http://www.filmwell.org/2009/11/03/hess-pasolini-naive-repellent-ridiculous-holy/ Is This a Film Blog? Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:55:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.filmwell.org/2009/11/03/hess-pasolini-naive-repellent-ridiculous-holy/comment-page-1/#comment-1587 Richard Brody: Gentlemen Broncos “a work of visionary inspiration” | Filmwell Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:57:53 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4511#comment-1587 [...] Gentlemen Broncos (Jared Hess, 2009) was on big screens last fall, New Yorker film writer Richard Brody compared the Mormon film maker’s religious vision to that of Pasolini. (It strikes me that a [...] [...] Gentlemen Broncos (Jared Hess, 2009) was on big screens last fall, New Yorker film writer Richard Brody compared the Mormon film maker’s religious vision to that of Pasolini. (It strikes me that a [...]

]]> http://www.filmwell.org/2009/11/03/hess-pasolini-naive-repellent-ridiculous-holy/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Soul Food Unintentional Film Festival: Vancouver BC, Nov 24-30 | Filmwell Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:02:07 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4511#comment-1247 [...] in local screenings of A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen, USA), maybe even Gentlemen Broncos (Jared Hess, 2009, USA) and It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim, 2008, USA) for it’s profile [...] [...] in local screenings of A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen, USA), maybe even Gentlemen Broncos (Jared Hess, 2009, USA) and It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim, 2008, USA) for it’s profile [...]

]]> http://www.filmwell.org/2009/11/03/hess-pasolini-naive-repellent-ridiculous-holy/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 M. Leary Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:11:10 +0000 http://www.filmwell.org/?p=4511#comment-1107 As one of the three people that thought this film almost brilliant, and at the very least sublime - I thank you for this link. "In fact, he’s the author of a new gospel, and Hess’s wondrously ingenuous filming of Benjamin’s visions are both as sublime and as crudely carnal as scripture itself. " Fantastic. Even just from the trailer I see a lot of Barbarella there, will be interesting to see how all that plays in this decade. As one of the three people that thought this film almost brilliant, and at the very least sublime – I thank you for this link. “In fact, he’s the author of a new gospel, and Hess’s wondrously ingenuous filming of Benjamin’s visions are both as sublime and as crudely carnal as scripture itself. ” Fantastic. Even just from the trailer I see a lot of Barbarella there, will be interesting to see how all that plays in this decade.

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