From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 08:46:21 PST
Circa 1990 there was an indy-film that played the Landmark circuit called CHAIN OF DESIRE or some such which was an update of LA RONDE——one partner from a liaison meets trysts with another who then carries the story to another etc. CHAIN... featured straight and gay people and was set in kind of a late '80s club scene/hipster culture in which AIDS was an unspoken element. The Ken Cinema in San Diego (where I saw it) offered free admission on opening night if couples came "attached" to each other——handcuffs, rope etc. This was about the most fun of viewing the film, which was otherwise unremarkable.
Steve Polta
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Ken Bawcom <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Ken Bawcom <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: daisy chain
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 11:57 PM
> There is some daisy chaining in "Tampopo."
>
> There is a B&W Hollywood film from the 30s that follows
> a suit coat,
> or maybe it's a tux. Can't remember, it's been
> a long time since I saw
> it.
>
> Also, isn't there a film about a dollar, or maybe $20
> bill, being
> passed around, made in the 80s, or late 90s? I never saw
> it, but it
> was on cable a lot a few years back.
>
> Ken B.
>
>
>
> Quoting James Cole <email suppressed>:
>
> > The most obvious example in literature probably being
> Delillo's Underworld,
> > which follows the (in reality lost) "Shot Heard
> Round the World" homerun
> > ball for about 60 years and sort of adheres to
> David's shit-happens
> > unpredictablity of the urban experience explination.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Tetzlaff
> <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> >> Physical passing of people walking became a common
> transition device in
> >> 'ensemble' television dramas set in
> institutional contexts, starting with
> >> 'Hill Street Blues' and continuing through
> 'St. Elsewhere' and 'ER'.
> >> Multiple, parallel plot lines connect and switch
> without edits: the camera
> >> follows two characters walking down the hall, one
> drops a narratively
> >> unimportant clipboard off at a desk, the camera
> stays with the clipboard,
> >> another character picks it up, the camera follows
> him into another room
> >> where he interrupts a superior to ask a seemingly
> innocuous question. He
> >> leaves and the camera stays with the superior, who
> we realize in the midst
> >> of some crisis or other...
> >>
> >> I would say that this is generally a trope of the
> random-ness and
> >> 'shit-happens' unpredictability of the
> urban experience of what the
> >> Ehrenreichs refer to as the 'PMC'
> (professional-managerial class), but
> >> certainly could be used in other thematics...
> >>
> >>
> >>
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>
>
> "Those who would give up essential liberty
> to purchase a little temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty, nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin 1775
>
> "I know that the hypnotized never lie... Do ya?"
> Pete Townshend 1971
>
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