me robbie. Some day. Many years on. When I'm feeling... inspired?
Ick... Little Miss Sunshine.
What's the disagreement, Ryland. Interested to know.
I recall my first viewing of Black Dahlia. I didn't know how to take Fiona Shaw. Now I think she's indispensable to the whole, maybe the film's real star. I've turntabled her scenes on the DVD... as you said to me Matt, woman's got balls.
It's that big bad beauty, THE BLACK DAHLIA. I'm in the process of taking another look but for now it's still in limbo and as I've said before, it's simply cold-clock-you baffling upon a first viewing. But your insights (and Matt's & Jeffrey M Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (he's got some good year-end thoughts, invoking Claire Denis), given both compared it to EYES WIDE SHUT) have made me at the least think twice, if not wholly swayed me. Plus, you know me and De Palma, it's a slippery slope...
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