864 Being There
- Roger Ryan
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Re: 864 Being There
The "promo reel" that appears on the Criterion release of Being There (which I believe showed up on the Warners Blu-ray under the heading "Gag Reel") also features Ashby speaking and reacting to Sellers doing some improvisation.
- Rayon Vert
- Green is the Rayest Color
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Re: 864 Being There
Also this bit in France promoting Coming Home. There's an overdub but you can still hear Ashby's voice.
- Ribs
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Re: 864 Being There
Beaver
Yes, that will do quite nicely. As I said before this would never have been a release I asked for but I'm very glad to have it.
Yes, that will do quite nicely. As I said before this would never have been a release I asked for but I'm very glad to have it.
- jbeall
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Re: 864 Being There
I wouldn't consider this film a classic, but I liked it all the same. Sellers is quite good, but IMHO Shirley MacLaine is fantastic in her role. She has to play things relatively straight for the first ~90 minutes, and then has to shift to almost-slapstick comedy while still maintaining the history for her performance in the first half of the film. She's riveting.
As for the rest of the film, the screenplay doesn't quite have the satirical edge I was hoping for, but then again, I'm judging it against its closer peer Network and against the more recent... well, the more recent elevation of Donald Trump to POTUS. So I feel that this film might not seem so dated had 2016 not happened.
As for the rest of the film, the screenplay doesn't quite have the satirical edge I was hoping for, but then again, I'm judging it against its closer peer Network and against the more recent... well, the more recent elevation of Donald Trump to POTUS. So I feel that this film might not seem so dated had 2016 not happened.
- FrauBlucher
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- Oedipax
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Re: 864 Being There
Looks pretty good - a little extra info on the sides, punchier contrast, improved detail, no grain reduction as far as I can tell. The improved contrast does come at a cost of a slight loss of information in the deepest blacks, but comparing the similar screencaps side by side, the old blu-ray looks gamma boosted.
- Ribs
- Joined: Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:14 pm
Re: 864 Being There
Deadline's Peter Bart comes in with the not-very-good Being There - Trump comparison the day after release seemingly having not even been spurred into it by the release.Ribs wrote:This release will likely spawn several terrible thinkpieces about how this movie predicted Donald Trump, at least mostly missing the point