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What I particularly love about Beautiful Girls is that none of the actors in it were Big! Stars! at the time, although some have gone on to some level of Big! Stardom! since then (and then drifted back out). It's just such a nice little self-contained movie.
And I agree that it's still probably Natalie Portman's best performance to date.
What I particularly love about Beautiful Girls is that none of the actors in it were Big! Stars! at the time, although some have gone on to some level of Big! Stardom! since then (and then drifted back out). It's just such a nice little self-contained movie.
And Rosie's monologue/rant is a thing of beauty.
What I particularly love about Beautiful Girls is that none of the actors in it were Big! Stars! at the time, although some have gone on to some level of Big! Stardom! since then (and then drifted back out).
Or they had been pretty big stars, but were no longer on the A-list (I'm thinking Timothy Hutton and Matt Dillon here)
It's just such a nice little self-contained movie.
I love it because it reminds me a bit of where I grew up (though Brunswick was a bigger town), and I knew/know people like those characters.
One of the other good ones on the list is THE PARALLAX VIEW, which is great 70's conpiracy thriller. Definitely good at inducing paranoia.
Sheryl Lee's performance ought to be legendary.
nods vigoroursly in agreement
So has anybody seen A New Leaf?
Theo - you'd love it, I think. Scrappy too. It's about a bumbling nerd girl who falls for a playboy cad who's only in it for her money.
So has anybody seen A New Leaf?
To expand, Matthau had a real gift for a certain kind of comedy. Unfortunately, A New Leaf didn't exploit it nearly as well as a lot of other movies (starting with, to state the obvious, The Odd Couple).
So has anybody seen A New Leaf?
Yes. Loved it!
To expand, Matthau had a real gift for a certain kind of comedy.
I like it because it's a throwback to the leading man roles he used to get earlier in this career before he was confined to comic curmudgeondom.
I love that he wound up marryiing the real-life inspiration for Holly Golightly.
I'm curious about Let's Scare Jessica To Death. Anyone seen it? Good? Bad?
The Onion AV Club had a feature on it a couple of weeks back.
Wise Blood (Brad Dourif's greatest role! Perfectly cast. Doesn't quite get all the way to the book, because as Huston himself lamented, he didn't have Flannery's faith. Shot on the cheap and looks it. Awesome cast though).
Oh, what did Huston say exactly?
I think the problem with Wise Blood the film was that it couldn't come sidelong with the book without heaps and heaps of voiceover or experimental visuals or whatever'd be necessary to capture the characters' precise psychological processes.
Let's Scare Jessica To Death.
What a great title.
Safe
A friend of mine I saw that with has a habit of turning to me, without provocation, and doing that whimpering cough for minutes on end.