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| Posted By: Dave Sutcliffe Posted On: Feb 17, 2004 Views: 1454 | Baby Of Macon This is Greenaways best film and simply the best film i have ever seen. The most successful post modern work in cinema because of the wit. I wish Mr. Greenaway would film a novel of Ivy Compton-Burnetts as they share concerns. More films please. |
| Posted By: relsh Posted On: Dec 6, 2004 Views: 1326 | RE: Baby Of Macon absolutely genius. the most artful and brilliantly scathing commentary on organized religion i've ever viewed. |
| Posted By: Jonny M Posted On: Jan 8, 2005 Views: 1304 | RE: Baby Of Macon This is one of the most thoroughly depressing, nihilistic and downright sordid films ever made. It was almost unanimously slaughtered when it came out by the critics and rightly so. Of course it's an easy way out for Greenaway to say the film was misunderstood:"It's about Catholicism, which the English don't think is their problem; amd it's about the exploitation of children, which makes people feel uncomfortable," he subsequently said. What any artist has to realize is that there can be people who can understand, intellectually, the points he or she is making, but can be so reviled by the MANNER in which the points are made (the rape scene still gives me nightmares 11 years on)that they reject the entire piece outright. Don't get me wrong: I'm all for challenging films - ERASERHEAD is my personal fave film, and actually a fave of Greenaway's! And EL TOPO -superb. But this form of sneering, pornographic nihilism is simply undeserved by a paying audience. If you want a far more interesting dissection of excess and religious hypocrisy during the counter- Reformation, I suggest the play THE BEWITCHED by the late Peter Barnes, which was produced by the RSC in 1974 and starred Alan Howard, later of THE COOK, THE THIEF... |
| Posted By: Jonathan S. Posted On: Oct 2, 2006 Views: 979 | RE: Baby Of Macon I think with this film, Greenaway really forgot that art is not created for oneself but for an audience. Shooting in a studio has cramped his vision since The Cook, The Thief. Progressively over the years he seems to have lost touch with his own themes, so that with Baby of Macon he spends two hours telling us a tale that Tulse Luper would have polished off in a paragraph. After Cook, Greenaway seemed to go through a period of trying to be as daring and as dangerous as possible, dropping the elements from his films that made The Falls, Draughtsman's Contract and Drowning By Numbers so good. In essence, with Baby of Macon, he tries to hard to be the bad boy of British cinema. It fails to use the cinematic form; it is lazy, static and worst of all, it snears at those who see it for what it is from a great height. He may not regard himself as a storyteller, but a film should be more than excuse for a series of shocking events. |
| Posted By: Craig MacDonald Posted On: Jul 11, 2007 Views: 868 | RE: RE: Baby Of Macon i have to say its one of the best peter greenaway movies ive ever seen love the scenery theatre's nice would love to visit it oneday |