BLADE RUNNER, DARK CITY >If we're going this route, anything by Sam Raimi is mindbending. How >about Josh Becker's _Lunatics: A Love Story_? > >Scott > > > >On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Murray Pomerance wrote: > >> My own mind is bent whenever I watch Charles L. Jones's RABBIT OF SEVILLE >> (1949). It's also a film. So I guess it's a mindbending film. >> >> Now that I think of it, my mind is bent when I watch so very many films >> it would be unthinkable to list them. >> >> My mind was *not* bent when I watched TITANIC, until the one scene where >> Jack Dawson dies. That scene--not the film--bent my mind. >> >> But now that I think of it, my mind really isn't in fact or in metaphor a >> tensile strip of any kind; and so nothing really *bends* my mind. But >> I'm a failed hippie so I do know what the questionner means. MOUSEHUNT >> bent my mind. Jerry Lewis films have a tendency to bend my mind. Agnes >> Varda's LE BONHEUR bent my mind good. (Even well.) DEAD MAN bent my >> mind, IN A LONELY PLACE bent my mind, 2001 bent my mind (but it was my >> first marijuana and I was sitting in the FRONT row), obviously Hitchcock >> bends my mind (no point in mentioning this), THE GREEN ROOM bends my >> mind, and--yes, I'm going to say it--G. I. JANE bent my mind some. >> >> To the many discerning members of the J U R Y who voted Demi Moore a >> razzie for worst performance of the year in that last film, "Really! >> Really! She really got to you, then!" That's me speaking. She really >> does manage to be utterly believable at the point where the filmpolitik >> needs her to be, sweating on the "battlefield" as an "unladylike" type. >> Yes, she bent my mind, and because the film perfectly contained her it >> did, too. >> >> I'm really disappointed in myself. I've been reading this thread for >> weeks now vowing to stay off it. >> >> Michael Snow's WAVELENGTH bent my mind. >> >> All this is succeeding in doing is show me how bendable my mind is. I'm >> nothing but an impressionable wimp. >> >> Murray >> Toronto >> >> ---- >> To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L >> in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] >> > >---- >Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite >http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite