Happy National Sandwich Day!
Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 9:16AM What's your favorite sandwich?
Besides the artisinal classic Diego-Maribel-Gael, that is. Mine is the iconic grilled cheese though I also indulge in a little pastrami & swiss on occasion.
On this day in showbiz history...
1921 Charles Bronson of Death Wish and Dirty Dozen fame is born
1931 Monica Vitti born in Italy. You haven't lived until you've seen her mussing with her hair in L'Avventura
1952 Roseanne Barr is born in Utah of all places. Goes on to create one of the best and most important sitcoms of all time, Roseanne
1954 The first Godzilla movie opens. Many more will follow
1956 The Wizard of Oz gets its first television airing. Annual showings will become a beloved tradition that cements the movie's cultural legacy
1957 Hunky action icon Dolph Lundren born in Stockholm
1963 Popular Oscar winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim is born. His films include He Named Me Malala, An Inconvenient Truth, and Waiting for Superman
1964 Awesome Danish actress Paprika Steen is born. If you've never seen her work rent The Celebration (1998) and Applause (2009) immediately to start
1995 Jodie Foster's still underrated very funny Home for the Holidays with Holly Hunter in great comic form opens in theaters
1998 Shakespeare in Love premieres in New York. After an extremely heated still divisive Oscar battle over its next few months it wins Best Picture, a decision we co-sign here at TFE since The Truman Show wasn't nominated. On this day also Bob Kane, the co-creator of Batman, dies. To think that the last Batman movie in his lifetime was Batman and Robin, poor guy.
Let's all agree that Volver is a masterpiece (and not just a masterwork of cleavage appreciation)
2006 Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006) opens in New York and Los Angeles. Becomes one of his most popular movies, nabs Penélope Cruz her first Oscar nomination, and remains one of the best films of the Aughts and of Pedro's career. It's utterly embarrassing that Oscar didn't nominate it for Best Foreign Language Film
and one year from today...
2017 Thor: Ragnarok opens
Reader Comments (18)
I just did a literal spit take at that headline/screencap combo. Why can't I order that at the deli?
Volver was the first Almodovar film I ever saw. I remember walking away from it going, "Wow, what a great film. Cruz's boobs looked great."
Cruz's performance pays homage to Sophia Loren's unique style.
Oh that scene where Monica Vitti is "mussing with her hair" - I smile just thinking about it. Vitti + Antonioni = some truly special cinematic creations.
And all of this time I thought that Lundgren was German. I always remember him fondly as He-Man in that terrible 1980s live-action film adaptation.
As someone who's not particularly fond of war movies no matter how well-made they are, I had no problem with Shakespeare in Love's Oscar win.
I don't think there's a name for it, but grilled chicken breast on whole wheat with lettuce, tomatoes, hot peppers, and mustard is my go to; simple and delicious.
Yep, also on board with the Shakes in Love win. Although The Thin Red Line also would've been a fine choice.
And Volver! How have I not seen that since it was in theaters! Just thinking about the color palette makes me happy.
Yeah, and Paltrow deserved her Oscar, too
Charles Bronson is much more than the Death Wish guy. He's starred in one of the best movies ever made (top 20 ever, maybe?), Once Upon a Time in The West. I have to mention this because I love Claudia Cardinale and she gives her best performance in this movie (and she's dubbed!). Bronson is terrific, too.
I just LOVE 'Volver'... my favorite Almodovar and one of my favorite movies in general. It just so happened that my local independent cinema had a double bill of 'Tie me up! Tie me down!' and 'Volver' the other day. It was really to get a chance to see them both on the big screen for the first time. Cruz's perfomance in 'Volver' is pure Loren/Magnani... in fact at the very end of the movie Carmen Maura's shown seeing a film with Ana Magnani on tv!
That song scene from Volver is forever emblazoned in my memory. It's called acting, and not the forced, over the top, I can tell you want people to notice how hard you're working kind of acting. It's effortless, natural, and all the more effective. Doesn't matter that she was lip syncing to someone else's voice, either; it's beautifully performed.
What kills me about that year, aside from the Foreign Language snub, is that Reese Witherspoon was shoved into the Leading Actress category instead of having to fight it out against Rachel Weisz in Supporting where she belonged. Then Penelope Cruz might have an Oscar for this performance.
You're thinking of 2005, Robert G.
Volver came out in 2006, where the Unstoppable Helen Mirren sailed to victory with The Queen...
Unfortunately.
Robert G, Walk the Line was released in 2005, so Cruz duked it out with Dench, Mirren, Streep, and Winslet for that Oscar, not Witherspoon.
I love Volver too! Although Robert G I think that Weisz was maybe a leading performance.
Favorite sandwich as of late: grilled cheese made with Beecher's flagship (really good sharp cheddar), spinach, and bacon jam.
re 2005: Rachel Weisz should have been in leading, instead of Reese going supporting. Four of my leads of that year are, in fact, co-leads: Reese, Weisz, Binoche and Maria Bello.
The winner, of course, would be Emannuelle Devos in Kings and Queen, best female lead of the decade, tied with Huppert/The Piano Teacher and Moore/Far From Heaven.
I prefer Devos that decade in Read My Lips (2001).
Volver is OMG great.
So I guess Nathaniel and I are the only ones here that enjoy sandwiches? Too bad.