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| Trish |
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other pairings that worked:
James Spader-Susan Sarandon - White Palace
Keanu Reeves and Barbara Hershey in Turn in Tommorrow
I know there are lots of others - that I'm forgetting |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:34 pm |
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| Trish--I'm sure you're right. I really think it's just me. As Betsy would say, "My own private I dunno." So I've never seen any of the pictures you mentioned. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:36 pm |
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And the ultimate:
Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:35 pm |
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Quote: Forgot to mention that the Adam Clayton Powell doc was good as far as it went, but it only went for 52 minutes, and kind of rushed through his downfall.
There is some good footage of ACP, he was a charismatic preacher/politician who looked like a tall Cab Calloway (I think it said he was 6'4"). He was headstrong, as evidenced by his first marriage to a chorus girl, not the kind of thing a preacher usually did, and in direct defiance of his father who had founded the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. AC Powell Jr. told his father that he was marrying the girl, whether or not his father was going to kick him out of the church.
Anyway, the doc could have been longer, more rounded and fuller. Interesting and enjoyable, but more like a Tv biography than a feature film doc, imo.
Gromit: I just saw it and couldn't agree with you more. It was so poorly directed and written, which is such a real shame since ACP Jr. was clearly a larger than life figure in our history. I'd venture to say almost operatic! |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:21 pm |
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I love younger men.
Quote: Glenn Kenny played the perv with the porn review website.
He stood out, as suddenly the film had witty dialogue.
Gromit.......I watched The Girlfriend Experience again to find him. Yes, he was a stand-out.......certainly put Chelsea down. Did you happen to watch the dvd's alternate cut? Is it worth viewing? Just watching bits of it again tonight seconds my conclusion that it's a very good film......makes use of silences......and musical interludes......and Sasha Grey has a screen presence that makes you want more......Let's hope we get more. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:36 pm |
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Billy,
Fanny came today, and I watched about twenty minutes when I went home for lunch. Thanks a lot for recommending it. I don't think I've ever seen Leslie Caron do comedy before, and she has a real gift. She's also, to me, more stunningly beautiful here than in any other movie.
The movie itself is typical Logan: somehow dreary photography despite magnificent locations, a lot of poorly looped dialogue, and for all the "exoticism" and the foreign cast, a typical "American" feel. Chevalier seems radically miscast as Pannise. And you can see how much Logan wanted it to be a musical: the characters keep almost bursting into song. It's diappointing that the don't.
Yet somehow it's better than most of his work, though I can't put my finger on why. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:56 pm |
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Marj wrote: Quote: Forgot to mention that the Adam Clayton Powell doc was good as far as it went, but it only went for 52 minutes, and kind of rushed through his downfall.
There is some good footage of ACP, he was a charismatic preacher/politician who looked like a tall Cab Calloway (I think it said he was 6'4"). He was headstrong, as evidenced by his first marriage to a chorus girl, not the kind of thing a preacher usually did, and in direct defiance of his father who had founded the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. AC Powell Jr. told his father that he was marrying the girl, whether or not his father was going to kick him out of the church.
Anyway, the doc could have been longer, more rounded and fuller. Interesting and enjoyable, but more like a Tv biography than a feature film doc, imo.
Gromit: I just saw it and couldn't agree with you more. It was so poorly directed and written, which is such a real shame since ACP Jr. was clearly a larger than life figure in our history. I'd venture to say almost operatic!
I was tempted to check this out... but maybe I'll go for the Naguib Mahfouz book instead. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:57 pm |
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| Bad chest cold, curled up in the barcalounger and watched Nashville again. It just keeps getting better and better every time I see it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:24 pm |
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| It has the same effect on me. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:36 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: It has the same effect on me. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:38 pm |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:23 pm |
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| Dang, I keep forgetting I need to rent that...can someone lend me 2 hours extra tomorrow, I need the time! |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:50 am |
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lissa wrote: Dang, I keep forgetting I need to rent that...can someone lend me 2 hours extra tomorrow, I need the time! |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:53 am |
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It's okay, I think I have an extra 40 minutes somewhere...I'll put 'em toward Nashville.  |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:42 pm |
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| Currently watching Chop Shop. Ramin Bahrani has a knack for making movies with the look and feel of documentaries (to the point of having his actors play characters with the same name, and gets a very natural style out of his actors. Like Man Push Cart, it seems almost plotless, but I like it better here, perhaps because Alejandro Polanco and Isamar Gonzales are so engaging. Ale's one of those people who seem to have the wheels turning in his head all the time. |
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