CinemaInternational
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Next on the remake wheel? Bambi! [I feel sick about that]
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On 1/10/2020 at 8:47 PM, Dargo said:
I dunno about that, Lawrence.
I'm PRETTY sure I once saw his performance as Biff in a Scottsdale dinner theater presentation of Death of a Salesman a few years ago.
Whenever I think of dinner theatre performances of Arthur Miller, I think of this scene from Soapdish....
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My own personal feeling is that the films of this decade need more time to age. I'm definitely fond of films like Brooklyn, 45 Years, Once upon a time in Hollywood, Little Women, About Time, True Grit, Les Miserables, Never Let Me Go, Anna Karenina, Inside Out, 20th Century Women, Phantom Thread, their Finest, and La La land, and I think time will be kind to them as long as they are remembered, but at the same time, hindsight is the best judge, and its too soon to tell. I know that i am not slavishly devoted to the 2010s (I cringe when i hear people saying it was the best ever time for movies), and frankly i am still finding films in the 2000s I hadn't seen before that have merit. So I think that we need to come back to this a while from now.
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Karen Black was nominated for Five Easy Pieces, but I thought she was particularly good in The Day of the Locust.
Jeff bridges wasn't up for his best two: The Fisher King and Fearless.
Charles Durning had the rare feat of being better in a different film in the very year he was nominated (Tootsie over Best Little... well you know the rest)
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Criterion Channel in February arrivals.... including the film once referred to as "Warmed Over Puke"-- A Warm December
https://letterboxd.com/chrissweet1967/list/all-the-films-coming-to-the-criterion-channel-1/detail/
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6 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I haven't seen this movie despite the acclaim. I am so sick of origin stories.
Unfortunately, it seems that Joaquin Phoenix is a lock for the Best Actor Oscar. The Joker seems to be a juicy part for an actor. Imo, the definitive Joker is Mark Hamill in Batman: The Animated Series.
I elaborated a bit more on it today elsewhere, and I'll share it.
QuotePerhaps it would have seemed better if I hadn't seen Taxi Driver. I only saw that film once, but I fully recall the rising dread as De Niro went deeper and deeper off the edge and then the flat-on horror of the violent final passages. Here, with Joker, it seems preordained. Everyone knows he's going to wig out and turn into a murderous sadist from the start and you keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it does just like Taxi Driver, right down to the same story beats. Having De Niro in the cast only makes the parallel more obvious. (and both he and Frances Conroy seemed like they were onto something, yet are underutilized at the same time). Phoenix does a good job with the material he is given. But ultimately, outside of the performances, its flat and visually very ugly.
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18 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I THINK YOU’RE EVIL! EVIL!!!
I actually found it while scanning my feed on Facebook. Could not resist sharing it.
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Lillian Gish was Oscar nominated for Duel in the Sun, and she was very good in that. But her performances in Orphans of the Storm and The Scarlet Letter predated the Academy and her lovely swan song The Whales of August was overlooked (although luckily Ann Sothern was nominated)
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Thought this might make an interesting twist on Oscar month. While it is clear that some people were nominated for their best work, some others simply were not because either they were only up a time or two, or because their best work was undervalued at the time. Name some nominees who you felt deserved credit for another film or performance.
List of nominees over the years by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_with_Academy_Award_nominations
I'll start with one big one: Robert Mitchum, nominated for The Story of GI Joe, was at his best in unnominated parts such as The night of the Hunter, Heaven Knows Mr Allison, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
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Joker (2019) is a tepid rehash of Taxi Driver mixed with The King of Comedy. Phoenix is good, but any suspense is gone because it follows Taxi Driver's descent into madness almost step for step. Going down around a 6.5/10
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On 1/17/2020 at 5:54 PM, CinemaInternational said:
Every time that Mothers Day rolls around, photos like this make rounds on the internet.
Not mommie Dearest related but other types of photos that appear on the internet sometimes really put a spin on the lyrics of the Carpenters hit "Close to You"
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18 hours ago, Rudy's Girl said:
I just watched 12 Monkeys, a Terry Gilliam film starring Bruce Willis.
There's not much I can say about this except that it is soooo weird. It was interesting in some aspects and just plain confusing in others. The ending is cool and a good discussion starter. I found myself wondering midway if the whole movie was in Bruce Willis or Brad Pitt's head. It's not bad, but I can't see myself watching it again. I had trouble getting past the unusual design of the film, but that's Gilliam's style, so I was kind of expecting it.
This is still how I see Terry Gilliam...
I bet he would hate me.
I still think that the standout performance in the film was from Madeleine Stowe.....
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Just in time for 31 Days of Oscar, the 1969 drama The Happy Ending is on Amazon Prime for free. Has not been on TCM since 2015. Features an Oscar nominated performance from Jean Simmons.
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She's a national treasure.
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i gave the edge to Star Trek because more of the films were to my liking.
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15 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I love Mommie Dearest. Personally, I empathized with Joan. Christina sucked.
10 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:I KNOW, RIGHT?!?!?!
Every time that Mothers Day rolls around, photos like this make rounds on the internet.
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3 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I love Mommie Dearest. Personally, I empathized with Joan. Christina sucked.
Interesting card to sell
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4 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
As someone who knows of what he speaks, Dunaway’s performance in this movie is, to me, the most accurate depiction of someone struggling with bipolar disorder that I have seen.
Sometimes when I’m having one of my manic episodes, I honestly say to myself “BARBARA, PLEEEEEASE!!!!” in order to remember that I need to get a **** grip on myself.
In fact, if I had to rank, I'd have her as my runner-up for Best Actress in 1981. If I had to make a lineup, it would look like this.
- Bernadette Peters/Pennies from Heaven
- Faye Dunaway/Mommie Dearest
- Kathleen Turner/Body Heat
- Marsha Mason/Only When I Laugh
- Meryl Streep/The French Lieutenant's Woman
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1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I am genuinely OFFENDED that MOMMIE DEAREST is on this list. I mean I admit how some people could think it was maybe a somewhat mediocre film purely on mechanics and the disappointing ending, but I mean c’mon: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!
I personally feel that Faye Dunaway should have been up for an Oscar, because she did an excellent job, much more nuanced than reputation might suggest.
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Incidently, Wikipedia has this list of films considered to be the worst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst. Seemingly it really begins to swell when you hit the 70s. But I really think that Mommie Dearest has enough fans, and Heaven's Gate and Ishtar have gone through such a reappraisal that they could all be eliminated from the list.
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20 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
My least favorite wide-release movies:
- Meet the Spartans (2008)
- Epic Movie (2007)
- Disaster Movie (2008)
- Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
- Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
- Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
- Where the Boys Are (1984)
- Cool as Ice (1991)
- Mannequin 2: On the Move (1991)
- On Deadly Ground (1992)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- Ed (1996)
- Batman & Robin (1997)
- Ringmaster (1998)
- Battlefield: Earth (2000)
- Marci X (2003)
- House of the Dead (2003)
- A Sound of Thunder (2005)
- Catwoman (2004)
- Alone in the Dark (2005)
- Ultraviolet (2006)
- The Wicker Man (2006)
- Norbit (2007)
- An American Carol (2008)
- Pan (2015)
- Unfriended (2014)
That's not counting the many more low budget movies that were terrible - according to IMDb, I've seen 556 movies that I rated with a 1/10 or 2/10.
Marci X is currently on HBO on Demand. So thank you for the warning. I'll stay far away from that.
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
If the OP will forgive this digression,
Feel free. I like threads to include a little bit of anything and everything.
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Seasons 1 and 2 are generally regarded as the best, particularly 2. With season 3 the cracks started to show rather quickly. It was a big part of the cultural zeitgeist, so a lot of big-name guest stars appeared, but the writing and directing are all over the place. Don Johnson played some prima donna games before the season filmed, saying he wanted to leave the show to concentrate on his singing career (!!!), and the producers ended up offering him a contract that made him the highest paid person in TV at the time.
Co-star John Diehl, who played second-string cop Larry, left halfway through the season. I thought Saundra Santiago, who played fellow cop Gina, was especially good this season.
That episode with Willie Nelson also featured a young Steve Buscemi, and the sight of Willie manhandling Buscemi is memorable. Other people making early career appearances included Liam Neeson, Wesley Snipes, Lou Diamond Phillips, Viggo Mortensen, Benicio Del Toro, Vincent D'onofrio, John Leguizamo, and Annette Bening.
I've had the DVD sets of seasons 1 and 2 for a long time, but I just recently picked up seasons 3 through 5. While I saw many of these first-run, it's been many years, so it's been enjoyable revisiting them, and few shows are as much of a cultural snapshot of their era.
The show always did have memorable guest stars. There were also appearances by Laurence Fishburne, Chris Cooper, Julia Roberts, Stanley Tucci, Bill Paxton, Haing S Ngor, Elizabeth Ashley, jeroen Krabbe, Sheena Easton, Ben Stiller, Brian Dennehy, Kelly Lynch, Penelope Ann Miller, Alfred Molina, Issac Hayes, Chris Rock, R Lee Ermey, Iman, Lori Petty, Oliver Platt, Meg Foster, Melissa Leo, Richard Jenkins, Amanda Plummer, Rita Moreno, Karen Black, William Hickey, Ian McShane, Dennis Farina, Laura San Giacomo, Pam Grier, CCH Pounder even a walkon by Barbra Streisand.
NEVER WON AN OSCAR FOR ACTING
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Looks like Laura Dern and Joaquin Phoenix can be crossed off the list of never-winners too. It's nice for a change (even though the last time was only 2 years ago) that all the prospective winners have been in movies for at least 25 years.