the work of Tony Gilroy

russell crowe's fatness was incredibly distracting

His floppy bangs too!

I couldn't finish the Brit series.

God I need to see Devil's Advocate again

oh man goole you are missing out

i agree w/ tam about the original sop miniseries. overrated!!!

I feel like Keanu Reeves in the movie "Devil's Advocate"
Confused but blessed with extravagance

Pitbull, "Blood Is Thicker Than Water"

i really enjoy michael clayton. it's a lark, but it's a /smart/ lark, and kind of feels like something milos forman wd do, if he were working today

I'm just gonna say ouch for Milos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Munich_%28film%29

What the fuck is going on here

oh man goole you are missing out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHRUA9fOeY

I wonder whatever happened to that lady. She did that and then the one where Joe Pesci was a bum at Harvard (I think she was in that at least)and then I can't remember ever seeing her again. Haven't seen DBS in years either but iirc he was abducted by aliens.

I think she was on One Tree Hill

moira kelly was on the west wing for a minute and then she was on one tree hill.

she had a very abrasive screen presence

haha she got kicked off the west wing and they never explained what happened to her character

what ever happened to db sweeney? he was dreamy.

hah, i mean if milos were starting today.

x-post YES! She really did. She was sort of scary.

Never saw OTH

DB Sweeney was dreamy, it's true.

d.b. sweeney was the voice of the dinosaur in the disney movie "dinosaurs"

That Cutting Edge clip feels like some alternate reality John Cusack-Winona Ryder pairing

My sister loved The Cutting Edge. And Newsies.

i loved both those movies when i was a kid. i think it is kind of a girl thing.

Never actually saw The C Edge but I may still know most of the words to all the Newsies song. I LOVED that movie because, well, young Christian Bale.

Yup. Sis also loved Swing Kids. Since none of these movies were box office hits, how the hell did she learn about them? Was there a Bale network on CompuServe?

i was going to mention swing kids. christian bale and robert sean leonard. definitely part of the preteen girl hot boy movie canon.

x-post lol horseshoe :D

lol idk but I'm pretty sure I saw Swing Kids the weekend it opened. Christian Bale AND Robert Sean Leonard. IN SUITS. C'mon. I found a notebook from around then while I was cleaning out my parents' house and it had "Swing Kids" doodled in script on the inside. *hangs head in shame* I mean, I guess it could have been worse. I could have written "Swing Heil! Swing Heil!".

it was such a phenomenon! my friends and i had the soundtrack! what was that even about?

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Swing heil!

i definitely thought it had gravitas because kenneth branagh played a nazi

^^ great hair btw

sorry this is not about tony gilroy

Bale, not Branagh. Maybe Branagh too.

Branagh wasn't even in the credits!

Oh i totally had the soundtrack and listend to it ALL THE TIME and may have cut bits out of the liner notes and tacked them on my bedroom walls *whistles*.

re their hair

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Oh god he's so cute.

look i think i remember swing kids accurately, alfred. barbara hershey plays robert sean leonard's mom and kenneth branagh is the nazi who seduces her. they're in it for like five seconds.

i had no idea that Swing Kids even existed. and Thomas Carter directed it!

i see Frank Whaley was in it... i hate that guy :[

No I know he's in it – he just got no screen credit.

Shocked and angry, Peter shouts, "You're turning into a Nazi!" to which Thomas bluntly responds, "So what if I am?". Arvid suddenly realizes that there is no future for him in Germany and no hope of escape. He goes home and commits suicide in the bathtub, slitting his wrists with a broken record.

omg frank whaley was so tragic in it! this movie was responsible for me learning who django reinhardt was btw and i will forever associate him with frank whaley.

Devastated, Thomas drowns himself in a water-filled tuba

I remember having like 1st generation German guilt for finding Bale so hot in that movie too and making sure to emphasize to myself that I found him hottest before he became a Nazi.

Arvid! They cut off his fingers!

that movie is all about feeling guilty for finding christian bale as a hitler youth hot.

xp i know! arvid!

Remember when RSL had to deliver that lady's husband's ashes to her. IT WAS SO SAD!

omg

LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDY-CNPhV8

ahahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

so embarrassing

swing heil sweet chariot

my friends and i also watched the shit out of a room with a view: rupert graves naked iirc

xp yes, amy locane was v v pretty iirc

do not remember this movie at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-KEeWtHg3k

Since none of these movies were box office hits, how the hell did she learn about them?

Box office disappointments still get ads on TV, especially stations like MTV and Nickelodeon.

"You're quite a creepy person, aren't you?"

I don't get the "Sullivan's Travels" ref, Phil, because Albee is way funnier than LvT or satanic Al Pacino in this cockeyed caravan.

it's like that scene where greenberg screams for them to put rio back on except this time the party isn't at greenberg's house

x-posts - I do remember Amy Locane. Iirc she's Depp's preppy love interest in Cry Baby.

I now have one of the songs off the Swing Kids sndtrk stuck in my head. WHY DO I REMEMBER THE FREKIN' SONGS?! argh.

oh god Extreme Measures Gene Hackman what were you thinking? iirc there are C.H.U.D.s in it at some point??

I liked Bourne Ultimatum a whole lot, but that's about it on this list, of the ones I've seen. Would love to love Michael Clayton, but that one and Dolores C. seemed too enamored of their lugubriousness.

I really enjoyed this interview with Gilroy, though:
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt071010tony_gilroy

It was a good day to update the Albee thread while you guys are preoccupied with giants like Tony Gilroy, Lars von Trier, and whoever the fuck made Swing Kids.

I read them all, you choad, AND reactivated the Visconti thread. Von Trier isn't much better than Gilroy, by the way.

I can't think of a single white female around my age (28-32ish) who wasn't obsessed with Swing Kids (or isn't still obsessed).

the answer is michael clayton

otm

morbs u should check it out imo

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

at first I thought Tony Gilroy was the guy who made American History X

That was Edward Norton iirc

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

lol who voted for the cutting edge?

been reading his dad's book, seems like a good guy

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