Quite so. I vividly remember during the Titanic box office lockdown that Good Will and As Good As It Gets were the top two and three films for many weeks.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
It imitates every psychoanalyst-patient relationship filmed by Hollywood
every single one? even what about bob? an incredible achievement!
my understanding is that psychotherapy doesn't have "one-moment cures" like that.
you're right! but only because psychotherapy doesn't preach "cures", period. or at least not in my experience. a better suited term might be "breakthrough". these tend to happen very fraudulently, sometimes in single moments, thanks to generous forces of accumulated pressure and/or anguish.
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Robin Williams doing Dr Judd Hirsch, genius janitor who looks great shirtless gets the girl ... the triumph of this movie is that it was well-crafted enough not to get laughed off the screen.
I've never seen "Bob?" but I certainly prefer my shrink movies to be comedies.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
'fraudulent' in relation to what? your experience? or everyone's?
Remember the next scene? Damon finally decies to Wise Up, abandoning his buddy to Follow His Dreams.
you were expecting him to stay in boston... ? and if he were to leave, would you rather it were apropos of absolutely nothing? or is an action causing a reaction too 'hollywood'?
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/miramax_films/good_will_hunting/_group_photos/matt_damon7.jpg
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
it's funny, at the top of the thread it's all 'argh sell-out!' gvs has now 'gone back to his roots. does he now seem 'less fraudulent'?
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
hahaha otm!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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― latebloomer: band to the planet mars (latebloomer), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
It's coming soon. End of the year on Criterion.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
october, to be precise (nice cover, too)
(i didn't really like this at all tho)
― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link
PUNISHMENT PARK
― admrl, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
paranoid?
― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
anyone else seen paranoid park? does it really not come out in the US until March? (outside of NYFF, i mean.)
it was good.
― poortheatre, Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i really liked elephant, but last days was pretty bad, and gerry... fucking hell, that was the worst movie i've ever seen. and i have generally low standards.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
This was the tread on which I was introduced to Morbz!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 29 October 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Mala Noche out at last.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 10 November 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
These two consecutive comments:
I just remembered that my budding socialist college film-geek friend, who was openly disdainful of "mainstream culture," saw this when it came out and confessed to being moved to tears. -- jaymc (jaymc), Monday, August 8, 2005
I vividly remember during the Titanic box office lockdown that Good Will and As Good As It Gets were the top two and three films for many weeks. -- Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, August 8, 2005
... sent me straight back to that time period, when I was the only one in my group of college friends who preferred Titanic to Hunting and thought the latter was every bit as shameless a weepy as the former.
― Eric H., Saturday, 10 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
GVS is doing the Harvey Milk biopic, starring Sean Penn. Newly cast are Josh Brolin as his assassin, Emile Hirsch as a gay activist, James Franco as Milk's lover (very savvy hotness quotient).
http://www.towleroad.com/2007/12/emile-hirsch-jo.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmm - there was an open casting call for this in SF a few weeks ago
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
won't Dianne Feinstein be a character in this? was she Council prez?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/gus-van-sant-feud-truman-capote-black-and-white-ball-interview.html
― fpsa, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:07 (seven months ago) link
Watched the first ep and at least so far GVS is in for-hire mode here. Can't overcome the Ryan Murphy-ness of it all
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:12 (seven months ago) link
Didn't like E4 as much as the first three, but I think two great performances are emerging. I love Capote and PSH--almost a comfort movie for me--but I think Tom Hollander might be even better, or at the very least benefits from his comparative anonymity. (PSH is such a presence for me, I don't think I can ever stop being entirely aware it's him.) And Naomi Watts is someone for whom I've always had an arm's-length appreciation, but I think she's so good here.
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 February 2024 17:50 (seven months ago) link
episode 3 was pretty great the way GVS recreated the Maysles style was so good, esp since there never was Maysles footage of the ball or anything! the only thing they ever did together irl was just a very short reel of interview w Truman in long island apparently the ball looked amazing, and the side by side scenes of truman dancing alone then w his mother was so good havent seen ep4 yet
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:02 (seven months ago) link
E3 was a classic self-contained episode--I think you could enjoy it without watching the rest of the series.
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:03 (seven months ago) link
Watts plays Babe Paley. The real-life version:
https://i.postimg.cc/vHYZfdXZ/babe.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:12 (seven months ago) link
Wasn't 100% sure whether this week's episode was the last--it could've worked as the finale, although they would have needed a written postscript. (Which I'm sure will be part of any finale.) Anyway, two more, next one directed by Jennifer Lynch. Thought E5 and E6 were both pretty good, although E3 is still the highlight so far. Getting "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" in there was nice.
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 March 2024 02:04 (six months ago) link
Thought Capaote's drunken TV appearance in E7 was the series' worst scene--accurate, maybe, but overracted--but the Babe Paley stuff, especially their conversation on Truman's deathbed, was very good. Intrigued as to how they'll handle Dead Truman in E8; hope they don't get overly clever.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2024 14:23 (six months ago) link
yeah the babe/truman scenes were great & agree abt the drunk tvi love this show but there’s also something about it that i find a little boring? idk what it is
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 March 2024 15:46 (six months ago) link
I guess it's that there's not really a lot of room for surprises. Truman drinks, Truman tries to finish the book, and that's about it (and we know the ending already). I loved the ending of E7, the way it led to the last line. Hope Tom Hollander and Naomi Watts win Emmys--I take it there's a separate category for this kind of show?
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:05 (six months ago) link
Try as I might, I can't really find Truman Capote a particularly interesting historical figure
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:12 (six months ago) link
i think limited series? idk abt such thingsbut yeah Watts & Hollander are incredible. also like Sevigny toonot a fan of Ringwald in this tho? her performance feels very strained somehow
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:13 (six months ago) link
Agree--she just seems wrong. Weird to watch Treat Williams play the husband of a dying woman, knowing he died himself after making this.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:31 (six months ago) link
yeah it’s nice seeing him in this oh you know who i love in this? Calista Flockhart - her Lee Radziwll is really good, very arch & shady and Demi was excellent her small role
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:01 (six months ago) link
I like both of them. I'm a little on the fence with Sevigny, probably because her performance is so different from what I'm used to with her.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:03 (six months ago) link
Holly Golightly = Carol Matthau...I guess that's true? Hard to picture Walter Matthau married to the Holly Golightly of the movie.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:05 (six months ago) link
oh huh i didn’t know that! matthau irl seems too curmudgeonly to tolerate a golightly but there you gothere’s someone for everyone i guess
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:13 (six months ago) link
Wait, what? I just came across her name elsewhere.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2024 21:04 (six months ago) link
Regarding Glenn Close's performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard.
Close modeled Norma’s grotesque look on Walter Matthau’s wife, Carol. Close didn’t know her, but she’d heard that when Carol was young she had porcelain skin. As she got older, she applied white makeup to her face, which made her look odd, even a little frightening. “But I’m sure when she looked in the mirror she saw that porcelain skin,” Close said. “Norma’s makeup morphed into something grotesque. But she was seeing something different in the mirror. She was seeing what she looked like in the 1920s.”Riedel, Michael. Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway (pp. 20-21). Simon & Schuster
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2024 21:08 (six months ago) link
You hope for a strong finale; thought this one meandered, so I'll knock the series down a notch overall. They should have ended with E7.
I did like the very ending though, the last five minutes and the final shot. I don't know if that young couple bidding had special significance--I thought something was going to be revealed about them, but no. Love that bit of music at the end, which played throughout the series.
The ending was of a piece with the Black and White Ball. I think I find that so interesting because it feels like the last time that glamour and celebrity still largely belonged to people over 40 (pick whatever number you want--50 maybe). From '67 forward, that changed.
I watched the whole thing thinking Answered Prayers was eventually published in more or less its finished form. I guess not, although the version published in 1986 is 180 pages long.
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 March 2024 02:49 (six months ago) link
Drugstore Cowboy is on Prime.
Did Lana Del Rey steal like 99% of her look from Kelly Lynch in this movie?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 July 2024 00:40 (two months ago) link
lol
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 July 2024 00:49 (two months ago) link