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| gromit |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:33 pm |
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| Or Barbershop and The Beautician and the Beast. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:43 am |
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| The 1973 "Dillinger" is a good chaser to "J. Edgar." Milius sort of goes nuts on the Bohemia Lodge shootout scene, as might be expected from a famous Hollywood eccentric gun enthusiast, but the film is generally a good actioner that captures a feel for the relationship between famous criminals and G-Men in the 1930s. Warren Oates is perfect, radiating danger and charm; ditto, Ben Jonson as Melvin Purvis. Great scene where Purvis and Dillinger see each other while dining out in Chicago, and Purvis opts not to disrupt their evenings with messy law enforcement, instead sending over complimentary champagne. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:39 am |
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| Meant to mention that J. Edgar has the worst old-age makeup I can remember in a major motion picture. Not DiCaprio's, which is good, but Armie Hammer's (Clyde Tolson), which makes him look like Jon Voight in Anaconda after SPOILER FOR ANACONDA the snake swallows him. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:28 am |
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| LOL both the simile and the concept of "Anaconda" having a spoiler, or being spoilable in any sense. You could have dipped both Winklevoss and Watts in pancake batter and gotten a better result. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:32 am |
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Watts was unrecognizable as herself, which was perverse on Eastwood's part. Why cast such a scrumptious lady and make her so--not ugly, but nondescript?
Btw, my spoiler for Anaconda was tongue in cheek. Just to make sure you respect my comic credentials. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:31 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Btw, my spoiler for Anaconda was tongue in cheek. Just to make sure you respect my comic credentials.
I guessed as much and was directing my LOL at what I took to be a good joke. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:39 pm |
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bartist wrote: billyweeds wrote: Btw, my spoiler for Anaconda was tongue in cheek. Just to make sure you respect my comic credentials.
I guessed as much and was directing my LOL at what I took to be a good joke.
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| knox |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:17 pm |
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The 9-minute version of Anaconda is breathtaking....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTNfYT1WWk
All the highlights: Jon Voight's grotesque facial performance, the infamous Snake Cam shot, J-Lo drop dead gorgeous, the aforementioned regurgitation shot, and about 40 seconds of Owen Wilson touching career bottom. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:47 pm |
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Something the Lord Made is a 2004 HBO movie starring Alan Rickman as Dr. Alfred Blalock and Mos Def as Vivien Thomas. Blalock was already famous for his work on treating shock in patients when Helen Taussig approached him in hopes of finding a surgical treatment for blue baby syndrome (pulmonary stenosis). Blalock and Thomas worked out the techniques on dogs (Thomas doing most of the lab work), and Blalock performed the first open heart surgery on a baby in 1944 with Thomas talking him through it. Thomas couldn't do the operation himself because he had never been to college, let alone medical school, and his assistance was secret to most of the outside world because he was black and Johns Hopkins was in the segregated city of Baltimore.
The movie traces Blalock and Thomas's partnership through a sometimes fractious thirty years during which Thomas became very well known at Johns Hopkins both for his surgical techniques and as a teacher while mostly unknown to the outside world. Helen Taussig, who is played by Mary Stuart Masterson was actually pretty well known for her work in pediatric cardiology and later was the first woman to head the American Heart Association. Gabrielle Union plays Vivien Thomas's wife, and Kyra Sedgwick plays Alfred Blylock's wife.
This all plays against the segregation of the 40s and 50s and the very different lives of the Blalocks and Thomas's. It's well acted, especially by Mos Def (Rickman has accent problems) and the story is compelling but marred by too many Hollywood moments. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:07 am |
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| It got me thinking of the Johns Hopkins black/white medical drama The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks due out next year. I was thinking of the rule of 2 and cinematic twinning and all, then realized your film was from 2004. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:09 am |
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| There was a sort-of Rule 'o Two....the year before, 2003, the PBS series American Experience premiered the documentary "Partners of the Heart," also about Blalock and Thomas' partnership. My mother's internist, for several years, was a Dr. Blalock, who was Alfred's nephew IIRC. (oddly enough, she also saw a specialist named Dr. Sjogren, also a fairly close relative of the famous Swedish one for whom Sjogren's syndrome is named...) |
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| grace |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:42 pm |
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Syd wrote: Leigh's come up with a movie called Blow Dry, starring Alan Rickman as a barber who competes along with his ex-wife and her lesbian lover in a national hairdressing contest. I wonder what movies Netflix will be recommending from that?
Edit: I bet they recommend The Big Tease.
I've seen Blow Dry - it occasionally shows up on my schlocky movie package. The movie's no blockbuster or anything, but it's entertaining enough. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:43 pm |
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gromit wrote: It got me thinking of the Johns Hopkins black/white medical drama The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks due out next year. I was thinking of the rule of 2 and cinematic twinning and all, then realized your film was from 2004. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:54 pm |
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Yes, the book was quite good, though I could have used a little more in-depth discussion of some of the medical issues.
Here is a link to The Way of All Flesh, 1997 BBC documentary, by Adam Curtis, discussed in the book.
It's also on youtube.
I've had no luck getting my proxy servers to let me see it though ... |
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