They remade Flatliners? Huh.
With Grantchester! I realize that is not the character's name.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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Jesse - Sep 11, 2017 2:57:44 am PDT #994 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Calli - Sep 11, 2017 4:29:47 am PDT #995 of 3463
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
They remade Flatliners? Huh.
With Grantchester! I realize that is not the character's name.
Oh, yeah, Ultron, right?
Jesse - Sep 11, 2017 4:35:07 am PDT #996 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not Ultron, this guy: [link] Oh, you're thinking of Paul Bettany, I bet.
EpicTangent - Sep 11, 2017 6:58:47 am PDT #997 of 3463
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
With Grantchester! I realize that is not the character's name.
Glad I'm not the only one thinking this! (Every.Single.Time.)
Calli - Sep 11, 2017 9:14:13 am PDT #998 of 3463
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I was totally thinking Paul Bettany. Huh.
SuziQ - Sep 11, 2017 9:44:33 am PDT #999 of 3463
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Paul Bettany
Hmmmmmm. Yummy.
Beverly - Sep 11, 2017 1:47:46 pm PDT #1000 of 3463
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oooh, he played a really nasty character in Happy Valley, too. I prefer to recall him as Grantchester. Floppy haired, sweet but troubled drinker. A gentler character, from a more civilized age.
And Bettany has done excellent work in so many different projects, but to me he will always be Chaucer, from A Knight's Tale. "Tha one, tha only, Sir Uuuuulrich von Lichtenstein!"
juliana - Sep 12, 2017 5:16:42 am PDT #1001 of 3463
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
And Bettany has done excellent work in so many different projects, but to me he will always be Chaucer, from A Knight's Tale. "Tha one, tha only, Sir Uuuuulrich von Lichtenstein!"
We are one in this.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 12, 2017 2:33:05 pm PDT #1002 of 3463
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just watched the Netflix original documentary Heroin(e), about 3 middle aged women (a fire chief, a judge, and a missionary) fighting heroin and other drugs in West Virginia, and if there is one property that is crying out for Melissa Leo to play the fire chief, it is this! They look and sound so much the same! I am now trying to cast the other two ladies mentally, but it almost seems like Melissa Leo is the only working actress playing over 50 but under 60!
ETA- Looked over other actresses born about the same time as Melissa Leo, and I think Bonnie Hunt should play the judge and Sharon Lawrence the missionary, but I don't think they get a lot of work...
Vonnie K - Sep 13, 2017 4:01:54 am PDT #1003 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
At TIFF. Saw The Shape of Water yesterday and Good Lord, is that movie ever made for Buffistas. It was all that the trailer promised and more, a ravishingly romantic fable about a girl and her fish prince, played completely sincerely and with all the virtuosic cinematic skills del Toro has in his arsenal. Michael Shannon gives that dude who played Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth a run for his money as a terrifying monster in a human-face.
I went to an afternoon showing and was pleasantly surprised by del Toro showing up for a Q&A afterward. He was hilarious and passionate and had an endearingly potty mouth and I could have listened to him talk for hours. My kittens are on this film winning the People's Choice Award (the biggest prize a film can get in TIFF, which is not really award-driven). The only other film I've seen that could give it competition is Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig's marvellous directorial debut.
Other than those two, it's been hit-and-miss at the festival. Quite a few well-intentioned films that made me do a side-eye and go, "O'RLY"? Ones that would be worth seeking out if they ever became available here: BPM, about the AIDS crisis and the lives (and deaths) of its activists in Paris in late 80s and early 90s, which was both angry and tender and made me ugly-cry several times; Under the Tree, an Icelandic film about an escalating neighborhood dispute that went to all kinds of places I wasn't expecting. It had this amazingly deadpan and black sense of humour that struck me as very Scandinavian.