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billyweeds

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:39 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Marilyn wrote:

Hi, Billy. Both Rod and I (as well as my other contributors) are now IMDb regulars. I like it when I'm the only source for a review of some of the films (e.g. White Mane). I've gotten nearly 600 hits from a Russian discussion board to How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman--but it's a site dedicated to nudity and porn! Oh well...

I really didn't think Christie just looked galvanized or struck a pose. I think she created a character I believed both with and without her memory. Her anguish over Aubrey had me in tears. I think she really dug into this character, making her a strong center that was not present in the Alice Munro story, which I thought was a pity party for the husband.

You misunderstood me. I didn't think Christie was galvanized. She was galvanizing, as in riveting, charismatic, impossible to look away from. I've just never been convinced she's as great an actress as she is a presence. As a presence, she's one of the most amazing on film.

Marilyn

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:53 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8210 Location: Skokie (not a bad movie, btw)

Yes, I understood what you meant, and I agree that she's impossible not to watch. But I think this performance was exceptional, not primarily composed of those intangibles that make her a star. I really felt for Fiona, especially when she went to Meadowlake to live. What a tragic scene played with a kind of dignity you can imagine she'd have learned very well from her years of tolerating Grant's infidelities.

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billyweeds

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:26 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Well, whether the performance was exceptional or merely excellent, it was Christie's best outing in a long time and a great chance to see how some women like wine can get better with age--or at least no worse.

carrobin

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:51 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 7795 Location: NYC

I haven't seen her film, but Julie Christie is a devoted animal rights activist who, according to his secretary, was always calling Alan Bates and asking for donations to one cause or another. (They were old friends, having done several movies together.)

Ran across this review of The Golden Compass in the London Telegraph online--now that I know Tom Courtenay and Ian McKellen are in it, I know I have to see it!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/28/bfcompass128.xml

mo_flixx

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:25 am

Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 12533

mo_flixx wrote:

jeremy wrote:

Mo,

Given that you saw the film in Paris, in French, months ahead of it's wider release in the anglophone world, I'm not sure you should be calling us all couch potatoes for not having seen it sooner.

What did you think of Atonement?

Who's calling the kettle black...or the potato a potahto??

The film happened to open the VERY SAME DAY in both Paris and NYC.

Seeing the movie in Paris had absolutely nothing to do with the price of eggs -

[Enjoy the mixed metaphors, divan spuds.]

mo_flixx

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:30 am

Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 12533

Oh dear...I see I offended. Go to BtC.

Oooops. No harm was meant- REALLY.

mo_flixx

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:38 am

Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 12533

gromit wrote:

I almost caved in to Mo's relentless bullying and bought Waitress, but the cheesy cover which made it look like Moonstruck helped me resist. Has there been talk of Waitress here before? Anyone like/hate/feel rather neutral about it?

I also couldn't work up enough enthusiasm to pick up Eastern Promises. Not really my type of film. But I suppose I will get it eventually.

Awaiting:

Actually I nabbed Rescue Dawn last week, so my laser and I might give that a spin sometime soon.

Re: WAITRESS.

Terminally cute...but the pies made me want to puke they were so ugly.

gromit

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:09 am

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9016 Location: Shanghai

Oh yes, I remember the discussion of the pies.
That must have been way back in Spring.
maybe I'll search those posts out.

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marantzo

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:16 am

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I reviewed Waitress a long time ago. A good movie and what ehle said, rather sweet, in a good way. I haven't seen Moonstruck but from what I know of it, my wife disliked it, Waitress is quite unlike it.

lady wakasa

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:31 am

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 5911 Location: Beyond the Blue Horizon

Sorry I'm late to the party, but hi, Marilyn!

And I remember Joe Namath doing pantyhose ads.

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mo_flixx

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:38 pm

Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 12533

lady wakasa wrote:

Sorry I'm late to the party, but hi, Marilyn!

And I remember Joe Namath doing pantyhose ads.

I remember the ads too. I worked with him once in those days. The guy was (it may seem hard to believe) a real hunk then. Gorgeous blue eyes.

marantzo

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:53 pm

Guest

Why would that be hard to believe. I thought that was common knowledge. He was at the top of the list of famous hunks. He still ain't so bad.

tirebiter

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:07 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4011 Location: not far away

Jake Gyllenhal is playing him in the biopic, IMDb sez.

gromit

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:45 pm

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9016 Location: Shanghai

Joe Namath was a big time stud back then. During his football career, the joke was that he had bad knees due to too much off-field balling.
He even had a short-lived movie career int he early 70's (while in his football prime).
I remember seeing C.C. and Company (1970) more than once on Tv. Broadway Joe turned Biker Joe.The scene that got etched in my little memory was Namath strolling through a supermarket, opening a bag of bread and some processed meat, making a sandwich and eating it as he "shopped." Believe he also glugged a carton of milk. Then when his lunch was done, he walks out without paying for a thing. Counter-fucking-culture man.
Way cool.

Otherwise he was an awkward actor. Ann Margaret is also in the CC & Company biker flick. I remember it as low-budget fun. Though IMDB's 3.6 rating is a little less forgiving.

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yambu

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:10 am

Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 6441 Location: SF Bay Area

No Country For Old Men -

Cormac McCarthy makes me feel the pain and loss from homicide more acutely than any other writer of today, and the movie elicits the same intensity. I was enraged at the death of the last victim, and the events that led to it.
Chiguth immediately joins the pantheon of immortal screen sociopaths, a shave below Hannibal Lecter - the latter being brighter, more manipulative, with more tools. But you will never forget Chiguth.
As County Sheriff, Tommy Lee Jones is the saddest, most sympathetic character in this year's great movies - witty, smart, kind, devoted to his work, loving the end of his career when hard-won experience affords him clear paths to the truth. Yet, up against proto-evil, everything he is is not enough.
The already famous coin toss scene will never leave me. I am grateful for its brutal magic.

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