KAFKA
patrick degnan feeney
just watched this movie again and now i cannot remember the name of the
director. help anybody?
also has this director done any other work?
finally any recommendations for kafkalike films?
Toby
Steven (Stephen ?) Soderbergh
Did Sex, Lies & Videotape
sorry, sex, lies & videotape.
Toby
Michael Brooke
patrick degnan feeney (pfe...@students.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: just watched this movie again and now i cannot remember the name of the
: director. help anybody?
Steven Soderbergh.
: also has this director done any other work?
sex, lies and videotape (1989)
King of the Hill (1993)
The Underneath (1995)
...none of which have the faintest resemblance to 'Kafka', so you may
well be disappointed if that's what you're after! Soderbergh also
produced 'Suture', which may be more in line with your tastes.
: finally any recommendations for kafkalike films?
Direct adaptations from Kafka include Orson Welles' 'The Trial' (1962)
and a Harold Pinter-scripted British version from 1992. The Pinter
(starring Kyle McLachlan as Joseph K.) is a rather dull, conventional
adaptation, the Welles (starring Anthony Perkins) is, predictably, a
hugely flamboyant and for the most part immensely entertaining piece
of work that leaves Kafka behind at a very early stage. And
'Metamorphosis' has been adapted by the Canadian animator Caroline
Leaf, very effectively.
As for suitably Kafkaesque films, the best I've seen come from Kafka's
own country - features include Jan Nemec's 'The Party and the Guests',
Karel Kachyna's 'The Ear' and Jaromil Jires' 'The Joke', while shorts
include Jan Svankmajer's 'The Flat' and 'The Garden' - which come as
close as anything I've seen to capturing Kafka's mixture of disturbing
surrealism and jet-black comedy.
Michael
batmite
The director of Kafka is Steven Sodenbergh. He also directed sex,lies,
and videotape and Kill of the Hill. I would highly recommend renting a
copy of Orson Welles' The Trial. The beginning animation based on a
short story by Kafka is worth buying in its self. I would also suggest
seeing Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
Good luck trying to find The Trial,
Batmite
patrick degnan feeney wrote:
>
> just watched this movie again and now i cannot remember the name of the
> director. help anybody?
>
> also has this director done any other work?
>
RMJon23
<finally any recommendations for kafkalike films?>
One that hasn't been mentioned yet is Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN, although
I agree that Svankmajer and Orson Welles are closer to the feeling of a
Kafka work.
michael
Herschel R
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970210...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>, patrick degnan feeney <pfe...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>just watched this movie again and now i cannot remember the name of the
>director. help anybody?
>
>also has this director done any other work?
>
Soderberg did it. It was his film that he insisted on after
his other successes. Otherwise the studio would not have
been interested. Of course he did Sex Lies and Videotape and
the excellent but underviewed King of the Hill. He has been
working on the new monologue movied by Spalding Gray most
recently.
HR
Michael Brooke
Herschel R (hra...@aristotle.net) wrote:
: In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970210...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>, patrick degnan feeney <pfe...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
: >just watched this movie again and now i cannot remember the name of the
: >director. help anybody?
: >
: >also has this director done any other work?
: >
: >finally any recommendations for kafkalike films?
: Soderberg did it. It was his film that he insisted on after
: his other successes.
Success singular - 'Kafka' was his second film (after he swept the
Cannes awards with 'sex, lies and videotape').
Michael
Ken Crawford
Herschel R (hra...@aristotle.net) writes:
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970210...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>, patrick degnan feeney <pfe...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>just watched this movie again and now i cannot remember the name of the
>>director. help anybody?
>>
>>also has this director done any other work?
>>
>>finally any recommendations for kafkalike films?
>
> Soderberg did it. It was his film that he insisted on after
> his other successes. Otherwise the studio would not have
> been interested. Of course he did Sex Lies and Videotape and
> the excellent but underviewed King of the Hill. He has been
> working on the new monologue movied by Spalding Gray most
> recently.
>
> HR
I read a retro-bookreview of Confederacy of Dunces that said a movie
version of the book was "reportedly under development" by Soderbergh.
But what was meant by "under development" is anybody's guess.
Kolaga
>finally any recommendations for kafkalike films?
There is an obscure Canadian movie titled Prisoner 984
or something. Strangely, my corner video store has it
but it's not in the IMDB or the Maltin guide. Maybe
I've got the title wrong. Here's the plot, so maybe
someone can identify it.
A man is arrested and is placed in a vast prison
in which the guards are robots. He writes a journal
on scraps of paper and tries to recall what he did
that caused him to be arrested. He is summoned to
interrogations in the office of the prison superintentant.
The superintentant demands that he confess to being
part of a plot to destroy the world. An accuser standing
in the shadows points to him as one of the conspirators.
He escpaes from his solitary confinement cell. Eventually,
he manages to get a peek at the outside world and has
quite a shock -- it's not what he expected.
It's not long -- 75 minutes -- filmed in the mid seventies
in a Canadian city.
RMJon23
S. Cochran writes in, sez, and asks:
>I always thought that "Mickey One" with Warren Beatty was a very
Kafka-like movie; can't remember director but it is someone well known.
Can anyone help?<
It was directed by Arthur Penn (BONNIE AND CLYDE, etc).
michael