Friday
Sep072012
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Friday, September 7, 2012 at 6:14PM 
What's on your cinematic mind? What movie? actor? actress? filmthing were you just dreaming about...
As soon as I get mine back together -- I have an apocalyptic headache and this (pictured left) is how I feel right now -- we'll have more capsule reviews, some festival / Oscar talk, the return of Reader of the Day, an interview with Lizzy C and more. Stay tuned.
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Reader Comments (20)
I couldn't resist it this time. So, I had to take visual proof that Manolete is in theaters. Some incidental local color added: tbe man on the left cleans people's shoes. And yes, there are some old men who enjoy having their shoes cleaned while they read the paper. So I guees it fits. They movie release feels as old as having your shoes cleaned in the street.
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Google Yorgos Lanthimos images and you'll find two friendly pics with he and Annette Bening...talk amongst yourselves...continue...please.
Nathan (don't call him Baby) you're backed twice over with unanswered reader questions. I love Sissy Spacek...after viewing her Inside the Actors Studio episode on You Tube.
Tom Hardy is an unholy man-beast with no competitor insight...Logan Green? Attractive watered down version without bravado.
On a bit of an Old Hollywood kick these days.
After reading BEAUTiFUL RUINS where they were supporting characters during the filming of CLEOPATRA, I started watching interviews of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton which led me to watch WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? I loved that movie. I was tickled endlessly by how awful George and Martha were to each other. Can't believe i've never heard of it before.
After that, i decided to read FURIOUS LOVE, which any fan of Taylor or Burton must read. Basically a comprehensive biography on both of them with a main focus on their marriage and the scandal that caused it. Plus, Elizabeth Taylor's diva antics were just the best. I can't blame her. I'd be the same way. More jewels, please.
and now? I've just started Blonde, which is a 700+ page novel about Marilyn Monroe. Long novels intimidate me even if i usually end up loving them.
A film in my mind.
Retired Spanish teacher (Meryl Streep) , recently widowed, decides to take a long put off trip to Spain with her estranged photographer stepdaughter (Michelle Williams) detailed in her husband's will. Once in Barcelona the two part, off to tour the city in their own way.
Meryl revels in flexing her Spanish skills and trying her best to blend in. She comes to the aide of and is soon befriended by an aristocratic French woman on holiday (Catherine Denevue) and invited to dinner.
Michelle, with camera in hand, becomes entranced by a beautiful church in the city's outskirts.Inside she finds a funeral attended by one, a woman (Penelope Cruz) mourning her lesbian lover.
A film in my mind I keep adding to.
Where are Fassbender, Wasikowska, and Swinton hiding out? I need them so.
interesting you should mention Carrie
right now I'm preparing a presentation where I'll be comparing Pretty Woman & Carrie based on the main ingredients of the Cinderella myth
Thinking about seeing Bachelorette this weekend but none of my friends wants to see it.
I went on a silent film binge last weekend, watching five of them in three days. A couple stunners (The Phantom Carriage was unbelievable). Also watched Crazy, Stupid, Love, which was surprisingly well done (superb casting goes a long way.
Just looked at the line-up of the local film festival, which was massively disappointing. I keep going back year after year, though. What's wrong with me? Makes me want to go to Toronto or Vancouver or even Calgary.
My play has me thinking about Shelley Duvall in The Shining. Has there ever been a more divisive performance in all cinema?
I re-watched A Streetcar Named Desire today and it feels like my heart is still racing. I've always loved this movie but I feel like it gets richer and more interesting the older you get. Everything is prefect from it's sweaty, dirty photography to the wonderful jazz score from Alex North. But Vivien Leigh truly owns this picture inside and out. Her line readings are replaying in my head like music lyrics. If you don't like her performance you clearly do not understand the film.
Anna Karenina and Les Miz--The Great Gatsby would be on this list too if it weren't postponed for next year. I'm a lit major so I am so excited for the year of the book: Anna K, Les Miz, Cloud Atlas, Midnight's Children, and Life of Pi.
Notirious (1945) - Casting Grant in this movie was brilliant, since the audience wants to be on his side after all those screwball comedies and he's just so handsome and charming...and he ends up being a DICK in this movie, lol. He uses Bergman’s love for him against her – by making her agree to marry Rains, and then essentially calls her a whore for doing so! And man, sometimes I forget how good Ingrid was, and what an stunner she is. I honestly think this might by my favorite 1940s Hitchcock film, right up there with Vertigo and North by Northwest as my favorite Hitchcock film peroid.
After Hours (1985) - I love this crazy-ass movie. I love that it's just pure maniac filmmaking, Scorsese showing us how good he is for 90 minutes. I feel very strongly about a lot of Marty's work in-between his two masterpieces Raging Bull and Goodfellas. King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, and especially After Hours don't get their proper due, I think.
Color of Money can blow, though. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that one. The least-personal Scorsese film this side of Kundan.
penelope ann miller in "carlito's way"!
Jeremy - I love how you see Grant's character because my problem with the movie is the ending, which just seems too cruel for me to be happy for Grant and Bergman. But you made me think that the movie doesn't want me to actually like Grant's character. I'll rewatch it at some point to see if I'll think differently.
I've been reading the genreal response for Anna Karenina and its been interesting to say the least. There's been a lot of chatter about it going the 'Moulin Rouge' route to the Oscars though its been described as more of 'ballet' than a musical without words. You are either moved by it, or it flies over your head completely.
As for how it will be received this award season... its certainly not a slam dunk the way people are predicting, but it may do very well with the creative bunch of the academy if not critics group.
Best actress race of course.... Seems like Helen Hunt may be moved to supporting and Anna Karenina seems like it may not be everyone's come of tea.
Dreaming about movies alert! I woke up from a dream that I was watching a movie in which Katherine Heigl and Christina Hendricks were playing abused women and James McAvoy played the abuser. I don't want to be glib about domestic violence, or make generalizations, but I believe this was a dream about miscasting.
My Portuguese origins are doing some noise: Portugal possible Oscar submission will surely be between "Lines of Wellington" (competing in this year's edition of Venice Film Festival) and this year's Berlin Film Festival's sensation "Tabu" (it was considered a main contender for the Golden Bear).
Last year, Portugal went for "José & Pilar" (a documentary submited for both Foreign Picture and Best Documentary categories), instead of the Raoul Ruiz's little masterpiece "Mysteries of Lisbon"... "Mysteries" would be an obvious submission, but "Blood of My Blood" would be a major contender for the race in my opinion.
I convinced myself to finally see "The Dark Knight Rises" and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it given my feelings about Christopher Nolan and his take on the Batman saga. Additionally, I found Anne Hathaway to be absolutely magnetic as Catwoman/Selina Kyle.
I've also been going documentary crazy lately, having seen "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," "Outrage," "Deliver Us from Evil" and "Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon" all on Netflix. I've rediscovered my appreciation for the genre.
I don't care for Bradly Cooper...at all. If he ruins a David O Russell movies, things will go to a new level.