I'm getting a Hoffman/Huffman vibe for best actor and actress.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
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DavidS - Jan 31, 2006 10:26:18 am PST #242 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Frankenbuddha - Jan 31, 2006 10:28:17 am PST #243 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Shit, he was an editor on Citizen Kane. He did The Haunting! Curse of the Cat People! Worked with Val Lewton and Orson Welles! Cool noirs too.
Hec (and any other interested parties), for Robert Wise, if you haven't, you really need to see THE SETUP. It's in one of the noir box sets that's out there, but it's probably also in a stand alone somewhere, and it's just amazing. Basically a real time story about a boxing match that's supposed to be fixed.
Scorcese co-commentaries with I want to say Wise, but I'm not 100% sure it was Wise (definitely Scorcese, though). I think they were done separately, but it's still interesting.
Kathy A - Jan 31, 2006 10:41:42 am PST #244 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
TKaM is probably the best book-to-film adaptation ever. On the commentary, the director points out that the only big added scene was the one after Atticus put the kids to bed, and Scout asks Jem about their mother. As the oh-so-sad-to-listen-to questions continue on, the camera pans out to Atticus sitting on the porch, listening just as we are. Peck's face is just heartbreaking to watch.
lisah - Jan 31, 2006 10:51:46 am PST #245 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I'm getting a Hoffman/Huffman vibe for best actor and actress.
I'm down with the Hoffman part. I haven't seen Transamerica so I shouldn't judge but I'm really pulling for Reese Witherspoon. I just loved her so much as June Carter Cash.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2006 10:56:51 am PST #246 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Some of Wise's credits.
As an editor:
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
As a sound editor:
Top Hat (1935) (sound effects editor) (uncredited)
The Informer (1935) (sound effects editor) (uncredited)
The Gay Divorcee (1934) (sound effects editor) (uncredited)
As a director:
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Haunting (1963)
Two for the Seesaw (1962) (Robert Mitchum & Shirley Maclaine?)
West Side Story (1961)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) (another cool noir)
I Want to Live! (1958) (great noir/melodrama)
The Set-Up (1949) (as Frank notes, a classic noir/boxing film)
Blood on the Moon (1948) (Western Noir! No really, it's good)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Frankenbuddha - Jan 31, 2006 11:08:01 am PST #247 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
If the Sound of Music hadn't doomed him with the hipsters, this credit would haunt him with the film geeks as the man who ruined Welle's second masterpiece. Granted, there's a lot more to it than that (Welle's had basically taken a powder to Rio to film footage for a film that never got finished, as detailed in IT'S ALL TRUE), and Wise didn't really have a choice - someone was going to cut it down, and Wise probably hurt it less than some others would have.
I can't believe you didn't include STAR TREK - The Motion Picture. It's a notable credit certainly. And I've heard his re-edit for the DVD release actually made the picture a lot better. Probably wasn't much he could do about the uniforms, though.
Oh, and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - that IS a sci-fi classic.
Gris - Jan 31, 2006 11:18:35 am PST #248 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Sleepless in Seattle trailer is awesome!
I liked Keira in P&P very much. I would not be surprised if there were 5 superior performances by leading actresses this year, but I would also not be surprised if there were not. Who would you guys suggest replacing her nomination with?
I have not seen Crash.
Jessica - Jan 31, 2006 11:23:17 am PST #249 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Who would you guys suggest replacing her nomination with?
Anyone who didn't turn Elizabeth Bennet into a giggling child? t /bitter
But mostly Q'orianka Kilcher.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2006 11:31:16 am PST #250 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And then doesn't it turn out that she's not actually malevolent? I saw it a couple of times, but it's been years. I remember it being almost Lynch-ian... not much happens, what does happen is ambiguous, and yet it's oddly fascinating.
Well, there were some darker hints. Irena makes Amy promise to never tell anyone about her, and there's that odd scene where they're burning leaves and her mood is hard to read. But she's always sweet to the little girl, and they imply that she somehow locks Barbara Farren in her room and saves Amy from her drunken/delusional rage. So, much more benevolent as a ghost than as a living cat person.
Scrappy - Jan 31, 2006 11:33:49 am PST #251 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I liked her in P&P. She was a little more light-hearted than MY Elizabeth Bennett, but I thought it was a believable, charming performance.