Friday, September 6, 2019

"David Crosby: Remember My Name" and The Week in Reviews

[I review the documentary "David Crosby: Remember My Name" as well as DVDs "Amazing Grace" and "High Life."  The Book of the Week is "In Paris: 20 Women on Life in the City of Light" by Jeanne Damas and Lauren Bastide.  I also bring you up-to-date with "My 1001 Movies I Must See Before I Die" with "Alice" ("Neco z Alenky"), a strange reworking of the "Alice in Wonderland" story]




David Crosby: Remember My Name

David Crosby - then and now, but mostly now.

WARNING - EXPLICIT CONTENT: The word "asshole" will be used prodigiously throughout this review.  If you are faint of heart, better get your fan and your smelling salts ready.

Those of us who came of age in the 1960's and 70's know who David Crosby was and is.  He was famously known as a founding member of The Byrds, the band often credited with starting folk rock, and then when he was kicked out of The Byrds, a chance encounter with Graham Nash, formerly with The Hollies, led to the formation of the iconic trio Crosby, Stills and Nash and then Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, when Neil Young joined the group. 

Crosby was also famously known as an asshole.  

Now, I am not calling names.  He calls himself that.  He said it about himself in a book about the group that I reviewed recently ("Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" by David Browne), and he calls himself that in this film.  And you might think that is a sign of self awareness - that he knows he is an asshole.  But to announce that he is an asshole, and almost wear that epithet as a badge of honor, clearly shows a certain kind of reverse arrogance and that he really is an asshole.

Crosby grew up in Southern California.  His father was an Academy Award cinematographer and both parents came from prominent families.  Crosby was educated in private schools so this rich kid thing might account for his arrogance.  He was not an academic and started to pursue music instead of school, and in 1964, met Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark and formed the iconic rock band The Byrds.  When he left the Byrds, Crosby met Stephen Stills and the two started jamming together informally until a fateful meeting with Graham Nash at Joni Mitchell's house (Crosby takes us there in the film). Nash sang with them and light bulbs went off all over the place and the supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash was formed.  Later, Neil Young joined the group for a time.

Crosby was also a famous drug addict, something that may or may not be attributed to the death of his girlfriend, Christine Hinton, in a fatal car crash when she was only 21.  Years later with nine months in jail and a liver transplant under his belt, Crosby is clean but poor and friendless.  He must tour to pay the bills even though he doesn't like leaving home and none of his ex-bandmates now speak to him. Everyone thinks he's an asshole. But neither he nor the film explains why.

Directed by A.J. Eaton, the film is mostly Cameron Crowe asking Crosby questions and Crosby pontificating, with some famous talking heads thrown in.  But with all of Crosby's pontificating, he never digs very deep, and though the film is well done and engrossing, I was left feeling like I still didn't really know the man.  I get that he's an asshole, but why? It's easy to say you are an asshole but takes a bit more work to explain why. Yes, an arrogant know-it-all with an abrasive personality can certainly end up an asshole, but I wanted to know how he got there. Was he always an asshole?

It is amazing that, after the life Crosby has had, his voice is still pure and beautiful. When asked if he had to choose between good health and a happy home life or his music, what he would choose, he said he had to have the music, so that explains some of the asshole stuff, but again, Crosby doesn't appear to have any regrets nor does he seem to care about looking back and assessing what he did wrong. He doesn't seem to mind being an asshole.

Rosy the Reviewer says...a seemingly intimate portrait of a rock icon that left me wanting more.



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Amazing Grace (2018)


The making of the best-selling gospel record of all time.

"By 1971 Aretha had recorded over 20 pop albums, won 5 Grammys and had 11 consecutive number one pop and R & B singles." 

With all of that accomplished in her young life, in January 1972 Aretha Franklin decided to do something different - to record the music of her youth - gospel music.  

Along with the Rev. James Cleveland and his group, the Southern California Community Choir, Aretha recorded the album in a church with director Sydney Pollack there to document it. Filmed over two nights in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972, the film was only just released last year due to technical problems and legal issues (Aretha supposedly didn't want this film released).  After sitting in a film vault for 35 years and with the death of Sydney Pollack in 2008, producer Alan Elliott took up the project.  Aretha died last year and Elliott was able to negotiate with the family and get the film released.

If you are a big Aretha fan, you will love this, because it's all about Aretha, it's all about gospel and it's all about church. There is no narration and not much talking, except the introduction of the songs by Rev. Cleveland and an homage to Aretha at the end by Aretha's father. There are also shots of the audience and lots of "amens," but this film is basically a concert movie rather than a documentary and there is absolutely no insight into Aretha, the woman, at all, except for the fact that she is treated like the diva she is.

At the height of her vocal powers, Aretha sings all of the standards: "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," "Wholly Holy," "Precious Memories," and, of course, "Amazing Grace." There are many close-ups of Aretha as she sings, sweat and all, but we never hear one word from her.  

And that is the weakness of the film experience for me.

Though I acknowledge Aretha as the Queen of Soul, I am probably one of the very few people in the world who was never a huge fan of her voice nor am I a gospel fan, so I found the film a bit boring as Aretha just sang one song after another.  

Rosy the Reviewer says...if you like gospel music and enjoy listening to Aretha sing, you will enjoy this, but if you thought you would learn anything about Aretha, you will be disappointed.




High Life (2018)


A father and daughter struggle to survive in deep space.

Here again is one of those space films where everyone on the space ship is killed off one way or another and only one person is left to survive.  Well, in this case, it's one man and a baby.

The film begins with Monte (Robert Pattinson) alone on a space ship with a baby, and it takes forever to figure out why he is all alone and what the deal is with the baby.  In fact, it was a full 30 minutes before we learn anything. Snippets of the past pop up from time to time interspersed with the present in an annoying set of back and forth flashbacks. I kept thinking, "Get on with it.  I want to know what has happened in the past that has left this guy alone in space with a baby who just won't stop crying!  Then I got tired of waiting and started fast forwarding through some of it, which I am known to do when I get bored. This is when I am happy to be home watching a DVD instead of stuck in  a theatre with a film that I wish I could fast forward through!

After much sighing, the story finally reveals itself. Turns out convicts are being sent into space to harnass the power from a black hole. Some aren't exactly convicts.  Though there are murderers on the ship, there are also some people who were just homeless people in an apocolyptic world where the powers that be didn't know what to do about homeless people so recycled them into prisoners which in turn made them candidates for space research.  But as a scientist says in one of the few flashbacks, it's a death sentence because it takes years for their reports to get back to earth and they themselves never will.

So after an agonizing 30 minutes watching Monte and the baby wandering around the ship alone, wondering what the hell was going on, we meet the original members of the space team.  There is the nutty Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche), who wants to create a child via artificial insemination; Chandra (Lars Eidinger), the rather useless captain; Nansen (Agata Buzek), the pilot; Tcherny (Andre Benjamin), a family man who tends the ship's greenhouse; and Elektra (Gloria Obianyo) Ettore (Ewen Mitchell), Boyse (Mia Goth) and Mink (Claire Tran) - can't remember what they did or why they were there and don't really care.  

Three years after being in space, they all start going crazy and turning on each other and it doesn't help that Dr. Dibs is wandering around the ship like a lunatic, giving everyone sedatives and trying to find some semen to implant.  Monte is celibate so doesn't cooperate when Dr. Dibs makes a play for him, but she still manages to "rape" him and creates baby Willow from his stolen sperm.  There is lots of deviant sex and masturbation.  Instead of a monster running amok on the space ship, which has been the case in the past, this is a murderous doctor and a bunch of people who can't get along running amok.  I guess if you put a bunch of misfits and murderers together in a confined space, some bad stuff is going to happen.

If you have wondered what happened to Robert Pattinson after the "Twilight" series, well wonder no more.  Here he is. He is a good actor but he looks awful in this. I think I liked him better with fangs.  And if Juliette Binoche is in a film, you know it's going to be weird and you will see her breasts.  It's just a thing.

Written by Claire Denis and others and directed by her, this film was kind of a mess.  I know it was supposed to be deep and symbolic but a film doesn't get very far with deep and symbolic if it's boring. And it was, even with all of that sex and Binoche's breasts.

Rosy the Reviewer says...I found this film mostly unwatchable. If you want some deep, symbolic but good science fiction, watch "2001: A Space Odyssey."




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Alice ( Neco z Alenky) 1988



"Alice in Wonderland" on acid.

Not that I've ever done acid.  OK, twice, but that didn't prepare me for this version of Alice. I thought I was having a flashback.

Alice is in her playroom and bored when she spies a strange little rabbit putting on gloves and a coat and hat.  So being the curious girl that she is - and bored - Alice follows him as he disappears into a table drawer (somehow she manages to get herself into the drawer too)!  And the adventure begins.

This version of "Alice" has the usual Alice stuff - she eats a tart and gets small, except this time she turns into a porcelain doll which is very strange and creepy (Seems like director Jan Svankmajer thought of Annabelle before the Conjuring people cooked her up). She also eats another tart and gets big, has tea with a very odd Mad Hatter and meets the Queen and King of Hearts.

There is little dialogue, just many strange creatures animated in stop motion, all pre-CGI.  And, trust me.  This one is not for kids. At the beginning of the film, Alice even says this may or may not be a tale for children.  I say not.  It would scare the crap out of them! There is a piece of meat roaming around, a mouse prince dead in a trap and some horrifying sock creatures, all very symbolic, I'm sure but disturbing. I thought I was caught in a Dali painting.

As you know, I am not a fan of remakes.  I can't figure out what possesses a person to take a perfectly good classic story that has been made into some perfectly good film versions and then create a per-version.  This is Svankmajer's revision of the story and it is quite dark and disturbing.

Why it's a Must See: "In his characteristically bizarre and hyperimaginative manner, Czech filmmaker, animator, and puppet maker extraordinaire Jan Svankmajer captures the feel of Lewis Carroll's children's tale Alice in Wonderland while still managing to convey several 'adult' and culturally celebrated themes."
---"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"

Turns out it's all a dream or should I say nightmare.

Rosy the Reviewer says...I can appreciate the creativity but have to ask "Why?"
(Available on YouTube)





***The Book of the Week***




In Paris: 20 Women on Life in the City of Light by Jeanne Damas and Lauren Bastide (2018)


Two Parisian women showcase the real lives of 20 women living in Paris.

Even though summer has just ended, I am still on a sort of travel kick, thinking of my trips to Paris.  I reviewed a book on Paris a couple of weeks ago and here I am again.  This time we get to know 20 different Parisian women, smashing the stereotype of one sort of Parisian woman. You know the one.  The slim, stylish, sophisticated woman with red lipstick who trots over cobblestones in high heels, wearing a trench coat and a chic scarf and carrying an expensive handbag without a care in the world. 

Yes, Parisian women are usually chic and that is very much the look, but according to Damas and Bastide, the Parisian woman is so much more than that. 

"This book was born of a desire to go out and meet authentic Parisiennes from different backgrounds and walks of life.  We wanted to discover their many different qualities and create an impressionist portrait of the Parisian woman...we wanted to bring the myth to life by interviewing twenty women on the way they choose to live in Paris and their relationship to the city."

Here we have shopkeepers, singers, writers, activists and more, aged from 14 to 70, living in all sorts of situations from tiny apartments to houseboats, and they share their tips for living the good life in Paris from how to decorate like a Parisian to beauty secrets (remember that red lipstick?) to secret hideaways, to best vintage clothes shops, best bars, cafes and boulangeries (that's bakeries to us Americans).  Sprinkled with beautiful color photographs, this book is a sort of a book of collected biographies cum travel guide that will make you want to move to Paris!

Rosy the Reviewer says...Vive le Paris!




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Friday, August 30, 2019

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" and The Week in Reviews

[I review "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" as well as two documentaries streaming on Netflix - "The Legend of Cocaine Island" and "Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist."  The Book of the Week is "Save Me The Plums" by Ruth Reichl.  I also bring you up-to-date with "My 1001 Movies I Must See Before I Die Project" with "Cairo Station."]



Where'd You Go, Bernadette


It's what can happen if you don't follow your creative passions.

Maria Semple's book "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" was required reading for Seattlites because it takes place in Seattle, name-drops Seattle places of interest and is full of snarky but funny comments about Seattle.  Naturally, since I just spent 14 years there, I have read the book (and I reviewed it a couple of years ago) and was prepared to not like the film, because Seattle purists were already complaining about this film adapation so I had my reservations and I had a difficult time thinking how the film would work since the book is a series of letters and emails.  I also couldn't see Cate Blanchett as Bernadette either.  Bernadette was kind of a nut and I don't see Blanchett playing dippy types.  Maybe it's all of those queens she has played.  

But I try not to compare books and films because I see each as a separate art work, and you know what?  Those Seattle purists and I were wrong.  I really liked the film.  Whether you think writer/director Richard Linklater was faithful to the book or not, the film stands on its own as a fine film experience.

Bernadette Fox lives in a crumbling mansion in Seattle with her husband, Elgin (Billy Crudup), a tech guy who works at Microsoft (of course) and her daughter, Bee (Emma Nelson).  Bernadette is a transplant from California and hasn't made the transition well.  She suffers from anxiety but also doesn't suffer fools so she is in a war of sorts with the other mothers at her daughter's school and with her neighbor, Audrey (Kristen Wiig), over the blackberry bushes that are growing down the hill and impinging on Audrey's property.  As Seattlites know, blackberries take over everything and are a constant nuisance. That's also how Bernadette feels about her neighbor, Audrey.  Bernadette rarely leaves her house, so she has a virtual personal assistant in India named Manjula and delegates most of her tasks to him. More on him later.

Bee reminds her parents that she had been promised anything she wanted if she got a perfect report card, and since she did, announces that she wants to go to Antarctica.  Bernadette's first response is no because Bernadette doesn't even want to leave the house but after some thought she acquieses.  But before the family trip can take place Bernadette's husband is visited by the FBI.  Turns out Manjula is a Russian scammer and Bernadette has been giving him all of their personal financial information.  Likewise, Bernadette has indulged in some very nutty behavior and her life seems to be falling apart, so Elgin sets up an intervention of sorts to get Bernadette some help.  Bernadette may be nutty, but she's not dumb so when she excuses herself to use the bathroom, out the window she goes and disappears.

It is now Bee's mission to find her mother.  And that's when Bee discovers her mother was once a famous architect, and we learn how Bernadette ended up in Seattle as a middle-aged, anonymous misanthrope, with no real purpose in life, having lost her creative spark.

So where did Bernadette go?  And what will happen to her?

Director Linklater, who is a favorite of mine, also wrote the screenplay with Holly Gent and Vince Palmo, and it's a fairly faithful adaptation from Semple's book as far as the story itself is concerned, except Semple's device of using letters and emails to illustrate Bee's and Elgin's search for Bernadette is absent. Also some of the humor of the book, especially about Seattle, was lost because the book had a kind of wacky feel to it with Bernadette complaining about Seattle A LOT in the book, but as a stand alone film I still think this works just fine. I mean people who don't live in Seattle would hardly get half of the humor in the snarky Seattle bits.

Billy Crudup is an interesting actor.  I first noticed him in the 90's and especially loved "Waking the Dead (2000)."  He was a handsome young leading man and a good actor, and I thought he would be right up there with a Tom Cruise or other superstar of the day, but he never reached that status which I don't really understand but glad to see him here. In fact, I see him everywhere now. And he is a nice looking mature actor as well.  I am still on the fence about whether or not I buy Kristen Wiig as a serious actress.  She still has some of those SNL mannerisms, so even though she is playing a serious part, I often don't know whether to laugh or not. Young Emma as Bee is charming, but it was Blanchett's performance that was a revelation to me which made me wonder why I didn't think she could do anything.  Now I know she can.  I believed her as Bernadette. 

Rosy the Reviewer says...an enjoyable and inspiring film that reminds us it's never too late to find ourselves.




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Streaming on Netflix




The Legend of Cocaine Island (2018)


An urban legend leads some knuckleheads on the hunt for buried treasure.

In this case, the "treasure" is $2,000,000 worth of cocaine.

Florida businessman, Rodney Hyden, heard the story of Julian Archer who supposedly pulled a bag out of the water off the Puerto Rican island of Culebra, which turned out to be 70 pounds of coke.  Julian didn't know what to do with it, so he buried it - makes sense, right? - and that's where it has been for 15 years.  When builder Rodney Hyden heard this story he thought finding that bag of coke was the answer to his problems.  It was the recession and his building business wasn't going anywhere.  He had had to downsize from his mansion to a double-wide trailer and didn't like this alteration of his lifestyle at all.  So when he finds out about that bag of cocaine, he thinks that's the answer to his problems.

"If you knew where $2,000,000 was buried in the ground, wouldn't you dig that shit up?"

Eh, sure.

So Rodney comes up with a plan and gets involved with a drug dealer to sell the cocaine, a drug traffiker with a plane to help him transport the drugs and a kid who's not all there to go with him to dig it up, but turns out he is also talking to some undercover cops.  Uh-oh. 

Is there really a bag of cocaine waiting for a ding bat to come and dig it up?  Will the ding bat, I mean, Hyden, find it?

Directed and produced by Theo Love, this film was a hit at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and continues Netflix's dominance with original and entertaining documentaries. It has its issues as a film, but it's still a fun experience.  And Hyden is a hoot.  He even plays himself in the reenactments!

Ever since the story of the Loud Family on PBS years ago, I have been a documentary junkie. I wrote a blog post about some of my favorites ("15 Must See Documentaries"), and this one is right up there!

Rosy the Reviewer says... there are so many crazy twists and turns and zany characters in this film that it feels like a comedy of errors rather than a documentary but it's a fun film experience.




Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist (2018)


The story behind the infamous "pizza bomber."

I'm sure you remember this story.  In 2003, Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man by trade, walked into a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania wearing a bomb collar and robbed the bank.  When he was apprehended, the police discovered he had a bomb around his neck.  He told the police he was forced to do the robbery and he only a certain amount of time to find the insturctions on getting the bomb off of his neck.  Unfortunately, while the police held Wells at bay trying to decide what to do, the bomb went off - and brace yourself. Footage of that is in the film and it's grisly, not to mention the description of what was done to Wells' body to preserve the collar bomb after he died.

As the story unfolds in this four part mini-series, we meet Bill Rothstein and Marjorie Diel-Armstrong, two highly intelligent people but also two wack jobs.  Rothstein had contacted the police because he had a frozen body in his freezer.  Yes, you heard me.  He then tells the police that the man in the freezer was killed by Marjorie Diel-Armstrong, a woman Rothstein had been involved with for years, and from there a complicated story featuring Marjorie's life and a cast of shady characters emerges. 

Through the use of archival footage and interviews with this strange bunch of characters, we learn that many were hoarders, many were mentally ill and almost all of them were evil. How did they all figure in that bank robbery? Did Wells willingly participate?   How did it all add up to a bank robbery and a bomb victim?

Directed by Barbara Schroeder and Trey Borzillieri, the film focuses mostly on Marjorie Diel-Armstrong who started out in life as a smart, attractive woman but ended up mentally ill but with a fascinating ability to get people to bend to her will.  Even director Borzillieri, who narrates the film and who actually formed a sort of connection with her, felt that pull. 

This is a fascinating tale that is not entirely satisfying because it was never clear whether or not Brian Wells was in on this grisly plan to rob a bank, but the filmmakers make a stab at it though we will never know for sure.  Rothstein died in 2004 and Diel-Armstrong died in 2017.

Rosy the Reviewer says...a perfect example of life being stranger than fiction. If you like "Dateline" and true crime, you will like this,



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Have YOU seen this classic film?



Cairo Station (1958)


An Egyptian newspaper seller develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells lemonade on the trains.

A newsstand owner in the Cairo train station finds a young man in the street.  The young man, Qinawi (Youssef Chahine), is lame, and mocked by workers in the station.  The newsstand owner takes pity on him and gives him a job selling newspapers.  Qinawi is slightly retarded and is also obsessed with Hannuma (Hind Rustum), a beautiful woman who sells drinks to passengers on the trains.  When she rejects him, Qinawi's obsession turns deadly.

Directed by Chahine, who also plays the part of Qinawi, the film is a combination of Italian Neorealism and good old-fashioned Hollywood film noir with all of its accompanying tropes - moody black and white photography, a provocative woman, dramatic music, sex, knives, even a strait jacket . I found this film not only fascinating but quite shocking in its themes for a 1958 film set in a Muslim country.  It explores what can happen in a sexually repressed society where marriage is the only option for sex and when women are not only objects of desire, but blamed for the ills of the world or in this case the reason our poor Qinawi can't get laid, which also resonates today with the spate of shootings by angry young white guys who can't get laid.  

The film also features the beautiful Hind Rustum in all of her sexual glory (she was called the "Marilyn Monroe of Arabia") and a reminder that not all Middle Eastern countries have a repressive dress code for women.  Yes, Egypt is a Muslim country but there is no requirement for women to cover themselves from head to toe or even cover their heads.  However, that doesn't mean a woman shouldn't dress modestly.  She should or run the risk of unwanted attention from men, something that never seems to change no matter where you live.

Why it's a Must See: "With the arrival of [this film], it was as if cinema had been reborn...[it] is vivid and moving, precise in its portrayals, original both as a creation of a single individual and as the embodiment of a secular culture, one that is so close and yet so different to that of the West."

---"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"

Originally rejected by Egyptian audiences when it was released in 1958, the film was "lost" for many years but when found was hailed as a masterpiece and still holds up today, almost 60 years later.

Rosy the Reviewer says...finally...a film that I actually needed to see before I died.  It's a great film.
(b & w, in Arabic with English Subtitles - available on Fandor through Amazon Prime)




***The Book of the Week***



Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl (2019)


Yet another fascinating book from food writer and restaurant critic, Ruth Reichl.  This time she shares her adventures as the Editor in Chief at Gourmet Magazine.

I have read all of Ruth Reichl's books because I love food and restaurants.  But I also love really good writers, and as I read this book, I was reminded of what a wonderful writer Reichl is.  Whether she is talking about food or chefs or sharing recipes or just sharing anecdotes about her life, she does it in a warm and approachable way that is a joy to read.  Her descriptions are wonderful.

In 1999, when Conde Nast offered Reichl their top position at Gourmet (magazine), Reichl was the restaurant critic for The New York Times and did not see herself as any kind of manager.  I mean, she had been a former Berkeley hippie and was happy doing what she was doing.  But she also had a soft spot for Gourmet and was sad that it had become a fuddy duddy magazine aimed more at snobby rich folks than inspiring ordinary people to cook.  So against her better judgment she took the plunge and learned some things about herself.

"When I'd contemplated the job I'd worried about the burden of being a boss, afraid the staff would fear and resent me.  But now I saw that there was another side to that coin: Nothing feels as good as building a team and empowering people, watching them grow and thrive."

This is her story about her time at Gourmet and the challenges she faced right up until the magazine folded in 2009. Sadly, magazines are going the way of the dinosaurs. 

And it wouldn't be a Ruth Reichl book without wonderful anecdotes about food and cooking and, of course, recipes (Along with Frances Mayes, Reichl was the first to include recipes in her memoirs)! I look forward to making her "Spicy Chinese Noodles" and "Thanksgiving Turkey Chili."

Rosy the Reviewer says..one of my favorite writers. Keep 'em coming, Ruth!



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