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[Reza]

Glenn Close was certainly on a roll then......she was everywhere....on tv, the big screen and Broadway....winning or getting nominated for Emmys, Tonys and Oscars.

Close really was hot back then, wasn't she? Didn't she get nominated in support three years in a row? It's hard to imagine the reasoning behind her not having an Oscar yet. Although, to be thorough, the years in which she was nominated were either led by a clear, almost indominable frontrunner (Linda Hunt, Peggy Ashcroft) or a consolation winner (Lange). Dangerous Liasions might've been her best shot.

I was just watching the latest episode of Damages last night and I think it's really some of her best work. The tightrope she has to walk playing Patty Hewes is rather remarkable. She manages to be both vulnerable and vicious, sometimes alternately in the blink of an an eye.

Yes I would have preferred Close winning over Jodie Foster in 1988. If I remember correctly it was a surprise win for Foster (Jacqueline Bisset, amongst others, was shown in closeup and looked quite surprised) even though amongst the precursors she won only the NBR award and the Golden Globe (in a whacky three way tie with Shirley MacLaine and Sigourney Weaver).

I agree Close is superb in Damages. I still have my hopes up high that someday she might win an Oscar in the lead category......is that pesky film version of Sunset Blvd ever going to see the light of day???



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[Reza]

How Robert Loggia was nominated for this is a mistery. He just wonders around cursing everything.

Robert Loggia's nomination was recognition for his long career as one of Hollywood's most dependable character since the fifties (Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Garment Jungle).

Eighties audiences sat up and took notice of him as Richard Gere's father in An Officer and a Gentleman and two years later in support of Al Pacino in Scarface. He also had another major role in 1985 in Prizzi's Honor. He was considered due.

But what was that hilarious piece of dialogue he says to Close?

Was it ''Playing with yourself?"



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[Big Magilla]

How Robert Loggia was nominated for this is a mistery. He just wonders around cursing everything.

Robert Loggia's nomination was recognition for his long career as one of Hollywood's most dependable character actors in high profile roles since the fifties (Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Garment Jungle).

Eighties audiences sat up and took notice of him as Richard Gere's father in An Officer and a Gentleman and two years later in support of Al Pacino in Scarface. He also had another major role in 1985 in Prizzi's Honor. He was considered due.



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[flipp525]

Glenn Close was certainly on a roll then......she was everywhere....on tv, the big screen and Broadway....winning or getting nominated for Emmys, Tonys and Oscars.

Close really was hot back then, wasn't she? Didn't she get nominated in support three years in a row? It's hard to imagine the reasoning behind her not having an Oscar yet. Although, to be thorough, the years in which she was nominated were either led by a clear, almost indominable frontrunner (Linda Hunt, Peggy Ashcroft) or a consolation winner (Lange). Dangerous Liasions might've been her best shot.

I was just watching the latest episode of Damages last night and I think it's really some of her best work. The tightrope she has to walk playing Patty Hewes is rather remarkable. She manages to be both vulnerable and vicious, sometimes alternately in the blink of an eye.

Marcia Gay Harden has also really been exceptional this season as well as Claire Maddox. William Hurt, I've been less impressed with. I can't wait until we get to the finale.

I wouldn't call Jagged Edge "pure 80's trash". There are much worse films from that decade. It is a fun, not-that-great little thriller, but not a deplorable slag heap. I don't remember Robert Loggia in it, either, quite honestly. Did he have something to do with a typewriter at one point in the film? I certainly remember him in "The Sopranos" though...



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[Reza]

Jagged Edge (1985) - Richard Marquand

2/10

Pure 1980's trash with a terrible direction and lousy acting apart from a dreadful screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. How Robert Loggia was nominated for this is a mistery. He just wonders around cursing everything. This might also contain John Barry's worst film score. A really terrible film.

Yes totally trashy but a guilty pleasure.

I recall something very funny that Loggia says to Close when he first meets her.....forget what it was though!! I think he was nominated for just that scene.

It was also nice to see on screen after a long time Ryan O' Neal's ex wife, Leigh Taylor-Young. Glenn Close was certainly on a roll then......she was everywhere....on tv, the big screen and Broadway....winning or getting nominated for Emmys, Tonys and Oscars.



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[mlrg]

Jagged Edge (1985) - Richard Marquand

2/10

Pure 1980's trash with a terrible direction and lousy acting apart from a dreadful screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. How Robert Loggia was nominated for this is a mistery. He just wonders around cursing everything. This might also contain John Barry's worst film score. A really terrible film.

[Precious Doll]

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008) Chris Waitt 4/10

Blindness (2008) Fernando Meirelles 7/10

Let the Right One In (2008) Tomas Alfredson 7/10

[Franz Ferdinand]

The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitsky) 6.5/10

Not as emotionally involving as the subject matter would lead you to believe, it was merely okay.

[Big Magilla]

Whaddya know, a left-wing children's movie. And it's a film saturated with kindness.

Yes, and it stars that wonderful child actress, Abigail Breslin.



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[Damien]

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008 Patricia Rozema)

Whaddya know, a left-wing children's movie. And it's a film saturated with kindness.

7/10

[FilmFan720]

I just watched it recently (during TCM's 31 Days of Oscar), and not having seen it before or lived through the era, I found it dull and not that funny. I love Mazursky's later work (esp. An Unmarried Woman, which I also just caught), but this seemed scattershot. Gould came off the best, I thought. He was funny and heartbreaking, especially during that last scene. Wood was never lovelier, but she and Culp were boring as hell.

[Reza]

What stood out for me this time was how good Dyan Cannon was. Possibly because, uptight as she was, she came closest to embodying the audience's "are you people serious?" responses. ......... given how funny much of it was -- particularly the Cannon/Gould bedroom scene -- that was a limitation with which I could live.

I thought Cannon was hilarious in the scene with her analyst.

[Reza]

Wood looked great, but didn't do anything special, nor did Culp.

How funny.....I thought these two came off more natural than Gould and Cannon.

[Mister Tee]

Wow -- duelling responses posted simultaneously.

[Reza]

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969) 7/10

Really? I thought this thing was just silly in 1969 and downright embarrassing now. And I generally like Mazursky's films.

I was all set to be embarrassed but was quite pleasantly surprised. Who knows it could be because I am down with the flu and am generally feeling miserable.......and all that ''love'' talk perked me up a bit.

Bob Culp and Natalie Wood (at her loveliest) come off better than the two nominated actors....Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon. And I loved the costumes worn by all four stars.



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