The town boasts the best beef and ranching facilities in entire Kansas, also hosting lots of festivals to celebrate their exploits in the industry. Garden City, Kansas, has an estimated population of 30,000, and it is located in the southwest Kansas region, which is well known for lots of meat production activities. After all, this is a movie for them/us.In search of the best and most fun things to do in Garden City, KS? Jazz fans (and reggae fans, too) will get it. Of course, it helps to know who Marcus Garvey was. When he goes off on the Marcus Garvey speech, its worth the price of admission. He speaks in a low, gruff rasp but his dialogue is truly worth the effort to understand. His turn as the underworld kingpin, Seldom Seen, is fantastic. If any actor should be singled out, it should be Harry Belafonte. How to please everyone? The end result is uneven but there's enough here to keep all parties interested. Movie buffs will say they wished Altman wouldn't have devoted so much time to the music and jazz buffs will say they wished Altman would have done away with the ridiculous, annoying plot and grating performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh and focused entirely on the music. Altman stays on the music longer than most directors would because this is a film about the music as much as it is about the plot. A veritable treat for the in-the-know jazz fan but probably a bore for anyone else. They all play the legends of jazz that came out of Kansas City-people like Count Basie, Joe Williams, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. The film features all of the "new" stars in jazz from the mid-90's (James Carter and Craig Handy on saxes, Mark Whitfield on guitar, Geri Allen and Cyrus Chestnut on piano.the list goes on and on. If you are, you are really in for a treat. If you're not, you won't like this movie. One cannot divorce the music from the movie. Altman made this movie as a paean to his hometown and the music that came out of it. The period sets are perfect and its just like being back in KC during the infamous Pendergast era.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |