RIP Robin Williams

one hour photo is amazing, i love movies that make me squirm in that way. not gore, but deep creep. one of the most profoundly disturbing movies i've ever seen. love it.

agree.

Just watched The Fisher King again, maybe for the first time since its original run. Wow, I forgot just how Gilliam-y it is, to the extent I can't believe it was a hit. ( was it?) Anyway, performances are so good all around. Forgot so much of this, from the train station waltz to Williams going the Full Robin.

I saw it in rep a few years ago as part of a Jeff Bridges series, and I don't think most us were ready to see Williams' Wang up on the big screen.

Richard LaGravenese wrote it, and he's good at unexpected and oddly timed exchanges b/w characters. The stuff involving Plummer-Williams-Ruehl-Bridges is terrific. The rest is too Gilliam-y, a director I don't much like.

it's not a real movie thread till someone points out that pauline kael didn't like some movies

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Since the seal's been broken, she liked both The Best of Times and The Survivors. Do I need to see these?

the former? yes

The latter? Yes.

When Robin Williams was in Seattle filming World's Greatest Dad, he crashed a comedy night at Rebar: http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/robin_williams_crashes_laff_hole

He was also a regular donor to the West Seattle Food Bank: http://westseattleblog.com/2014/08/remembering-robin-williams-his-west-seattle-food-bank-benefits-also-how-to-get-help-if-you-need-it/

The stuff involving Plummer-Williams-Ruehl-Bridges is terrific.

isn't this the entire cast

aside from whoever plays the burning equestrian avatar of psychosis

I saw Toys at the cinema. I think I remember really liking it at the time, tempted to rescreen.

Am guessing I would swiftly regret it tho.

now wondering how come he never played a Burton batman villain

was he not in line to play the riddler at some point? before carey?

One Hour Photo is utter crap bar Williams' performance btw

The stuff involving Plummer-Williams-Ruehl-Bridges is terrific.

isn't this the entire cast

Some random familiar faces in this, too, like David Hyde Pierce and Tom Waits. But yeah, the four person axis is pretty much everybody and all the speaking roles, save Michael Jeter, who is also pretty intense in this.

it's just outrageously corny and hence untruthful

I meant the four of'em together, which takes almost an hour to happen.

xpost That's one of the many things so strange about the movie. Like I said, it was way more Gilliam-y than I remembered, but the story did not necessarily call for the Gilliam touch. So there are these weird glimmers of fantasy and ... not truth, interspersed with these moments of raw emotion. Very awkward, precarious mix. I mean, jeez, there is a scene where Robin Williams' wife's brains are blown out all over his face.

i saw a similar brains-blowing scene the other night in Raul Ruiz's City of Pirates, a much funnier film

anyway, which of RW's standup lines have been repeated most often? I think "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money."

God fucked up and creating the platypus.

Or was that George Carlin.

Another wrinkle:

Robin Williams Had Early Parkinson's, Wife Says

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/robin-williams-death/robin-williams-had-early-parkinsons-wife-says-n180826

Wau

:(

i wondered whether health news had inspired this

the guy was already walking on a wire when he COULD be constantly active

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

anyway, which of RW's standup lines have been repeated most often?

Among Reagan-era early teens, the "heat-seeking moisture missile" one.

http://petapixel.com/2014/08/14/photographer-photographs-two-mimes-1974-realizes-35-years-later-one-robin-williams/

awesome

I rescreened The Best of Times last night. Still holds up. I forgot the Under Fire team of Roger Spottiswoode and Ron Shelton directed and wrote it, which explains how well drawn the townspeople are.

I once dated someone who had a family connection to Taft, CA where The Best Of Times was filmed. Underrated movie and does get a little bit of the town's feel
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/taft-has-special-connection-to-robin-williams-williams-filmed-one-of-his-earlier-films-there-081214

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LA4gJeCio

^if you get the Smith Barney joke you're at least 45

don't be so optimistic

hey at least I didn't post the Leo Gorcey/Boys in the Band sketch

i never thought i'd have any good will for nikki sixx

hey at least I didn't post the Leo Gorcey/Boys in the Band sketch

A friend reminded me of this insanity today.

is the joke that houseman was the pitchman for smith barney

wow how droll

i never thought i'd have any good will for nikki sixx

Tommy Lee called him the kindest man he ever met.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuzvFhsIgAErJxL.jpg

this is my favorite recent robin williams movie moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4n_lKjvwU

is that worth seeing? I haven't seen a Bobcat movie since Shakes the Clown (which tbf is one of my favorite movies ever)

yes, it's worth seeing

poly, I didn't claim it was droll, i claimed it was OLD

why was John Houseman famous anyway? I never saw him in anything but commercials

After a lifetime mostly behind the scenes as a producer, won an Oscar for playing imperious law professor in '74, did the same shtick for the rest of his life in movies and commercials.

it can't be old because i'm not old and i remember those commercials

i am young and vibrant

(much to the consternation of his old collaborator Orson Welles, who was competing with him for ad work) xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63gpEtgrDq0

he was also Rick Schroeder's grandpa on "Silver Spoons"