Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

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MyNameCriterionForum
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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#51 Post by MyNameCriterionForum » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:55 pm

It's a clever, stylish effort, but not a great film. Beatty seems a sly guy.

The original strip is extraordinary -- more violent and surreal (BY FAR) than any Hollywood film until David Lynch, frankly. And proof that unironic squares - not outre bohemians - make the best artists.

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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#52 Post by Cold Bishop » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:57 pm

Is there a good collection of the original strips. I've always been interested, but never gotten around to finding one.

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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#53 Post by MyNameCriterionForum » Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:07 pm

There's a pretty famous "best of" - The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy - that's a good sampling, and which many libraries likely have. But the strip has recently begun a complete reprinting (two years at a time in tidy little volumes) as The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy (volume 1, 2, etc.)

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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#54 Post by gubbelsj » Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:42 am

There was an additional "best-of" collection released in 1990 by St. Martin's Press called Dick Tracy Casebook: Favorite Adventures 1931-1990, with an entire sequence selected from each decade. It had a limited print, but it, too, may still be found in libraries (it's fetching hefty prices online, at least for "new" copies). I received this as a Christmas gift shortly after the Beatty movie's release, and fell head over heels in love with the strip. The entire series, from Idea and Design Works, mentioned by MyNameCriterionForum above, looks stunning.

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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#55 Post by Ovader » Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:55 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:Tribune is back in court asking that the television the movie rights are handed back to them as Warren Beatty, apparently reneged on a contractual deal to produce a television special following the film.
Warren Beatty Wins Dick Tracy Lawsuit

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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#56 Post by knives » Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:02 pm

For fans of crazy people being crazy TCM is showing Beatty's court mandated 'special' tomorrow after the film.

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Re: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)

#57 Post by domino harvey » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:14 am

Blu-ray on December 11

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