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Action, nonstop action, slow paced?
How can anybody compare this classic with Cobbbrrrraaaa.
It’s not on Criterion now.
I first saw her in Jamon Jamon. I loved Volver. I did see the strange one called Don’t Move that was in Italian actually. That one was kind of haunting.
But maybe you’re right because there have been very few people who are able to make the same movie twice in the same role - in her case, one in Spanish and one in English so you can compare. I don’t think I liked Vanilla Sky. I am not sure this was a movie to measure any performance as it just wasn’t really that good. Woman On Top was okay. I guess I just never really noticed that there was a disparity between a performance she did in either Spanish, English, or Italian. Whereas I have noticed this for a lot of other international stars when they make American movies. Some just don’t translate. Isabelle Huppert for example. One of the greatest actresses living and some of her movies where she speaks English aren’t that good. Earlier ones with Catherine Deneuve as well (Hustle in particular) - and this is the actress I most love. There’s a beginning, middle and now with Deneuve.
You’ll go crazy over Adele H., no pun intended. It’s a great movie. Adjani is mesmerizing.
Penelope Cruz was great in both Spanish and English movies. One of my favorites was Vicky Cristina Barcelona where she speaks both languages in the same breath.
Ashley was one of the most beautiful actresses to ever grace the screen. And an unbelievable and fearless actress. When I think of how many say Demi Moore was brave to do The Substance, I think Judd (and Michael Shannon) were brave to do Bug. And then sometimes I wonder if Judd had been able to make the movies I heard about where she was being considered and wonder if Weinstein did screw up her career and even her chance for an Oscar.
But don’t you think it was because it was in English - a second language for Adjani or maybe a third.
Honestly, why even watch this one. Watch the real one by Clouzot. Les Diaboliques, released as Diabolique - 1955. With Simone Signoret and wife Vera. Hitchcock lost out to Clouzot on this one. He really wanted to make it.
And stick with Adjani for Queen Margot, One Deadly Summer, Story of Adele H., Camille Claudel, Deadly Circuit, Quartet. And call it a day.
I loved Boogie Nights.
If all you saw was that HBO documentary and never read the court case files, and interviews with the other adopted children (especially Moses), not to mention the comprehensive investigation with Dylan’s teachers, psychologists, police and especially the statements of the Farrow staff and NY Times reporting and Dylan herself AT the time, then yes to what you say. Also to think about are the three unnecessary deaths of the other adopted children in that household.
She’s an excellent British actress. She was in Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona and The Town and Red Riding Hood: 1983 - and so many more really good films.
I know. I was being facetious. Ashley was great in this btw. Sorvino was also in Replacement Killers. So those two movies after the, poof, Oscar movie.
I saw the VPN thing later. I thought the same as you - could this guy actually figure out some way to watch episode 6. Lunacy and brilliance.
But I don’t think you save that much money as you have to do 24 months at a time. I think. And the monthly by itself is way more than a subscription monthly of say, Peacock. And you can cancel those anytime. But I am sure there is a way. There’s always another way.
It is huge. Getting out of that lockstep mentality is a major breakthrough.
I love this movie.
This movie buff guy is really troubled. He’s in a very strange place. I am sure someone has flagged him. If there are any missing women wherever he lives, they should check this guy out.
On another note, I commend you for being familiar and appreciative of The Day of the Jackal movies and novel. Yes, the scene where the cab drives the Jackal to the Turkish bath is great. He picks up a guy and goes to his swanky flat and stays there for days. He doesn’t kill him until he’s found out and even then it’s quick because the Jackal is a silent cold-blooded killer. Calling the original film archaic just shows that some people can’t adapt to a movie made earlier, and they can’t adapt to a modernization as well.
And the constant woke shoutouts - to some on this post if a black actor were cast as Othello - that would be woke.
Except I loved Redux so much so that when I recently saw the theatrical cut, I thought it was lacking. It lost its magic. Why? Because I loved the French plantation scene. To me, it definitely had to have that scene. Everything that led up to Vietnam had to do with French colonial power. I loved Indochine and I The Quiet American and even The Lover (L’Amant), and when I watch Apocalypse Now - that scene matters, especially the smoking opium part. I understand the Final Director’s cut edited Redux but kept this scene - I haven’t seen this version yet.
Finally.
I recall Mira Sorvino disrespecting him after she initially got her Oscar because of Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite when that’s her only claim to anything.
When was woke not alive? When did it actually begin in your estimation?
I loved this movie. This was one of Rourke and Dunaway’s best movies.
Another movie, although I don’t think it got good reviews but I thought it was interesting, was a Bukowski story with Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti - Tales of Ordinary Madness.
Most writers are alcoholic - especially the good ones - and at the middle and end it does get pathetic. Bukowski’s stories center around the seedy parts of LA and I find this fascinating. I also know where they are. Whatever he was, he was a great writer, and this movie and its performances were very well done.
Who would play Russell Crowe character?
I will never understand why there couldn’t have been more of these at the time to follow the books and that Crowe and Bettany would be in them. I know Weir said it was expensive, but in hindsight…. We all lost.
Block me or blow me a kiss. But unless someone else knows how, you can only stream this series on Peacock. Here. The US of A.