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| billyweeds |
 Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:25 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: But it felt like Jeff was the drunk character he played.
That's called good acting.
It's called great acting. But I can understand Betsy's feeling, since Bridges got about as far into that character as I can remember any actor doing with a character. That doesn't mean it's the greatest performance in screen history. Just one of them. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:33 pm |
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Quote: Whereas Colin took me with him.
Both performances were riveting. Both characters were both attractive and off-putting. You didn't know where either character was heading, death or salvation. Both were suicidal. I was rooting for both of them. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:36 pm |
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Quote: But I can understand Betsy's feeling, since Bridges got about as far into that character as I can remember any actor doing with a character.
The obvious comparisons are De Niro in Raging Bull, Rourke in The Wrestler, Brando in Tango, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under The Influence. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:38 pm |
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| One great performance of 2009 that has been completely overlooked is Tilda Swinton in Julia. That film will one day be heralded as a lost gem. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:43 pm |
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Marc wrote: One great performance of 2009 that has been completely overlooked is Tilda Swinton in Julia. That film will one day be heralded as a lost gem.
I'm in the middle of seeing it at the moment. It's hard to watch because the character is so real it's embarrassing to look at. It seems voyeuristic. Strange but true. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:45 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: But I can understand Betsy's feeling, since Bridges got about as far into that character as I can remember any actor doing with a character.
Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under The Influence.
Never seen it. I have a hard time with Cassavetes movies. I really really really hate them. All of the ones I've seen. They are narcissistic and self-indulgent and I want to bathe after seeing them. Get the picture? They are not my cup of tea. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:52 pm |
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| I also didn't like Cassevetes films. A stopped going to see them early on. I don't even remember the ones I've seen, but I remember my reaction to them. Pretty much the same as Billy's. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:56 pm |
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| The only movie I remember seeing with Rowlands (I know there must have been others) was Gloria and I liked her very much in that. It made me realize who the talented one was in that partnership. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:58 pm |
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| Oh, Cassevetes made that one. OK, he wasn't always bad. It was very good. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:00 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Oh, Cassevetes made that one. OK, he wasn't always bad. It was very good.
It was! |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:11 pm |
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| I saw it about three years ago one afternoon on TV. I didn't know who directed it and only found out who played Gloria when I watched the closing credits. Has anyone noticed that they never show the name of the director in the closing credits? |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:13 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I saw it about three years ago one afternoon on TV. I didn't know who directed it and only found out who played Gloria when I watched the closing credits. Has anyone noticed that they never show the name of the director in the closing credits?
I reviewed it years ago for a small town paper in Sparta NJ. I wish now I had noticed that. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:23 pm |
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It's especially annoying on TV when you come into a movie after the opening credits have finished and you love the movie or hate it and want to know who directed it so you can check on their other movies or avoid their other movies. Sometimes you have missed the title of the film.
After watching about 15 minutes of Gloria, I knew what film it was because I remembered the reviews from way back.
Didn't Madonna or someone do a disasterous remake of the film? |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:27 pm |
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| I think Sharon Stone did a movie called Gloria. Don't know if it was a remake though. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:29 pm |
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Sharon Stone did the bad Gloria remake. Love the good Gloria originalmake, and love A Woman Under the Influence even more, not only for Gena's Greatest Performance, or because John first wrote it as a play (she sensibly balked at sustaining such intensity 8 shows a week), but for Peter Falk's heartbreaking husband Nick. Am also warmer toward Opening Night than not. John Cassavetes died for Henry Jaglom's sins.
In an effort to head off the latest detour from Current Film -- we do what we can, and in Tinseltown, we can what we do -- here's colleague Pete Hammond's assessment of what last night means and doesn't yet:
LAT: Notes on a Season: After the Globes, is 'Avatar' now unstoppable? |
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