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Posted by Brad Haven (Member # 954) on 12-18-2001, 06:45 AM:
WOW, i saw it on friday and it's still constantly on my mind!.the coen brothers best yet!.i am not a great writer so i wont try to describe it, i'm a projectionist, not a writer!. billy bob was quite amazing in the lead as the barber. beautifully shot in black and white, although the print that i saw, the last spool was on colour stock (looked brown) with the rest in true b&w, i guess that it was a recon. print from the states and they didn't check!. a truely great film, please watch it very soon!.
Posted by Neil Hunter (Member # 1005) on 12-20-2001, 07:54 PM:
I saw this film twice, and enjoyed it each time. I saw one of the color stock prints, but I though it was just fine, although a bit green at times. When I saw it the second time, a man sitting a few seats down from me exclaimed "the Coen Brothers have done it again!" at the end of the film. I agree.
Posted by Michael Barry (Member # 237) on 01-29-2002, 07:59 AM:
I saw this today and thought it was excellent! It is so refreshing to see a movie like this nowadays...so creative, original and which breaks away from the typical movie formula. There is real movie magic here!The print I saw was on color stock, and the reels were alternately pinkish/greenish/brownish. It would have been wonderful to see a real silver black-and-white print because of the neutrality of the whites and the increased density of the blacks as well as for overall sharpness and 'texture'.
Roger Deakins' cinematography was peerless - his use of contrast and shadows was virtuousic to say the least. Each shot is lit to perfection, and it was jawdropping from start to finish. Those compositions!!! The two friends I saw it with mentioned it several times throughout (in hushed whispers!). Wow!