Final Scene of Day of the Dolphin, so, uh, spoiler alert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Mx_c3duF0
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KmJZs5I4r8
― buzza, Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
dont sleep on the rescuers down under yall
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
no real surprises here, yes?
― der Honigdachs kümmert sich nicht ... das ist ihm egal! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Mr. President (TV series) (1987–1988) - President Samuel Arthur Tresch
this was so weird
― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
as lurid as hardcoreis, its really really fun imo. obv, the gag for a lot of it is gawk @ scott's character, fish out of water, etc but it's really played naturally (as much as possible) & 2 drive the plot. that whole scene where he poses as the casting director is classic as hell
these are good nuggets from imdb -
George C. Scott and director Paul Schrader did not get along, so much so that at one point Scott refused to come out of his trailer and threatened to quit the film. Scott only agreed to come out after forcing Schrader to promise that he would never direct again (obviously, Schrader went back on his promise).
Paul Schrader originally had Scott's character discover that his daughter was been killed in a totally unrelated car crash, at which point he simply goes back home. He changed it to Scott finding her against his better judgment.
was been killed
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
i liked Petulia. hadnt known going in that the DP was Nic Roeg. flash forwards! i feel like i need to watch it again, actually, maybe after a few months.
it was amazing to me the # of locations/set-ups --srsly like a seasons worth of arrested development. a lot, maybe most, that dont repeat. must've taken forever! there was a short making-of on the dvd but id be interested to know a lot more info
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
The Hospital feels very much like Network in miniature--Chayefsky really had a thing about black radicals, didn't he? I liked it just about as much, meaning not a great deal. The atmospherics are good, and it would make a good double-bill with Frederic Wiseman's Hospital from a year earlier. (Where Chayefsky got the idea? There were other hospital films around too--Such Good Friends, The Doctors, etc.) Scott looks exactly like his character ought to look, but this is probably where he begins to cross the line into self-caricature (assuming he's good in Patton, which I haven't seen for ages). His big diatribe when he's in his office with Diana Rigg is too much by half. It's good that she points out to him that he's in love with the sound of his own voice, but she means the character, and it's better directed at the actor. (The scene made me think of Jack Lemmon's don't-sell-me-America monologue in Save the Tiger.) The rest of the time, he grimaces a lot while summarizing plot points: "You mean to tell me..." As always, enjoyed spotting various character actors.
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 March 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Chayefsky really had a thing about black radicals, didn't he?
and youth, and women... he was a vile man.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
A familiar New York intellectual except he wasn't invited to the Trilling, McCarthy, Mailer, Kazin, etc parties.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 March 2014 11:49 (ten years ago) link
p cool tcm showed a 'portrait of an actor' on him which was filmed while he was on the set of 'the last run', they compare him to bogart several times which….idk
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
its here -- 156 views !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnnPYhHNeE
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Have always meant to check out a few episodes of East Side/West Side, which co-starred Cicely Tyson.
Well worth checking out. If anything, go track down the episode where James Earl Jones plays a father whose child is killed by a rat.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:25 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
interesting! yea I am reading the bk 'david Susskind: a televised life' & this is discussed somewhat in depth. ep is called "Who Do You Kill?" im a have to check it out
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 December 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
so the Quad in NYC is showing The Savage Is Loose, best described as Scott's "self-distributed incest movie." Alec Baldwin will be discussing it afterward with George's son Campbell!
http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/9328-WE-WANT-OUR-DVD!-THE-SAVAGE-IS-LOOSE-1974-STARRING-GEORGE-C.-SCOTT-AND-TRISH-VAN-DEVERE.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
i'd never heard of the savage is loose before - it sounds utterly deranged
In 1902, John (Scott), his much younger wife Maida (Scott's real-life wife, Trish Van Devere) and their infant son David (played by both Lee Montgomery and John David Carson) are the only survivors of a ship that crashes into the rocky beach of an uncharted island during a violent storm. By 1912, David, now a seemingly happy 12-year-old boy, begins to enter puberty. By the time he is 17, David is consumed by lust for his mother, which drives a wedge between him and his father to the point where they hunt each other down for the affections of the only woman on the island.
and the tagline was 'no woman is an island... forever' which is memorably awful
have you seen it before, morbs?
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
no, i remember local TV ads for it in '74, but for some reason didn't ask Dad to take me.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
really doesn't seem like family entertainment, that's for sure
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
desert island dicks
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
incest-fantasy island
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
swiss family fuckin'-son
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
to steal a later Woody Allen title, Oedipus Wrecks
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
nice
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
I'm going tonight to The Savage Is Loose, I'll be v curious to gauge its batshittery AND to hear Baldwin's approach in interviewing Campbell Scott.
https://quadcinema.com/film/the-savage-is-loose/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
p sure I have seen it, don't recall it being too great
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
I expect few in attendance are expecting it to be great. If I need to see it once, might as well be in a theater as it's 2.35:1 ratio.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
V Canby in '74:
A heavily portentous line spoken early in the film by the son (played as an adolescent by Lee H. Montgomery) points the way: "Mother, when I grow up, can we get married?"
Trouble erupts 10 years later when the son, now played by John David Carlson, has started to court his mother in earnest. He leaves orchids by her coconut-shell soup bowl and asks pointed questions on the order of: "Who was Cain's wife?" When Mom and Dad make love, he likes to peek.
Says Mom to Dad in the semi-privacy of their bamboo-walled bedroom: "We've got a lusting male with no outlet." That is, no *satisfactory* outlet. Mom has found that the boy has constructed a curious substitute woman, apparently out of the all-purpose coconut shells, in a jungle hideaway.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link