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| Marj |
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I can't remember an instance when I wasn't impressed by Laura Linney. Of course she's done some bad films. Everyone has. But her acting is always outstanding.
Billy - I will give your question some thought. I don't know the reason off hand. And offhand I'd say it has more to do with the roles she has chosen or those we remember most fondly. But she is a beautiful woman so I don't think it has anything to do with that.
Of course I haven't seen everything she's done. I wish I had. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:18 am |
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| The first role by Laura Linney that really impressed me was in Love Actually, where she had a hopeless crush that was sabotaged by her having, yes, an insane brother. I think Kinsey contains her best role, but I generally like her. In You Can Count on Me she reminded me strongly of Helen Hunt to the point where it was distracting, but that hasn't happened in her other roles. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:42 am |
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Sundance grand jury awards Frozen River top drama prize, Trouble the Water documentary; world cinema jury cites King of Ping Pong, Man on a Wire, respectively; audience awards to The Wackness, Fields of Fuel; world cinema audience award repeats Wire for docu, Captain Abu Raed for dramatic; Lance Hammer for Ballast and Nanette Burstein for American Teen lead the directing award roster, and more:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sundance/2008/01/sundance-jury-a.html |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:27 am |
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Syd wrote: The first role by Laura Linney that really impressed me was in Love Actually, where she had a hopeless crush that was sabotaged by her having, yes, an insane brother. I think Kinsey contains her best role, but I generally like her. In You Can Count on Me she reminded me strongly of Helen Hunt to the point where it was distracting, but that hasn't happened in her other roles.
Linney in You Can Count on Me was better than Helen Hunt has ever been. And I find Linney extremely attractive and Hunt not at all, so that helped me not get them confused.
Another crossover quality in the two roles in Count on Me and Savages is that in both her character was having an affair with a married man and was uneasily single. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:18 am |
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inlareviewer wrote: Sundance grand jury awards Frozen River top drama prize, Trouble the Water documentary; world cinema jury cites King of Ping Pong, Man on a Wire, respectively; audience awards to The Wackness, Fields of Fuel; world cinema audience award repeats Wire for docu, Captain Abu Raed for dramatic; Lance Hammer for Ballast and Nanette Burstein for American Teen lead the directing award roster, and more:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sundance/2008/01/sundance-jury-a.html
King of Ping Pong, by the way, is a Swedish Film. I was expecting to find out it was from the Far East. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:20 am |
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billyweeds wrote:
Linney in You Can Count on Me was better than Helen Hunt has ever been. And I find Linney extremely attractive and Hunt not at all, so that helped me not get them confused.
It's not so much that they look alike, but Linney's mannerisms in that movie reminded me of Hunt. It was clearly something to do with how she played the part, because she hasn't reminded me of Hunt in anything since. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:46 pm |
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| Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men". |
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| inlareviewer |
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Ghulam wrote: Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men".
No Country for Old Men (accepted by Li'l Brolin, who at once grabbed the hog-light and winkingly noted Snr. Bardem's shelf-load of prior honors and the freakiness of film and ending), The Sopranos (by that sublime Paulie Walnuts, who acknowledged their group humility over this swan song nod, a motif to be repeated elsewhere in Sopranosland) and The Office (by Jenna Dearest, who touched on the relative obscurity of much of the cast and alluded to the strike by thanking the crew, whom the cast misses working with) are ensemble winners at SAGGY Awards tonight. Daniel Day-Lewisohn hushed the Shrine, then rocked it, when, with unassailable sincerity, he dedicated his award to Heath Ledger, citing him as an inspirational talent and the final scene of Brokeback "as moving as anything we have ever seen." He, Christie Julie (timeless, stunning, eloquently exuberant without rehearsey-ness), Chiguhr Bardem (most un-Anton-like and affably reminding of the days when actors couldn't be buried in sacred ground) and Ruby the Deevine -- who, in Edna Mode-scaled spectacles, was radiant as she accepted on behalf of Ossie Davis, "who is arranging things up there" -- take top film honors. This year's SAGGY'S may once more be a good tip sheet in Vegas insofar as Racso betting is concerned. Elsewhere, Tony Gandolfini (echoed the "this is it" sentiment), Carmela Falco (ditto), Jack Baldwin (not present, attending a funeral) and Liz Fey, who wittily honored Baldwin as Fred Astaire to her hatrack and sharply voiced her pride in SAG's support for WGA, are the principal TV winners, Queen Latifah took TV-miniseries actress, presented by a Mickey Rooney more self-circumscribed than ever, though Queen, like fellow winner-in-category Kevin Kline, was in absentia; a fragile, delightfully off-handed Charles Durning received the lifetime achievement prize from Denis Leary:
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/sag/env-sag26jan26,0,6992644.story |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:20 pm |
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| inla--What was the "tie" alluded to by Mickey Rooney? |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:22 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: inla--What was the "tie" alluded to by Mickey Rooney? |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:26 pm |
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| I performed opposite the Mick a few years back and he was living a parallel life even then, so Planet Rooney is a pretty good description. But I was believing him, and thinking, "Wow. A six-way tie. This would be a first." But no. Planet Rooney. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:38 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I performed opposite the Mick a few years back and he was living a parallel life even then, so Planet Rooney is a pretty good description. But I was believing him, and thinking, "Wow. A six-way tie. This would be a first." But no. Planet Rooney. |
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| chillywilly |
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Ghulam wrote: Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men".
Which I saw today (with my daughter, movielover14, who I hope will find her way out here to post her thoughts on the film). I should have seen this one sooner. Wonderful, well put together and a great work by the Cohen Bros.
More later, but just wanted to post my initial thoughts. |
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| Joe Vitus |
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| I've wondered where Movielover went to. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:19 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I've wondered where Movielover went to.
She's been busy with school, mostly. I'm hoping she'll get some time to come out here soon. I've told her about the Blanche voting and that her votes would be welcomed. |
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