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About time! Crition releases Anthony Mann's western The Furies
This is a great movie and it hasn't been in print, or on cable for the last several years.
Walter Huston is incredibly good in this, as is Dame Judith Anderson. Barbara Stanwyck is less nuanced and in more of a Force Of Nature mode. Great supporting performances all around.
As the review notes, this is more like Mann's shot at King Lear than your average Western. The melodrama is a little big in places but it's got tremendous force.
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I guess we should expect many new characters in this one then.
Well, since Fillmore just passed away (RIP George Carlin), we'll need new.
Good list, Glam. You're no Brad Bird fan. You should see Toy STory 2, though. I think it's better than the first.
I'd put The Incredibles and Ratatouille at the top of my Pixar list and Cars at the bottom. My general animation list would include lots of Miyazaki and Bird at the top, but I'm too lazy to go through the whole list.
OT: Watched Altman's Kansas City last night, which was appallingly bad. Even the great jam sessions couldn't redeem all the bad will in that one. Maybe Bob had run out of weed when he made it.
But the music is great - I netflixed the movie a while back and went out and bought the soundtrack.
My theory is that the point of the movie is that all the political stuff that the people at the front of the story where doing which seemed so important were just transitory and all that really mattered was the music.
My theory is that the point of the movie is that all the political stuff that the people at the front of the story where doing which seemed so important were just transitory and all that really mattered was the music.
Oh yeah, I think that's true, but MAN, the main story is the first time I've really seen the misanthropic Bob Altman I keep hearing about. Not much of his humanism there. Doesn't help that I felt like shooting Jennifer Jason Leigh from pretty much the moment that she first opened her mouth.
Just watched Shoot'm Up and enjoyed it immensely, the only thing is, did they go out of they're way to make that baby as creepy as possible? Holy crap, it's Paul Atreides!
I don't see a lot of love here for Meet the Robinsons.
Of course, there's not a lot to love there.