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| billyweeds |
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Started watching Julia several weeks ago on Netflix streaming. Was mightily impressed with Swinton, whose performance was so vivid I had to stop watching because I felt almost voyeuristic. If she is nominated for the Blanche I will definitely complete my viewing in time to vote. Same for A Single Man. If it and/or Firth is nominated I will see it--and (cough, cough, Wade) all the way through. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:35 pm |
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| I think most viewers will find A Headless Woman boring. I felt that way while I watched it but I also found it lingered with me for a long time after watching it. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:35 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Same for A Single Man. If it and/or Firth is nominated I will see it--and (cough, cough, Wade) all the way through.
Better get yer ticket, mate, he was in the top 4 of 5. I'll finish A Serious Man if for no other reason than I'm a bit of a completist and to not watch a full Coen film would be foolish. Who knows, maybe I was just so tired that was the reason I wasn't feeling it? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:41 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: billyweeds wrote: Same for A Single Man. If it and/or Firth is nominated I will see it--and (cough, cough, Wade) all the way through.  |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:20 am |
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| To be fair to Wade and Marc, I have found that A Serious Man is a seriously polarizing experience. I have found no one who feels indifferent to it. People either adore or abhor it. And for my money, that means it's a great movie. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:23 am |
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ehle64 wrote: billyweeds wrote: Same for A Single Man. If it and/or Firth is nominated I will see it--and (cough, cough, Wade) all the way through.
Probably gonna see A Single Man tomorrow night. Saw Julia tonight and am once again a Swintonian. After Michael Clayton and this one, I think the woman is a great actress, and very possibly insane. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:30 am |
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| Hmmmm, her ode to Jarman didn't sound like something that an insane person could write... but one never knows! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:43 am |
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ehle64 wrote: Hmmmm, her ode to Jarman didn't sound like something that an insane person could write... but one never knows!
I'm sort of exaggerating, but her acting is out there, in a really good way. This is a performance that should have gotten awards. Hope she gets a Blanche nomination. If so, she has my vote. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:00 am |
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Falling for a Dancer is a secret BBC gem. It's Dublin, 1930. Nineteen year-old heroine falls for a traveling troupe cad, gets pregnant. Priest sends her to a Magdalen school. She bolts. Parents then send her to the far-off Beara Peninsula, to marry a 44 yr-old ignorant widower with six kids. Husband gets himself shot, leaving her dirt poor, now with seven kids, in one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's her story of finding the inner resources she never knew she had.
We will be traveling to the Beara in May, so that's why we rented it. the backdrop is sparse, remote, and stunningly beautiful. But it stands on its own as a wonderfully produced, well acted drama. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:19 am |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:50 pm |
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Billy,
Mirgun and I watched Julia last night, second time for me. I don't think Swinton is insane, I think she acts like a woman possessed. She commits herself completely to the role of "Julia". Every inch of her being is infused with the character - each movement, each gesture, has meaning in terms of defining who Julia is. Her back story isn't explained scriptwise - it doesn't have to be, the pain, the anger, the confusion, the damage done, is seared into Swinton's flesh. At times, her Julia seems like a caged animal, unable to escape her own prison, looking left and right, panic in her eyes....and longing. Swinton, as Julia, doesn't move her body as much as she drags it around, like a bag of bad karma. This is the kind of broad that Charles Bukowski wrote about: the ravaged beauty at the end of the bar drinking away the memories that she drank away a long time ago.Now she's drinking to forget the drinking. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:21 pm |
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| Marc--I couldn't agree more, and wish I had seen the movie earlier so that I could have nominated Swinton as Best Actress. There's no doubt in my mind that she gave the best female performance of 2009. (Wonder if a nomination by me would have pushed her over into our top five.) |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:53 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Yam, when was [Falling for a Dancer] made. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:37 pm |
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Billy,
both you and Mirgun would have nominated her. With my vote, that's 3 - plus Jeremy's that's 4. She would have been a contender. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:54 pm |
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Marc wrote: Billy,
both you and Mirgun would have nominated her. With my vote, that's 3 - plus Jeremy's that's 4. She would have been a contender.
What can I say except, "Damn!" (Well, there are other things.) |
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