The Year of Living Dangerously is pretty awesome though. I have a vivid memory of a speech given by Linda Hunt, when he/she waxes poetic about a Richard Strauss song -- one of the Four Last Songs, I think. Although, it's been something like 15 years since I last watched that film, and I don't know if it'd hold up.
Peter Weir movies were one of my gateways into classical music when I knew next to nothing about it. The Beethoven in Picnic at Hanging Rock -- shiver-inducing stuff. Gallipoli also had that gorgeous duet from The Pearl Fishers.
Weir hasn't really done much recently. I wonder why? Master and Commander was his last great film and that was years ago.
I had not realised Gallipoli was so well known outside Australia.
Speaking only for myself, I sought it out because I had the mega-hots for Mel Gibson. I swear I hit puberty watching The Year of Living Dangerously.
New Supes. Everything I hear about the story sounds stupid, but the visuals are looking good.
Well, that's Zack Snyder for you.
I sought it out because I had the mega-hots for Mel Gibson.
He *was* ridiculously beautiful when he was young, for all the crazy stuff that came after.
Gallipoli is also super-slashy. I didn't have a term for it when I watched it 20 years ago, but boy, was it ever.
I love Mel in
Mrs. Soffel.
He is wonderful in it and so is Diane Keaton as the warden's wife who falls for a prisoner. [link] Based on a true story and filmed in the prison where it actually happened.
It is hard to see it and think of what a wreck of a human being he has become.
Greatest Movie Entrances Ever? Spoiler for Seven, but otherwise most of us likely have seen/know these movies
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I feel like there are huge gaps in this list.
Greatest Movie Entrances Ever?
Frank N. Furter - Rocky Horror Picture Show
