Let’s do the time warp again (1/1/02)
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Quills. [Philip Kaufman, 2000. Written by Doug Wright.]
Art, in the person of Geoffrey Rush, overcomes madness, incarceration, privation, obloquy, sexual frustration [Kate Winslet], the Church [Joaquin Phoenix], the State [Ron Cook as Napoleon], Psychiatry [Michael Caine; naturally he is the true sadist], guilt, anxiety, mutilation, and finally mortality itself. — Questions: Now that he’s done Henry Miller and the Marquis de Sade, how long must I wait for Kaufman to do Baudelaire? Can the transmission of the artistic heritage in fact be regarded as a transmigration of souls? And if you were that poor pathetic priest unhinged by lust, wringing your hands over Kate Winslet’s slowly cooling stiff, wouldn’t you be tempted?
Meanwhile, after watching Rush paint his prose on the dungeon walls with his own shit, I think I’ll stop bitching about this sticky keyboard.
____________Traversable wormholes (12/27/01)
