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“I mean, show me a woman who’s a CEO?”
Bumping up because this is great viewing in an election year
Catherine Deneuve’s sister
Teschmacher Peaks
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It’s pretty much true although tastes differ
But I’m sure many would agree that although she wasn’t on SNL for long Julia Louise Dreyfuss meets the criteria…
Uuuhhhmmm
Someone else has heard of Helen Merrill?!
I’m pleasantly surprised.
Fitzgerald has always been overrated imo and she brought down upon us the scourge of female scat singing so that’s a downvote lol. Only Louis and she could pull it off.
It’s Sarah Vaughan for me!
Anyone who’s interested should also look up Robin McKelle’s first album “Introducing RM” which has fantastic arrangements like Sinatra always did and a fun loose delivery.
Her later stuff is good too but they Diana Kralled and overproduced them.
Her first is amazing though and even though she’s female reminded me of Sinatra more than anyone else.
This thread is missing some more artsy farts choices…there were so many back then
Sophie’s Next Predicament
Out of Asia
The Nigerian Patient
A Room with a French Door
Terms of Estrangement
A Passage to China
Dead Screenwriter’s Society
You know…..now that I think about it, you’ve got
Bob Scissorhands
Nightmare Before Bobmas
Bob and the Chocolate Factory
Planet of the Bobs
Bobman of course
and Bob’s Big Adventure
I’d never really noticed this before! There’s probably others I forgot
However I do not believe he was involved with What About Bob?
It was ok…time will tell. Quite a different role compared to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for the actress!
I liked Elsbeth on CBS better though, kind of similar. That was new last year and a second season starts soon. That has a little more humor which I like. And you know who did it the whole time so it’s a different dynamic, just wondering how she’ll finally trap the person.
I just love The Conversation and there’s so much more there….throughout the film there’s a lot of religious iconography that symbolizes Hackman’s guilt over how he failed in his infamous previous job that gets discussed, and I have a (old!) post there about looking at this movie as a study of guilt vs. the usual focus on paranoia that the ending prompts.
It truly is a movie that requires multiple viewings to appreciate!
And it’s discussion board here is at a really high level and one of the best from the good old days
Things have evolved in fifteen years I guess, for the better….?
Nice work!
That’s why I brought it up, wasn’t sure if you’d thought of that before.
I have a thick skin as far as movies go but Chinatown is pretty frickin dark and quite a downer ending so I can see how it would bother her.
The Conversation though doesn’t seem that bad but I guess it could freak some people out…..especially if she was Catholic!
But it speaks to how great those films are that they effected her so much.
I just rewatched “Cuckoo’s Nest” for the first time in forever and I hope you didn’t take her to that lol
Not much to add to all this but….
It’s kinda criminal to me to mention Blow Up in relation to Blow Out but then not bring The Conversation into the discussion.
I point this out because Conversation is on my short list of greatest, favorite films
(Chinatown too)
And Coppola had the idea first to take Blow Up and translate it to sound instead of a visual image
Every one of these replies avoids the true answer. I have to wonder how many who replied know the real answer but push it aside, and how many really don’t know their own subconscious.
This is the scariest movie ever for many (most?) who see it partly because of the mood, way it’s filmed, slow realistic build, music, and good acting. Yes.
But the MAIN reason it’s so damned scary is that most of us fear, sub- or unconsciously at least, that this could really be true, that Evil, the devil, some form of invisible purely evil force could be all around us. Whether one is not religious, say agnostic, or even atheist, there’s always a doubt that the religion that’s surrounded us in our culture our whole life might be real. Even in people who don’t want to admit it to themselves!
I grew up in the 70’s but never saw this until I was home alone at about 20 years old….. and I couldn’t believe how much this frightened me when it was over! I was not at all religious at this point and I found “horror” movies just fun to laugh at and not scary.
After all it was just a movie, not real, why be scared! I’d laugh at people who got scared by a dumb movie.
So I thought about this one a lot and realized that even though I wasn’t religious there was a part of me that did actually 🤔 think, you know it could be true, after all what do we know about anything after death?
I had to admit to myself as I walked down a dark hallway scared silly that I never thought at 20 years old I’m gonna run into a monster or slasher or ghost…….but I couldn’t completely dismiss that I might run into a demon.
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