Dick Cavett is ALWAYS Relevant: BlogNosh 05/05/08

By Karina Longworth posted 4 months ago

I don’t really know what the TakeApart blog means when they say, “with the times of today mirroring the times of the film, [Zabriskie Point] couldn’t be more relevant”––the movie’s such crazy hippie fantasy, I can’t imagine a time when it was ever relevant––but I’ll thank them for pointing to the clip of its beautiful but vacant stars sitting next to Rex Reed and Mel Brooks on The Dick Cavett Show.
Victoria Large at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s “outsourcing” of some of the shooting of Intimidad to their subjects: “The technique of allowing the subjects to help author their own story feels appropriate to Intimidad, not only because it allows for the intimacy of the title, but also because it reflects one of the most striking things about the film: that it is about those who take action and are not merely acted upon.”
David Hudson alerts us to the Invitation to the Dance blog-a-thon, which began at Marilyn Ferdinand’s blog yesterday. I’m thinking about taking a crack at how the dynamic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is inverted in Dirty Dancing, but I’m open to other suggestions if you’ve got any.

Peter said 4 months ago
Actually, i saw Zabreskie Point on friday and was blown away. In some ways it has aged really badly and in other ways it seems to have gotten better with age. i was expecting it to be, at best, an interesting misstep, but i was happy to see that it was another masterwork from a true cinematic artist.
Karina Longworth said 4 months ago
Hey, I LOVE Zabriskie. But I think claiming it has any political relevance today is a stretch.