On June 26 Acorn Media will release the six-hour miniseries on cassette and disc, and from start to finish the complex and riveting predecessor, shown on PBS in this country, takes no back seat to its formidable American offspring.
Still, it's an important, and riveting, read about beauty and a beast.
"Sacre," a bizarre, ugly, and riveting piece, bears this out.
But Charlton Heston, cast as an upright Mexican narcotics agent, insisted Welles write and direct, and it was transformed into a baroque masterpiece – dark, complex, perverse, riveting – that puzzled Universal, which released it recut with added scenes.
Of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), he wrote: "A baroque masterpiece – dark, complex, perverse, riveting...
Factory-built Cessnas, Pipers and Beeches to this day are laboriously and expensively fabricated of thin aluminum sheets hand-riveted together over a complex metal skeleton; the unyielding metal means wings are straight, fuselages are tubular and tails quite conventional.
Against the odds, Gibney has wrestled a complex subject every citizen needs to know about into riveting entertainment.
I bought two 10-foot pieces ($7.70 each), a seam connector ($2.70), end caps ($1.50 each), braces ($6.50 for a package of four) and rivets ($5.50 for a package of 100 one-eighth-inch rivets), all made by Amerimax, along with a rivet tool (Arrow Light-Duty rivet tool, $10).
Austere, demanding and riveting, it was a sensation.
Before van Gogh's untimely death at age 37, these diverse influences had culminated in a unique style, the blend of striking colors and riveting brushstrokes.
But along the way, Lipsyte's storytelling is riveting, his characters are complex and nuanced, and the suburban ambience he recreates is spot-on.
