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Frankenbuddha - Jun 21, 2007 6:09:59 pm PDT #9538 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Yeah, she's the ultimate in world weary Euro-disdain. I was very pleased and surprised to find that actress again in Eyes Without A Face.

She was pretty much the best thing not chewing the scenery (aka Charles Laughton) in Hitchcock's THE PARADINE CASE, but that's faint praise. Also, she's in the two "Three Mothers" movies Argento has made so far (SUSPIRIA & INFERNO). Sadly, though I heard he's finally making the third (and given his recent output, I'm a bit leary of that), she won't be in it. RIP Valli.

Laga - Jun 21, 2007 6:14:56 pm PDT #9539 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I think I just like Stewart westerns.

Cheyenne Social Club! Made of awesome.

Daisy Jane - Jun 21, 2007 6:21:05 pm PDT #9540 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Must. See.

I've heard that Stewart did movies like Liberty Valance after WWII and being disillusioned with American Rah Rah stuff. I find that very interesting with him being an icon and all. When did he do Harvey?

Strega - Jun 21, 2007 6:34:30 pm PDT #9541 of 10001

I’ve seen 52 movies on the new AFI list. Of the ones I haven’t, there are a dozen or so I really want to see, and a bunch I wouldn’t exactly seek out, but wouldn’t refuse to watch. And then there are these:

  • The Godfather
  • Raging Bull
  • Schindler's List
  • The Godfather Part II
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Rocky
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Titanic
  • Platoon
which are in the “Life’s too short for me to bother with that” category.

I love EWS, and the idea that it was in a rough state is utterly ludicrous,
Me too! Yay. And I think I remember that we both hated Raising Arizona. We're kindred spirits!

Laga - Jun 21, 2007 6:35:31 pm PDT #9542 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Harvey was 20 years before Cheyenne Social Club.

Laga - Jun 21, 2007 6:37:43 pm PDT #9543 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I've seen all of those except for Schindlers List (in its entirety) and the only one that makes me feel really sad for your loss is Fellowship of the Ring.

Daisy Jane - Jun 21, 2007 6:44:42 pm PDT #9544 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I have never made it all the way through Schindler's List. I don't do movies where people are awful to each other. I've seen the first tape. Won't do the second.

§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 6:45:05 pm PDT #9545 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I loved Godfather, even going into it braced against yet another classic, and the feeling some people had after Citizen Kane like when you have a really good spinach lasagne and you think maybe spinach is actually kinda tasty? Yeah, that. Then you go see Godfather II and you realise it's all about the preparation, and spinach can taste like crap after all.

I had a point. Spinach ate it.

Daisy Jane - Jun 21, 2007 6:50:14 pm PDT #9546 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I don't like the Godfather movies. I don't relate to anyone in them. Don't care at all.

I find Harvey very post-WWII, so I'm ... well, but Stewart is cool, so maybe not.

Strega - Jun 21, 2007 6:55:29 pm PDT #9547 of 10001

Well, my brother forced me to watch The Two Towers, so I feel pretty confident that I'd be just as irritated by the other two movies.

...Fucking elves.

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