Handmade Films produced some of the truest cinematic gems ever created. However, Five Corners (1987) is not one of them. With a fantastic cast that includes Jodie Foster, John Turturro, and Tim Robbins, the script is a real stinko. Foster is totally wasted in her role, and I have no idea why Turturro would even accept such a role. He plays a pyschopathic rapist just released from prison, eager to rape again. He beats a small penguin to death to prove a point, as if it needed proving. The film is a take-off on "Cape Fear," another manipulative and trashy film. However, this one tries to mix in humour! It doesn't work. At all. This was Deb's pick for the weekend. She did not even finish watching it. The movie gets stupider and stupider, and tries to end on a comic note. Absolute trash. The film did exceedingly poorly upon release. No kidding.
A film to avoid, at all costs.
In happier news, it was clear last night. Despite a 5-day old moon, I headed out to do some galaxy hunting, and came home with nine of them in the bag. I also enjoyed a look at the moon and Jupiter, and finished up late with some showpiece objects in a dark, pristine sky.
And now on to the DIA, and a second landscape painting by Panini, the companion to the one in my last entry. These two paintings were some fo the first art that really helped me learn to appreciate art, when we first began visiting the DIA back in the late 1970s.
View of the Roman Forum, Panini. Italian, 1735. Detroit Institute of Arts.
29" x 53", unframed.
Detail of left side.
Detail of center.
A closer central detail. One could go on and on breaking this work into smaller pictures, much like some works by Bruegel.
Detail of the right side.
Closer detail of the right side. This man could paint! What a palette of browns!
Tomorrow is Detroit day! An Ace Double awaits me at our mailbox. A new place for coffee, and a fine brewpub also await. I'll be bringing a camera.
Mapman Mike
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