I've always found Schreiber hot, and he was my second- or third-tier mancrush in the late nineties thanks to that string of indie films.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Keener's women are mostly self-absorbed drips, for ex.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
aw, i seriously seriously identify with Keener's character in W & T. i am totally self-absorbed tbf.
xp schreiber is a dreamboat
― horseshoe, Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
actually, i had a really awkward viewing moment when i was sharing walking and talking with a good friend, and she was like, huh. "so catherine keener is well-liked but kind of a flaky mess and anne heche is a cold bitch but good at everything. they're like you and me!"
...
― horseshoe, Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't expect this thread to blow up so quickly!
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
all i ever want to be doing is watching walking and talking tbh. i guess i'll settle for posting about it on the internet.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
walking and talking is my actual irl favorite thing to do
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, i am going to eat dinner, but nicole holofcener: classicshe's like the paula fox of my generation
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
preferably with frozen yogurt xp
― so sick of the fucking V8 commercials (surm), Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
what else is there, really? apart from walking, talking and frozen yogurt, i mean.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
spooning Liev Schreiber
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Just thinking of Keener in Lovely & Amazing makes me laugh sometimes. "Mister, this SHIT is PRETTY."
― I want to thank my psychiatrist (billy), Monday, 28 June 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
'please give' is really good
im on record abt my deep, sincere, and undying crush on rebecca hall, but she really does kill it here
top-level acting shit generally, but she nails scene after scene, eg when she tells the kid her mother killed herself. doesn't oversell it.
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Please Give was excellent.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched the 1st three back to back recently, still not seen PG
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I finally saw it. Review here if interested. nrq OTM about Rebecca Hall.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
fair enough, i practically ws tbh
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
please give was... ok i guess
i do love rebecca hall
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
you're ok i guess!
i haven't seen it yet, but i have to reflexively stan for holofcener.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^^would watch holofcener marathon with
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks horseshoe
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Classic!!
― Ballard, Dick (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i totally want to be best friends w catherine keener! btw i tried webmailing u abt a week ago horseshoe and it wouldnt send
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
everybody wants to be friends with catherine keener. that's like her thing.
― valerie (surm), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!!!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
plax i just webmailed you my other email address!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
But we know Catherine Keener would be nice to us for a minute or two and then, if we didn't leave her alone, just shoot us down.
― Ballard, Dick (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Please Give = very ugly film. some laughs.
Lois Smith's cute grandson was nice tho (apparently he was in the American Pies)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever happened to the Holofcener marathon?
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
please give was great, i thought. became obsessed with catherine keener's ridic beautiful face over the course of it.
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 December 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
rebecca hall kind of looks like young molly ringwald but cheekbonier to me
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
amanda peet
― boo (surm), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't, it's too good
― boo (surm), Saturday, 18 December 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
What do you mean by 'very ugly'?
― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 19 December 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Still one of the best I've seen this year. I just loved Amanda Peet in it.
― Alba, Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
nicole holofcener movies make me really sad sometimes. like the bit at the end of walking and talking where they're walking downstairs to the wedding. there's this thing she does where at weird moments she focuses on something small and intimate and it like crushes me.
― ico, Thursday, 24 March 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― horseshoe, Friday, 25 March 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
attn: Amanda and others, walking and talking is now available to watch instantly on netflix. ty ENBB for letting me know!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
YEShaven't seen it in years, wonder if i would still like it?
― Fa la la (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
YOU WOULD
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
also i am listening to is this desire? and thought of you. that is the end of my Amanda updates.
:)!!!!
― Fa la la (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
ew EWthis sponge smells
― Fa la la (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
like a hot dog!
i can't stop smelling it!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Holofcener reminisces about making walking and talking
Studios and independent companies would say it’s too “soft,” which I imagine means “the room is just too girlie.” I thought that was bullshit, but at the same time I didn’t fight what they said was “soft “about it—that there was no big hook and that it was about women.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Amanda Peet is really good in Please Give. Everyone is good in it, but I was most surprised that she was.
― suckin em down like they name was jack daniels (billy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
she's really touching in it, i feel so much for her character. you know she's a bitch because she's sad.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, she really looks like a beautiful girl I know who, when you meet her you think "what a bitch" but when you get to know her you realize how much that attitude masks a pile of neurotic insecurities. So even though Keener and Platt and Hall and the horrible grandma and Rookie of the Year are all great in it, I was most taken with Peet, like she really got to me.
I don't know why it took so long for me to watch this, considering my affection for Walking & Talking and Lovely and Amazing. Friends w/ Money I liked at first, but it was on tv the other day and I couldn't get with it, possibly because nothing really sticks with me except for Scott Caan being louche and McDormand chewing shit up and running into a door (and that awful gay husband plot). Please Give maybe is her best? It seems so much more cutting and no-bullshit than the others, except I didn't give a shit about the daughter's jeans.
― suckin em down like they name was jack daniels (billy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
also some times I was watching it, with the furniture store and apartments and the traveling to see "the leaves," I thought this was the most NYT movie ever.
― suckin em down like they name was jack daniels (billy), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
"now"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
I think you mean Woody Allen though
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
him for the seniors, her for the 40s/50s
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
she does soft-pedal the satirical elements of Keener's poet, between "blessings" and "friends with Joni"
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
oh I dunno: Keener's line readings suggest she (Keener) knows her character's been gently poked.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
well that's another flaw
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
you're no good with haiku
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
sez you
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Really liked this. Possibly the best Holofcener to date, though let me rewatch Lovely and Amazing and Please Give sometime and get back to me.
Essentially the Idiot Plot put to valuable use: the deception is a plot machination, of course, but I'd argue that it is as much of a result of class embarrassment as it is of new-relationship jitters; Eva's as much in love with the idea of having a richer, cooler, classier friend as she is of the idea of falling in love again, so how can she, now having a friend in common with Joni Mitchell, possibly accept her new friend's leftovers? The performances are all lovely on down to the daughter and her friend, though I got a bit weary of Toni Collette and Ben Falcone's characters pretty quick. Also, when the screen fades to white five minutes towards the end, I was honestly surprised that the movie wasn't over. Surprised, though not necessarily disappointed--I'll take this ending when I like the characters this much.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 March 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 7 March 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
I thought this was great. I enjoyed how it tweaks the conventions of romantic comedy by realistically portraying how romance looks from middle age but manages to be sweet and funny too. Both leads ooze tons of charm too.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Multiple reliable sources all indicate that her newest is a dud. I’ll probably skip it; its not like I’m looking for another opportunity to be annoyed by Ben Mendelsohn.
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
A disappointment. I don't get Mendelsohn.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link
He’s terrible in Rogue One and Ready Player One, the only two things I’ve seen him in. Granted, those aren’t good movies, but reviews of this film tend to single out his performance as a problem (Mendelsohn “plays [his character] like a benign Dr. House,” writes Bill Chambers).
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
Maybe it’s the Tarrytown location but I kept thinking of the HBO show Divorce, and how Thomas Haden Church would have been an improvement
The film’s ok, though - it’s just nowhere in the league of any of the previous 5. And I don’t understand why it needed to look so ugly.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 06:02 (five years ago) link
liked Mendelsohn in Starred Up; maybe he should just play prison dads.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah I think he made a conscious effort to move away from just playing criminals a few years ago but he was good at it!
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
it's not very good at all, no. numerous problems including Mendelsohn, also why do I give a fuck about these people, also the editing is bad.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
She was interviewed on Bullseye last week, and while I thought Jesse was a little too fawning (not the first time), they got into the "unlikeable characters" thing.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510309/bullseye
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
maybe I'll give it a listen. it wasn't that they were unlikeable to me, it was more that...it didn't do a good job making me care. you're plopped into a situation with little context. honestly it seemed like maybe there were bit chunks of the screenplay excised. and even what's there...there are just weird transitions, everything seems rushed, like someone edited a lot of pauses out between people talking to crunch it into time.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Holofcener co-wrote Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the Melissa McCarthy film (the director, Marielle Heller, did Diary of a Teenage Girl a few years ago, which I think I liked better than Eighth Grade). I didn't know a thing about Lee Israel going in. Very low-key--a little too much so, I'd say, for such a tabloid story--and I found her buyers were suspiciously easy marks. (It's 1991, mind you, and maybe I've seen those clowns on Pawn Stars too many times--I was waiting for one of Israel's customers to say, "Just let me get my guy down here to take a look at it.") I'm normally immune to the sappiness of scenes like the last one between McCarthy and Richard Grant, but they carried it off well.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 December 2018 05:57 (five years ago) link
I don't think The Land of Steady Habits has ever gotten a screening here.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 December 2018 06:00 (five years ago) link
I quite enjoyed it, one of the more legit American queer films in recent memory.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 December 2018 06:50 (five years ago) link
(Ben Mendehlson is) terrible in Rogue One and Ready Player One, the only two things I’ve seen him in. I can’t imagine ever watching those, but he’s good to v good in The Year My Voice Broke (1987), The Big Steal, Metal Skin, Idiot Box (all ‘90s) and Animal Kingdom (2010). The only thing I’ve seen him in since was a Statham/Deniro nothingness filmed in Australia - it’s possible he’s lost it, or straight up doesn’t bother in American stuff.
― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 16 December 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
can you ever forgive me was great
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
I was lukewarm on Can You Ever Forgive Me?, but I think I liked all the films I've seen that she directed herself. (She also did some Six Feet Under episodes.) I've seen the trailer for You Hurt My Feelings a few times, and as such things go, looks promising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20GWk5cWPBs
― clemenza, Monday, 29 May 2023 16:21 (eleven months ago) link
New one is legit good, maybe great. Probably her funniest? JLD has some absolutely miraculous reaction shots, and her depressedly eating a cookie on a $10K couch is perfect
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 02:30 (eleven months ago) link
and 93 minutes!
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 02:33 (eleven months ago) link
As a comedy, I wish this had been funnier--I smiled here and there but only laughed once or twice. (To be fair, people around me were laughing a lot--sometimes howling, which doesn't really help when you're not feeling it yourself.) I liked the more serious side of the film better, and could relate to lots. Jeannie Berlin seems very busy these days.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 June 2023 21:51 (eleven months ago) link