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| 1. Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:39 PM |
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Looking at LH again, and taking into account that the whole film can be seen as a 'male sex guilt' story, and that 'there are no real women' in the film, then it at least in part justifies to me Patricia Arquette's rather wooden acting. Is the general concensus that her acting was good, or that the not-so-great acting was intentional?
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| 2. Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:55 PM |
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What?! I think Arquette's fantastic in Lost Highway (though I still think her defining role was Alabama in True Romance), yet another brilliant female performance in a Lynch film. Her performance is always the one that really stands out for me (aside from Robert Blake, of course, but that's really just great character acting), though this isn't as much an actors movie as, say, FWWM, or Inland Empire. Balthazar Getty on the other hand...
That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!
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| 3. Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:22 AM |
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I agree that her physical presense is amazing in the film- her beauty completely compliments the mood and tone...but i just feel that her actual lines etc seem a little wooden...however, I also feel that this is intentional, since LH is more or less a skewed male fantasy...
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| 4. Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:53 AM |
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I love Patricia Arquette's teeth. There's something so sexy about her canines. Anyway, now I have that out of the way, I would agree that her acting was intentionally a little cliched. Only subtly though.
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| 5. Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:06 PM |
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| QUOTE: I love Patricia Arquette's teeth. There's something so sexy about her canines. |
You and geoffr111 should start a club.
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| 6. Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:45 PM |
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It's only my opinion, but I find Arquette's performance to be more strange than anything. If she emoted like, oh say, Laura Dern, or vamped it up like "Rita" in MD it wouldn't be right for the character. We're supposed to sympathize with Fred/Pete, and their desire for this totally emotionally unavailable, highly secretive woman. She's a closed door, so she has to be "wooden." Look at the sex scenes. This is not supposed to be any kind of normal woman, but how Fred sees his wife.
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| 7. Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:05 AM |
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QUOTE: You and geoffr111 should start a club. |
Damn, Booth. \/|_|--'--|_|\/
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| 8. Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:25 AM |
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Yeah, I think that i agree with that, 12rainbow. The film is all about Fred's perception- he is, in a way an unreliable narrator, so the entire tone of what we see as a viewer is tainted by the presence of Fred's perceptions..
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| 9. Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:29 AM |
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QUOTE: QUOTE: You and geoffr111 should start a club. |
Damn, Booth. \/|_|--'--|_|\/ |
There not quite Arquette's but I appreciate the effort
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| 10. Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:41 AM |
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Patricia Arquette + vagina dentata = snagglepuss
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| 11. Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:48 PM |
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QUOTE: Patricia Arquette + vagina dentata = snagglepuss
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 Don't get me started.
There's a film out recently/soon about V.dentata called Teeth. Don't think I'd want to see it unless Patricia had the starring role.
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| 12. Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:46 PM |
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QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE: You and geoffr111 should start a club. |
Damn, Booth. \/|_|--'--|_|\/ |
There not quite Arquette's but I appreciate the effort |
Are you sure? It looks even more like hers when the ASCII art is in itallics! Oh providence!
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| 13. Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:06 PM |
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So, uh, you guys are saying Nicolas Cage pees through a plastic tube and Kal El is a test tube baby?
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| 14. Tuesday, April 8, 2008 8:06 PM |
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Slinky Singer Bares Breasts Too Much in `Lost Highway': Review
2008-04-07 21:49 (New York)
Review by Warwick Thompson
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- You can have too much of a good thing.
Valerie MacCarthy, the lissome soprano singing the female lead in
``Lost Highway,' frequently bares her breasts during the London
performance. Each time, there's less sexual and dramatic charge.
It's an old adage but a true one: less is more.
It's a lesson Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth might have
considered too. The U.K. premiere at the Young Vic of her hit-and-
miss opera, based on the 1997 movie by David Lynch, shows her
overloading the piece with too many conflicting musical ideas.
The opera's libretto is by 2004 Nobel prizewinner Elfriede
Jelinek. It tells the story of jazz trumpeter Fred Madison. He is
convicted of murdering his wife, Renee. In his cell on the night
before his execution, Madison bizarrely transforms into a mechanic
named Pete Dayton.
The innocent young mechanic is allowed to go free. As we
follow Dayton's subsequent affair with gangster's moll Alice,
characters from Madison's life seem to reappear in different
guises.
It's a deliberately ambiguous, confusing story. Perhaps the
second half of the opera is merely Madison's ``escape dream' as
he waits to be executed. Perhaps he even imagined murdering his
wife.
Neuwirth's music is good on creating a weird atmosphere and
poor in lyricism. It's not that there are no melodies; it's that
there is no reason for the characters to burst out singing.
It all works best when they converse against a background of
eerie, electronically distorted noise sent spinning around the
theater.
Stylistic Jolt
It sets up a creepy atmosphere in a very filmic way. When a
more operatic style is heard -- ``I love you' sung to a long
rising phrase, for example -- the stylistic jolt almost feels
ludicrous.
The same is true of the music. The gear changes between live
orchestra and electronica often occur with a crunch. Conductor
Baldur Broennimann mainly seems to beat time, rather than shape
the score.
Still, skillful in-the-round production by Diane Paulus helps
to hold things together. A long track runs through the middle of
the theater with a giant perspex cube hanging over it. The bare
cube is the location of Madison's claustrophobic apartment and
prison cell, and the track is the ``lost highway' upon which
Dayton tries to escape in a red Mustang.
Four video screens present other locations, and replay
distorted versions of images from the stage.
Showing Off
MacCarthy throws herself into the double role of Renee and
Alice. She slinks about beautifully and displays some clear upper
notes -- while showing off her breasts a lot.
If you've got it, flaunt it, I guess.
Actor Mark Bonnar is fine as Fred, and Dutch baritone Quirijn
de Lang is sweetly vulnerable as Pete.
David Moss is required to cackle, shriek, howl, gurgle and
grunt as gangster Mr. Eddy. He does it with aplomb, but his
extended vocal technique is better than his acting.
``Lost Highway' may not be a totally lost cause, but it
isn't a total success either.
Rating: **
``Lost Highway' runs until April 11. It is a Young Vic and
ENO co-production. For information: http://www.eno.org or +44-871-
911-0200.
(Warwick Thompson is a critic for Bloomberg News. The
opinions expressed are his own.)
-B
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| 15. Friday, May 2, 2008 7:00 AM |
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She's not wooden. She's estranged. Patricia is amazing, not only with her presence and beauty... It's a pity that lately she's let Hollywood people get her short hairdos, they really make her look fat and ugly. I guess the good old days when she played in LH (and other previous stuff) looking amazing are over.
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