I did like that P&P, but CF is indeed good in anything, like that travesty of Noel Coward that came out 2 years ago, Easy Virtue.
In more scintillating detrius news, Dogtooth on DVD Tuesday!
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/12/30/scenes_2010_dogtooth
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
he didnt have a defined public persona when that came out tho, ppl just thought he was dreamy
― plax (ico), Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
right i'm not saying they cast him because he plays sad sacks, just that somebody looked at him and said "this guy would be a good mr. darcy" and they were (again, theoretically) right and his later work just illuminates the ways in which they were right.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a decent actor but i dislike watching him. i've only ever liked him in Another Country.
― jed_, Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
lacking the guts to nominate Christian Bale:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_film_razzies
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 January 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah because the hard-hitting keepers of awards justice The Razzies would normally nom a golden globe winner to put Hollywood in its place.
― Gukbe, Monday, 24 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
they did last year with Sandra Bullock (who was a good sport about it).
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
nominating twilight for an anti-oscar is way more boring than nominating colin firth for a real one
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
you have just explained why the Razzies need to be taken over by me.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Hitchens on The King's Speech.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Bullock was for a different role though.
― Gukbe, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
love this guy and everything but you know he sat in this movie with a smile slowly spreading over his face as he realized, unable to believe his luck, that he was gonna get to write an essay about The Shitty Side Of Churchill
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The King's Speech is riddled with gross falsifications of history.
history's dumb anyway
― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Monday, 24 January 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
haha otm
(as someone who love/hates a history of the english-speaking peoples though, that line about how awful churchill's celebrated style can be when he's "barking up the wrong tree" is otm)
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
he was gonna get to write an his fourteenth essay about The Shitty Side Of Churchill
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 January 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
probly not gonna see much of SAGs, let me know if Borgnine lives through his speech.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
you know the SAG lifetime award means something when Tim Conway does the tribute.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 January 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
shd go here
A Screen Actors Guild thread
― history mayne, Monday, 31 January 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, let's have a Costume Guild thread too
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 January 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
as-yet-unreleased "unknown pleasures" (I'm seeing the Ozon film tonight):
http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/jf11/terraincognita.htm
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 January 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw the Spector documentary tonight. The two or three reviews I glanced at beforehand were middling. I don't get that at all--I thought it was fantastic. Two medium-sized quibbles: 1) barely any mention of the Christmas album, and no mention of its doomed release date (Nov. 22, '63), 2) use of a big flashy concert clip of "River Deep" from '70 or so, immediately prior to hearing the record for real. If you like that Las Vegas-y side of Tina Turner, you'll like this segment; I don't, so it was pointless. One relatively minor omission: no mention of End of the Century. One omission that's so gaping, I have to believe there's some kind of legal injunction behind it: the name Ronnie Spector is not uttered once. Past that, I wouldn't change a thing. You could go the film as kind of a Capturing the Friedmans/Thin Blue Line exercise, and get caught up in questions of guilt or innocence; there's a good film there. For me--and not to diminish the life of the woman who may or may not have been murdered by Spector--that was almost backdrop to 90 minutes of Spector holding court. He seems to be in the early stages of Parkinson's, and seems to have a touch of dyslexia, too, but he's just so incredibly smart and funny about so many things. I know; he's in jail for murder. But hearing him talk about what drove Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, or the phoniness of his high school graduating class, or this mob guy from New York named "Skeezy" who stole "Be My Baby" for his movie, or working on "God" and "My Sweet Lord" back-to-back, all of it was amazing. He even finds Tony Bennett's elevation to MTV icon as amusing as I do. Actually, he's obsessed with Tony Bennett to a degree that's comical. Can't wait to see this again.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to rent A Time to Leave again, if only for the memory of that beautiful actor in the lede. Jeanne Moreau was fucking terrible.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Inception, The Social Network won at the Writers Guild
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 February 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
BAFTAs: Speech, Portman, Fincher, snore
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41565434/ns/today-entertainment/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 February 2011 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
pleased for christopher lee
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 February 2011 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Melvil Poupaud is beautiful in a whole buncha things, Alfred.
Cinematographers' guild award to Inception; hideous!
http://www.goldderby.com/films/news/1138/lenser-wally-pfister-wins-asc-prize-for-inception
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Pfister pretty good, but Deakins should always win.
― Gukbe, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I try to be very timely when it comes to year-end-lists. I saw the Phil Ochs film tonight, and I'm ready to draw up a Top 10:
1: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector2. Carlos3. The Social Network4. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work5. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields6. Kings of Pastry7. Get Low8. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune9. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff10. Somewhere or Cyrus[/i]
Carlos has a big advantage in that I only saw it once, and may not get a second chance to see the full version in a theatre for quite a while--its impact was visceral, (for me) deeply tied in with the music, and I'm not sure how it would hold up a second time. My two biggest disappointments--I expected to love both--were Winter's Bone and Boxing Gym. Two that I thought were well-made but that I watched dispassionately: Inside Job and Client 9. (I think I'm five films into the economic meltdown now--five documentaries; six if you count the Wall Street sequel--and they're all starting to blur together.) Most overrated film for me was True Grit. And, realizing that there is always much that I never get out to see, the one unseen film that I feel would have the best shot at making my list is Meek's Cutoff, based on how much I liked Wendy and Lucy.
I'll be back in a couple of months with my 2009 wrap-up.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Yes! This was epic! Blew me away too since I had less than no expectations for it.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't Spector amazing? I felt like Squeaky Fromme: as (probable) murderers go, he couldn't be any more charming.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ACE (editors) award to The Social Network
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
A.O. Scott on good actors in lousy films.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Mr. Cage may have been driven to some of this by well-publicized financial difficulty, and some of his admirers have surely been puzzled by his choices. But it can never be said that he phones in a performance.
pfft someone didnt see Season of the Witch
neeson's kind of a drag in Unknown too, im sad to say
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
top Cesar award to Of Gods and Men (which opened in NY today):
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/02/cesars-award-the-social-network-the-ghost-writer/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule gives his year end lists and a round-up of other ones.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 27 February 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Black Swan cleans up at the Spirit Awards.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2011-02-26-indie-spirit-awards_N.htm
so, just as bad as the Oscars.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 February 2011 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
no way. Oscars will definitely award Best Picture to The King's Speech. Spirit Awards will look much better in comparison.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 27 February 2011 06:46 (thirteen years ago) link
hey Dale Dickey won Spirit best supp actress for Winter's Bone, so all is forgiven
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 February 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
mildly lol opening bit to those awards where Joel McHale had his hand stuck under a rock in his dressing room and she came in with a chainsaw.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 27 February 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Muriel Awards happening shortly
― Gukbe, Sunday, 6 March 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey has anyone seen The Arbor? I saw the director on a panel at the LIFF and they showed a clip that looked kind of bad. But it won a prize and has been getting some press...
― Death Cabron For Cutie (admrl), Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:51 PM
. . .
Well, I just saw a 3-4 minute clip which featured (IIRC) what sounded like offscreen recorded interview synced to actors on set mouthing the words of the interviewees. Is the whole film like that? It's the type of distancing effect that bothers me when it isn't used well, it seems to do disservice to the person originally speaking, but honestly, I saw it totally out of context, so I have no way of knowing how this really functions in the film itself. Clio Barnard (sic?) was a very likeable and generous panelist, but sometimes nice, clever people can make not so great films. I do want to see it, though. I'll watch most (most) British films, tbh.
― Death Cabron For Cutie (admrl), Sunday, December 19, 2010 8:49 PM
The Arbor opened in NY this week, and I had very mixed feelings about it -- to the point where Mubi has me as the voice of dissent.
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/3197
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 April 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
oh I guess I shoulda posted that here:
why are 'british' films shit?
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 April 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not going to preempt Eric and start the new detrius thread, but the NYFCC will be voting this year on... Nov 28.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/2011/10/19/new_york_film_critics_move_up_their_awards_date
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link