'Sleeper'
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Didn't he do another movie, Bitter something - kind in the Sirens timeframe?
BITTER MOON which is quite a bizarre piece of work (Polanski at his most minsanthropic) with Peter Coyote, Kirsten Scott Thomas and Emmaneul Sangier (sp?).
He was also in LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM.
They both might be described as comedies of sorts, but romantic ones? NSM.
He also did a medical drama with Gene Hackman as the baddie.
Frank beat me to both Bitter Moon (which I love a lot, but could probably not watch now--it suited my mood at the time) and Lair of the White Worm.
I liked Hugh in About A Boy quite a lot. The whole movie was enjoyable.
The little boy from About A Boy, Nicholas Hoult, has grown up into quite a handsome young man and is the lead character in a series called Skins about teenagers that take drug while having casual sex with vodka bottles. It's discombobulating.
Loved that movie, even if it fucking ruined "Killing me Softly" Toni Collette's character reminds me of my mom's best friend when I was growing up.
Frank beat me to both Bitter Moon (which I love a lot, but could probably not watch now--it suited my mood at the time) and Lair of the White Worm.
I've been meaning to rewatch ever since THE INSIDE came (and went - sniff ). Peter Coyote is pretty good at bringing the creeeeeeeepy, yet magnetic.
I haven't watched "Bitter Moon" in ages, but it left an impression. I can't recall any other film that was so virulently anti-romance. Coyote was brilliant in it, and Emmanuelle whazherface, Polanski's young wife, was perfectly cast, for all her vapidity.
I suppose most LJ people probably have seen this already, but Daniel Radcliffe's nude publicity photos for "Equus" hit the press couple of days ago. [link]
(It's obviously not work-safe, although the camera doesn't quite pan down to the naughty bits)
I must be getting middle-aged, because on the first look, I felt like shouting "My eyes! My eyes!" and throwing a blanket and a bottle of tanning lotion at his head.
it's not like Republican side had squeaky clean hands, you know?
Well, and not to get into a big ole political discourse in the movies thread, but, not only was the Republican side unbelieveably disorganized and caucus-y and harebrained, it was in the latter period basically run from Moscow. So to delve into the modes and methods of the Republican side would make things quite a bit messier.
(Although, some of the homegrown Republican rhetoric, whoa nelly. When your chief propagandist is known as La Pasionaria, and not by her real name, you know you've got some serious mythmaking going on!)
The background of the aftermath of the civil war was coopted to provide parallels to the fantastic realm and to illustrate the greater theme of the story, but the reverse isn't necessarily true.
Right. Like, I don't think the Republicans were actually winning any territory in 1944. In fact, by then, the last remains of the Republican organization was busy smuggling Jewish refugees across the French border (for all its Inquisition rhetoric, Jews were remarkably safe in Spain, during the war).