― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 02:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 22 November 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― jdruy, Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
His notes for Network.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
I saw The Hospital (in a faded-to-red print) for the first time in ~20 years, and man did he hate militants, loudmouth minorities, and women who were anything but a good lay.(I'm sure he liked Hubert Humphrey.) I wonder that his bilious heart made it to 58 before bursting.
George C Scott is great though, and a lot of the supporting cast sells the cartoons (Barnard Hughes, Frances Sternhagen).
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:00 (ten years ago) link
Watched The Americanization of Emily (1964) last night, reportedly James Garner's and Julie Andrews' favorite of their films. Chayefsky adapted a more straightforward (?) WW2 romance novel into his attempt at a Shaw-style high comedy of Big Issues: war, life, death, cowardice etc. Garner is an aide/procurer (p/t pimp) for Navy brass in London, Andrews a motor-pool driver who likes to sleep with servicemen just before they ship out. (This was her second movie.) James Coburn... well it takes awhile to figure out what he is.
Eventually Chayefsky's speechifying becomes not just fatiguing but philosophically incoherent, but it's worth seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUstMn4bM8
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Last weekend saw The Bachelor Party, which Matthew Weiner selected in MOMI's Mad Men sidebar for its bleak urban discontent and war between the sexes. It's a followup by PC and Delbert Mann to the Oscared Marty, and like it is based on one of PC's TV plays. There is some NYC location footage: Don Murray and wife live in Stuyvesant Town.
Nancy Marchand has a pretty great scene suggesting an abortion to her ambivalently pregnant sister-in-law, earliest i've seen that topic come up in a US film. But most amazingly Carolyn (Morticia) Jones got an AA nomination for playing a Village existentialist at a party. Hatefully drawn, but she handles the torrent of words and her "nympho" insecurity like a champ. Here's p much her entire performance (6 minutes!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvLd759SoYA
Also, the always solid Jack Warden tells a Yankee fan to drop dead.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link