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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:08 pm
by Penelope
I agree, Grant is fabulous, it's a showy role, but she doesn't ham it up the way she did in subsequent films.
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:44 pm
by flipp525
--Sabin wrote:Really want to see Shampoo. I'm a very big Ashby fan. Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin? I can't imagine a better performance that year.
You should definitely see it, Sabin. It's fun, evocative, dated but in a hilariously good way and just a good ole romp. Lee Grant is fabulous. You really feel for her character at the film's climax. Better than Lily Tomlin? I can't really say. Both are wonderful in their own ways.
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:42 pm
by Sabin
Really want to see Shampoo. I'm a very big Ashby fan. Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin? I can't imagine a better performance that year.
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:17 pm
by jack
Standard Operating Procedure - 7/10
It was okay. I thought it might have been a major Oscar contender last year, but after watching it I can understand why it was ignored.
Nowhere near as good as The Fog of War.
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:40 pm
by mlrg
Shampoo (1975) - Hal Ashby
8/10
A gem. Trully wonderfull film with great performances from all the cast. The dialogue is really very weel written as well. I haven't seen George Burns not Burgess Meredith from the BSActor nominees of 1975, but Jack Warden really deserved the Oscar for this.
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:07 am
by Reza
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges, 2003) 7/10
Good to see that Malcolm McDowell continues to be typecast as a reptile.
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:19 pm
by inky
Lately cut down attending media screenings and instead watching screeners intensively at home - for Singapore Int'l Film Festival
Films that I watched in last 4 weeks ...
Distant Thunder (1973; India) - 7/10
Still Waking (2008; Japan) - 7/10
Thor at the Bus Stop (2008; USA) - 6.5/10
This Too Shall Pass (2009; Singapore - documentary) - 6/10
The Wackness (2008; USA) - 7/10
Wendy and Lucy (2008; USA) - 6/10
The Departures (2008; Japan) - 6.5/10
The Boat House (1961; Thailand) - 6/10
Climber's High (2008; Japan) - 6/10
Birdsong (2008; Spain) - 7/10
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (2009; USA) - 3/10
Yuri's Day (2008; Russia) - 7.5/10
Laila's Birthday (2008; Palestine) - 7/10
The Unborn (2009; USA) - 3/10
Gulabi Talkies (2008; India) - 6.5/10
Fifty Pills (2006; USA) - 5/10
Savage Grace (2007; USA) - 6/10
Helen (2008; UK) - 6.5/10
The Story of Mr. Sorry (2008; S. Korea - animation) - 7/10
Dragonball Evolution (2009; USA) - 3/10
Sell Out! (2008; Malaysia) - 7.5/10
Jalaninur (2008; China) - 6.5/10
Sincerely Yours (2008; Taiwan) - 7.5/10
Breathless (2008; S. Korea) - 7.5/10
The Vengeful Beauty (1977; HK) - 4/10
Six Degrees of Separation (1993; USA) - 6.5/10
The Fate of Lee Khan (1973; HK) - 6.5/10
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009; USA) - 4/10
Beautiful (2008; S. Korea) - 5/10
Hotel for Dogs (2009; USA) - 3.5/10
Watchmen (2009; USA) - 6.5/10
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:13 am
by Precious Doll
Innocence (1997) Zeki Demirkubuz 7/10
Soursweet (1989) Mike Newell 5/10
Le Nouveau testament (1936) Sacha Guitry 7/10
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:42 am
by Sabin
I Love You, Man (John Hamburg) - 6/10
It's The Paul Rudd Show. Enjoy.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:32 pm
by Damien
Shepherd's a lead. Eileen Brennan is the wonderful supporting actress who should have been nominated.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:37 pm
by Sabin
Oh, I think Burstyn perhaps should have won. It's a sharp, enigmatic performance with a lifetime behind it. It might be my favorite Burstyn performance outside of Requiem for a Dream. The Last Picture Show is one of the few movies I'll go 10/10 for.
Barton Fink - 8.5/10
Love it. Rosenbaum's review is brilliant but this is the Coen Bros. film that needs to be devoted entirely to fraudulence.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:17 pm
by mlrg
The Last Picture Show (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich
8/10
Very good film with great performances all around. Leachman and Johnson received well deserved oscars. I also think Cybill Shepherd should have received a nomination as well instead of Ellen Burstyn.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:02 am
by Big Magilla
Four 1933 films from from William Wellman:
Frisco Jenny (7/10)
Ruth Chatterton in an interesting variation on her Madame X character. She plays a pregnant girl whose fiance (The Crowd's James Murray) is killed in the San Francisco earthquake. She becomes a madam to support her son then gives him up to be raised by a respectable family. Years later he is the D.A. who prosecutes her for murdering gangster Louis Calhern, not knowing she is his mother.
Midnight Mary (7/10)
In her later career Loretta Young specialized in playing women of high moral purpose and character. Not in this film, made at the age of 19, where she effectively ages from 9 to 27, going from depression child to gangster's moll to angelic secretary to sophisticated lady to reluctant murderess. It was her own favorite film.
Heroes for Sale (9/10)
Richard Barthelmess is a World War I hero addicted to morphine who spends five years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit and ends up a "forgotten man". Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon and Gordon Westcott co-star along with a gallery of familiar faces. One of the three great Warner Bros. depression films along with Mervyn LeRoy's I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and this one...
Wild Boys of the Road (9/10)
Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips take to the rails when they realize their parents can no longer afford to care of them. There they meet hundreds of other adolescents in the same predicament including Dorothy Coonan, a 17 year-old chorus girl in 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 who Wellman cast in the role and who upon completion of the film became his fourth wife and mother of his seven children. According to Bill Wellman, Jr.'s commentary, the dance from 42nd Street which she reprises here she was still able to perform on her 90th birthday.
Wellman reportedly hated the studio imposed happy ending but it suits the material. After watching these kids go through hell for two hours you want them to have a chance at something better even if it is only menial work.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:14 am
by mlrg
Save the Tiger (1973) - John G. Avildsen
3/10
A complete bore. Rather dull and dated film. Jack Lemmon's performance is a one note perfonrmance. He's not bad but not oscar worthy.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:51 am
by Precious Doll
Jiyan (2002) Jano Rosebiani 4/10
Salvation (2009) Paul Cox 6/10
Duplicity (2009) Tony Gilroy 5/10
12 Rounds (2009) Renny Harlin 1/10