― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Whenever that line was used, I kept thinking "Snake Plissken, I thought you were dead..."
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 30 September 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
We couldn't be more different.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Still unseen: Murder a la Mod, Get To Know Your Rabbit, Home Movies, Wise Guys
The FuryFemme FataleCarrieDressed to KillHi, Mom!Body DoubleCasualties of WarCarlito's WayMission to MarsRaising CainSistersPhantom of the ParadiseBlow OutGreetingsThe Black DahliaDionysusMission: ImpossibleSnake EyesThe Wedding PartyScarfaceThe Bonfire of the VanitiesThe Untouchables
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 September 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, maybe I do. A lot of my favorite movies are less than 10 minutes long, but I don't take issue with films' inability to sustain for two hours or more, otherwise I wouldn't be interested in movies, much less list A Grin without a Cat as one of my very favorites.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 September 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 1 October 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Dressed To KillBlow OutCasualties Of WarThe FuryCarrieThe Wedding PartyFemme FataleHi, Mom!Phantom Of The ParadiseThe UntouchablesSnake EyesMission: ImpossibleSistersCarlito's WayGreetingsBody DoubleScarfaceBlack DahliaRaising CainMission To MarsBonfire Of The Vanities
(I'm probably buying Home Movies next month, too)
― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 1 October 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 1 October 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 1 October 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I just rescreened Internal Affairs. He's so much more interesting when not called upon to "act."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 October 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Alex, what exactly is so "awful" about the climax of Femme Fatale? It's ludicrous and funny in exactly the appropriate way, just as many of Hitchcock's or Cronenberg's are.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe Sidney Poitier was just miscast his entire career.
Remember that remark of Pauline Kael's about Meryl Streep -- that she's made a career out of being miscast?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I just got that anthology of US film critics from the library, and skimmed the long famous P.K. essay "Trash, Art and the Movies" or whatever the hell it's called... and given the way she makes clear that the "trash" she finds pleasurable (eg, The Thomas Crown Affair and Wild in the Streets) is NOT ART, it's amazing she could consider De Palma an artist, rather than a giddy trashmaker. (Oh, also "not art": 2001.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
otm
― gear (gear), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Poitier's status as an icon for his times is fine with me, even worth celebrating. But he was an awful actor. (Indeed, I'm surprised I don't like him more because of it.)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
For all her perception the collaborative and serendipitous nature of film, plus the inevitable compromises, repelled her, and why she was given to creating these polarities. I'd be uncomfortable comparing Citizen Kane directly with any modernist novel, but she couldn't accept the picture as anything other than an extremely well-acted and shot newspaper comedy a la Ben Hecht.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Once baseball is over I want to get to Casualties of War, Body Double and maybe Obsession.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: just raw dead fucking, babies! (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
wish this thread would've continued...
― circa1916, Thursday, 24 March 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Watched Dressed to Kill last night -- there's an awful lot to like about it, but that Pino Donaggio score is nails-on-blackboard horrible, imo.
― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
That's cool.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
can't believe I waited so long to watch Body Double
what an enjoyably ridiculous film
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
1. Scarface2. Carrie3. Phantom of the Paradise
the rest are terrible
^^^posts I regret
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
"Enjoyably ridiculous"--good description. Kael ripped it apart, but I think it's well worth watching. The villain's make-up job when in disguise is of course atrocious.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
no one ever told me about the Frankie Goes to Hollywood bit, or the driller-killer bite, or the lolz closing credits sequence
DePalma's range is limited but there is something audaciously brazen in it that is compelling
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link