RE: The Last Movie You Watched
July 11, 2018 at 11:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2018 at 11:06 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(July 11, 2018 at 10:09 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Wise Blood, 1979. Quirky religious stuff. Don't let the beginning turn you off.
"Wise Blood is an American 1979 drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1952 novel Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. "
It's a film that intrigued me even when it was one of those increasingly rare films that only got released on VHS. It's been a while since I've seen it, but it's still a fascinatingly strange film (and still a remarkably faithful adaptation).
It inspired me to read Flannery O'Connor in High School, even more than Fr. Hannon's lessons on "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The school library even had some old editions of her work, including one published when she was still alive and hadn't yet published Everything that Rises Must Converge.
I think this was the edition, except, if memory serves, it was Turtlebacked:
The doodle is interesting, true enough to the letter of the text, but a bit too zany in style.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.