jeff bridges poll!

I'll be seeing that FOR MY CONSIDERATION. didn't you see Rip Torn's washed-up country star movie?

(forgot to do the poll of the films max left out)

i clicked to make sure lebowski won and morbs got mad itt. as u were :)

American Heart is some excellent performing, from Bridges and one of those Edwards I always confuse (Norton? Furlong? one of them) Good luck finding it, though.

Lebowski is excellent, but Fearless is underappreciated, so my vote, if I'd voted, would have gone to it, just as a shout out to a great film and great performance.

woulda voted last picture show

really, watch Cutter's Way

he could certainly win the Oscar for Crazy Heart, and it wouldn't be a disgrace.

Can't believe Arlington Road got no votes!! Amazing movie, amazing performance.

I CAN believe ILX hasn't seen any JB '70s films except King Kong and Fat City.

voted cutter's way

voted arlington road too, great performance

He seems very much like a broken-down Kris Kristofferson in Crazy Heart. He and Maggie Gyllenhaal make the film, and the songs are decent.

leaving los nashville

was i the one person who voted for tucker? i'd like to think i was

i want to see Crazy Heart

why is jeff bridges so hot?

I immediately thought Tender Mercies II when I saw the preview to Crazy Heart and lo and behold Robert Duvall is in the movie!

great charlie rose interview right now

wow, he just took it there. started talking about fear and shit. color me impressed.

This is a bit less Horton Foote-somber than Tender Mercies.

c. rose interview was fantastic

<3 so much after they showed the clip of robin williams talking abt bridges and they cut back to him and he's smiling so big and is all "eahhhhhh robin..."

^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.

― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (1 year ago)

Oh snap, don't think I've watched FBB this year! So far, anyway. There's still time. It's a good Christmas movie, tbh, so I'd better get right on it.

xpost YES!

^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.

― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (1 year ago)

Oh snap, don't think I've watched FBB this year! So far, anyway. There's still time. It's a good Christmas movie, tbh, so I'd better get right on it.

― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark

Nothing on telly so I watched The Fabulous Baker Boys. It's a good Christmas Day movie, if subdued, slightly melancholy movies fit your Christmas Day. They do me.
Whatever happened to Michelle Pfeiffer btw? She's so good in this; so acerbic and deadpan, matches Jeff Bridges scene for scene.

doin a q&a at the walter reade, JB fans

read that as duane reade, didnt think twice

maybe he'll do it as Duane

http://ticketing.filmlinc.com/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=18639

Cool interview with him here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/12/14

Also: I watch FBB yearly too!

I've recently been alerted to the existence of Cutter's Way (after reading Cutter and Bone) and Winter Kills (by the Onion AV Club book), both of which would sound fantastic even without the involvement of Jeff Bridges. Are they? Whet my appetite. I don't know anything about either of them beyond the plot synopsis.

Cutter and Bone (orig title) is one of his best films.

What's the mood of the movie? The book's like a wasted, post-Vietnam/Nixon take on the weary, everything-is-corrupt despair of Chandler's Long Goodbye, so I'm hoping it's something along the lines of Altman's film.

Obviously I could just rent it now and find out for myself but I'm trying to get some anticipation going.

Ivan Passer directs rather more conventionally, in the classical style, but the mood is close to what you describe.

Winter Kills is like a slapsticky goof on JFK conspiracy culture.

Cheers. Excited about both but expecting more from Cutter's Way now.

Saw Crazy Heart today...JB is so great. I don't know if anyone else can do washed-up, drunk, belt-undone pathetic AND so handsome you want to beat yourself on the head with your shoe. He kills me. Every time. The music is fantastic.

Totally disagree about the music.

is this movie better than payday? i do want to see it. i heart JB. it's amazing how many of his movies i've seen. and a lot of them aren't even in this poll.

is it better than tender mercies? the new one. payday and tender mercies being my standard for washed-up county singer pics.

Tender Mercies is superior.

My thoughts.

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.

Against All Odds (1984) - This is one that was a pretty decent hit at the time that has kind of fell through the floor. It's an 80s noir love triangle between Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Rachel Ward and is a remake of the 40s film Out of the Past. I thought it was alright for such things and really liked it a bunch when I was a kid. It's kind of in the same file as Body Heat making a 40s style noir films in the 80s.

body heat is waaaaaaay better than against all odds. as much as i love the cast of against all odds its a nothing movie. and is pretty poorly made/done all around.

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.

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