"I don't want just six viewers, but I do know that this is not conventional entertainment." "Crane himself said, 'If I have just six good readers, that's enough for me,'" Franco noted, before admitting that his ambitions went a little further than that. He also said that making small, experimental films is "so much more fun" than working on mainstream commercial movies. Auden, said his film ( right) was inspired by Godard's "My Life to Live" and by the Dardenne brothers, and mentioned that he's getting degrees in literature and in poetry. When Franco finally got a chance to talk, he quoted W.H. Thanks for coming." And even then, it took Ricardo a couple more minutes to get to his first question. Ricardo showed no sign of stopping until Franco jokingly interjected, "That's it: an evening with James Franco. (He presumably meant Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," since the premiere audience by most accounts loved "The Firebird.")
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The actor hand-picked his interviewer: poet, theorist, art historian and Rhode Island School of Design professor Francisco Ricardo, who began his "interview" with seven minutes of fulsome praise: "I think the film is a masterpiece, and I can explain why," he said, comparing the screening to the first performance of Stravinsky's "The Firebird," at which he said the audience rioted. The 40-minute conversation with Franco that followed the screening was, at first, as frustrating as the film.
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What starts out as slow, meditative, lyrical and impressionistic eventually becomes an endurance test of sorts - a brave, bold experiment that plays like something between an intellectual exercise and an aimless mess.
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The problem is that even with those two conversation-starting scenes, "The Broken Tower" is going to be a tough sit for many viewers.