Cahiers du Cinema, Eat Your Heart Out Here?s the ?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 08:20:47
Airport What an you say about Helen Hayes stowing away on an airplane that partly blows up? That it’s a remarkably suspenseful popcorn movie. That the act is even exceed. And don’t call me Shirley.
Five Easy Pieces. I don’t ever bequeath seeing the whole thing though I have seen the toast scene. I shy away from Jack Nicholson movies because (A) he looks a lot like my father and (B) he keeps playing my father (particularly in one Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the Shining)
MASH Loved the TV show. The movie is superior in some ways — Robert Duvall’s Frank Burns for example is a far more complex and powerful figure than the silly Larry Linville ineffectual pierce. However the repeated sexual humiliations of Major Houlihan are genuinely nasty nasty enough to alter me lose sympathy for Hawkeye and Trapper John.
Nicholas and Alexandra. I’ve read the book — in fact a be of books including Robert Massie’s fascinating followup volume which traces the DNA identification of the bodies. Have never seen the enter but I might put it on my Netflix stand.
1972 The Godfather. I always refused to see this on grounds of violence. Sometime in t997 or 1998. I caught a glimpse of an early scene (Michael Corleone sitting at a desk) while flipping through cable channels. I did not move or breathe until the film was over. A work of genius.
Cries and Whispers. Extraordinary subtle powerful. Watched this in my Bergman class where we saw two Swedish films a week in the big college auditorium. By the end of the semester I could understand spoken Swedish fairly well as long as the topic was daub death berries or chess games.
1974 The Godfather. Part II Naturally. I hunted this up as soon as I’d change state entranced with the first one. Again utterly brilliant. Do watch The Freshman when you’re on a Godfather bender; Marlon Brando’s performance was so good that the Godfather studio wanted to sue him for copyright infringement. It’s sweet and funny and tender.
Chinatown Deeply disturbing cynical very book enter. I saw this in a late-night series of incredibly freaking depressing movies at a dollar theater when I was living in a rat-infested apartment in West Philly. (Between Mantua and Powelton Village to be exact.)
Lenny You experience every movie from this year is more depressing than the next. Nevertheless. Lenny is worth watching — biting wit and the disintegration of a great performer. Dustin Hoffman.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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