RB is an attempt to transform a boxing picture (Champion, The Champ, Body and Soul, Rocky) into art. That's not criticism: it's Scorsese's intention.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 March 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
I flinched at biopic (no argument that it's a boxing picture...), but if I step back a bit, yes, it's got the basic outline of a biopic. It proceeds in linear fashion, and there are the requisite stops along the way--early promise, setbacks, triumph, downfall. Stone's Nixon is probably more unconventional in how it tells its story.
But it does so much than check boxes along the way. Things like the color home-movie sequence, the Cavalleria Rusticana opening, did-you-fuck-my-wife?, the frame-by-frame construction of the fight sequences--at a certain point, I think its artistry elevates it somewhere else. But, you know, that's if you love it and are affected by it. If not, I'm sure it's just a pretentious biopic.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
"so much more"
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
Resurrection still unavailable on DVD
It's on YT tho. One of those movies whose reputation seemed far greater than the glorified TV movie it turned out to be. But Burstyn is, as always, sheerly professional.
― Eric H., Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
there's a Final Cut docu too which is great and on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcRiPLp4oU
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
You didn't need the "but," E.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Goodfellas was at least a medium popular hit, no? Raging Bull flopped at the b.o.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:07 (ten years ago) link
RB is much more like a mix of Bresson/Kazan than, i dunno, Somebody Up There Hates Me.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:08 (ten years ago) link
def even if we can't swap Melvin & Howard for CMD (which is good but conventional), this is one of the better BP lineups.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:12 (ten years ago) link
Checking the box office, I was surprised to learn CMD was a pretty big hit.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link
esp in country country. Haven't seen it in eons, i should again.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
In Alternative Oscars, published in the early nineties and an essential text for young me, the author awards Burstyn the Best Actress trophy because he gives it to Spacek for Carrie and the next year's Raggedy Man (a good little movie btw).
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
*Alternae
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i've seen that book, by Danny Peary (who played the conference head in Computer Chess).
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
He was really great in that movie.
― Eric H., Sunday, 30 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
He came to Toronto a couple of years ago to introduce his documentary on film critics. Interesting Q&A, as I remember it. Doesn't like Kael much.
― clemenza, Monday, 31 March 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
I remember his best actor for 1963 is Jerry Lewis.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 March 2014 04:02 (ten years ago) link
That doesn't narrow the field down much these days.
― Eric H., Monday, 31 March 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
Not enough discussion of french toast being passive-aggressively jammed down the drain itt
― Eric H., Monday, 31 March 2014 04:19 (ten years ago) link
Or of Conrad swimming.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 March 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
just no Judd Hirsch plz
even Robin Williams woulda been better
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 March 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link
Best Foreign Language film (winner first)
Moscow Does Not Belive in Tears (Menshov, USSR)Confidence (Szabó, Hungary)Kagemusha (Kurosawa, Japan)The Last Metro (Truffaut, France)The Nest (de Armiñán, Spain)
I've only seen The Last Metro and that was in high school. Apart from that and Kagemusha, anything else worth watching?
― Frederik B, Monday, 31 March 2014 11:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7s6YkVKEI
― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 31 March 2014 12:21 (ten years ago) link
Always worth a look at the screenplay noms, too.
OriginalBrubaker – Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter and Arthur RossFame – Christopher GoreMelvin and Howard – Bo GoldmanMon Oncle D'Amerique – Jean GruaultPrivate Benjamin – Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller AdaptedBreaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce BeresfordCoal Miner's Daughter – Tom RickmanThe Elephant Man – Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren and David LynchOrdinary People – Alvin SargentThe Stunt Man – Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush
― Eric H., Monday, 31 March 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
Four-part analysis of the sweaters of Ordinary People:
http://theyarnmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/12/ordinary-sweaters-yoke-collar.html
― Josefa, Monday, 31 March 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Yass on all of this look:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IuIKPL1UuTI/R1dtm96wlQI/AAAAAAAAAPY/g4gEBILwxYs/s320/OP_070.jpg
― Eric H., Monday, 31 March 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
Donald Sweaterland.
You're all invited to the Burstyn retro in Brooklyn next month, with a 35mm print of Resurrection!
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/ellen-burstyn
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 March 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bam.org/media/3364899/2014_Ctek_Apr-May_sametimenextyear_613x463.jpg
― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Same Time, Next Queer.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
I want that newspaper.
― clemenza, Monday, 31 March 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
There needs to be some network for collecting ridiculously obscure movie props. That way, you can get your Same Time, Next Year San Francisco Gazette and I could get my Goin' Down the Road Satie vinyl.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
*sigh*
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 April 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
oh c'mon, surely you expected this
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
It was a sigh of contentment that it was that close.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:35 (ten years ago) link
like a nylon lemon peel
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
if you take the five directors' career oeuvres, Redford's is the worst
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
Are you ignoring Scorsese the last fifteen years?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
(Lynch got great around when Scorsese went into the toilet)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
making bad movies for 15 years doesn't erase 25 of good/great
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
Scorsese's been uneven the entire time, with the peaks and valleys strewn in every direction.
My vote for Ordinary People had nothing to do with Redford.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
just your long-aborning Elizabeth McGovern fantasies
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Let's have a great year. Let's have the best year of our whole lives, OK? We can, you know. This could be the best year ever.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/07/22/56/1911688/6/628x471.jpg
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
adorable category fraud
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
I can't argue with Mary Steenburgen winning Best Supporting Actress this year, but not nominating Dyan Cannon for Honeysuckle Rose strikes me as a sizable oversight--she's excellent, even if I wish the script hadn't called for her to let Willie Nelson off the hook at the last second. Very much one of those early-'80s films (Melvin and Howard, Coal Miner's Daughter) that feels like a continuation of the '70s; except for a far-fetched sequence in Mexico with Nelson and Slim Pickens, quite liked it. I see that Amy Irving got a couple of those worst-awards for her performance. Silly--she's fine.
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 September 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
Eileen Brennan – Private BenjaminEva Le Gallienne – ResurrectionDiana Scarwid – Inside Moves
Haven't seen any of these--could one of them have been bypassed to make room for Cannon?
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
I watched Scarwid in both Mommie Dearest and Inside Moves within a short time frame around '83 or so, and remember thinking she was pretty good in the latter, not so much in the former. But I don't know if my opinions were worth much then or now.
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 3 September 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link