Production Year: 1994 - Drama - Director: Michael Elias - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Forest Whitaker, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle more
Jazz musicians Al Gorky and Buddy Chester live the bohemian life, but Al's devil-may-care attitude is affecting his marriage and his music. Buddy discovers he is dying and the two... more
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Lush Life
So what do you do?' Whenever people asked him Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. ... more
Artist actor screenwriter But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side still in the restaurant business still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young good-looking people liked him. Ask him what he did he wouldn't say tending bar. He was going places - until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least that's Eric's version. In Lush Life Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show us the hidden cracks the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. Lush Life is an X-ray of the street from a writer whose "tough gritty brand of social realism ...reads like a movie in prose' Michiko Kakutani The New York Times
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1981 - Drama - Director: Franco Zeffirelli - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, Beatrice Straight
Plot: Two men share a friendship and a love for jazz in this wild look at the life of a musician who is driven to the edge by his only true passion.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC
Release date: 13/10/2003
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CCD 9885
Barcode: 5014138298852
DVD Description
Jazz musicians Al Gorky and Buddy Chester live the bohemian life, but Al's devil-may-care attitude is affecting his marriage and his music. Buddy discovers he is dying and the two realise that they should face up to their own mortality as they plan to have one last session.
Advantages: Well written dialogue Disadvantages: Too slow paced for my liking
...The comments on the back cover of Richard Price's "LushLife" praises him for writing dialogue better than anyone. The last author I recall seeing praised in this way was Elmore Leonard, who I am a huge fan of. Leonard's writing lends itself to being translated into film very well and I notice that Richard Price's previous writing credits do include film and TV. I had all expectations of a decent read ahead of me.
After a night out, Eric Cash and Ike Marcus are walking home supporting a friend who has had too much to drink when they are approached by a couple of men with a gun. Eric hands over his wallet, but Ike tries to resist and ends up being shot; his last words to the muggers are "Not tonight, my man". This is what Eric says, anyway, but a couple of eye witnesses say something different, making him the prime suspect...
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Advantages: Worth it JUST for Last Night & Olympia! Disadvantages: Some idiot told them to try & appeal to the Britpop market
...better with age.
7 - Ciao.
Lush meets The Eurovision Song Contest with the intro of this anti love song, Miki sings with Jarvis Cocker of Pulp & a nice acoustic guitar line backed with a mixed down electric guitar backing up with understated drums. Basically this is Lush's answer to songs like "Fairy Tale Of New York" but its rather fabulous if I'm honest, a right little rocking poppy tune with Cocker adding extra clout to show how well Lush were respected at the time.
8 - Tralala.
A nice breathy intro with a solo guitar jangling for all its worth being e-bowed to within an inch of its life even in the subdued mode that is the way this starts, its typically old school Lush singing about love & Mr Right. Its quite down tempo but a rather haunting melody & vocal reminding me of "High & Dry" by Radiohead to be honest.
It's rather like...
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Advantages: All natural products, no animal testing, many vegan products, the smells and soooo much choice! Disadvantages: the price- a tad expensive.
...Lush to me is now a sort of hobby! It was just a little something I stumbled along when out shopping with my friends in Cheltenham- I don’t know how I managed before without it! —No I don’t want this to turn into some wonder story so I’ll start with the bad points first:
Sadly it’s a tad expensive; I can easily spend £20 without realising this—and its £20 I haven’t got! The trick is to organise your shopping trips around your bath times! – if you wash often visit more and if you wash less visit less- it avoids products being stacked up and losing there freshness—sometimes this causes them to discolour or crumble and nobody wants this.
I’m not sure if this is a good or bad point: there’s too much choice! You just want more and more! - I can’t decide what to...
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