The Moderns

Starring:Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn, GeneviÃ¨ve Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin J. O'Connor, Isabel Serra, Flora Balzano, Meegan Lee Ochs, Danielle Schneider, Antonia Dauphin, Beverly Murray, Julien Carletti, Michael Wilson (III), Pierre Chagnon, RenÃ©e Lee, VÃ©ronique Bellegarde, Michael Rudder, Brooke Smith
Director: Alan Rudolph
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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We'll Always Have Paris

The Moderns
Starring: Keith Carradine , Linda Fiorentino , Wallace Shawn , John Lone , and Geneviève Bujold
Director: Alan Rudolph
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B000069HZW
Release Date: 2002-09-17

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This witty, elegant, graceful and clever film (Los Angeles Reader) stunningly evokes the legendary milieu of Paris café society. Starring Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Genevieve Bujold,Geraldine Chaplin, Wallace Shawn and John Lone, The Moderns is 'tantalizing unabashedly romantic [and] a glowing evocation of an era (The Hollywood Reporter)! Paris, 1926. A time whenanything could happen and usually did. At the center of this world is Nick Hart (Carradine), a struggling painter who makes a meager living drawing caricatures at his favorite café. Nick longs for success and even agrees to forge masterpieces for a wealthy divorcée (Chaplin). But what he really desires is Rachel (Fiorentino), the seductive wife of an obsessively jealousand lethally dangerous businessman (Lone).

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good movie.......2007-01-18

Gave as a gift to my boss. Anyone who has taken a survey of western art II class will enjoy

The bitter gaze!.......2005-11-23

The ironic at the Paris of the twenties is told with exquisite inventive and a architectural script that really engages you, Keith Carradine as the expatriated painter and Walace Shawn as the gossip columnist conform a team hard to die.

This was the most promissory movie of a young and raising promise of the new expression of the American Cinema. Pitifully the effort through the time of Alan Rudolph did not maintain.

An awful film by any reasonable standard.......2005-03-28

I don't know where to begin, this film is so ridiculous. How about Gertrube Stein jumping up and down, jeering and cheering at a boxing match between Carradine and Lone, a match to decide an issue of honor, and in the middle of it, Lone starts doing Karate moves to win? How about Wallace Shawn in drag? How about a cut scene where, inexplicably, a group of people in modern clothing stand around the bar, staring directly into the camera, as it stops and sits with them in frame? How about a painter who can mimic Cezanne, Matisse, and Modigliani, but whose own paintings look like bad 1980's music video collages.

The portrayal of Hemingway is offensive, he rants and pontificates morosely, with little life. If Hemingway acted in real life as he did in this film, he wouldn't have had to commit suicide, someone else would have shot him. This film is a travesty, totally self indulgent garbage. Read a book about the period instead, it is doubtful you will find one as bad as this film.

Agelessly Elegant.......2004-11-18

Although this film is far from perfect it is a wonderful depiction of Paris during the infamous 1920's when all the great American writers and artists resided there.

Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is a starving American artist who haunts little Parisian cafes with his charcoal pencil and drawing pad in hand as he sketches people he deems interesting. He becomes intrigued with a darkly mysterious woman named Rachel Stone (Linda Fiorentino) and her corruptly powerful husband Bertram Stone (John Lone). As the story unfolds we discover a past exists between Hart and Mrs. Stone and danger follows their lurking interests along Parisian streets. Mr. Stone is supposedly an art dealer/collector who seems to know all of the most important of people while reducing those he cares little for to pulp. A drunken Hemmingway (Kevin J. O'Connor) along with the likes of Alice B. Tolkas (Ali Giron) and her mate Gertrude Stein (Elsa Raven) make fleeting appearances during the film in a half-hearted attempt to maintain the allure of Paris during the 20's. Hart discovers a way to make a living through his involvement with a rich heiress (Geraldine Chaplin) and an influential gallery owner (Genevieve Bujold) but this connection could also be his decline.

If you are someone who carries on a romance with Paris and all that she holds then you will probably find this film very appealing. Director Alan Rudolph manages to capture what life must have been like during the time of Hemmingway, Fitzgerald and Stein as Americans in Paris. One would almost prefer he had made a film directly related to the famous people he randomly refers to in this movie, we all know they were in themselves extraordinarily interesting subjects. But overall this film is worth watching despite the little imperfections and a bit of bad acting here and there. Carradine and Fiorentino display a decent chemistry in order to carry the story to completion. As always though the true hero here is Paris, a city as old as it is timeless.

We'll Always Have Paris.......2004-11-01

For we English majors, Paris in 1926 is like Woodstock 1969. The cerebral high jinks of the period are familiar. The Dada movement, which is a self-parody of European artiness, has a cameo during a surrealistic funeral of the movie's cad. Hemingway and Gertrude Stein are also parodied. The literary icons are not treated well. Hemingway is a failure with two Parisian painted ladies and Stein comes off as a bully and a boxing fan, which is ridiculous.

I'm reading the life of Scott Fitzgerald now and I must admit that this fellow met everyone in Paris and New York with his mad wife in tow. I wish someone would do a film about Scott and Zelda. This wistfulness to experience the lives of the Celebes of an artistic and sociological watershed is the stuff dreams are made of.

The Moderns is really a forged masterpiece scam movie. It is handled deftly, but we are not there for the crime and it's amusing consequences. Art critics are satirized as pompous know it alls, which is always satisfying. Tom Wolfe has already written books about modern art and architecture, which describes the fraud in art's periphery. This film handles that well I think.

The problem with a bad movie: bad acting and a bad script, can harm a film, but not enough for aficionados such as myself, to abandon Paris in 1926.

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Manners for Young Moderns DVD

Manufacturer: Educational Video Network, Inc.
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ASIN: B0006AZ5UE
Release Date: 2004-08-06

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Students learn that good manners can improve anyone's image. In this video, Harley teaches Vicki about common courtesy, proper introductions, table manners, and phone etiquette.

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