<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post215113390465859946..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6646227030944051719</id><published>2007-02-28T11:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-28T11:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the irony in any estimation of directors w...</title><summary type='text'>I think the irony in any estimation of directors who seem to focus so single-mindedly on violent subject-matter is:  If they are only able to express their vision and technique through horror and repulsive visuals, and their characters are delibrately over-simplified in order to harden and buff the surface texture, then they deserve to measured against a fairly narrow standard.  So-called </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6646227030944051719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6646227030944051719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172678700000#c6646227030944051719' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4667124228524076415</id><published>2007-02-26T15:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-26T15:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The &quot;F&quot; word is used once or twice in almost every...</title><summary type='text'>The &quot;F&quot; word is used once or twice in almost every sentence in Mean Streets, as I recall.  that&#39;s what makes the streets so mean!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/4667124228524076415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/4667124228524076415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172520660000#c4667124228524076415' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-702970590391697666</id><published>2007-02-26T14:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-26T14:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark Granier wrote...I walk out of films that give...</title><summary type='text'>Mark Granier wrote...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;I walk out of films that give me a pain, such as Wenders&#39; relentlessly humourless (clipped) Wings of Desire. &lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What?  Why do you think Peter Falk is in the film?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It was great to see Scorsese get the Oscar last night.  He certainly seemed to express his humanity when talking about all the folks asking him when he was going to win an Oscar.  It was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/702970590391697666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/702970590391697666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172519640000#c702970590391697666' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15418310802340579561</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9175269768991357671</id><published>2007-02-26T13:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-26T13:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Bad words&quot;????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Bad words&quot;????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/9175269768991357671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/9175269768991357671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172514060000#c9175269768991357671' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6870808521669999958</id><published>2007-02-25T19:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T19:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I think I&#39;m on episode 13 or 14 in the first ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I think I&#39;m on episode 13 or 14 in the first season.  So no.  There&#39;s a hint that there&#39;s a blowup coming.  Adriana has left Christopher and is working in an Italian restaurant in order to make money to become a music producer.  A rap gangster has taken an interest in her.  He wears a blue hat, but nothing has happened yet.  I&#39;m still at the beginning.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can&#39;t remember Mean Streets </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6870808521669999958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6870808521669999958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172449560000#c6870808521669999958' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2846062008722271000</id><published>2007-02-25T17:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T17:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mean Streets comes down to Harvey Keitel&#39;s charact...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;B&gt;Mean Streets&lt;/B&gt; comes down to Harvey Keitel&#39;s character having to choose between his career in the mob and his best friend DeNiro &amp; epileptic lover, and the conflict between personal relations &amp; professional is the very heart of the movies.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I take it you haven&#39;t gotten far enough into &lt;B&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/B&gt; to see what happens to Chris&#39; fiance Aidriana.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/2846062008722271000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/2846062008722271000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172440980000#c2846062008722271000' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7762470550480579726</id><published>2007-02-25T16:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T16:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Scorcese&#39;s vision that finally everything ...</title><summary type='text'>I think Scorcese&#39;s vision that finally everything is about power is something that both the left and the right have agreed upon since about 1973: heavy metal replaces folk music, and Black Sabbath replaces Jefferson Airplane.  Marxism sees everything in power terms.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But in the Sopranos there is the dimension of love.  Even the tough guys can&#39;t live without love -- whereas in Scorcese&#39;s</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/7762470550480579726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/7762470550480579726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172439240000#c7762470550480579726' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1758617256452119970</id><published>2007-02-25T11:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T11:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think it may have been the bagpipes. . . .</title><summary type='text'>I think it may have been the bagpipes. . . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/1758617256452119970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/1758617256452119970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172422320000#c1758617256452119970' title=''/><author><name>Kevin Doran</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08640770705948611352</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/slud/P7040053.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-405491431"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-212379151048257181</id><published>2007-02-25T08:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T08:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>From what I&#39;ve seen of The Sopranos it is generall...</title><summary type='text'>From what I&#39;ve seen of The Sopranos it is generally in a lighter vein, much closer to comedy than Scorsese&#39;s movies (though there are GREAT comic moments in all his best films, and he has made excellent comedies himself, such as After Hours). I am glad someone mentioned the &#39;moments of beauty&#39;. This is what watching a Scorsese film is about really, rather than the &quot; crudely gestural, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/212379151048257181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/212379151048257181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172409840000#c212379151048257181' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6588938531506594910</id><published>2007-02-24T18:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T18:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Definitely grim, but consider these  movies&#39; momen...</title><summary type='text'>Definitely grim, but consider these  movies&#39; moments of beauty, albeit a god-allah-whatever given beauty of existence in its raw state. &lt;BR/&gt;e.g. The shot of Goodfellas&#39; Frankie Carbone hanging in a reefer truck full of beef sides.  &lt;BR/&gt;The slow-mo idealized view Travis Bickle has of Betsy in Taxi Driver.&lt;BR/&gt;Many of those camera technique enhanced visuals help to keep the veiwer from seeing the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6588938531506594910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6588938531506594910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172361300000#c6588938531506594910' title=''/><author><name>PFCAlbertAyler</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04923287031424923548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-492242838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6543811472467057590</id><published>2007-02-24T15:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T15:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve seen Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, a...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve seen Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver at least, and feel that Sopranos is better because of the tension between  Tony Soprano and his attempt to live a normal family existence.  He loves his kids.  He goes to see a psychiatrist, and is trying to improve his viewpoint.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wheras Scorcese leaves out the struggle to be moral and human in many of his depictions of men</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6543811472467057590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6543811472467057590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172349000000#c6543811472467057590' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3094858592215301781</id><published>2007-02-24T10:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T10:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Haven&#39;t seen Earl. I thought the TV comedy The Off...</title><summary type='text'>Haven&#39;t seen Earl. I thought the TV comedy The Office (if that&#39;s what you&#39;re talking about) was brilliant, but I only know  the Brit version of it with Ricky Gervais. From what I&#39;ve heard of the American series, it hasn&#39;t translated very well. Apparently the first perview met with a stony silence. When Gervais was asked about it he conceded that the American version would probably have actors </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/3094858592215301781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/3094858592215301781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172330520000#c3094858592215301781' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3207028187008333206</id><published>2007-02-23T20:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T20:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My Name is Earl is good.  The Office is much bette...</title><summary type='text'>My Name is Earl is good.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Office is much better.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/3207028187008333206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/3207028187008333206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172278920000#c3207028187008333206' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11432287890097060316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1269047305"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4146790231235043099</id><published>2007-02-23T15:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T15:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>But I make the great mistake of comparing this new...</title><summary type='text'>But I make the great mistake of comparing this new with that old and lose half the impact of what&#39;s really happening on screen.&lt;BR/&gt;The guy reads some new Auden and says it&#39;s good but no Unknown Citisen.&lt;BR/&gt;Citizen?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/4146790231235043099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/4146790231235043099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172261220000#c4146790231235043099' title=''/><author><name>PFCAlbertAyler</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04923287031424923548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-492242838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6493906741439405842</id><published>2007-02-23T15:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T15:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Scorsese&#39;s table scraps can be more satisfying tha...</title><summary type='text'>Scorsese&#39;s table scraps can be more satisfying than the rest of the Hollywood fare combined. His visuals sometimes make me forget how great the dialogue is.&lt;BR/&gt;Social importance?&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s a sprawling glorification, or is it a condemnation, of what America is. Right off the top, Nicholson&#39;s rap on the black chappies, no on gives it to you, you have to take it.&lt;BR/&gt;The restaurant scene, licking a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6493906741439405842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6493906741439405842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172260920000#c6493906741439405842' title=''/><author><name>PFCAlbertAyler</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04923287031424923548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-492242838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6100647030174661148</id><published>2007-02-23T14:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T14:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What surprised me is how Scorcese managed to creat...</title><summary type='text'>What surprised me is how Scorcese managed to create yet another Yankee &#39;look how &quot;Irish&quot; we are&#39; film, with dodgy accents (which is no real big deal), something annoyingly major that i forget, and ending the film with a score of Scotland the Brave. SCOTLAND the Brave. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What i can&#39;t remember was some this-is-so-Irish thing that just confused the shit out of me. A bit like the Irish guy in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6100647030174661148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/6100647030174661148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172257800000#c6100647030174661148' title=''/><author><name>Kevin Doran</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08640770705948611352</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/slud/P7040053.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-405491431"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1118329945880843935</id><published>2007-02-23T12:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T12:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I was with ya all the way until you said Rocky did...</title><summary type='text'>I was with ya all the way until you said Rocky didn&#39;t deserve an Oscar. I challenge you to a duel, sir! Okay, fine, Taxi Driver probably should have won. But I&#39;d rather watch and live with the movie and the character, Rocky, for the rest of my life than submit myself to Taxi Driver over and over and over again.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And I agree, too, that Di Caprio did a really excellent job in The Departed; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/1118329945880843935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/1118329945880843935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172251680000#c1118329945880843935' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03267444929810505425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/396917187_e4464068f0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790052993"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-96322995403216462</id><published>2007-02-23T11:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T11:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw The Departed last Fall in Seattle.  I think ...</title><summary type='text'>I saw The Departed last Fall in Seattle.  I think seeing a film while away from home, in another city, is especially useful, by placing the viewer at another remove from familiarity.  I think I&#39;d even have preferred to see it in Boston, since the city culture plays such a key role in its effect.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Scorsese&#39;s version of the ganster movie trope is deliberately cartoon-ized in the interests</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/96322995403216462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/96322995403216462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172248980000#c96322995403216462' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3283109416757633900</id><published>2007-02-23T10:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T10:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m with you a good part of the way on this one; I...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m with you a good part of the way on this one; I fell in love with Scorsese&#39;s genius halfway through &#39;Mean Streets&#39; (which I saw around when the film first came out in the 70s). The film blew us all away, a totally fresh vision. I wouldn&#39;t have thought &#39;The Departed&#39; one of his best (not up there with &#39;Raging Bull&#39; and &#39;Goodfellas&#39;), though it is far from his worst (e.g. &#39;Gangs of NY&#39;). Your </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/3283109416757633900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/215113390465859946/comments/default/3283109416757633900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html?showComment=1172244720000#c3283109416757633900' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/ray-winstone-leonardo-di-caprio-try-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-215113390465859946' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/215113390465859946' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry></feed>