Jodie Foster: POX

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/