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| marantzo |
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Joe, I did a search and found the exchange between Kitty and Carlotta at the end of Dinner at Eight:
Kitty: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta: Reading a book?
Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
I sure wish I didn't miss that exchange. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:23 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Dinner at Eight is a great, great movie...
Agreed, with perhaps one less "great."
Joe Vitus wrote: ...and I think Jean Harlow's best performance.
That's like saying a rainstorm is better than a hailstorm. Harlow was a truly rotten actress. IMO. (But she was pretty good in Da8.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:56 am |
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billyweeds wrote: bartist wrote: My love of Wiig also began with "Paul" and her one-eyed fundy daughter.
Missing the point here. 'Splain, pliz.
Was part of a paragraph in which I said to Carrobin that I'd also liked Bridesmaids. And that my admiration of Wiig commenced when I first viewed her in the film titled "Paul," in which she plays a fundamentalist's daughter with monocular vision. Ahhh, okay, I had a different sentence which was altered and I didn't remove the "also," which should have been removed. Should have read, "My love of Wiig began with..." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:00 am |
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When watching Harlow it always has me thinking that she was a very smart cookie. Was that the case?
Her role in DaE is like a precursor of Judy Holliday and I know that she was a very smart cookie.
They both died far too early. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:44 am |
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marantzo wrote: Joe, I did a search and found the exchange between Kitty and Carlotta at the end of Dinner at Eight:
Kitty: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta: Reading a book?
Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
I sure wish I didn't miss that exchange.
That's it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:50 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Dinner at Eight is a great, great movie...
Agreed, with perhaps one less "great."
Joe Vitus wrote: ...and I think Jean Harlow's best performance.
That's like saying a rainstorm is better than a hailstorm. Harlow was a truly rotten actress. IMO. (But she was pretty good in Da8.)
Like Mae West, Harlow wasn't an actress, she was strictly a comedienne, and a brilliant one. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:48 am |
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| Finally watched "Temple Grandin" the HBO biography of the best-selling author on autism and animal behavior. The biography is fascinating (so is Grandin) and Claire Danes is astonishing in the title role.***** of ***** |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:54 am |
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Syd wrote: Finally watched "Temple Grandin" the HBO biography of the best-selling author on autism and animal behavior. The biography is fascinating (so is Grandin) and Claire Danes is astonishing in the title role.***** of *****
Hmm, I've seen the Dvd floating around, but didn't know much about it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:02 am |
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| Temple Grandin is a terrific movie with a great performance by Danes. It's a definite must. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:28 am |
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Which Danes are performing?
Sorry.
Thanks for the reminder, Syd...I keep meaning to see this. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:37 am |
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In The Trip Steve Cogan and Rob Brydon go on a week long car tour of Northern England. The movie consists entirely of a continuous dialogue between the two on all possible topics, with a lot of humor, arguments, and mimicry of movie stars including Michael Caine and Woody Allen. They dine at some of the finest restaurants in England. The movie is first class entertainment from beginning to end.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:51 am |
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Ghulam wrote: In The Trip Steve Cogan and Rob Brydon go on a week long car tour of Northern England. The movie consists entirely of a continuous dialogue between the two on all possible topics, with a lot of humor, arguments, and mimicry of movie stars including Michael Caine and Woody Allen. They dine at some of the finest restaurants in England. The movie is first class entertainment from beginning to end.
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Sounds like my kind of movie, and I never heard of it. Thanks for the alert. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:26 pm |
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Finally watched Last Tango in Paris, and have to say it didn't much impress me. Partly that was knowing Brando read his lines off cue cards (which is why he keeps looking up to the ceiling when talking to his dead wife). Partly it was that I think Maria Schneider gives a pretty lame performance. Partly it was that nothing the two do together really interested me, and it certainly wasn't erotic or particularly transgressive to me. The movie is undoubtably well made, but even the look of the movie and especially the score turned me off.
The only part that really held me was the final segment at the tango contest and then after. The sequence at the contest is breathtaking. Both stylized and naturalistic at once, and some of Brando's best moments. Though the resolution in her apartment played too much like a reprise of Breathless (and considering Leaud is essentially playing Godard as a television director, that can't be accidental). |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:26 pm |
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marantzo wrote: When watching Harlow it always has me thinking that she was a very smart cookie. Was that the case?
Her role in DaE is like a precursor of Judy Holliday and I know that she was a very smart cookie.
They both died far too early.
Harlow was apparently very smart as well. She had a novel published well after her death. From what I've heard, it wasn't bad at all. From what I've seen, all her performances before she took acting lessons are terrible and the ones afterward are pretty good. Red Dust, Beast of the City and Red-Headed Woman mark the transition. Though I don't really like the last that much, she's quite good in the other two. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:54 pm |
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| Joe--I agree about Last Tango. What was Kael smoking when she wrote that? |
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