jeff bridges poll!

nice run-down, but no Fat City?

Starman was only available on a shitty pan'n'scan DVD for the longest time.

Bridges and Karen Allen were terrific together in it.

nice run-down, but no Fat City?

― Neil S,

It's fine, sort of repeating himself that era.

Starman is on Netflix and is as wonderful as ever.

Died @ Alien Bridges saying goodbye to Charles Martin Smith. Had completely forgotten that it happened the way it happens.

They've also got Against All Odds.

Should I? I've seen Out of The Past.

He's getting a well-deserved Chaplin Award:

https://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/chaplin-award-gala/jeff-bridges/

Have not seen Against All Odds but I don't think I can watch a remake of Out of the Past, one of my favorites (and one by a really great filmmaker).

Cutter's Way may be my favorite Jeff Bridges film and performance though it's hard to pick a favorite when he's delivered a wide range of great performances. I really love him as Lebowski - it's not like playing Richard Bone demands similar qualities from Bridges, so it feels absurd to say either is better than the other.

Baker Boys was real hard to find on blu ray until last year when it was reissued. Copies were going for $100+. This article by a Seattle local sums up how I feel about it, it’s so crazily underrated. Shame that Kloves had to get involved with Rowling but at least it made him rich I guess.

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/the-fabulous-baker-boys-at-30-elegantly-captured-a-bygone-seattle-even-as-weve-moved-on/

I think about Fat City all the time since seeing it a year or so ago

Should I? I've seen Out of The Past.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain),

It has a schlocky charm. Bridges is illegally hot all pumped up. James Woods steals the show, as he often did during this era.

xps Baker Boys is really good. I'm not sure why the director hasn't made a lot of films, but at least he's had a lucrative career as a screenwriter. I'm sure the Harry Potter films alone made him comfortable for life but he also adapted Wonder Boys for Curtis Hanson, which may be my favorite film from either.

Fat City is great too - John Huston's had a very uneven filmmaking career, but that's definitely one of the gems from his later years.

I bought Fat City on Blu-Ray a few years ago and never got around to watching it. I have a copy of Cutter's Way, too. That one rules. (It's currently on Tubi.) I should watch Starman. I've always heard really good things about his performance in that.

Just about every time I go to Lincoln Center these days, which has been a lot recently, I enjoy seeing the trailer for him and his award.

A terrific Bilge Ebri essay:

From the start, there was always something likable about Bridges. With those pleading eyebrows and that broad smile, he has a face that hovers between bafflement and acceptance, which is probably an attitude more relatable to the average viewer than the brooding turmoil of so many leading men of his generation. He moves with ease, but we can sense a halting indecision behind the eyes. Many of Bridges’s best films mine this tension, and part of his appeal as a movie star over the last 50-plus years is rooted in familiarity and openness. When we watch Jeff Bridges, we see, and understand, ourselves a little better.

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/jeff-bridges-the-wanderer/

*Ebiri