Tony Block

Wathed this monday night. It has a commentary track too. If you like Luis Bunuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, I think you'll enjoy this film about two, or is it three, businessmen who may or may not be travelling all over the world by means of a subway train while engaging each other in inane conversation.

Tony Block

It's really very good if you like Bunuel or Fellini!

http://www.dvdauthority.com/threebusinessmen.htm

Wow someone else has really seen this film and it wasn't in my imagination!

[Edited by Tony Block on 05-02-01 at 06:08 PM]

Hendrik

...erm... I have the R2 DVD, and although I enjoyed the film, it could have done with some trimming here and there... also, to mention this work in the same breath as Fellini and Bunuel is going just a touch overboard... all MNSHO, of course!...

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Tony Block

Fellini perhaps, but I was referring more to Bunuel's theme in Discreet Charm, (than any visual/surreal similarities btw Cox and those two master auters), and how Cox and Sandoval have problems consuming a meal and the change of local throughout the film without reason.

Thanks for replying.

cheers, Tony Block

sundog

hyup, didn't even know this thread existed.

I love this film, it's my favorite DVD I've bought this year. Not bad for sight-unseen, eh? The commentary is very informative and interesting, but watch the film a few times and form your own opinions before listening to the commentary track. I don't even know how to explain it.

I'll try and paraphrase (from memory) a quote by the writer/producer Tod Davies in the interview on the DVD (inside the cover):

Is Three Businessmen really just about 2 men trying to eat?
"That's what happens, but not what it's about."

For me Alex Cox is batting a thousand on sight-unseen DVD's:
Three Businessmen is just a great, different film.
Straight to Hell is insanity, but it's my kind of insanity.
El Patrullero (Highway Patrolman) is the most subtle Cox film I've seen, but yet it's still got that anarchist feel.
Death and the Compass I own it, but haven't watched it yet.

Now where the hell is Walker?

brez

Alan Cox is better know for directing Repo Man and Sid And Nancy. He also wrote the screenplay for Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

Three Businessman is, well, interesting.

Mike