From jpierce@cs.cmu.edu Tue May 26 00:29:31 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA22009 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 00:29:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (N4gMxvkGapDceh6YqPWNxFLh4qjExFzR@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA29109 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 00:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu (UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.102]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA17712 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Mon, 25 May 1998 21:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805260429.VAA17712@wheaten.hitl.washington.edu> Received: from ASYNC14-8.NET.CS.CMU.EDU by ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa19979; 26 May 98 0:28 EDT X-Sender: jpierce@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 00:26:03 -0400 To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu From: Jeff Pierce Subject: Prospero's books In-Reply-To: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B2673D@red-msg-52.dns.mi crosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: RO At 12:38 PM 5/25/98 -0700, Matt Conway wrote: > > Film's visual lexicon is incomplete in two ways, first, film is constantly > reinventing itself (okay, Film as Art outide Hollywood is reinventing > itself, but that's a different rant...). To convince yourself of this, go > see Greenaway's surreal telling of the Tempest, "Prospero's Books". Ok, before everyone runs out to rent this movie and study the interesting visual effects, I feel it's my duty to warn everyone that Greenaway's telling is not just surreal, it's very surreal. This is one of those foreign films that make people complain that foreign films are inaccessible. You've been warned, Jeff