Even Cowgirls Get the Blues dvd movie.|
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices |
 |
List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 20 May, 1994 DVD Release : 02 November, 2004 |
| [ + Zoom ] [ Buy Now ] | DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues description If someone ever put together a what-were-they-thinking top 10, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues would surely make the list. Based on Tom Robbins's '70s ode to freedom, whooping cranes, and ambisexuality, this Gus Van Sant film sat on the shelf for almost a year before its brief release. More of a curiosity than anything else, it tells the convoluted story of Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman), the world's greatest hitchhiker by virtue of her mammoth, um, thumbs. She falls in with a lesbian collective at a dude ranch and, well, the rest is kind of a mess. Kind of? Let's say it's a monumental mess, one of those films that's like a 25-car pileup on the interstate that you have to stop and look at, just to figure out what people like Keanu Reeves, Roseanne, John Hurt, and Angie Dickinson are doing there. A great score by k.d. lang, by the way. --Marshall Fine |
|
|
| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Wreck of a Movie |
| The book is one of my favorites. The movie one of the worst I have ever seen (running close behind Hook and Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me). Back in 1993, I eagerly awaited the movie when it first came out, I had loved the book so much. But there were apparently significant production problems which constantly delayed production. When it came out, the reviews were terrible. I am not sure if it was ever released widely. In NY it was only showing at the Angelika which shows mostly independent films. Fortunately a few drinks before hand at Soho Kitchen and Bar eased the pain. Long story short - the movie was awful.
Flash forward 14 years later - I figure, what the hell. I recently re-read the book (which holds up surprisingly well despite its hippie undercurrents). So when I saw the movie on cable, I figured I would give it a second chance. Sometimes you just don't get smarter with age and are doomed to repeat your mistakes. Skip the flick, get the book. Better yet, don't leave the bar. |
|
|