This is the 'it was late and I was tired' episode of DVD Savant ... let me cut to the chase ...
MGM scores with an explosively colorful disc of Julien Temple's Absolute Beginners, a musical that defies description, except to say that Savant likes it better than most anything musical done since. Patsy Kensit rocks out to the music of David Bowie and Ray Davies.
Paramount/CBS make an odd team on Arthur Penn's near-perfect Little Big Man, the adventures of Jack Crabb, who appears to have been present at just about every important thing that ever happened in the West. A very different kind of story that hasn't really been attempted since.
That's it for tonight ... I'll finish up the musicals on Saturday and get on to the Westerns! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 01, 2003 07:57 PM