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Bilitis (1977)
Unbelievingly disappointing
Wish I'd seen this 33 years ago when it came out. At the time I was a college student studying photography and I rather liked the work of David Hamilton and even tried to emulate his soft focus look.
Today it all just looks like a poor excuse for some titillation. I'm not so interested in school girls any more. It's just soft porn masquerading as art. It makes me wonder what Hamilton was up to at the time. Was he trying to recapture an idealised youth?
In all honesty I must confess to only having the patience to watch about 45 minutes of it. I'd never seen it but it had been tagged in my mind as something to make time for if I ever got the opportunity. It is horribly sweetly sickly soft porn. God what a fool I was at 17!
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Not a biopic
As a photographer who knows something of the work of Diane Arbus I decided to watch this. I waited and waited and waited for there to be anything in it about Diane Arbus and her work as a photographer. It never happened.
Instead we are treated to an imaginary story that is extremely unlikely even metaphorically.
This is one of those situations where you find yourself just pleading for it all to end.
It is called an "imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus" and I suppose that kind of excuses it. But really...
What Just Happened (2008)
It made me smile a lot
Unnecessarily arty, boring, pointless. Glad I didn't see those reviews before seeing the film. I saw because it had John Turturo in it and as usual he didn't let me down. A great character actor in a movie full of great characters.
This is not the Coen bros but it is very much character based rather than story, action or special effects. The characters are well observed and played and there are many of them.
If you like actors playing great characters rather than lots of noise and action this is for you.
It made me smile a lot.