Jodie Foster: POX

Yes, I was smitten with her for years and years but she hasn't done much of note in the last decade and a bit, career-wise.

"The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan" (1972) TV Series (voice) .... Anne Chan

had no idea.

Contact was okay until the end. The end was awful.

I liked Panic Room, but I don't think her involvement made it any better/worse than it would have been with anyone else similar. Much the same as most of the rest of her films, really.

We just saw Inside Man in the most uncomfortable theater in the world. People, if you're wondering why you can't fill the seats, TRY SITTING IN THEM YOURSELVES.
Great movie, though.

I find J.F's face, with her fine bones and tense jaw, so totally watchable, and Sigourney Weaver's not. Strange, because they have a similar affect. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Alien movies, so it's not across-the-board Sigourney-hate. And there's that one where she's the agoraphobic profiler, and Harry Connick is EVIL. So scary!
Off-topic. I'm sure there's a Sigourney thread. SORRY, hall-monitors!

Now I think I'd like to see Holly Hunter and Jodie Foster team up to FIGHT CRIME, and Sigourney Weaver could be their cigar-chomping, waistcoat-wearing, rule-layin'-down, no-shit-takin' superior.

Paper Moon
The Bad News Bears
Nickelodeon
International Velvet
Little Darlings

after Little Darlings she just went...poof! (she did start raising a family in the 80's though)

The Pinballs
The End
Summer Of My German Soldier
Little Darlings
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
White Dog
Only When I Laugh
The Pirate Movie
Her role as "Buddy" on Family

so so close...

Over The Edge (My favorite movie of all time)
Little Darlings
My Bodyguard
Tex
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
Drugstore Cowboy
To Die For
Wild Things
Beautiful Girls

Matt & Jodie should really get together for something.

Bugsy Malone
Skatetown U.S.A.
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Foxes
Stoned
All The Kids Do It (Directed by Henry Winkler)
Senior Trip (I'm actually thinking about writing a short limited-edition chapbook about this film)
Zapped

this was perfection in Raising Arizona, but, yeah, it can be inadvertently hilarious in more serious roles where she ends up sounding like a cross between Bugs Bunny and the Original Cast Recording of Lil' Abner.

Swing Shift
Raising Arizona
Broadcast News
Miss Firecracker
Once Around
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Copycat
Home For The Holidays
Crash
Thirteen

-- Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyza...), April 8th, 2006. (allyzay) (later) (link)

can i put this on my resume? i feel it needs that boost that "BALLS AWARD" would bring

Plus she came across as a humour-free zone, which put me off her completely.

is it the pyschotic as loveable hero, the new york in forever decay of the 70s, the almost explicit misogyny, the excuse to enjoy watching women as victims, or something else?

Paul Schrader POX:

Hardcore
Taxi Driver (screenplay)
Blue Collar
American Gigolo
Raging Bull (screenplay)
Cat People
Mishima
The Mosquito Coast (screenplay)
Light Of Day
Affliction

She was awesome in this.

Yes, this was great!

http://salonmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/mp3s/2006/may/foster.mp3

i've never seen the movie, but i recently picked up the soundtrack for foxes, and boy oh boy, she was a fox.

Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master's degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates.

".....and my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and all the bliss." - Jodie Foster, concluding her thanks at Tuesday's 16th Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast.

I just found out from wikipedia that her two kids get to have chanukah AND xmas. JACKPOT!

Hopefully not more than one pair of tix to Ladyfest

has she ever done a public coming out thing? Her and Lily Tomlin are the two who always struck me as the most "out" lesbians without ever actually comin out

well, that's what my first post today deals with... This statement is considered as far "out" as JF has been.

Tomlin is forthright these days about herself in interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TZAhPR2Zs

so great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrW_hAFn9jc

I laffed when I read that critic Michael Sicinski called her character in Carnage "a fascist Amy Goodman."

It's an annoying performance, and likely not in ways she intended.

rewatching Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore yesterday, her 12yo guitar-class tomboy Audrey aka Doris is quite amazing. "Wee-ird."

so Freaky Friday... given that the field hockey game coached by Kaye Ballard and Ruth Buzzi is central, I'm amazed this doesn't get more screenings in LGBT spaces. JF is totally a 40-year-old jr high student.

Barbara Harris (RIP) is great hurdling a vaccum hose, coming on to her neighbor crush, and showing decent form as a left batter playing baseball in red flares.

Car chase at the end is endless, but acting carries the day.

I finally sat down with it the other night as well. Really amazing 70s game show-style cast (in addition to Ballard & Buzzi, we get John Astin, Dick Van Patten, Sorrell Booke, Charlene Tilton, and a bunch of "Oh, that guy!" character actors).

From some reason I was really ticked by the scene at Astin's with Foster giving the stinkeye to his glamorous but increasingly frumpy secretary​.

I also rescreened Blues Brothers and was struck by the similarities in the climatic car chases, mainly in regards to smashing up cop cars and the use of landmarks (part of the FF chase goes through the LA River).

Fritz feld (band teacher) popped his mouth! like he had since sound came in.

Harris gave a great slapstick performance, as advertised.

Foster's interview on the Freaky DVD (which seems to date from the FF remake era, 2003) is a little more in-depth than you might expect from Disney. She reminisces at length about all the films she did for them, getting bitten by a lion and falling into the studio toilet.

Also she was still under a binding Disney contract when she auditioned to play Leia in Star Wars (at age 14). Her mom decided to honor it, and the galaxy was never the same.

I haven't seen Feaky Friday, you're making me want to watch it

tot worth it! JF is fine, but she agrees that Harris walked off with the movie. The two of them also sing the opening-titles song.

oh yeah -- in a celebratory baseball scene an 8-year-old boy swats Harris on the butt and yells "ALLLRIIIIGHT!"

The opening credits song plays over a charming cartoon animated in a 70s claustrophobic caricature style.

Had a crush on her at age nine

Taxi Driver
Freaky Friday
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Silence of The Lambs
Contact
Nell
Little Man Tate
Inside Man
The Hotel New Hampshire

Five large film roles in '76! That's nuts.

Bruce LaBruce:

https://www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruces-academy-of-the-underrated-the-little-girl-who-lives-down-the-lane/