STANLEY DONEN, director of MGM musicals and comedies

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What about the legendary crunchy frog bit?

Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link

^ the part where Derek falls through the bar is funny

steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 22 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link

do you mean The Frog & Peach, Redd? They did that on SNL.

Shame we don't have a Cook-Moore thread. Not much Donen content here.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 March 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

Indiscreet is a real drag in the first half, picks up a little when the worm turns

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

fn hate singing in the rain, gene kelly is such a sleazeball

plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 07:04 (five years ago) link

the dancing tho

blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 07:17 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

I'd like to object to the age gap between Audrey and Fred in Funny Face, or the script's cheap shots at Beats and philosophy, but I don't (much). Think pink.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link

Like Silk Stockings the age gap undermines the credibility of the romance but i'm not watching those films for their realism so the casting just functions as another expression of artificiality i.e. yeah it doesn't bother me, i'm watching for the expressive aspects anyway

Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link

i mean, he's the only Astaire they had.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link

You think maybe it would have been better with Adele?

If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link

Nowadays a Hollywood lead in his late 50s would look about half the age Astaire looks in those movies

Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link

coulda Benjamin Buttoned him

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

most pro-union musical?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w4mVycaC_o

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

I wondered during the first 30 minutes of Two for the Road why i had found it so irritating 20+ years ago... then in the last 80 minutes i remembered why. It def has one of the more charming Audrey H performances, and Albert Finney is prickly and tumbledown, but there are way too many cutesy "matched cuts," Eleanor Bron and William Daniels (both normally delightful) are around about twice too long, and while there are some funny lines it lapses into becoming a Statement on Marriage. It's very pretty of course.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link

haven’t rewatched so still on your first impression

Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link


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