t also features Judy Geeson
also the school girl who had a crush on Sidney Poitier in To Sir With Love.
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
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quester - Sep 09, 2008 6:36:07 pm PDT #8047 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
DavidS - Sep 09, 2008 6:40:28 pm PDT #8048 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
also the school girl who had a crush on Sidney Poitier in To Sir With Love.
That's her!
quester - Sep 09, 2008 6:47:52 pm PDT #8049 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
It's one of my all-time favorite movies.
DavidS - Sep 09, 2008 8:18:04 pm PDT #8050 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's one of my all-time favorite movies.
I've got the soundtrack. It's a favorite among hip hop DJs/producers because it's got some very funky grooves for sampling.
sumi - Sep 10, 2008 4:35:58 am PDT #8051 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Video interview with Viggo Mortensen about Good.
sumi - Sep 10, 2008 4:46:09 am PDT #8052 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Good trailer - headline made me laugh: "Aragorn Fights Nazis with Lucius Malfoy."
Aims - Sep 10, 2008 4:47:39 am PDT #8053 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Note to Aimee: it also features Judy Geeson (in a nude scene), aka the Mean British Neighbor from Mad About You.
Woo! I *love* her!!
DavidS - Sep 10, 2008 8:43:55 am PDT #8054 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Brian Cox is interviewed at the AV Club and had an interesting notion that I'd never considered. I mean, I don't know if it's true or not, but it is an interesting take.
AVC: In the '70s and '80s, you didn't do many films, but from Rob Roy on, you've done a lot. What changed in your career?
BC: I'd always wanted to do movies, but if you grow up in these islands—especially where I grew up in these islands—the theatre is very powerful, very potent. It's a part of our heritage. Our culture is really a theatrical culture, not a cinematic culture. Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into "Everybody in their place and who's who," and all that. But the theatre's full of that. Especially in Shakespeare. So in a way, it behooves you as a British actor to try and master the classics and become a classical player. I got caught up in it. It wasn't something I wanted to do, but I was too late.
And right away, I'm thinking of a counter example, which is Japan. A feudal society with a great cinematic tradition.
Tom Scola - Sep 10, 2008 8:51:09 am PDT #8055 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The Americans and the French create great cinema because they were the two countries that led the invention of cinema.
England has great theater because it's the country that invented modern theater.
I just pulled this out of my ass, but it's at least as plausible as what he said.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2008 9:03:44 am PDT #8056 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just pulled this out of my ass, but it's at least as plausible as what he said.
Probably more plausible.
The thing that interested me about his comment wasn't its truth value or insight, so much as the way people work up grand conceits like that. Little cultural creation myths.