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Wednesday, August 11, 2004Video: The Late Show (1977)
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I haven't seen THE LATE SHOW in years. Maybe not since 1977. But I remember liking it quite a bit, and I thought Carney was excellent. It would be worth watching again.
Vince, I ran into Eugene Roche five or six years ago in my local grocery store and I went out of my way to tell him how much I liked him in THE LATE SHOW. I don't know why, but that is always the movie I think about when I I see him in something else.
I'm probably in the minority but I love this movie as well as THE LONG GOODBYE. I don't mind the "whiff of parody", if it's there, and I don't know if the filmmakers think they're above the genre or not (in Benton's case I seriously doubt it) but I think the films are both great contributions to the genre. Unique and compelling time capsules. And entertaining as hell. I'll probably get a virtual ass-kicking for these blasphemous words.... TL
There'll be no ass-kicking around here, virtual or otherwise. I run a peaceable website.
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I'm a fan of both movies. But I do think there's a self-consciousness to them that's not in other films of the period. It's something of an Altman trademark, and it's part of what makes them unique and compelling. Even if it occasionally rubs me the wrong way. I don't think that self-consciousness is in Benton's TWILIGHT at all. Good for you for telling Eugene Roche how much you enjoyed his work. I wish that I could have done the same.
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