Robert Mitchum C/D, S/D

'What makes a woman good in bed?'
'Proximity'

Criterion releases The Friends of Eddie Coyle in May!

http://www.criterion.com/films/1426

Coyle out tomorrow; booklet has a rather astounding 1973 Rolling Stone profile of Bob on the set.

Read this on 'Shadowplay' about Mitchum.

“On 'The RKO Story' there’s a teriffic anecdote from Robert Mitchum about the shooting of ['Angel Face']. There was a scene where he was required to slap Jean Simmons. Otto kept asking for take after take, and Mitchum quickly surmised that Otto liked to watch Jean getting slapped. So he turned the tables and slapped Otto. There were no further retakes.”

Still haven't jumped on the Eddie Coyle bandwagon.

I had forgotten that he does the Boston accent in it; only slips a couple times, to my ears. They changed the pivotal snitch from the book, tho.

Steven Keats is really good (his film debut) as a gunrunner named Jackie Brown (obv Tarantino a fan).

i forgot how many great movies he is in.

"i like thye part in "out of the past" where douglas asks if mitchum wants a smoke, and mitchum holds up his lit cigarette and says, "smoking.""

-- this is still one of the great lines ever.

watched Out of the Past last week, as i'm stumbling through a Noir phase, terrific movie.

Read this on 'Shadowplay' about Mitchum.

“On 'The RKO Story' there’s a teriffic anecdote from Robert Mitchum about the shooting of ['Angel Face']. There was a scene where he was required to slap Jean Simmons. Otto kept asking for take after take, and Mitchum quickly surmised that Otto liked to watch Jean getting slapped. So he turned the tables and slapped Otto. There were no further retakes.”

― James Morrison, Monday, May 18, 2009 Bookmark

They showed the RKO story about two months ago on BBC Four. Jean was also interviewed about it. Otto was a bloody creep.

Mitchum was one of the more fascinating interviewees (one of quite a few actually, really interesting to see former stars of stage and screen being interviewed about things they did when they had nothing in particular to promote). Very amusing when he was asked about 'auteurs' and the like. Didn't sound like he gave a shit about anything AT ALL. A biog and box set might need to set me straight one of these day.

I thought this was revived at first because Channel Four had been running one Mitchum film a day this week. Taped one Western from '47 which I'll see over the bank Holiday.

And, as am says, lots of great movies -- happened to catch a screening of Where Danger Lives, a noir type with Mitchum having it act as semi-conscious for much of it

last night I saw Wellman's Track of the Cat, which Bob isn't in all that much after the first half hour, playing a nasty eldest brother on a ranch. Really weird Western fsmily melodrama, with a menacing offscreen jaguar but mostly a lotta neo-Steinbeck/O'Neill sturm und drang, and a big part for Beulah Bondi as the grim prayerful matriarch.

another gabbneb near-miss for you - i wanted to see the mt rainier shooting

Love the story in Baby, I Don't Care, about when Mitchum and his brother headed West to live with their sister in LA. On this trip, it was the brother who was caught by a railroad bull and put on a chain gang. When the brother finally arrived, dirty and disheveled, Mitchum, who was lying in the tub, soaking in a bubble bath, smoking a cigar and reading Hollywood Confidential, turned to him and said "What kept you?"

Watched Angel Face the other night. Mitchum looked like he was blowing bongs throughout the whole movie. Nice ending and no sympathetic characters (except for Mitchums girlfriend).

just saw eddie coyle for the first time. pretty interesting movie. terrible score, like everyone says, but otherwise i dug it

There was a scene where he was required to slap Jean Simmons

In the movie Simmons is distraught and Mitchum, who has never met Simmons before, slaps her because it's the prescribed way to stop hysteria. Love how Mitchum makes Simmons feel guilty for slapping him back.

at that point Mitchum had been in the movie maybe two minutes and his first act is to roughly grab a crying woman and slap her wtf

excerpt of the RS piece in the Coyle Criterion:

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1148

<3 mitchum

Wise up, cranapple.

what's the thoughts on Farewell, My Lovely ? will be watching soon.

The Lusty Men - Mitchum's best movie? Life in the rodeo. Directed by Nick Ray.

this was great -- it was on TCM this morning. perfect mitchum typecasting as an aging sleaze/has-been. i was rooting for the wife though; she was the only one with the good sense to know that rodeo riding is not a safe or sustainable way to make a living. SMH at the men.

saw Friends of Eddie Coyle a few weeks back. pretty good altho kinda predictable, in a very bleak way

Friends of Eddie Coyle is great in a period 70s kind of way. Quite entertaining too.

I tend to like these low-key 70s action capes - Taking of Pelham, Charlie Varrick, etc.

capers

"Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar … I`m always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.”

“These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation; in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.”

^^My new facebook status.

I enjoyed sauntering around Savannah 2 weeks ago in my hat and saying "counselor" a lot

Those quotes = genius! Where are they from?

Looks like somebody put them up at imdb, among other places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2KzfMDtUq4

Bruce Weber working on a doc, showed 30 mins in NYC the other night:

What he showed of “Nice Girls Don’t Stay for Breakfast” (the title comes from a smoky 1960s ballad recorded by Julie London) certainly bore at least a surface resemblance to “Let’s Get Lost,” with its sometimes grainy black and white cinematography and its juxtaposition of the aging but still magnetic Mitchum with images of the young, beautiful, hypnotic screen star. The older Mitchum appeared to be less of a presence in the film than the gaunt, wasted Baker was in “Let’s Get Lost” — Mitchum, a “reluctant star” in Mr. Weber’s words, was also a somewhat reluctant interview subject — and the whirl of images included proportionally more scenes from his films, including the famous (“Night of the Hunter”) and the obscure (“Home From the Hill,” “Girl Rush”).

Mr. Weber’s focus on seduction as practiced by sensitive bad boys in the Baker and Mitchum mold was highlighted in a funny and slightly unsettling scene of the elder Mitchum working his game on the actress Frances Fisher, gazing at her in a restaurant booth and purring: “Forgive me for staring at you. I’m just studying your attitude.” Later a famous shot from “Night of the Hunter,” of the 4-year-old Pearl sitting in the lap of Mitchum’s charismatic, psychopathic preacher, cuts to Ms. Fisher in the booth, snuggling a little closer to Mitchum.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/a-short-sneak-peek-at-a-new-robert-mitchum-documentary/

The Lusty Men coming to Warner Archive

TCM is running Mitchum movies all day tomorrow.

After catching Angel Face recently, I finally read Baby, I Don't Care -- what an amazing book, so many mind-blowing stories.

Brattle in Cambridge MA running a centennial tribute

http://www.brattlefilm.org/category/calendar-2/repertory-series/robert-mitchum-centennial-tribute/

TCM is running Mitchum movies all day tomorrow.

After catching /Angel Face/ recently, I finally read /Baby, I Don't Care/ -- what an amazing book, so many mind-blowing stories.

24-film retro at the NYFF; I've been pining to see The Wonderful Country for awhile now...

https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2017/daily/robert-mitchum-retrospective-set-for-nyff55/

Mitchum—whose Captain Hunnicutt was intended for Clark Gable—got along very well with Minnelli (they’d worked together a decade earlier on Undercurrent), but less well with his younger co-star George Peppard, who asked Mitchum if he’d studied the Stanislavsky Method. “No,” said Mitchum, “but I’ve studied the Smirnoff Method.”

5 films this weekend in LA

http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/tough-guys-finish-first-a-robert-mitchum-centennial

looks like we're getting a few at the Castro next week too - Thunder Road, Friends of Eddie Coyle (personal fave), Cape Fear, and Night of the Hunter

I don't appear to have ever linked my Coyle review so

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-friends-of-eddie-coyle

think about this a lot

Robert Mitchum giving perfect answers to terrible questions pic.twitter.com/PfnQxfOfOx

— Pierre Étaixxxtacion (@NoChorus) November 11, 2016

the best

I have no memory of this... from Wiki

In 1987, Mitchum was the guest-host on Saturday Night Live, where he played private eye Philip Marlowe for the last time in the parody sketch, "Death Be Not Deadly". The show ran a short comedy film he made (written and directed by his daughter, Trina) called Out of Gas, a mock sequel to Out of the Past. (Jane Greer reprised her role from the original film.)

100 BOB 100

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/177952/Out-of-the-Past-Movie-Clip-I-m-Not-Smart-Anymore.html

great Coyle review, Morbs, though I think you're a bit too hard on Jackie Brown's pimpin' ride.

I have no memory of this... from Wiki

/In 1987, Mitchum was the guest-host on Saturday Night Live, where he played private eye Philip Marlowe for the last time in the parody sketch, "Death Be Not Deadly". The show ran a short comedy film he made (written and directed by his daughter, Trina) called Out of Gas, a mock sequel to Out of the Past. (Jane Greer reprised her role from the original film.)/

Well here's this from his opening monologue at least

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/robert-mitchum-monologue/n9636?snl=1

this bio by Server is pretty incredible but I have to say I wasn't expecting so many stories about Bob pissing on things/people.