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― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
TAHT WAS HIM !
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Glad to find it has its own thread, albeit one that died a quick death. I saw it tonight for, I don't know, the 31st time at a books-into-movies series. Not to take anything away from Bonnie and Clyde, 2001, or The Wild Bunch (after many years, I've developed an affinity for the first two), but I wish Schlesinger's film was as highly regarded as those three--it sort of fell out of fashion somewhere along the way. If you're able to see it anew, and allow for a tiny bit of all-is-ugliness period overkill (primarily the frenetic television montage), it's such a beautifully sad film.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a wonderful film -- i haven't seen it since college but recalling it still makes me a tad melancholy. schlesinger's earlier films ('billy liar,' 'darling' espec) are well worth checking out as well.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been intending to go back for a second look at Darling for a long time. I found it very striking the first time--really seemed to capture a moment.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 04:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
schlesinger can't direct his way out of a paper bag but this movie's story has an undeniable pathos
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 04:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
and its ambivalence about homosexuality is kind of fascinating
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
10 years pass...
I don't think I've seen this before.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is the thread where we anticipate downloading the next Letters to Cleo album from Napster!
17 years pass...
Bump.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I watched this movie SO many times in college, haven't seen it in years. I really should revisit.
beautifully sad is the otm-est way to describe it, clemenza otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's part of the ILX Canon:
REVEALED: THE ILX TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1960s IN CINERAMA!
(actually came in @ 9th after the points adjustment)
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
"AHM WAHKIN HEAH" is still my favorite thing to say as a pedestrian. It was especially fun to say to myself when I visited Manhattan for the first time :D (I didn't dare say it out loud, lol)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
schlesinger can't direct his way out of a paper bag
no idea what this means
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
so did Sally Buck molest him? That was always kind of implied.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's there, yeah.
The "I'm walkin' here!" scene came up in the after-film Q&A last night (Geoff Pevere, a local guy). Pevere said there's a long-standing dispute over whether the line was improvised or not; Hoffman says yes, Voight backs him up, others say it was scripted. I've been imitating it for years too!
I have a hard time parcelling out my feelings about direction/performance/music/cinematography sometimes--how much each deserves credit for what I'm feeling--but I think there are just so many scenes in Midnight Cowboy that are perfect, visually and every other way, that I give major credit to Schlesinger. The moody stuff on 42nd street (with Toots Thielemans' theme playing overtop); the timing of Joe whirling around as Harry Nilsson starts up ("I really would..."), followed by the cut to his boots as he walks out the door; the party sequence, etc. I don't even mind the television montage, which I know some critics complained about--enjoyed spotting Sandy Dennis.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh--glad to see it did so well in the ILX poll. I know 2001 would have finished higher; how did it do in relation to Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink