i like it when jackie says "boo ya"
― caek, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
"Why don’t you be a good hostess and hook a brother up a screwdriver?"
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Odell tapping his fingernails on his screwdriver, trying to interest jackie.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
The stoned concentration Louis puts into untangling the telephone cord
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
Bridget Fonda. Rowrrrr.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Pam Grier - what a beauty! Who knows what to watch earlier in her career?
― calstars, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
her "Cosby Show" appearance.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Foxy Brown
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Coffy
had totally forgotten she's in Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
i thought the revive was for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnaI-w8h8Ls
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
sweet! even tho there are a lot of leonard movies im always surprised there arent more cause his books just demand to be adapted
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
that one looks good
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
its fun to see how everyone always tries to adapt his vibe into a visual
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
The sweetest part of this movie is realizing Ordell seems to genuinely like Max, thus is disappointed that he'd fuck him over.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
the movie is about people whom Ordell likes (Max, Jackie, Melanie) fucking him over
does he like beaumont
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
shit yeah he would've had Bojangles with him
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
or Popeyes -- I forget
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Nothing in "Modern Film" annoys me more than QT's refusal to direct someone else's story again (yeah it's been said before, bt still)
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
The movie's backbone is Ordell's wornout support system finally disintegrating to me, dunno if that's down to "ppl he likes" letting him down necessarily
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
Guys, let me help you out here. The movie is called Jackie Brown.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
no it's not
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
sure but it's down to SLJ, who suggests that he respects Max and Jackie.
Yeah and under his old values they'd respect him back, bt those times're gone. This also kinda syncs up w how routine and bathetic Beaumont's shooting is, I guess
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
ordell's let down that max doesn't wash his hands
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
does anybody know what music is playing in the scene where ordell is sitting back on his couch in his living room (i think)? for years i wanted to know, could never figure it out on the internet for some reason.
― j., Friday, 29 August 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
"your ass used to be beautiful" is the best
― caek, Friday, 29 August 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
I love the beat that SLJ takes when he and De Niro are sitting in the van trying to figure out wtf happened to the money, before he says, "It was Jackie Brown." Executed wrong it would be "being caught acting," but he does it so perfectly.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Friday, 29 August 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
that whole scene has terrific dynamics. Anger at what Louis has done turns to commiseration to rage again.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Ebert began his review with that scene:
I like the moment when the veins pop out on Ordell's forehead. It's a quiet moment in the front seat of a van, he's sitting there next to Louis, he's just heard that he's lost his retirement fund of $500,000, and he's thinking hard. Quentin Tarantino lets him think. Just holds the shot, nothing happening. Then Ordell looks up and says, "It's Jackie Brown.'' He's absolutely right. She's stolen his money. In the movies people like him hardly ever need to think. The director has done all their thinking for them. One of the pleasures of "Jackie Brown,'' Tarantino's new film, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, is that everybody in the movie is smart. Whoever is smartest will live.
Say what you will about QT, but he does quiet pretty good too.
― pplains, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
i watched life of crime it was pretty good
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
they def got some of the subtleties of leonards plotting which was cool
been on such an EL binge lately.reading "unknown Man #89" right now.
― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
bobby womack passed a while ago, and this is always relevant anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzRJgZG98I
― busted (art), Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
prob the best ever writer to binge on xp
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
lagoon do you like richard stark? his parker novels are like candy bars.
― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
never read him what do u recommend
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
Almost missed this--Pam Grier is in town tonight to introduce a Lightbox screening. I had been planning on seeing the Billy Crudup film tonight, but as soon as I saw the schedule I checked on ticket availability, assuming there wouldn't be any. Wrong...very excited!
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
I doubt that my students would mind at all if I cancelled tonight's tutorial and immediately hauled ass to Toronto--and I could easily make it--but I figure that the prof I work for definitely would. Damn.
Enjoy, and please share stories/pictures!
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Not too many women intimidate me (actually, all women intimidate me, but to make my point, I have to begin by saying that not too many women intimidate me). Pam Grier intimidates me.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
You should read her autobio which is pretty crackers. I love her work, but there's something a little off about her
― Josefa, Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
wasn't she a scientologist at some point... some kind of cultist.
she also dated bobby womack, which is... pretty neat, actually.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Richard Pryor also
― Josefa, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
they dated bobby womack?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah they double-teamed him until Kareem realized the situation conflicted with his Muslim beliefs
― Josefa, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
I was so floored when this happened that I took a screen shot
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pamgrier.jpg
(turns out she follows a lot of people)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 October 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
i like her in bogus journey
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Friday, 2 October 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
Never bothered him when he and Magic were busy double-teaming Dr. J.
― pplains, Friday, 2 October 2015 00:40 (eight years ago) link
She mentioned Jabbar tonight as her "first boyfriend in L.A." No photo--she was late, and the Lightbox makes such maneuvering very difficult--but she was nice enough to sign my Foxy Brown DVD. She got a standing ovation, spoke for probably half an hour, and was very funny. It'll be the only time in my life I get to hear a 66-year-old woman say "blow job" six or seven times.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 October 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link