I saw Hitchcock's last two movies today: Frenzy and Family Plot. The former was a solid and tense thriller, but I felt like something was missing, perhaps because it was the sort of movie Hitchcock had made many times before (wrongly accused man has to clear his name), just more lurid and disturbing (the villain is a serial killer/rapist, and there is a rape scene). The latter, though, was great fun and very entertaining. Barbara Harris is a hoot.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2011 8:44:08 pm PST #12975 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
megan walker - Jan 23, 2011 6:43:10 am PST #12976 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What's really fun about Family Plot is that it's filmed almost entirely in San Francisco, but they're pretending it's not.
Polter-Cow - Jan 23, 2011 7:08:34 am PST #12977 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I noticed that! When the kidnappers were pulling into their house on a hill, it looked so much like San Francisco, but I hadn't heard any references to where the movie was supposed to be taking place.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 23, 2011 8:07:35 am PST #12978 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, Karen Black looked great in her disguise get up.
FAMILY PLOT was the first Hitchcock movie I ever saw. It definitely skews your opinion of Bruce Dern, since I don't think he was ever cast that likable before or since. And, yes, Barbara Harris rocked.
Polter-Cow - Jan 23, 2011 8:49:58 am PST #12979 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I loved the scene when she was in the kitchen having a shushed conversation with Bruce Dern and intermittently CRYING OUT TO HENRY for the mark.
Cashmere - Jan 23, 2011 10:41:18 am PST #12980 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
The Uninvited is just starting on TCM -- the 1940s ghost story, not the new one.
I LOVE THIS ONE!!!!!
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2011 5:16:18 am PST #12981 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Liam Hemsworth says he's in the running to be Peeta in The Hunger Games.
He's not what I have in my minds eye, but blond he could work.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 24, 2011 5:38:53 am PST #12982 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Can he act? Thus far I only know him as Miley Cyrus' boyfriend.
Fred Pete - Jan 24, 2011 6:09:28 am PST #12983 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
It definitely skews your opinion of Bruce Dern, since I don't think he was ever cast that likable before or since.
It's hard to hate his character in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. But it isn't like he has much time to make himself hate-able.
tommyrot - Jan 24, 2011 9:14:36 am PST #12984 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For Hollywood, it was a tough 2010
Sales of DVDs, CDs, video games and theater tickets all declined in 2010. And swift changes in technology will make it difficult for Hollywood to capture pre-recession levels of revenue.
The industry that was supposed to be immune to economic downturns looks like it's going to have some re-entry problems as the economy begins to recover.
Broad swaths of the entertainment business declined in 2010. DVD sales were off 13%. Music CD purchases plummeted 19%. Video game sales as well as concert and theater attendance also fell. Even the turnout for America's favorite pastimes — baseball and NASCAR — was down. And swift changes in technology will make it difficult for Hollywood to capture pre-recession levels of revenue.
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But perhaps most ominously, last summer the pay-television industry suffered an unprecedented net loss — for the first time — of customers, a yellow warning light that consumers may no longer regard cable TV as a must-have utility on par with electricity and phone service.