Subject: Re: Globe and Mail pans FWWM
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (Two days and a wake-up...)
Date: 1992-08-28, 23:58
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Aug29.012305.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, rpiercey@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes...

} FWWM was panned in today's _Globe and Mail_ by film critic Jay Scott.
} In a review consisting only of four very short paragraphs, Scott said
} that FWWM is crammed with "nudity, sadism, torture and misogyny of every
} sort, imaginable and not."
[...]
} Scott finished by giving the film a rating of zero. Notably absent from
} his review was any discussion of the acting, dialogue, or plot of FWWM,
} or indeed any thoughtful consideration of Lynch's style. He simply
} called it "disgusting" and "misanthropic" and, refusing to elaborate,
} left it at that.

} I suspect this won't be the last such review of FWWM. Comments?

Just one: Many people said essentially the same thing about Greenaway's
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER.  And they were wrong.

-- "She's my radiation baby. She's my teenage fallout girl." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com

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