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Tend to agree. The ones about figures of the past 100 years tend to lie and make up shit to tell the story. So probably do the ones about people hundreds of years ago but the lies are harder to research
But Love Actually has that couple body doubling sex scenes, sometimes in the nude. Possibly the most adult xmas movie of them all. Though I assume those scenes were heavily edited for broadcast TV.
Or a heavy duty sociopath.
Bradley Cooper or Cillian Murphy...need to see the Golden Globes and other awards...
Ok...good analysis of the field...we shall see...
Ok. The funny thing is that I felt Gladstone had little to do after awhile in the story so supporting would be a better fit. But maybe this split would be a win for the two of them in both categories. Who is the competion for Best Actress? Emma Stone? Annette Bening?
Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers might get that win...oh wait...I thought you meant supporting...Best Actress? No.
This is one reason Hitchcock used a lot of one word titles...Blackmail, Rebecca, Suspicion Saboteur
Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious Rope Vertigo Psycho Marnie Topaz Frenzy
Number One at the 1954 box office. Meant something then so..remembered today. Also in 1954, the WW2 veteran nostalgia was very strong. And, I think, Paramount's first movie in the new VistaVision process to battle black and white TV programming screen size.
I have to respond short style as ecarle, but...YES. I saw the 2023 TCM memorial earlier and hoped you would put it here, swanstep.
Cindy Williams speech from American Graffiti brought back the sweet pain of seeing that movie young...as did Suzanne Somers famous debut as the unattainable one. My favorite movie of a great year.
And the memorial leads off with the great Alan Arkin. Thoughts of my fave of 1967...Wait Until Dark.
Others...Richard Roundtree. Shaft and his theme song brings back 1971...also from 1971...Barry Newman as Kowalski in Vanishing Point..my friends and I watch that movie once a year and have driven the route together.
As always some people I didnt even know had died. Michael Lerner for one. From Barton Fink.
The inclusion of Matthew Perry carries its own special sting. His tortured road to death seemed inevitable and it came. But he sure was funny.
As always more inclusive than the Oscar ones and puts those to shame in focus and emotion.
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2024 too!
Other holidays where applicable!
Hmmm...sex scenes involving a woman with the literal brain of an infant. Will this affect awards season?
And yet few ...none? ...of them seem to go broke like so many screen actors of earlier decades. Higher pay and better money manager hires than the crooks who bilked old time stars, I guess. The new stars bank the money and fade out.
In Hitchcock's North by Northwest, James Mason is the perfect villain to Cary Grants perfect hero. Two great voices, two British born mid Atlantic suave men. And Mason's villain gets the best one liners. Mason set the template for villains from Goldfinger to Hans Gruber. Both Grant and Mason were offered the role of James Bond in the first Bond movie.
In between Spielbergs Jaws of 1975 and Lucas Star Wars of 1977, Williams scored Alfred Hitchcocks final film, Family Plot in 1976. Quite a trifecta: Spielberg Hitchcock Lucas. And Family Plot feels like a Spielberg movie because of its fanciful score.
Williams called the great composer Bernard Herrmann ...whom Hitchcock had fired from Torn Curtain after Herrrmann had scored Vertigo and Psycho, to ask permission to work with Hitchcock, which was granted. I saw Williams at a seminar in 1977 and he discussed this.
I like the 1941 march and I wish it had been switched to Raiders. Spielberg didnt say that, but he did say that 1941 was Williams best march.
Finally, Williams score for the third act blimp into Super Bowl climax of Black Sunday was truly thrilling especially as the blimp descended into the stadium. Too bad what followed on screen wasnt too good...
Sosa...alive at the end. Just like Tonys mother.
I liked harris yulan as mel. Only 2 scenes and he made his mark. First, believably bringing the chains down on Tony. (On Franks behalf.) Then thinking he can be left alone after Frank is executed. ("Its your tree, Frank. You climbed up in it.") Then "You cant kill a cop!" "Whoever said chu was one?" And then of course, "FUCK you!" going out not a bitch.
Thank you! I am now also roger1 for longer posts. Depends which computer I use. Cant help it!
Yes...there was clearly no scene of that nature in the print of Payback I just watched. 2 things drive nuts. 1 is that I remember thinking it was bad to give people ideas to steal stall to stall thats why I remember the scene somewhere. 2 is that it WOULD fit the opening sequence as Gibson steals a guys credit card and change from a beggars box. I will not rest til I find this scene even if its in another movie. It plagues me...
ecarle returns to note i just watched Payback on amazon prime and there was no bathroom stall scene. Nor any scene at an airport. I know I saw the scene as part of how Porter ran scams like picpocketing to get id and credit cards. Maybe the scene was in a bus or train station. I dont think I dreamed it. I DO think they took it out for tv cable streaming. Or maybe it was in another movie. Ha.
Because it is an Aaron Sorkin film. From his script for The Social Network.."If you had invented Facebook...you would have invented Facebook!" From his script for Charlie Wilsons War..."If you were supposed to be stationed in Helsinki...you'd be stationed in Helsinki!"