tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post1803670333703395014..comments2024-03-03T10:32:45.969-08:00Comments on Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur: The Ephemeral Is EternalMr. Peel aka Peter Avellinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553482286909862975noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-41535923660757100792020-06-24T10:26:45.287-07:002020-06-24T10:26:45.287-07:00Joe, your comment makes me want to watch this agai...Joe, your comment makes me want to watch this again since it's been a few years. Thanks so much for reading! Fascinating to hear this about the phone interview. Amazingly, to this day I have never seen PERFECT. Maybe I should finally take care of that one, even if I know what I'm getting into. Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553482286909862975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-57556403401993539542020-06-24T06:26:50.307-07:002020-06-24T06:26:50.307-07:00So glad I discovered this piece after reading anot...So glad I discovered this piece after reading another one of your wonderful reviews. I like this movie a lot and love the way you zeroed in on its unique portrait of loneliness.<br />When Warner Bros. gave the movie its abortive ‘test’ release one of the theaters was a multiplex in Connecticut - rather than an art house - so it was clear the movie was being dumped. I had written a favorable review & a publicist for the theater chain set up a phoner with Debra Winger. Her passion for the film and Bridges was obvious but she also made it clear she knew the movie was doomed. I thought at the time it was apropos that we only connected on the phone since that was one of the themes of the film.<br />A year later I was invited to the big New York City press junket for Bridges next film ‘Perfect’ - a different sort of disaster - and it pleased me that I was able to tell Bridges and his producer partner Jack Larson how much I liked ‘Mike’s Murder.’Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05318282526361580115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118574901486983093.post-9407012226998553802014-09-15T05:41:41.274-07:002014-09-15T05:41:41.274-07:00I remember going to see this shortly after it came...I remember going to see this shortly after it came out at a Cambridge art house. It seemed like a very "art house" type of movie, for some reason. I remember it as a drug-deal gone bad kind of thriller, just barely bookended by the Debra Winger stuff. I wonder what I would have thought of the nonlinear version. Beveridge D. Spenserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12236771609113409521noreply@blogger.com