Why doesn't Marcia Gay Harden get any work?
Curse of the Best Supporting Actress award?
Zoe: My man would never fall for that. Wash: Most of my head wishes I had.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
P.M. Marc - Sep 17, 2006 9:23:50 pm PDT #4390 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 18, 2006 5:55:42 am PDT #4391 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
Thankfully Judi Dench seems immune to that particular hex. Maybe it was the brevity of the role she won it for?
Theodosia - Sep 18, 2006 6:02:25 am PDT #4392 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I expect her Britishness has something to do with it, as well as the habit of the British film industry to deem leading roles by ladies of a certain age to be commercially viable.
erikaj - Sep 18, 2006 6:30:19 am PDT #4393 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Also, Crosetti, uh, I mean, Jon Polito, whom I found a talented little salami-brain who got shafted by Fontana. Uh, and I don't mean porn.(in reference to Miller's Crossing.)
Kathy A - Sep 18, 2006 7:11:38 am PDT #4394 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I loved M for the crazy art deco sets, the darkness at its heart, the hall of the mountain king, the film noir tropes it created, and, especially, the mock trial.
Yes, this. It helps to see a good print--before the restoration from a few years ago, I only saw it on PBS with a really horrible print (scratchy images with subtitles that would bleed into the starkly white portions of the screen). I've been meaning to buy the Criterion DVD to replace my videotape I purchased of the restored version.
Lang definitely uses a silent-film approach to the movie which I found hypnotic. At first, I thought the grostequeness of the middle/upper class to be over the top, but it provides a neat counterpoint with the seedy underclass.
Ailleann - Sep 18, 2006 2:37:50 pm PDT #4395 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2006 3:04:38 pm PDT #4396 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
What are the wittiest movies of the past 25 years? Is wit dead?
Hayden - Sep 18, 2006 3:20:12 pm PDT #4397 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The Coen Brothers do wit well (and sure, sometimes poorly). The aforementioned Miller's Crossing is abundant in wit. Whit Stillman's pictures are also well-soaked in wit. Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story was very witty, as well it should have been.
But wit mostly lives on TV now, in Arrested Development and both versions of The Office.
Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2006 3:40:07 pm PDT #4398 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I haven't seen much of Arrested Development, but is The Office witty? The goal of The Office (and most contemporary humor, it seems) is to make one feel clever by making fun of how stupid other people are. Wit, on the other hand, is actually being clever.
Not that any form of humor is inherently better; I'm just tired of seeing the former and want to see more of the latter.
Strega - Sep 18, 2006 4:46:55 pm PDT #4399 of 10001
I'm not sure if I agree with that distinction. When I think of classic wits, I think of Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, the Algonquin Round Table, etc.. All of whom were (cleverly) making fun of how stupid other people are.
I guess I sort of know what you mean, if you're talking about comedy where there's some actual wordplay or insight rather than "Ha, he fell down! What an idiot!" But someone's usually the butt of the joke.