"We rob banks": A thread for Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

omg, she's great in a buncha stuff: This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man, etc.

but I don't know what else she did.

Drank like a fish.

Also great in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "This Sporting Life"

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does Arthur Penn have his own thread? Now there's a man with made his share of dross. Seeing Targets with my parents is one of my earliest childhood memories.

But Targets was Bogdanovich!

No – Target singular, starring Hackman and Matt Dillon.

Night Moves was probably Penn's last mildly interesting movie.

Movie holds up pretty well, though in a lot of ways it's sort of hard to see what all the fuss was about ...

i.e. to my taste, it doesn't really actually do all that much glamorizing; they're actually portrayed as really low-stakes criminals

Aside from the true-love last glance, I was essentially basing the glamorizing on this:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ozarkgal/bonnie-clyde.JPG

not their brains or ambition.

Ever see Penn's Mickey One, which he made with Beatty 2 years prior? I remember it as more self-consciously nouvelle vaguey than B&C. It's being revived in a new print next month at MoMA, so I guess a DVD might follow.

oh, some folx think The Missouri Breaks is interesting, but I still haven't seen it.

Oh yeah, I was thinking about Rex Harrison's second (I think) wife, Kay Kendall. In addition to those Angry Young Man movies, I vaguely remember Rachel Roberts being on American TV as one of those slightly annoying British housekeeper/nanny types. IMDB informs me that I am thinking of The Tony Randall Show.

I recall her being kinda great on that

A fun, readable blend of gossip (omg, Rex Harrison! and his wife!! Mike Nichols and Elaine May duking it out live on stage!), the dying travails of the old studio system, the intricacies of distribution, and all the weird stuff that goes on w/r/t getting a movie made (like options on scripts and how the $$ gets scraped together, etc etc). Major subplots of the blatant bigotry and racism of the times (also prudishness) and the death of the Production Code.

Jaq OTM. Less hungup on nostalgia than Peter Biskind's book on the seventies generation. The bits dealing with Spencer Tracy's failing health and the awful crossroads in which Sidney Poitier found himself are worth a read.

Dede Allen, editor, dies at 86.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dede-allen18-2010apr18,0,1409759,full.story

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/04/the_great_dede.php

rip.

i think this movie is kind of uneven, but the opening sequence is fucking incredible, and 85% of it is the editing.

She did The Hustler too. RIP

damn, rip indeed.

Arthur Penn RIP.

probably deserves his own thread. besides b&c and little big man, i forgot that he made penn and teller get killed, which is pretty great.

Hackman is sure good in this. And, yes, the editing is the star here.

The soundtrack contributes so much to the mood of this film it's ridic.

what's with the weird colour in that bit where they meet her ma?

Kevin Costner Is...Ranger Frank Hammer

Michael J Pollard is the first of the 5 principal actors to die.

RIP

Great in Star Trek too

Always think of this scene when I see a good parking spot open up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1N5TcA5to

This is great too, the closest they got to having the threesome scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A61nJCd8hvc

"Coo-pey"

the very worst thing about the script is that Clyde regains his erectile function just before they die.

it looks great throughout, tho the oldskool DP grumbled about Penn's style. (DP then won Oscar)

Dede Allen credited her assistant with handling most of the final scene.

Reading the BFI book (just finished the one for Sweet Smell of Success). Never knew that Arthur Penn directed one-third of the Nixon-Kennedy debates. (They had four, so I'm not sure what that means--maybe he got fired partway through one of them.)