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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
9/10
A sweet, nostalgiac film with a terrific sense of its own place and story. Also, very well-paced. Jon Avnet now regrets having toned down the overt lesbianism in Fannie Flagg's novel, but the movie doesn't suffer too much without it. Anchored by Jessica Tandy's Oscar-nominated supporting performance, it showcases a fabulous ensemble of strong actresses including a wonderful Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Grace Zabriskie and Lois Smith. Flagg herself even pops up as a motivational speaker.
The beehive scene and the ending get me every time.
9/10
A sweet, nostalgiac film with a terrific sense of its own place and story. Also, very well-paced. Jon Avnet now regrets having toned down the overt lesbianism in Fannie Flagg's novel, but the movie doesn't suffer too much without it. Anchored by Jessica Tandy's Oscar-nominated supporting performance, it showcases a fabulous ensemble of strong actresses including a wonderful Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Grace Zabriskie and Lois Smith. Flagg herself even pops up as a motivational speaker.
The beehive scene and the ending get me every time.
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Big Magilla wrote:In the meantime I am going through the Murnau, Borzage and Fox collection on DVD.
It is on my list to buy....rather steep price on Amazon...but I suppose worth buying even though I have on video Sunrise, Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, The River and Lucky Star....all dupes.
Nights in Rodanthe (George C Wolfe, 2008) 6/10
The film is nothing special ofcourse but what a pleasure to see the star power of Gere and especially Lane (how badly she has aged...those frightning closeups of her wrinkles....yet she remains so sexy) going through the motions. It is not unlike the star power of Grant and Bergman in an equal piece of fluff...Indiscreet (1958).
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I'm still fighting a cold, which is keeping me from the serious driving necessary to take in Milk and Slumdog Millionaire which I hope to see in the next couple of days. In the meantime I am going through the Murnau, Borzage and Fox collection on DVD.
I've already seen Sunrise, which gets better with every viewing and remains 10 out of 10, the Murnau, Borzage and Fox documentary, which is 8 or 9 out of 10 for information and what is apparently all that is left of Borzage's The River and have watched part of Borzage's quintessential Lucky Star, which so far is right up there with his more famous Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell classics, 7th Heaven and Street Angel.
Incidentally the Fox in Murnau, Borzage and Fox is not the studio, but William Fox, the mogul behind behind the studio.
I've already seen Sunrise, which gets better with every viewing and remains 10 out of 10, the Murnau, Borzage and Fox documentary, which is 8 or 9 out of 10 for information and what is apparently all that is left of Borzage's The River and have watched part of Borzage's quintessential Lucky Star, which so far is right up there with his more famous Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell classics, 7th Heaven and Street Angel.
Incidentally the Fox in Murnau, Borzage and Fox is not the studio, but William Fox, the mogul behind behind the studio.
The Desert of the Tartars (1976; Valerio Zurlini) 8/10
In 1907, a young military officer (Jacques Perrin) from an unnamed empire is assigned to an isolated fortress at the frontier, where the soldiers wait and wait and wait for the unseen enemy to attack. A meditative study, which will either thrill you or bore you to tears; I lean towards the former.
In 1907, a young military officer (Jacques Perrin) from an unnamed empire is assigned to an isolated fortress at the frontier, where the soldiers wait and wait and wait for the unseen enemy to attack. A meditative study, which will either thrill you or bore you to tears; I lean towards the former.
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"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
I saw Fanfan la Tulipe (1952) two years ago when it played at Film Forum here in New York. It truly i a delightful movie. Light-hearted, fun and clever, it's a real soufflé, and is sly without (almost miraculously) never becoming coy. It's very funny, very joyful, very exuberant and Gerard Philipe remarkably charming and charismatic.
(For those unfamiliar with the picture, it was directed by Christian-Jaque -- a "Tradition of Quality" filmmaker -- and is a tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler set in 18th century France. Because of its mischievous and saucy tone, I have to believe it was an influence on Tony Richardson and John Osborne when they made Tom Jones -- but it is much, much better thasn that dated and labored comedy.)
(For those unfamiliar with the picture, it was directed by Christian-Jaque -- a "Tradition of Quality" filmmaker -- and is a tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler set in 18th century France. Because of its mischievous and saucy tone, I have to believe it was an influence on Tony Richardson and John Osborne when they made Tom Jones -- but it is much, much better thasn that dated and labored comedy.)
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For me it was the right film at the right time. It really does look and sound great on Blu-ray.
Its mournfulness, alas, didn't do anything to make me feel better. That took Fanfan la Tulipe, a total charmer which I finally caught up with on the Criterion DVD 55 years having been amused by the film's title when it was first advertised in U.S. newspapers as Fan-Fan the Tulip which made it seem like something very naughty in my ten year-old world.
Its mournfulness, alas, didn't do anything to make me feel better. That took Fanfan la Tulipe, a total charmer which I finally caught up with on the Criterion DVD 55 years having been amused by the film's title when it was first advertised in U.S. newspapers as Fan-Fan the Tulip which made it seem like something very naughty in my ten year-old world.
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I'm about here, though I'd go slightly above "mediocre," because it isn't the pitiable mess that Batman Begins was. Plus this one was far more about urban panic than anything else, which I can dig.Damien wrote:Am I the only one to think that Dark Knight was neither great nor terrible, simply just fairly mediocre?
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