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| yambu |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I...Paper Moon is very entertaining..... |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:54 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: "I can't give you anything but love, baby"
I absolutely adore every second of Bringing Up Baby. If that's forced humor, then I like it. Makes me laugh everytime I see it, and I'm sure that's been over a dozen times.
Me too. It's a delight. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:03 pm |
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| Yes, lady w, thanks for the list. I've seen about half of them, and will have to look for some of the rest. I saw Passion recently, and was underwhelmed. As Madame DuBarry,Pola Negri does a Mabel Normand impression, and only stops being perky when her head is about to be cut off. Emil Jannings chews the scenery in his death scene, and otherwise looks way too much like British comic actor Eric Blore for my composure. Though Ernst Lubitsch directed, there's no sign of his famous touch here. I was rather disappointed in this film. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:32 pm |
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I've seen 13 of them, and many of the unspecified comedies mentioned for 1927. I've seen all of Keaton's full length silents and all the short films he produced himself, as well as many of the Arbuckle and Chaplin shorts. There are still a lot of Lloyds to catch up on.
One of the pleasures of Passion is the anticipation of Mme. DuBarry's death. You really want her to die. Painfully, and at great length. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:37 pm |
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| On the other hand, one of the few good things in Marie Antoinette was Asia Argento's Mme. Du Barry. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:42 pm |
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yambu wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: I...Paper Moon is very entertaining..... Having seen it at the time, I was sure Tatum O'Neal would have a sustained career. But like Mary Bradham as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, she didn't go very far after that.
The other O'Neal kids also showed talent but none had a very promising career.
Tatum wrote a "Daddy Dearest" tell-all about her wanton childhood. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:59 pm |
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| Paradise Now, a Palastinian drama about two young would-be suicide bombers, is first a fascinating look at the banal and human side of such "martyrs", with their family and social relationships. Their dual motivations - socio-economic and religious - are presented even handedly. Thus it shows the horror of a society with a 14th Century religious world view living and dying in today's world. But it shortchanges itself in failing to show us just how wretched and desperate is daily life under that long, endless occupation. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:47 am |
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My opinions:
Bringing Up Baby is one of the best and funniest comedies ever filmed. It's original, fast-moving (not frenetic), and beautifully played by Grant and Hepburn. What's Up, Doc? is okay, but Streisand and O'Neal are not G&H by a long shot.
The Last Picture Show is very good, but Mask is Bogdanovich's best movie, and Cher deserved the Oscar she wasn't even nominated for. It's far and away her best film performance. Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, and Laura Dern are all wonderful, and the Bob Seger music serves just as well as the Springsteen stuff would have.
They All Laughed is also one of PB's best and by far his most underrated. Dorothy Stratten is good, but Hepburn (the Audrey kind) and Gazzara are even better. When they talk about Hepburn's latter-day missteps, they should not include this one. It's no Robin and Marian (a particular hatred of mine), and certainly no Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (what was Audrey thinking of when she signed on for that disaster?). They All Laughed is insouciant and romantic and quite European in flavor. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:12 am |
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You make me even more eager to see it.
About Bringing Up Baby, you're right that as stars or comics Streisand and O'Neal cannot compare to Hepburn and Grant (who I like together in Holiday). |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:15 am |
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| Just re-watched Smiles of a Summer Night (which I finally broke down and bought, along with The Rules of the Game; and having bought both, I'm closer to broke). It gets better everytime I see it. I'm not going to waste time saying more, because too many people have said it better. A lovely movie, about as perfect as any movie can be. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:29 am |
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| THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is in my top ten films of all time. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:12 am |
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| Eric Rohmer's Claire's Knee (1970) is one of those movies which ages well, and is more enjoyable everytime you see it. Intelligent dialogue, as in My Night at Maud's, is one of the strong points of the movie, which deals with everyday lusts, taboos and conquests. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:15 am |
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Joe said, " Smiles of a Summer Night gets better everytime I see it. I'm not going to waste time saying more, because too many people have said it better. A lovely movie, about as perfect as any movie can be"
Yep. It is magic. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:06 am |
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Addition to Best Films of the 1970s:
The Conversation |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:35 am |
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Marc wrote: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is in my top ten films of all time.
What are the other nine? |
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