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I love Ellen Degeneres' performance in Nemo.
Betsy, they played one of your favorite movies on cable this morning: Swashbuckler. Robert Shaw! Young James Earl Jones! Young Genvieve Bujold! Going over cliffs in banana carts! All the actors of the 70s who never got a shot at costume dramas.
I thought that the 2nd LOTR movie was the keeper, myself, although I liked all of them.
Also, I've only seen McCabe & Mrs. Miller on DVD, but I'd sure love to see it on the big screen.
I love them for including Double Indemnity, In A Lonely Place and The Lady Eve, but The Awful Truth over It Happened One Night?
I love TAT, think it's utterly brilliant, but IHON was several years earlier, and it's just the damned Shakespeare's Collected Works of romantic comedies: love it or hate it, it was early and enormous and everything in the genre that's been made since has been either standing in, fleeing from, or standing back and observing or deconstructing its shadow. As much as I love It's A Wonderful Life, (and as much as I think it's in many ways Capra's best and richest and darkest), if the listmakers were trying to stick to just one film per director, I'd still have to go with IHON for sheer seminal influential ur-genre-exemplarosity.
I heard something about that list that made it pretty clear they were picking their favorites, not the Best or Most Influential. Which that page doesn't indicate at all.
I've never seen In a Lonely Place, but the PF movie geeks just rated it higher than Rashomon in a deathmatch, so I'm definitely interested.
I've never seen In a Lonely Place, but the PF movie geeks just rated it higher than Rashomon in a deathmatch, so I'm definitely interested.
In A Lonely Place is great. It's more like a European movie about a fucked up relationship than a Hollywood movie. All kinds of shades of gray and tragic.
Invisible Green's post looks like English....
...but it comes out in crazy talk!
David, technically it isn't one of my favorite movies, it's one of my favorite bad movies. But, yes, so much goodness in the bad.
re RotS: Am I the only one who thought Palpatine was terrible? If they had had a actual cured ham chewing on the scenery, I thought it would have given a more credible performance.