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| billyweeds |
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Okay, as long as we're doing "ten best" lists, here's mine (alphabetically):
35 Shots of Rum
(500) Days of Summer
Avatar
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Big Fan
Goodbye Solo
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
Sita Sings the Blues
World’s Greatest Dad
And here are my nine honorable mentions:
Crazy Heart
District 9
Funny People
The Girlfriend Experience
The Informant!
Inglourious Basterds
I Love You, Man
Up
Up in the Air
Yet to see:
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Single Man
Where the WIld Things Are |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:02 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Do you think his talents would be suited to more "grown up" material? Wouldn't they just be smothered? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:49 am |
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Tippy Top 10
1. Mary and Max
2. Facing Ali
3. Men Who Stare at Goats
4. Sita Sings the Blues
5. A Serious Man
6. A Matter of Loaf And Death: W&G
7. Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
8. District 9
9. 9
10. The Informant!
Hon. Mention
Kameleon (Goda); Big Fan; Up in the Air; Cold Souls; Brüno
Still to See:
35 Shots of Rum
Crazy Heart
Inglourious Basterds
A Single Man
Where the Wild Things Are
Food Inc.
The Cove
Least favorite (disliked):
Whatever Works; The Girlfriend Experience; Che Pt 1; The Limits of Control; Thirst |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:54 am |
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My Top 5:
A Serious Man
Sita Sings the Blues
The Hurt Locker
Goodbye, Solo
(500) Days of Summer
But a final list is going to require more releases on video. I got to so few movies this year. Going to 10 would require me to pick everything I've seen except, like Pink Panther II. My step son wanted to see it. Honest. That's the only reason I rented it. By the way, what's worse: renting it in the first place, or incurring late fees for not returning it in time? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:58 am |
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| Whiskey, why do you white that out? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:01 am |
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marantzo wrote: Whiskey, why do you white that out? |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:26 pm |
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Just to mention.....Inla.....I'm glad you posted some reviews from the REAL world......Tennesse Williams was at one time everything to me. Reading all the plays. Seeing all the movies. The Fugitive Kind...watching many times. Gale Harold would be perfect. Wish I could see. And another wish: I read that Cate Blanchett is the best Blanche DuBois ever as directed by Liv Ullman in Streetcar Named Desire. Have any New Yorkers seen this?
I think the only Tennessee play I've seen live was Summer and Smoke. My date (not to be a long-term companion) slept through it. (some people are so uncool!) |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:49 pm |
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| befade, you're most welcome. Am sure that Third Eye IS the Real World, if not indeed the Reel World, and certainly hope people keep writing film reviews here. A Tennessee Williams discussion likely belongs in the Theatre section, but am also curious to hear from people who saw Blanchett DuBois. The clips on Charlie Rose were fascinating. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:44 pm |
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| I only saw The Fugitive Kind once, when it was current. Didn't care for it at all. I was a Brando devotee at the time also. Maybe if I saw it again, 50 years later, I'd think differently. I have my doubts though. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:45 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I only saw The Fugitive Kind once, when it was current. Didn't care for it at all. I was a Brando devotee at the time also. Maybe if I saw it again, 50 years later, I'd think differently. I have my doubts though.
I tried watching it again recently. I love Brando, Woodward, and Magnani and I couldn't make it through more than 15 minutes. Unbearable. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:46 pm |
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| There seem to be a few excellent portrayals of Blanche Dubois. I think it's an easy role to play. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:54 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: I only saw The Fugitive Kind once, when it was current. Didn't care for it at all. I was a Brando devotee at the time also. Maybe if I saw it again, 50 years later, I'd think differently. I have my doubts though.
I tried watching it again recently. I love Brando, Woodward, and Magnani and I couldn't make it through more than 15 minutes. Unbearable.
I had trouble sitting in my seat also, but I don't think I walked out on movies in those days. I remember Magnani chewing the scenery with a vengeance. And the story itself struck me at the time as ridiculous and blech. Did the characters and story all seem to be taking place in a nuthouse production, or am I remembering it wrong. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:06 pm |
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| To me--I watched it on television, making it easy to bail out--it seemed to be taking place in a clinic designed to help you sleep. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:09 pm |
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The Fugitive Kind is a woeful mess of a film, taking what's visceral and poetic about the play and literalizing it into incoherent submission. You can almost see Lumet throwing up his hands and getting the hell out of Brando and La Magnani's way, although Joanne Woodward and Mildred Dunnock hint at what the property has to offer.
My Favorite Films of 2009 are still coagulating. Up and The Hurt Locker have yet to be unseated on high. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:47 pm |
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| Oh good, then my memory of it isn't flawed. Thanks inla. |
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