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Befade

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:22 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

Inla..............PLEASE continue to have fun here!

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Melody

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:39 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 2242 Location: TX

Inla, I, for one, squeal with excitement whenever I see a nonreview-review posted by you. Your mind works in mysterious ways and I want to jump right in and play!

Wish #1: That I had read this yesterday when I was trying to decide if I wanted to drive to Austin to the one theater still showing Parnassus or stay home and veg out. Vegging won, as it does more and more frequently these days (especially after the week of rush jobs I had and two days of almost unbearable headache, finally relieved by ice pack applied directly to aching head while watching Better Off Ted, the funniest show on TV).

Wish #2: That you lived closer so we could get overly caffeinated and then go to movies together. Especially weird ones.

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inlareviewer

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:58 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Okay, let's see if I can successfully respond and segue back to Current Films.

befade, Well, ALL RIGHT, I shall do my best to.

billyweeds, as ever, you make me blush. Am hardly trying to compete with peeps, though it's sweet of you to say that; competing with peeps, well, that's what the slew of Village Voice transplants that the employer done went and poached are for. But I'm not bitter (much).

Jeremy, totally agree, about Gilliam always being worth a look, even when he makes the eyes roll.

marantzo, of course you count. So does he:

Just quoted carrobin's post because it was the first one that popped up when I returned to this forum.

Melody, squealing is fun. Let's all squeal, shall we? Weeeeeeee! However, headaches are bad, very bad, a recurring problem for me in computer-land, and Parnassus would not have alleviated yours, it being very wacky, often quite loud and clattering in places. Coffee is essential (to quote the Javacrucians, where there is coffee, there is life, and where there is life, there is coffee). Weird can be wonderful.

Syd, 's'cool, whatever. Am often incomprehensible to myself, come to think of it. That picture of Lynn Barber looks like a mixture of the young Sandra Bullock and even younger Jacqueline Bouvier. No wonder he went after her, the snake.

So, on to the real news of the weekend: finally saw Crazy Heart. If Jeff Bridges doesn't win the Oscar, I will take Marc's twice-devoured guitar remains, scoop them up and fashion them into a ceramic pot for the ashes of the Academy.

Maggie G. is affecting and sensitive, The Kid and Duvall! and an unexpectedly musically gifted Colin Farrell are also quite fine. Am sorry I missed it before the Blanche Song deadline -- T Bone Burnett is the berries -- and it's a good indie movie on its own salty-gritty-lowkey terms, with some beautiful scenic shots and suitably spontaneous performance sequences. Storywise, it's not exactly untilled terrain, but it still presents an involving narrative trajectory. However, as suspected, It's All About Bridges. Astounding commitment, seamless characterization, and he sings and plays as if someone had hit him with the John Prine Stick, or sump'n. If he didn't quite supplant Colin for me in personal identification/heart-tugs, that's just a subjective fact -- his Bad Blake certainly occupies the same rarified plane of role inhabitation. I may have to pull a La Belle Marion or Dame Helen and let everyone else nominate him for a Blanche (as I half intended but forgot to do with Christoph Waltz) -- because my Master Thespian roster is completely shot to hell. It's always like this, but this year, it seems a little bit more so.

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Marj

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:31 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Quote:

Inla, I, for one, squeal with excitement whenever I see a nonreview-review posted by you. Your mind works in mysterious ways and I want to jump right in and play!

I couldn't have said it better, Mel! So Inla, please continue with your posts. If some don't 'get' them, so be it. Also, I learn from you. I now write reviews for publication. Not as often as you, but you've taught me to free up my writing and then go back and edit. And thanks to you I find my prose tends to have a life of its own.

I also think that photo looks like a young Jackie Bouvier. You just said it first. Poof.

inlareviewer

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:37 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Marj, how lovely. Am thrilled you're pushing the writing, which, if I recall correctly, you've been working towards since the NYTF, good on you. Re: the Jackie-Lynn Barbervier photo, well, I am a poof, after all...

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Marj

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:40 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Heh, heh, heh.

And yes, you do remember correctly. I began at the Times. But I had actually begun years ago for a small paper in Wayne, NJ. Thank goodness I no longer have those reviews to make me shudder. And trust me, shudder is the only appropriate word for them.

jeremy

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:00 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Inla,

We are all capable of unique insight and the occasional turn of phrase that warrants of repetition, especially if the film, play or book left one feeling energised. However, this is a million miles away from having to produce an article on demand and to a deadline; one that a hard-nosed editor will think worthy of his publication’s dollars. How many ways can a critic find to say, “Meh!” and still keep a readership coming back for more? I have a great deal of respect for ‘real’ writers and, though it seems like a bit of a busman’s holiday to me, I appreciate you finding time to have a little fun with us. Certainly, I’d be gratified, if by chance, I said something that provided a spark to help you, or any other aspiring writers in their daily grind. It’s the nearest I’ll probably come to being published.

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ehle64

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:14 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 7149 Location: NYC; US&A

inla -- I consider myself fortunate enough to have seen the Bway production of Orph. Desc. with Vanessa Redgrave (odd, yet wonderful casting) and Kevin Anderson as Val. One of your comments was by someone named ducdebrabant (a name I seem to recognize) mentioned that Gale Harold was the perfect Val -- I agree that Brando failed in a way, certainly not in the hotness dept. -- and obvs I haven't seen Harold -- BUT -- I found Kevin Anderson smoking, sensitive and brutal. Sorry, just wanted to comment . . . And now back to our regularly scheduled Current Film discussions.

I wanna see Shutter Island!

jeremy

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:57 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Ponyo
Drag Me To Hell
Shelock Holmes
Zombie Land
In The Loop
Hangover
Avatar
Coraline
Hurt Locker
An Education
Up
Up In the Air
The Orphan
Inglorius Basterds

The above is my baker's dozen of movies I saw in 2009 that I remember enjoying. The list was deliberately asembled in a hurry so that I would not give too much consideration to whether I would feel embarassed for omitting the worthy or including guilty pleasures.

I've probably posted this in the wrong forum. Already thinking twice about some of my choices...ah well, publish and be damned.

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Marc

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:48 pm

Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 8424

Here's my top 12 for 2009.

CRAZY HEART
PUBLIC ENEMIES
DRAG ME TO HELL
GOODBYE SOLO
ADVENTURELAND
THE HURT LOCKER
AVATAR
THE BAD LIEUTENANT
JULIA
TAKEN
THIRST
ANVIL

Syd

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:01 am

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Here's my new top 10:
1) Goodbye Solo
2) Up in the Air
3) Sita Sings the Blues
4) Adventureland
5) Inglourious Basterds
6) Fantastic Mr. Fox
7) An Education
8 )The Hurt Locker
9) Moon
10) Up

Crazy Heart would be next.

#3 and #4 have switched places for no reason in particular.

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Syd

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:05 am

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

I hadn't hit me before, but that's a really solid top 10, and it doesn't even include Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9 or The Informant!. Or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline or Sherlock Holmes for that matter.

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inlareviewer

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:59 am

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Well, if this isn't the Forum for Top 10 Lists of 2009 Films, am sure I don't know what Forum is. What great fillums. And Syd even left off some of his favorites. That's how stuffed the year was. Hey, I don't even do lists, but must say, some pretty darned impressive rosters, all around. billyweeds has been saying 2009 was a great year for moooveeees, and so it was.

Jeremy, very humbled/gratified by what you said. It's a privilege, actually, though lately journalism hasn't seemed such a wise career move -- but one must carry on, and thank you very much.

Wadehle, am thinking ducdebrabant was a poster on the NYT forums. Now I'm a little skeered -- Kevin Bacon, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Bacon.

Off-Topic Non-Sequitur Bureau:
Am pea-green that you saw Vanessa! Redgrave! in that revival -- only saw the film of it on PBS, sorta uneven, but she and Mr. Anderson sure were sizzle-ey. Was beyond impressed by Queer As Folk's Brian Kinney and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Tasha Yar in the current L.A. revival. Gale Harold can do casually erotic and off-handedly deep, without breaking a sweat. Also, he looks like that. Slurpsome. And Denise Crosby was simply not to be believed. No dark wig, or bedraggled affect, or heavy accent (except when she let the Sicilian phrases rip), just one jagged internalized curl from tight-lipped bitterness to heartbreaking radiance. They would work well as Sweet Bird's Chance Wayne and Alexandra del Lago, methinks. Plus, Mr. Harold and model-turned-credible-actress Claudia Mason (great as Carol Cutrere) were born for Brick and Maggie. Maybe a Williams Repertory Company, or sump'n.

Return to Current Film Dept.;

Speaking of which, has anybody seen The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, the newly discovered Tennessee property starring Bryce Dallas Howard? It looks kinda sorta interesting.

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jeremy

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:28 am

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Inglorius Basterds [double SIC and sick as a dog] - I see I managed to misspell Tarantino's misspelling.

Though none of you would have cause to remember, it may be time to out myself...no not in that sense, but as a hypocrite. I have included the above film on my favourite's list, despite earlier in the year having lambasted Tarantino for failing to grow up in his choice of material. Though I still wish he'd direct his undoubted talents towards some more serious projects, and despite my misgivings at his having used the slaughter of Jews in a comic book take on good and evil, there's no getting away from it, Inglourious Basterds is a very watchable movie.

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My irritability keeps me alive and kicking.
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it.

Joe Vitus

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:35 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 14498 Location: Houston

Do you think his talents would be suited to more "grown up" material? Wouldn't they just be smothered?

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