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Re: Overlooked films
[Re: olivant]
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08/06/07 06:51 AM
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Beth E
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The Man in the Moon with Reese Witherspoon. A chick movie for sure, but with five daughters I'm attuned to such movies. It was sensitive and revealing. Is this the one with Sam Waterston as the father?
Last edited by Beth E; 08/06/07 06:53 AM.
How about a little less questions and a lot more shut the hell up - Brian Griffin
When there's a will...put me in it.
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Re: Overlooked films
[Re: Beth E]
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08/06/07 10:30 AM
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Posts: 23,296 Throggs Neck
pizzaboy
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The Fuckin Doctor
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As you guys can guess, I absolutely love THE WANDERERS, having grown up around Fordham, and having heard my Dad and my uncles talk about the "Baldies" since I was a kid (Dion was a member but got thrown out because he wouldn't shave his head!). The ending is classic. I played alot of ball in that park as a kid.
Sidebar on Perry King- On the ROCKY dvd, with the commentary on, Stallone says that when the powers that be at UA finally gave the nod to make the movie, it was beacause one of the producers had just seen "The Lords," and mistook Perry King for Stallone. He liked his look!
What a twist of fate if you're Perry King, huh?
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Overlooked films
[Re: Don Cardi]
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08/08/07 12:18 PM
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Another underrated gem:
"SUDDENLY" (1954), dir. Lewis Allen. This taut (75 minute) suspenser circulates around a well-thought-out plan by a psychotic thug posing as a Secret Service agent(Frank Sinatra) to assassinate the President when his train makes a brief stop in a small California town. He comes up against the small town sheriff (Sterling Hayden in one of his best roles), his ladyfriend, her father (ironically a retired Secret Service agent--the plot thickens!) and the ladyfriend's 10-year-old son. Despite some obligatory (for the era) sappy dialog, this film is surprisingly tense and harrowing. IMO, Sinatra gives his best performance as the thug--alternately calm, competent and convincing, and then vicious, violent and psycho. Well worth watching!
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Overlooked films
[Re: DonMichaelCorleone]
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08/08/07 12:42 PM
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Posts: 17,300 New York
Sicilian Babe
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I always loved The Guys, starring Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver, adapted from a Broadway play. It was the first film (that I know of) to deal with the aftermath of September 11th. Although it is slow-moving at times, you are more than compensated by LaPaglia's superb performance as the fire chief at a loss as to how to deal with the deaths of so many of his "guys". Often touching, without being melodramatic, it perfectly captures how overwhelmed we ALL were in the aftermath of the attacks.
I never understood how LaPaglia was ignored come Oscar time. The Guys was a great movie, I'm glad a very intelligent and beautiful woman recommended it to me.... But I recommended that movie to you! Oh...
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Re: Overlooked films
[Re: Turnbull]
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05/28/13 06:59 AM
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Capo de La Cosa Nostra
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True Confessions (dir. Ulu Grosbard). Probably the least well-known great film of recent years. Robert Duvall's greatest performance (saying a lot for him), but everyone else in the film (starting with DeNiro and [yes, Mick] Charles Durning) are just as fine. The novel, by John Gregory Dunne, is one of my top ten. I just wrote a short article on this film for The Big Picture, a UK film mag: click.
...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
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