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Pure cinematic charisma: Romy Schneider's screen tests for Clouzot's unfinished L'Enfer.
I don't know another actress that has quite Romy's mix of beauty, warmth, wickedness, sensuality and play. But I'd like to see Cate Blanchett try.
I know I've mentioned it before, but Romy's on my short list of great under-appreciated beauties of the sixties along with Capucine and Charlotte Rampling. (All three of them having more than a whiff of decadence, I'd say.)
So Thor and Odin and Baldur and Loki and the Giants are all aliens? Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
Apparently they did it in the comics too. Where they also had an Asian Asgard, but nobody's whining about that too loudly.
Remember, the Marvel Asgardians are one of Kirby's early versions of what would become the DC New Gods, who are explicitly Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
I forgot how awesome Blake Edwards' Honorary Oscar acceptance was.
Is there an app that can excise Jim Carrey from that clip?
The Thing-inspired Xmas card: [link]
I've never seen The Thing, so I don't get it, but people who have seem to be digging this.
They called The Thing a "Space Carrot" since it was a plant-based life form. So that card is very funny!
So, having seen TRON: Legacy a second time......
Still a lot of fun. Characters look a little thinner(I didn't realize how much of a cipher Sam is the first time around). Still think Quorra could use some more agency. Picked up on some thematic stuff and character parallels I missed the first time around.
Still have no idea where the bitterly angry reviews are coming from.
I saw The Fighter tonight, Mark Wahlberg's labor of love about two boxing brothers from Lowell, MA. I can't say I really enjoyed it, because it's a boxing movie, and I spent 50% of the boxing scenes with my hands over my eyes. And there's a lot of boxing.
That said, it's an excellent recreation of a run-down New England mill town in the early 90s, and the working class and poor folks who were damaged by the crack epidemic. It's got class issues and seriously fucked-up family dynamics, and three killer acting jobs at its center:
Melissa Leo as Alice, who is astonishing in the role of the brassy, hard-bitten mother of nine.
Amy Adams as the girlfriend of one of the brothers: she is totally believable as a college dropout who tends bar and parties too hard.
Christian Bale, as the older brother who got some early fame for knocking Sugar Ray Leonard down in the late 70s. Bale is disturbingly good in the role, playing a pretty loathsome character.
Anyway: great acting, good writing (despite a couple of cliche'd training montages), great production design down to the hair and the music. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I would like to because I really don't like actively unpleasant family dynamics: that's the shit I can get at home if I want. Also, boxing.