Great time at Film Forum yesterday afternoon. I think it's fun to watch something like this with an audience - especially all Manhattan's Carmen Miranda fans - but worth a rental too. It's Carmen in full pomp with her "Tutti Frutti" hat, hundreds of girls with suggestive bananas, Benny Goodman crooning, and a wonderfully cynical and hard-nosed "romantic" plot.
Excellent use of 103 minutes.
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Started by Wilfrid, Apr 23 2012 05:14 PM
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 05:14 PM
Why live your life when you could curate it?
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 05:58 PM
If I recall, it starts in black and white, but it quickly works its way into vivid Technicolor.
I'd give it all up, for just a little bit more.
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 05:59 PM
The Tutti Frutti Hat sequence has to be seen to be believed. It's all bizarre but when the Dance of the Giant Bananas begins at around 3:45 it enters another dimension.
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"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:06 PM
The technicolor is indeed vivid, and worth seeing on a biggish screen.
The banana xylophone is marvelous.
The banana xylophone is marvelous.
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:09 PM
Also known as Phallic Fantasia.The banana xylophone is marvelous.
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
