jeff bridges poll!

I immediately thought Tender Mercies II when I saw the preview to Crazy Heart and lo and behold Robert Duvall is in the movie!

great charlie rose interview right now

wow, he just took it there. started talking about fear and shit. color me impressed.

This is a bit less Horton Foote-somber than Tender Mercies.

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..."

^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.

xpost YES!

^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

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.

doin a q&a at the walter reade, JB fans

read that as duane reade, didnt think twice

maybe he'll do it as Duane

http://ticketing.filmlinc.com/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=18639

Cool interview with him here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/12/14

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.

Cutter and Bone (orig title) is one of his best films.

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.

Obviously I could just rent it now and find out for myself but I'm trying to get some anticipation going.

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.

Cheers. Excited about both but expecting more from Cutter's Way now.

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.

Totally disagree about the music.

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.

is it better than tender mercies? the new one. payday and tender mercies being my standard for washed-up county singer pics.

Tender Mercies is superior.

My thoughts.

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.

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.

It's great camp though -- that Aztec (Inca?) pyramid?

it's okay camp. not great camp. not howlingly bad. just...bad.

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.

WHO SMELLS LIKE A DONKEY.

hung like one too from what i hear

It's one of the ten best American non-animated films of the year, even WITH Colin Farrell.

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.

http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/images/catalog/detail/RS231-RS.jpg

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.

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

cutter's way is a weird little movie

so odd that cutter is the dad from home alone

John Heard gets most of the acclaim, but Bridges is really terrific.

I hear Home Alone is a weird little giant piece o shit

Glad to have rented Cutter's Way because of this thread, though I don't love it. Feels like a New Orleans movie and a '70s movie even though it's set in Santa Barbara and came out in '81. Too scripty, and the last couple lines are absurd, but great performances go a long way.

"too scripty"

Didn't care much for Cutter's Way either, which I watched for the first time a few months ago. Didn't it have some kind of troubled history in getting a release?

From wiki:

United Artists did not like the ambiguity in what was then titled Cutter and Bone. When U.A. executives David Field and Claire Townsend, the film's biggest supporters, left for 20th Century Fox, the studio felt that they would get no credit if the film succeeded and no responsibility if it failed and so there was no interest in it. Cutter and Bone became a victim of internal politics. U.A. senior domestic sales and marketing vice president Jerry Esbin saw the film and decided that it did not have any commercial possibilities. Passer did not see his film with a paying audience until the Houston International Film Festival many weeks later. He said in an interview, "They didn't do any research. I was supposed to have two previews with a paying audience. It was in my contract."

United Artists spent a meager $63,000 on promotion for the film's release in New York City, New York, in late March 1981. There all three daily papers and the three major network critics gave Cutter and Bone negative reviews. Vincent Canby in The New York Times wrote, "It's the sort of picture that never wants to concede what it's about. It is, however, enchanted by the sound of its own dialogue, which is vivid without being informative or even amusing on any level." The studio was so shocked by the negative reviews that it planned to pull the film after only a week.Unbeknownst to them, the next week Richard Schickel in Time, David Ansen in Newsweek, and New York City's weekly newspapers would write glowing reviews. Ansen wrote, "Under Passer's sensitive direction, Heard gives his best film performance: he's funny and abrasive and mad, but you see the self-awareness eating him up inside."

The positive reviews prompted United Artists to give Cutter and Bone to its United Artists Classics division, whch changed the film's title to Cutter's Way (thinking that the original title would be mistaken by audiences for a comedy about surgeons) and entered it into a number of film festivals. At Houston, Texas' Third International Film Festival it won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (John Heard). A week later, it was given the closing feature slot at the Seattle International Film Festival. With a new ad campaign, Cutter's Way reopened in the summer of 1981 in Seattle, Washington; Los Angeles, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and New York City, New York. Passer was bitter about the experience, commenting in an interview, "You can assassinate movies as you can assassinate people. I think UA murdered the film. Or at least they tried to murder it."

Yay for Houston!

On a related note, steven Bach mentioned in Final Cut (the Heaven's Gate book) that CW was one of the first films U.A. mother henned after the Cimino fiasco (insisting on daily screenings of the rushes, constant reports from the set etc.)

Bridges >>>> Heard in Cutter's Way

Truthfully, Heard was what bothered me most in Cutter's Way--and usually I like him.

Feel sorry for anybody who tried to get a film made in the aftermath of Heaven's Gate.

Love him.

Watched Crazy Heart recently which wasn't very good overall but he was excellent.

How did Thunderbolt and Lightfoot not get a single vote?

nowhere as bad as max leaving off Hearts of the West and Rancho Deluxe