Jayne ,'The Message'
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I don't either, but apparently she was in Tipping the Velvet, which IIRC several Buffistas have read and seen and have big deep love for, so there's got to be someone here with an informed opinion on her.
I didn't see "Tipping the Velvet", and she wasn't one of the leads in that, but she was a lead in "Fingersmith", and very good in that. She also had excellent reviews for a BBC play that was on a couple of weeks ago. I like her.
Tipping the Velvet starred Diana Rigg Jr. (her look-alike daughter Rachel Stirling). Yum! I liked the movie of Tipping the Velvet better than the movie of Fingersmith, but Fingersmith was the better book hands down. Was similar to The Woman In White, only gay! Yay!
t makes note to reread Fingersmith
film editing remains perhaps the least heralded and least understood of the cinema's technical arts.
When it comes to udnerappreciated and misunderstood technical arts, I'd put sound ahead of picture any day. Even people who don't really care how a movie is made are, I think, aware, in a vague sort of way, that footage gets edited. I don't think it even occurs to most people how complicated the art of putting together a soundtrack is.
There something you want from ND today, Jess?
Heh.
Yes, I would like a present.
t waits
And, okay, this?
This exhausting back-and-forth approach doesn't even necessarily require dialogue. For the (spoiler) protracted kiss at the climax of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," the movie ricochets between camera setups as if the scene were a heated cross-examination instead of a comical clinch.
The reason that moment had to be edited that way was they wanted it to look like it went on longer than it actually did, probably because the two actors kept cracking up and made it impossible to actually shoot one long take. ALL of the interactions between those two actors were edited that way. It wasn't an artistic decision, it was a last resort.
Saw Idlewild last night and someone brought their 8-year-old kid. The film had swearing, fairly graphic sex, and murder--what were they thinking?
Saw Idlewild last night and someone brought their 8-year-old kid. The film had swearing, fairly graphic sex, and murder--what were they thinking?
I think I've told this story before, but when I went to see Blade II (which had swearing and gore, but no sex) in the theatre there was someone behind us who had brought their 6-8 year old kid and was telling them to close their eyes whenever there was something violent or gory, which was most of the movie.
I am memfaulting.
What is that movie with Clark Gable and the blonde woman (Claudette Colbert?) where they are trying to get a ride and he can't do it so she goes out into the road and hiken up her skirt and BAM! ride?