"For the money, for the glory, and for the fun...mostly for the money. ": A Burt Reynolds Memorial Poll

yeah maybe he started out shooting stock film or something — it’s pretty funny once you start to notice it

Watched Sharky’s Machine tonight. Kinda fun, definitely skeezy (though to answer a question from upthread, it’s not nearly as ugly as 52 Pickup; the scene where Burt slaps Rachel Ward around aside, most of the implied depravity is offscreen), but a bit overlong. This is actually time that I’ve managed to not like Charles Durning in a movie, which is a pretty dubious accomplishment. Henry Silva’s sicko villain was interesting, and there are some nicely staged sequences: I especially liked the mid-movie evidence processing montage sequence for it’s efficiency; Burt finds a nice way to avoid an info dump.

*actually THE FIRST time

ha ha! wow

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 10, 2018 1:25 PM (one week ago)

Film noir homage? Maybe Aldrich reused a shot from Kiss Me Deadly?

― Josefa, Monday, September 10, 2018 1:29 PM (one week ago)

saw Vertigo on 70mm yesterday: San Francisco outside Midge's apartment window is a B&W still by day, colour film by night.

Just found out (via the 80s All Over podcast) that Burt turned down Terms of Endearment to do Stroker Ace, home of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bRrhldHyfo

Jeezus.

it's a WFMU show of Burt-related movie music

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81415

At Long Last Love is an "overlooked masterwork," says Richard Brody in this week's New Yorker. Hm.

director's cut showing in NYC along w/ Nickelodeon's

Of interest: https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/at-long-last-the-definitive-version-of-at-long-last-love-131623/

Also fwiw that BluRay Bogs talks about is oop.

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I don't say this often but

Oh for fuck's sake

whut

rmde @ ilx

Found Fuzz in the library. (A Kino Lorber DVD--a couple of days after seeing Kino Lorber's The Image Book. Eclectic company.) It's not nearly as bad as you might fear...but after a promising start, not as good as you want it to be. MASH must have been the most influential film of the early '70s--you could probably list at least a couple of dozen attempts to duplicate all the stuff people liked about it. (The claustrophobic-movie-poster thread is a good place to find such films, including Fuzz.) Fuzz starts with Altman regulars Tom Skerritt and Bert Remsen; also, pre-American Graffiti Charles Martin Smith. Two really weird things: Raquel Welch is barely in it--10 minutes, maybe--and she and Reynolds have virtually no interaction at all, even though they're working out of the same precinct.

Odd trivia: the writer of White Lightning and its sequel Gator once spent two years in a French prison for attempting to smuggle guns to the IRA in Northern Ireland. William W. Norton, who also co-wrote Big Bad Mama.