Lebowski is excellent, but Fearless is underappreciated, so my vote, if I'd voted, would have gone to it, just as a shout out to a great film and great performance.
― Aimless, Friday, 20 November 2009 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
woulda voted last picture show
― Danny Duberstein (hmmmm), Friday, 20 November 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
really, watch Cutter's Way
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
he could certainly win the Oscar for Crazy Heart, and it wouldn't be a disgrace.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2009 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't believe Arlington Road got no votes!! Amazing movie, amazing performance.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Friday, 4 December 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I CAN believe ILX hasn't seen any JB '70s films except King Kong and Fat City.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
voted cutter's way
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
voted arlington road too, great performance
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
He seems very much like a broken-down Kris Kristofferson in Crazy Heart. He and Maggie Gyllenhaal make the film, and the songs are decent.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 December 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
leaving los nashville
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Saturday, 12 December 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
was i the one person who voted for tucker? i'd like to think i was
i want to see Crazy Heart
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
why is jeff bridges so hot?
I immediately thought Tender Mercies II when I saw the preview to Crazy Heart and lo and behold Robert Duvall is in the movie!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
great charlie rose interview right now
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, he just took it there. started talking about fear and shit. color me impressed.
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a bit less Horton Foote-somber than Tender Mercies.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
c. rose interview was fantastic
<3 so much after they showed the clip of robin williams talking abt bridges and they cut back to him and he's smiling so big and is all "eahhhhhh robin..."
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.
― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (1 year ago)
Oh snap, don't think I've watched FBB this year! So far, anyway. There's still time. It's a good Christmas movie, tbh, so I'd better get right on it.
― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost YES!
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (1 year ago)Oh snap, don't think I've watched FBB this year! So far, anyway. There's still time. It's a good Christmas movie, tbh, so I'd better get right on it.― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark
― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark
Nothing on telly so I watched The Fabulous Baker Boys. It's a good Christmas Day movie, if subdued, slightly melancholy movies fit your Christmas Day. They do me. Whatever happened to Michelle Pfeiffer btw? She's so good in this; so acerbic and deadpan, matches Jeff Bridges scene for scene.
― DavidM, Friday, 25 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
doin a q&a at the walter reade, JB fans
― high-five machine (schlump), Friday, 25 December 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
read that as duane reade, didnt think twice
― max, Friday, 25 December 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe he'll do it as Duane
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 December 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ticketing.filmlinc.com/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=18639
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool interview with him here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/12/14
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 January 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Also: I watch FBB yearly too!
I've recently been alerted to the existence of Cutter's Way (after reading Cutter and Bone) and Winter Kills (by the Onion AV Club book), both of which would sound fantastic even without the involvement of Jeff Bridges. Are they? Whet my appetite. I don't know anything about either of them beyond the plot synopsis.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Cutter and Bone (orig title) is one of his best films.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the mood of the movie? The book's like a wasted, post-Vietnam/Nixon take on the weary, everything-is-corrupt despair of Chandler's Long Goodbye, so I'm hoping it's something along the lines of Altman's film.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Obviously I could just rent it now and find out for myself but I'm trying to get some anticipation going.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Ivan Passer directs rather more conventionally, in the classical style, but the mood is close to what you describe.
Winter Kills is like a slapsticky goof on JFK conspiracy culture.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Cheers. Excited about both but expecting more from Cutter's Way now.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Crazy Heart today...JB is so great. I don't know if anyone else can do washed-up, drunk, belt-undone pathetic AND so handsome you want to beat yourself on the head with your shoe. He kills me. Every time. The music is fantastic.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally disagree about the music.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
is this movie better than payday? i do want to see it. i heart JB. it's amazing how many of his movies i've seen. and a lot of them aren't even in this poll.
― scott seward, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
is it better than tender mercies? the new one. payday and tender mercies being my standard for washed-up county singer pics.
― scott seward, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Tender Mercies is superior.
My thoughts.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)- I think this is one of Clint Eastwood's more under appreciated movies as he plays a bad guy with Jeff Bridges in his partner. This one used to be on TV all the time when I was a kid, so I saw it a bunch. Looking it up, I never realized this was directed by Michael Cimino. It definitely is not as slow as his later movies can be.
Against All Odds (1984) - This is one that was a pretty decent hit at the time that has kind of fell through the floor. It's an 80s noir love triangle between Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Rachel Ward and is a remake of the 40s film Out of the Past. I thought it was alright for such things and really liked it a bunch when I was a kid. It's kind of in the same file as Body Heat making a 40s style noir films in the 80s.
― earlnash, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
body heat is waaaaaaay better than against all odds. as much as i love the cast of against all odds its a nothing movie. and is pretty poorly made/done all around.
― scott seward, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
It's great camp though -- that Aztec (Inca?) pyramid?
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
it's okay camp. not great camp. not howlingly bad. just...bad.
― scott seward, Sunday, 31 January 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
great theme song though.
no one believes a beautiful woman like Gyllenhaal would fuck, much less love, a man as scuzzy — twenty years (at least) her senior! — as Blake.
The flaw in your argument is HE IS PLAYED BY JEFF BRIDGES.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
WHO SMELLS LIKE A DONKEY.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
hung like one too from what i hear
― latebloomer, Sunday, 31 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It's one of the ten best American non-animated films of the year, even WITH Colin Farrell.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 January 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201003/jeff-bridges-dude-abides
Bridges takes us into his office. There's Lloyd again, staring down at us from a painting on the wall. Bridges shows us his desk, the digital tablet where he draws the pictures on his Web site—the message up there now says HOLY SHIT, I'M 60.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/images/catalog/detail/RS231-RS.jpg
― max, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
nah this is pretty bad altho i did lol that a pretty crucial part of the plot involves jeff bridges in drag
i also watched 8 million ways to die recently -- bridges seems really miscast imo & the plot & pacing are a wreck
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
xps Baker Boys is really good. I'm not sure why the director hasn't made a lot of films, but at least he's had a lucrative career as a screenwriter. I'm sure the Harry Potter films alone made him comfortable for life but he also adapted Wonder Boys for Curtis Hanson, which may be my favorite film from either.
Fat City is great too - John Huston's had a very uneven filmmaking career, but that's definitely one of the gems from his later years.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:54 (one month ago) link
I bought Fat City on Blu-Ray a few years ago and never got around to watching it. I have a copy of Cutter's Way, too. That one rules. (It's currently on Tubi.) I should watch Starman. I've always heard really good things about his performance in that.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:52 (one month ago) link
Just about every time I go to Lincoln Center these days, which has been a lot recently, I enjoy seeing the trailer for him and his award.
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
A terrific Bilge Ebri essay:
From the start, there was always something likable about Bridges. With those pleading eyebrows and that broad smile, he has a face that hovers between bafflement and acceptance, which is probably an attitude more relatable to the average viewer than the brooding turmoil of so many leading men of his generation. He moves with ease, but we can sense a halting indecision behind the eyes. Many of Bridges’s best films mine this tension, and part of his appeal as a movie star over the last 50-plus years is rooted in familiarity and openness. When we watch Jeff Bridges, we see, and understand, ourselves a little better.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/jeff-bridges-the-wanderer/
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 22:13 (one month ago) link
*Ebiri