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She’s certainly has a look and most times, she is just spectacular. Definitely not boring. I love all her fashion at Cannes. She has so much style and flair you can’t take your eyes off her. She just stands out, and she’s feminine. And although my favorite movie was Poor Things with Emma who was also fearless, Emma just doesn’t have that style thing that Anya has.
Neither is a villain. They are both victims. BTW you should see the 1934 film version. It is much better and is closer to the novel. The actress who passes for white - named Peola - is played by Freddie Washington who is actually black. I know the 1959 movie is hailed as great and on best film lists, but the other one is better and truer to the novel. Delilah in this version (who is Annie in the other) wasn’t a maid for long, but became rich with making a waffle business along with Bea (who is Lora), and both women shared a mansion in NYC. Peola (Sarah Jane) was just trying to get through life without suffering as her father did suffer quite a bit for the same reason. Delilah had a broken heart. I can’t help but think that by making Lora successful at being a stage actress appealed more to Lana Turner and is why they changed the entire plot. But, essentially in the novel and earlier film, they were successful business partners. And the later movie appeared to be more like a rich white woman and her maid. Ironically, that part mirrored (imitation of life) Lana’s own life in that she bequeathed a large amount of her estate to her own Hispanic maid and companion of 45 years.
Yes, Le Boucher with Stephane Audran. A serial killer of women in the Dordogne area of France where there are prehistoric art in caves that mirror the primitive killings. Somewhat of a lingering psychological ending as well. I saw it way after it was released. Why can you see some movies long after they are released that resonate and some that don’t? Psycho hit me like a ton of bricks with Janet Leigh on the bathroom floor and that long shot of her eye. I will never get it out of my head. The dissociative identity disorder was the topic I had with the poster who saw Psycho in 1960. On this category btw which posts are historic. He didn’t think the explanation was a positive thing for the movie and I thought I would need that if I was able to see it then.
Movies on lists are changing. The older submissions to BFI S&S are slowly dropping or being removed. There were no Bunuel movies on that list - no Melville. Heat and LA Confidential were not on the list. They are done every 10 years and as far as the 2012 list, I have only seen 6 out of the top 10. Yet, Tarkovsky had three films on the list. I just saw my first Tarkovsky film last week, Nostalghia. You have to see these in a theater preferably with a like movies audience. What I have noticed is newer directors and those in the film industry love Cassavetes, especially A Woman Under the Influence, which was way down the S&S list. Maybe it is a British vs. American thing.
I watch what’s coming down the pike at today’s Cannes. And Audiard, one of my favorites with Un Prophete, just got a 9 minute standing ovation for his new movie Emilia Gomez. It sounds fantastic.
I had the pleasure, actually on this website if you can believe, to be in a discussion with someone who saw Psycho at the time it came out. I think he mentioned his parents not knowing. He said it was like nothing he’d ever seen before or since but he had a problem with the ending with the psychologist’s explanation. I can see how today’s audience would wonder what is all the hype and I wonder what they think about The Exorcist as well. One of my favorites - kind of in this genre - made by Chabrol is Le Boucher (The Butcher) in 1970 and I saw it 35 years after it came out - and I think it’s one of the best films even with the some of the blood/cadaver scenes that don’t look real.
There are a lot of people who won’t see movies before certain time periods, like the 90s. Never heard of Vertigo, Hitchcock or even Casablanca. And you can be elitist or not, but just wonder what happened? Six months ago I saw La Dolce Vita for the first time - so that’s 65 years after the movie - I went crazy - I loved it. But I didn’t like as much 8-1/2, the favorite of all time other than Citizen Kane. And yet it dropped from top 10 to 33. For someone else seeing La Dolce Vita - they wouldn’t like B/W, wouldn’t like subtitles. There’s nothing wrong with liking Corman. Nothing wrong with giallos either.
Excellent movie. One of the greatest movies ever made. Actually, in 12 angry Men, not the content but the performances mirror those in Oppenheimer. We can go on and on and even include movies before and after 1960 including foreign films, but do you think OP (PersistentViewer) will be able to get acquainted with watching great movies and feel their impact? It’s an art to make movies, but it’s also an art to appreciate and celebrate them even though they’re way before one’s time and you see them years after they were made. If he/she was underwhelmed with Psycho, what can you say to such a person? Vertigo is no. 2 on Sight & Sound list, will he/she get that one? If all you’ve watched has been Corman.
You are correct. It’s Forbes not Lynch. Lynch is in the novel. I don’t really know much about the novel except what I’ve read online and that it has a couple of things that are different from the movie. One is that the killer has heterosexual relationships and the other is he doesn’t frequent leather bars. Also I think in the book, it’s suggests Lynch/Forbes is responsible for Ted‘s death.
But you are right. Friedkin wanted to make this a murder mystery and by being ambivalent of who was doing the killing, not only Ted’s, but also who was really the killer, achieved this. According to him, the killer is portrayed by two actors some also playing the victim but all with the same voice that of the killer’s dad but who also was dubbed by a different actor not seen in the movie. I just think when you look at Sorvino‘s performance at the end, you know that he thinks that Pacino is responsible for the bloodbath of Ted Bailey. Pacino starts wearing the same clothes as the killer. And why would he ever be angry with the “roommate” with that violent break-in and confrontation. This movie is a giallo and one of the best giallos. Sorvino was the greatest one in this movie. Actually, all the actors inhabit their roles. I also loved the voice. I didn’t think Pacino was right in it and the movie suffered for it. But Pacino was brave for what was expected of him to be this conflicted character and for making something so controversial. Friedkin wanted Gere initially who did American Gigolo. Both in 1980.
This movie was made 64 years ago. Can you name some other movies as old or older than this that you’ve just seen for the first time and that you liked a lot.
What did you think of 8-1/2. La Dolce Vita. Diabolique. The Apartment.
I just realized you were talking about the actual stalker. Making a distinction between that and the stalker in the series? I have to be honest I know nothing about the real one.
What is improved humor? And too much improved humor?
We’re saying the same thing. Only you said it better. I don’t think I wear anything that sounds like knickers. At least I hope I don’t. Re Homeland. I loved first two seasons and last two. My favorite scene was when they were at the Fat Parrot. I think The Veil will turn out to be enjoyable.
Homeland S1 was a phenomenon. The only comparison that could be made to The Veil is the photo of Elizabeth Moss with a backpack looking back much like the one with Carrie in a headscarf looking back. Homeland S1 had excellent writing with a great plot - an American soldier held prisoner recently released had been radicalized - but it was Carrie who was formidable. It’s not in the writing in The Veil that Moss is. You are told that she figures things out. She has intuition. If you watch The Veil because there’s not much on and maybe it can be entertaining is fine, but in no way can anyone compare this with Homeland. And Josh is good at being obstinate and American. You can’t compare Moss with Danes either. I loved Moss as Peggy but I’m not a big fan. I am always teetering - is she really good, no she’s not that good - she’s kind of just ok. Why am I watching her and I start to mentally recast.
I agree. The scene with the parents was touching and especially with the dad was unexpected. It was very moving. A lot of heartbreaking moments in this series.
Stalking is never good. But the real one was never convicted. Gadd himself has explained that he had used some artistic licence in parts and that the truth had been "tweaked slightly to create dramatic climaxes.” In his case, he crossed a lot of lines that others would have seen, which is why the op posted the post. I cried at the end of this series with the letter explaining the term baby reindeer. It was a little Blanche DuBois in the end. Don’t you think? “Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
This actress, Jessica Gunning, was memorable in an earlier British TV series called What Remains. My heart went out to her in that one too.
I did btw. I think clearly she was unusual from the moment she sat at the bar. She was very likable as well. But there were many times. Many times he could have left the conversation but he did everything to involve himself. He initiated the relationship actually because anyone else, especially a bartender, would have stopped it in its tracks. He was abysmal at his standup comic routines but she made him funny. And she made this movie and made him famous. What is she getting out of it. Death threats. And I loved her. I loved her laugh. I loved her conversation. She has a superior wit. I feel empathy and sympathy for her. Seeing her in that small apartment. Little to no money. Extremely intelligent. But not fitting in. Her childhood. And his story, although compelling and beautifully scripted (the actress who portrays Martha deserves an academy award), is kind of a betrayal.
Already done. Kowalski has the link. Peter O’Toole was nominated best actor. But it wasn’t about stunt men but a manipulative director (O’Toole) and a dead stunt man. One of the best movies ever. Fall Guy was the TV show. That’s why you see Lee Majors and Heather Locklear in the ending.
This movie is an homage to the stuntmen. The director (I liked Bullet Train too) was once a stuntman, so there is precision to every stunt and there are many. All the stunts are old school and practical - using real people, not AI or CGI. The movie sucked for you and maybe the other 6 people in your theater. Apparently, you all sat together for you to know what each other was doing. But where I was - and the tickets were twice that of yours - it was about 3/4 full and everybody liked it. Everybody laughed at the same places. There were mostly chuckles, some guffaws, but generally everyone seemed amused and left the theater happy. This does revolve around a murder mystery in beautiful Sydney. And by looking at the 30 minutes of previews before this movie, more movies of Quiet, more Marvel movies are what’s next this summer, although one looks interesting, Josh Hartnett in Trap.
It does have laughs. I don’t believe two people left the theater 40 minutes in. That’s about $40 down the drain. Maybe $50. I don’t believe anybody fell asleep in it. It’s way too noisy and full of stunts. They would have had to have taken something or hadn’t had any sleep for days. Seven in the theatre. Welcome to the new world after Covid. I don’t understand undercut by a character who can’t get hurt. He breaks his back in this. This is a movie within a movie. And this is also just a movie. Is he supposed to get hurt for real? I wish there was a Nice Guys sequel. I’d rather watch that than this movie. That’s where we are with nothing but remakes of 70s TV or remakes of anything. But this is not a bad movie at all. And the second half is much better than the first; everything comes together. Sydney also looks great.
And follows her to her apartment and watches her in that big window. In many ways, he’s more dangerous than she is. More dangerous than anybody. He inserts himself in people’s lives, starts a ruckus, and then steps back. Oh, poor me. Look at what I have to deal with.
“I do think she sent all these messages. And I do think that shows that she has an obsessive streak, certainly in relation to Richard Gadd. But I also think, by his own admission, he himself is a pretty damaged individual and he admits to leading her on.” (Piers Morgan)
What is the scariest movie to you?
This movie should have won the Oscar.
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