Guiness record-holder for longest palindome Georges Perec who wrote the novel La Disparition without the letter 'e' said that there is not just litterature with a big 'L'. Catalogues are books of dreams, menus texts to which we rarely stand indifferent. For those who were wondering if I intended to exclude genre book films I offer Wim Wender's take on hard-boiled Sam Dashielle, in which Hammett himself plays detective.
Did the historical person Dashielle really quit Pinkerton's becuase they were strike-busting? Does it matter? Do clues keep coming rat-tap-tap after real detectives? What works is the punchy dialogue. The silken tones suit this colorization of a neo-noir set in San Fran Chinatown. No Berkeley PC free speech betrayal drifts across the bay to reinterpret the portrayals here of ku li bitter laborers in this chercher la fille. Police, criminals, big rich... What is evil?
The biggest mystery of this film is what Coppolla made Wenders cut or change, and why. See Wender work detective magicalso in Jusqu'au bout du monde, one of the most important films of my lifetime.
Did the historical person Dashielle really quit Pinkerton's becuase they were strike-busting? Does it matter? Do clues keep coming rat-tap-tap after real detectives? What works is the punchy dialogue. The silken tones suit this colorization of a neo-noir set in San Fran Chinatown. No Berkeley PC free speech betrayal drifts across the bay to reinterpret the portrayals here of ku li bitter laborers in this chercher la fille. Police, criminals, big rich... What is evil?
The biggest mystery of this film is what Coppolla made Wenders cut or change, and why. See Wender work detective magicalso in Jusqu'au bout du monde, one of the most important films of my lifetime.
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