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| lissa |
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Quote: I had a crush on Barbara Feldon, just behind Barbara Eden and ahead of Suzanne Pleshette in intensity.
And - not so coincidentally - alphabetically, too. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:58 pm |
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gromit wrote: Never heard of Smile.
Will have to look for it.
Michael Ritchie's The Candidate is a good film. Despite minor reservations, I just picked up Downhill Racer since Criterion just released it.
When I was a pup, I had a crush on Barbara Feldon, just behind Barbara Eden and ahead of Suzanne Pleshette in intensity.
Trust me. The Candidate is okay, Downhill Racer fairly okay though seriously flawed, but Smile is great. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:01 pm |
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| I like The Candidate a lot, but it's nowhere near in the class of Smile. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:17 pm |
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Before The Candidate opened, they took Redford around Manhattan and introduced him as a candidate for some political office, and very few people realized who it was or that he wasn't an actual candidate for whatever fictitious post he was running for. Great advertising stunt. Don't know if it were effective, but the papers picked it up the next day.
I haven't seen the movie, so the stunt didn't work on me. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:31 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Before The Candidate opened, they took Redford around Manhattan and introduced him as a candidate for some political office, and very few people realized who it was or that he wasn't an actual candidate for whatever fictitious post he was running for. Great advertising stunt. Don't know if it were effective, but the papers picked it up the next day.
I haven't seen the movie, so the stunt didn't work on me. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:34 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I love it, too. "...and that woman had a wooden leg."
"Not unless Florence Henderson dies." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:45 pm |
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| Sorry for the disappointment, whiskey. I was hacking at the time and never even had him in my cab. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:59 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: I love it, too. "...and that woman had a wooden leg."
"Not unless Florence Henderson dies."
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:20 pm |
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| Ritchie also directed PRIME CUT and SEMI-TOUGH, both very very good films. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:25 pm |
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Marc wrote: Ritchie also directed PRIME CUT and SEMI-TOUGH, bot very very good films.
I think you mean "both," right? Not "not"? Or "bot"? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:30 pm |
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Two of Ritchie's best films were Fletch and (possibly his second-best after Smile) The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, one of the best made-for-TV movies ever made and a triumph for Holly Hunter. Hunter played in the same year (1993) a mute woman in The Piano and a world-class motormouth in TPTAOFATCMM. It was a one-two punch for this amazing actor.
On the other end of the spectrum were his two worst, The Island (a ridiculously over-the-top pirate flick with Michael Caine) and (sob!) one of the worst musical adaptations ever, The Fantasticks. I habitually warn people against seeing this horrible movie before seeing the show live. No matter how amateurish the live performance, it can't be more inept than this mind-bogglingly wrongheaded movie. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:36 pm |
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gromit wrote: When I was a pup, I had a crush on Barbara Feldon, just behind Barbara Eden and ahead of Suzanne Pleshette in intensity.
Well, yeah, with Julie Newmar in the mix somewhere. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:15 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Two of Ritchie's best films were Fletch and (possibly his second-best after Smile) The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, one of the best made-for-TV movies ever made and a triumph for Holly Hunter. Hunter played in the same year (1993) a mute woman in The Piano and a world-class motormouth in TPTAOFATCMM. It was a one-two punch for this amazing actor.
On the other end of the spectrum were his two worst, The Island (a ridiculously over-the-top pirate flick with Michael Caine and (sob!) one of the worst musical adaptations ever, The Fantasticks. I habitually warn people against seeing this horrible movie before seeing the show live. No matter how amateurish the live performance, it can't be more inept than this mind-bogglingly wrongheaded movie.
Disagree about Fletch, but that might be a Chevy Chase thing on my part. Had no idea The Fantasticks was ever filmed. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:25 am |
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Mirage is a 1965 Hitchcock-type thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Gregory Peck with Diane Baker and Walter Matthau. I'd seen it on its release and remember having liked it a lot. It's less thrilling on the revisit, but isn't too bad. Written by Peter (Charade) Stone, it has some amusing lines, and Peck is acceptable in the lead role of a man with a weird amnesiac thing. It's kind of like Cary Grant in North by Northwest, but Peck doesn't have that light touch.
Diane Baker had a frustrating career. She's very talented and quite sexy in a buttoned-up way, but her slightly nondescript looks, I suspect, meant a cap on superstardom. She was excellent in several movies in the 1960s (including Hitchcock's Marnie) and made a swell comeback as the politician-mother of the abduction victim in The Silence of the Lambs.
This was the second of Matthau's co-starring roles in Peter Stone-scripted caper movies, the other being Charade, a much better movie with a better role for Matthau. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:03 am |
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Sometimes subtitles are a necessity in English-speaking movies, and usually that's a good reason to wait for the DVD. It's doubly infuriating, then, when a movie that needs them doesn't provide them. Such a movie is The Merry Gentleman, Michael Keaton's directing debut, in which Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men, Choke) plays the female lead with a semi-thick Scottish accent which (coupled with a slightly muddy soundtrack) makes much of her dialogue unintelligible. Searching in vain for subtitles, one finds there are none. What a bummer, because the film is very subtle, visually resplendent, and quite impressive overall, and one wants to like it a lot, but when you can't make out what the characters are saying a third of the time that's almost impossible.
What I can say is that I'll be seeing the movie again when it hits cable and has subtitles. Keaton does that good a job as director--and also in the male lead as a tortured hit man who is also a tailor, if you can believe that. |
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