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| Shane |
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| Trish, I recorded it from cable to watch today. Just like I'm recording The Reckoning to watch with Sweetie at our leisure. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:38 pm |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:47 pm |
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Shane wrote: Trish, I recorded it from cable to watch today. Just like I'm recording The Reckoning to watch with Sweetie at our leisure.
with Paul Bettany..
Good - I'll look for it - perhaps I can get it On demand - do you remember which cable channel (HBO, Showtime, Starz, IFC, MAX, Sundance etc.) |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:51 pm |
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| Paul Bettany was on in Wimbledon yesterday. It's really quite an enjoyable flick. Kirstin Dunst is terrific, as usual. I didn't see it through to the end but I probably will one day when I'm not occupied with other things. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:07 pm |
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| realized my post was a bit misleading - wondering about which cable channel Dead End is on (already saw The Reckoning) |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:26 pm |
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| Trish, it appears to be offered on Showtime Too? I suppose that's some play on words I've never noticed B4. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:23 pm |
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Marilyn wrote: Sorry, Joe, I just don't buy that. One look at Written on the Wind will tell you that Sirk tongue was firmly planted in his cheek. Dorothy Malone fondling the model oil well does not say straight soap opera to me.
Written on the Wind is one I haven't seen. But is sounds more like the sort of Freudian thing people did a lot around that time (think of Marnie). But I'll check it out. Heck, I enjoy Sirk. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:39 pm |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:52 pm |
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| Sorry Joe. But I'm missing any resemblence between Marnie and WOTW? I'm sure you must have some, but I just don't see it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:11 pm |
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Marilyn,
Well, the years between the mid-50's and mid-60's had more in common than we often think today. It wasn't until the mid-60's that a real break with the former decade becomes obvious.
But this sort of overt Freudianism was all over the place, starting I'd guess in the late 40's with examples such as The Fountainhead and continuing through Marnie (which comes near the end, actually). It may be funny to us, and therefore strike us as subversive, but that doesn't mean it was intended that way. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:13 pm |
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Marj,
I'm thinking of that giant branch (phallic symbol) breaking through the window during the storm (another sexual stand in) just as Connery is builds up the sexual tension with Hedren. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:05 pm |
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Marilyn wrote: Paul Bettany was on in Wimbledon yesterday. It's really quite an enjoyable flick. Kirstin Dunst is terrific, as usual. I didn't see it through to the end but I probably will one day when I'm not occupied with other things.
Yeah, it's a good one, an Bettany ad Dunst play well off each-other. Actually, Dunst plays well off just about anyone, even Edward Herrmann. The big match finale is quite well done. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:16 am |
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Thought Save the Tiger was irredeemably 1970's. A paint-by-the-numbers script full of clunky dialogue. Moved from one scene to the next like a TV show. A few scenes were embarrassingly bad, just screaming out for a re-write (or a creative idea)
Jack Lemmon was good, but not much more.
There were one or two scenes when he really shined. After the first flare up of passion and stellar acting, I mistakenly thought the film was about to take off. These scenes were offset by a few where Lemmon's acting seemed more worthy of an outtake. Although one was just a poorly written scene, so the bad acting wasn't especially his fault.
[Lemmon won the '73 Best Actor Award. He defeated: Marlon Brando in "Last Tango in Paris", Jack Nicholson in "The Last Detail", Al Pacino in "Serpico", Robert Redford in "The Sting". Big Names. Never saw the Jack and hated Tango. I would have gone with one of the last two]
Anyway, it's a reasonably boring, unreasonably formulaic film. Not recommended. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:19 am |
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See the Jack.
It's my favorite Jack of all.
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:20 am |
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gromit wrote: and hated Tango.
HOW?  |
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