Strickland33
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watched it over the weekend -- will follow up with notes soon
What was your snap take??
watched it over the weekend -- will follow up with notes soon
snap take: highly affecting, uneven, compelling
I didn't recognize Winston at all
if i remember correctly, only paul schrader and eddie rouse were professional actors (and schrader had just graduated from NCSA)Tough film to get through. In part because it is, as Juice says, affecting and compelling, but also because the low budget and bad acting pull it down. Not a bad film by any stretch, but not one I'd watch again. In spite of the story it told, I really felt like this was more of an art film, particularly in the last half as everybody became more detached.
As for W-S, there was like one scene where I saw the phallus building and downtown in the background. It didn't really take me back.
if i remember correctly, only paul schrader and eddie rouse were professional actors (and schrader had just graduated from NCSA)
yea sorry covid brainSchrader went to NCSA? It’s not in his bio, at least that i can find.
Oh i guess you meant Schneider.
Have seen Goodbye Solo and it was very good.While we're on a Winston-Salem kick, would folks be into watching some Winston flicks?
I've been meaning to rewatch Junebug and Goodbye Solo (made by FCDS alumni Ramin Bahrani).
What struck me was there were what seemed to be a lot of shots of characters walking alongside railroad tracks, but never crossing them. That felt symbolic (especially with the narrator referring to her parent's careers at the end) and possibly a specific reference to Winston's history that others on here have alluded to, but I don't remember the specifics.more notes:
- I picked this movie because I've had it on my list forever and I don't remember how I came know about it -- I knew it was set in NC and I'm a sucker for that -- I probably read about how it involved several of those NCSA guys on their way to getting big
- as ELC said, the acting was obviously done by amateurs, almost to the point of distraction at times -- it's an interesting feature and makes for some pretty real-feeling scenes, but makes some of the line delivery painful; I did really like Paul Schneider's character
- there were a few stretches where they used the overlapping narrative device to cut between two stories -- it was one a few things that definitely felt like a young filmmaker trying some things to find their voice
- while the movie lacks a strong plot, it does have strong enough narrative threads and in the end it does comes together better than I was worried it might
- I thought the sense of place was very strong, even though I didn't really recognize Winston -- I looked it up and a lot of the railyard scenes were shot in Spencer, NC (never heard of it) at some train museum I'd never heard of -- the 4th of July scene was in Kernersville, but the rest seems to be in abandoned areas of Winston -- not a Winston I knew much of during my time at Wake