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"the highest point ever reached by American mainstream comics" ...too bad that both Moore and Bolland are English from the tips of their hair to the hole in their sock on their big toe, and it shows. In fact, I believe Moore has never left England, and when he told DC Comics to go screw itself, I enjoyed it like a hedgehog. Great hippie Alan :-)

Did you know I would respond like this… then you have the telepathic powers, not me. Anyway, you’re right about misunderstood geniuses who print the trailers, but it’s all a result of modern consumerism. I mean, they could have used the same system back in '68 for "Banditi a Milano" by Carlo Lizzani, printing something like: "After the usual suspects, the new film about organized thieves." The connections were all there. But it was '68, everyone was less clever… LAIF IS NAU!

Yes, monkey, but your father doesn’t write reviews :-) Jokes aside, I would like to tell mannequin that not knowing what lies behind a book/album/movie often leads to misunderstanding, just as you say at the beginning of the review. Kesey's personal situation explains a lot about the book, which I also read as a kid, inspired by the author's experiences, but all that symbolism linked to the suppression of the individual, the fog that envelops the patients, the crucifix, and McMurphy’s coming as that of Christ sacrificing himself to show others what salvation is, are things that you don’t comprehend immediately. I don’t think your statement "... Whether he was a hippie and so on doesn't interest me at all" helps you much in understanding the book. Unless understanding a book is not among the priorities you give to reading, of course.

By the way ... "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" will be the next film by Gus Van Sant.

Dear enbar77, this is why we are being beaten today; we hang out too much in salons and are disconnected from reality :-) If you’re still taking for gospel what the film production companies put on the posters to attract the gullible, then we’re all set. I don’t have telepathic powers, but I’ve seen both films and they have nothing to do with each other. What new movie about organized unemployed, what inspiration... let's not make the chickens laugh.

This is also a key to understanding, Sid, but it has always seemed to me that the link here is stronger with "Jules et Jim," with that idea of transgression in a society that imposes rules on you. There it was the trio going against the established laws, here it is the protagonist who transgresses by learning to read the books that power imposes on him to destroy.

I also agree with those who see it as a somewhat unsuccessful film compared to Truffaut's standard. It is evident that Truffaut is not used to big productions; he is faced with a science fiction subject that is the great book by Bradbury. It shows that he likes the idea that reflects his love for books (which is evident in his earlier films), but it clashes with the science fiction "genre," which has little to do with his passion for the past.

Will Ken Loach draw inspiration for "Paul, Mick and the Others"? This is new to me... If anything, it's Cattaneo who, lacking Loach's political background, takes inspiration from him to make it funny. As far as I remember, "Paul, Mick and the Others" is inspired by Loach's earlier hard-hitting films, "Riff Raff" and "Raining Stones," portraying a working class that, in the era of railway privatizations, finds itself disoriented and witnesses the death of one of their own without even rebelling. Loach's workers don’t dance or strip; they become sad.

@currahee ...not bad "Howlin' Wind"? It's a five-star album that blends English pub rock tradition with American soul rock. It’s in the school of an old trickster like the gas station attendant Graham Parker that people like Joe Strummer have emerged. This second album is just a notch below the first, but the band that supports it, led by a legend like Schwarz, is formidable. "Black Honey" is stunning, but the version he performs in "Live Alone in America" (just voice and electric guitar) gives you chills down your spine. Few remember Graham Parker, but he should be a mandatory subject in the study of rock music :-)