tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post4921391548268356947..comments2023-08-20T06:16:15.362-05:00Comments on Getafilm: REVIEW: Take Out (A)Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-13717004407466729872009-09-07T10:20:19.366-05:002009-09-07T10:20:19.366-05:00Sam, did you write a piece about that experience? ...Sam, did you write a piece about that experience? I must have read through it in one of your weekend reports, but I'll have to look that up. I imagine it was even more fascinating to hear how it was filmed there in your stomping grounds. Although I had no access to that, I did listen to the audio commentary on the DVD with Baker, Tsou, and Jang. It was pretty funny since it was recorded - like the movie - pretty much without a budget. Just adds to the charm of the whole production.<br /><br />Thanks for the encouragement to check this one out. I'd have been devastated to miss it and I can't wait to see Prince of Broadway.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-50182707162454502362009-09-04T21:29:05.310-05:002009-09-04T21:29:05.310-05:00Well Daniel, I must agree with your take (no pun i...Well Daniel, I must agree with your take (no pun intended!) on this superb film, which I did see at the Quad Cinema last year at a showing with Sean Baker, who posed for a photo with my friend Broadway Bob. The take out matron was quite a hoot, and just one of a number of characters that you'd say you'd seen at your own local Chinese joint. I completely agree with you that this film deserved a much better fate, and found it stronger than a number of other films that reached a wider audience. It's a striking and oddly enteratining slice-of-life with interesting characters, and a sense of "now." I can't say I was bored for a second, and when you bluntly assert here:<br /> "Any person who is bored by Take Out is a person, I would argue, who is uninterested in people, in the human race.,"<br /> you are dead-on!<br /><br /> A wonderfully engaging piece of writing here, which was fueled by your rightly fondness for this film.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.com