jeff bridges poll!

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.

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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

the motherfucking LAST PICTURE SHOW got no votes, and it's what put him on the map.

Tangentially related in my mind, I guess because it's the same year as Rancho Deluxe (which I've never seen): I've been trying to find a copy of 92 in the Shade forever. The best that I can do is a $60 VHS on Amazon. Think I'll pass, Amazon.

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The American Success Company aka Success now streaming:

http://williamrichert.com/movies/success/watch-restored-success-streaming-complete-uncut/

"the motherfucking LAST PICTURE SHOW got no votes, and it's what put him on the map."

And forty years later I still don't like it much.

That Bridges documentary on PBS was fun, what I saw of it, especially John Goodman cracking up describing the marmot scene in Lebowski, which somehow makes the scene funnier.

Really wish "Jeff'd" was a show - dude's rolodex must be huge

finally saw American Heart--that is a bleak fucking movie.

i watched King Kong this week which is kind of dumb but Bridges is awesome in it

stick it deserved some votes

sad Bad Company didn't get any - really underrated movie imo

tried watching bridges kong recently, couldn't get more than 15 mins into it - too much grodin

i just pretended charles grodin was actually burt reynolds

like too much Grodin is a possible thing. (see The Heartbreak Kid, the good one)

for some reason i watched kpax last week. and i know now why it was probably omitted from this list

Meanwhile...

JEFF BRIDGES SIGNS WITH BLUE NOTE RECORDS/EMI MUSIC GROUP

OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR AND MUSICIAN IS RECORDING HIS MAJOR-LABEL DEBUT ALBUM WITH OSCAR- AND GRAMMY-AWARD WINNING PRODUCER AND CRAZY HEART COLLABORATOR T-BONE BURNETT

BRIDGES APPEARS ON THE COVER OF ESQUIRE MAGAZINE’S MAY MUSIC ISSUE (SEE BELOW)

April 19th, 2011 — New York, NY — Having earned an Academy Award for “Best Actor” for his portrayal of a grizzled former country music legend in the 2009 film Crazy Heart, actor and musician Jeff Bridges has signed a recording deal with EMI’s Blue Note Records, which will release his major-label debut album in late summer.

Inspired by their collaboration on Crazy Heart, Bridges has chosen to record the album with his long-time friend, the multiple-Grammy Award-winning songwriter, musician, and producer T-Bone Burnett, who is known for his work with Allison Krauss and Robert Plant, Elton John and Leon Russell, and the Grammy-winning soundtracks to O Brother, Where Are Thou? and Walk the Line. Bridges and Burnett met more than 30 years ago when Kris Kristofferson introduced them during the filming of the 1980 motion picture Heaven’s Gate. The relationship has continued over the years as Burnett selected the songs that appeared on the soundtrack to the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, starring Bridges, as well as co-writing several songs for the soundtrack to Crazy Heart, including “The Weary Kind,” which earned Burnett his second Oscar nomination and first win (along with songwriter Ryan Bingham) for “Best Original Song.”

Bridges’ album for Blue Note is an organic extension and culmination of his personal, professional, and now musical friendship with Burnett. As Bridges told the Santa Barbara Independent: “It’s a relationship that’s really inflamed my music.” Burnett has assembled a number of his key repertory players to perform on Bridges’ album, including Keefus Ciancia, Mark Ribot, Dennis Crouch, and Jay Bellerose, and guest vocalists Rosanne Cash, Sam Phillips,
and Benji Hughes. Bridges will contribute several of his own compositions as well as perform material by a collection of world-class songwriters, including Burnett’s Crazy Heart collaborators the late Stephen Bruton and John Goodwin, as well as Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, Tom Waits, and others. More details will be announced in the coming months.

Bridges is fueled by a life-long passion for music, as can be seen on the PBS American Masters program that aired in January 2011 (watch the piece here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jeff-bridges-the-dude-abides/watch-the-full-film/1771/). Next month, the guitar-playing thespian appears on the May cover of Esquire Magazine’s music issue, which hits newsstands on April 26th.

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Boy, is he terrific in American Heart. Wish Edward Furlong was up to the challenge.

Anybody checking out the Jeff Bridges season at the BFI? I'm seeing Fat City tonight.

Yeah!

ha, stephen colbert: "it is relaxing just to look at you"

It's true!

he is p smoking in cutter's way. he looks sorta like michelangelo's david

Took me a week, but I finished Rancho Deluxe. (Music by Jimmy Buffett; I had a pre-cog vision that the Buffett Rule was on its way.) Not good, but if you have a very high tolerance for '70s meandering, not bad either. Wouldn't know how to describe it. After I finished I took a look at the original trailer, wondering how they could possibly try to sell this movie. They didn't have any more of a clue than I would have--the trailer is as puzzling as the film itself. Wish Charlene Dallas had made a few more films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p4NsgH05E&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Jefftro in NYC for max to catch up on (Rancho come n' gone unforch):

http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Film/Jeff-Bridges.aspx

clemenza, if I read "Took me a week to finish a film" again, there will be consequences.

I'm hopeless at home. Unless it's something completely mindless like Disclosure, or maybe a favourite I know by heart, I just can't finish a film in one night.

Hearts of The West is alotta fun.

major Young Jeff vehicle showing in Tribeca tonight:

http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/The-Last-American-Hero.aspx