movies

[Vidor]

Footage from legendary disaster and unreleased Jerry Lewis film "The Day the Clown Cried" is leaked

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... caust.html

[stlouie_lipp]

Footage from legendary disaster and unreleased Jerry Lewis film "The Day the Clown Cried" is leaked

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... caust.html

Who's the girl at 2:07? Wow!

[Vidor]

Footage from legendary disaster and unreleased Jerry Lewis film "The Day the Clown Cried" is leaked

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... caust.html

Who's the girl at 2:07? Wow!

That appears to be the female lead, Harriet Andersson

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027683/


http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1811460608/nm0027683

[Vidor]

For anyone who's not up on this story and is curious, an old magazine article on "The Day the Clown Cried", including quotes from Harry Shearer, who saw a rough cut

http://books.google.com/books?id=bsf3-G ... &q&f=false

[Freed Roger]

For anyone who's not up on this story and is curious, an old magazine article on "The Day the Clown Cried", including quotes from Harry Shearer, who saw a rough cut

http://books.google.com/books?id=bsf3-G ... &q&f=false

thanks. I was not up on that story. Interesting reading

[Vidor]

Footage from legendary disaster and unreleased Jerry Lewis film "The Day the Clown Cried" is leaked

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... caust.html

Who's the girl at 2:07? Wow!

That appears to be the female lead, Harriet Andersson

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027683/


http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1811460608/nm0027683

The subtitles to that video reveal that I was wrong. Her name is Jane Birkin.

[Cole Burns]

I finally watched Upstream Color last night. Woke up thinking about it again. It was such a beautiful movie. I didn't care that I didn't understand what it was about. But I totally did, actually. At least I got some of his major themes. But I think that was the problem - there were too many themes. It was as if he waited 10 years and had all this stuff built up and then vomited it out on screen. He definitely needed to rein some of that in.

Having said that, I would recommend anyone watching it just for the cinematography alone. That and the dialogue which was very similar to the pacing of Primer but more mature. He's made 2 movies - one of which was a low budget sort of hack together job - and he's easily one of my favorite movie makers.

[go birds]

Anyone see MUD? Looks intriguing and this might be one where MM hits instead of misses. Looks like be in the same mold as Killer Joe

[Vidor]

MM has been hitting quite a bit lately. Having himself a career renaissance after all those years of being shirtless in romcoms.

[thrill]

Anyone see MUD? Looks intriguing and this might be one where MM hits instead of misses. Looks like be in the same mold as Killer Joe

http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewto ... start=5490

Mud - Matthew McConaughey is the most interesting actor alive. If you had told me two years ago that I'd ever feel that way, I'd have laughed in your face, but here we are. This is the latest in a series of excellent films he's starred in over the past couple years, and other than Killer Joe probably the best of the lot. Though, as great as he is, the heart of the film is the interplay between Tye Sheridan as Ellis and Jacob Lofland as his best friend Neckbone - think Stand by Me or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which Nichols admits to shamelessly copping from during filming). Meanwhile, Nichols manages to touch on what it means to be a man from several different aspects: chivalry, toughness, loyalty, responsibility to family, love, et al. It's an incredibly well-structured film: entertaining, emotionally involving, smart.

Saw it this weekend. So good.

Matthew McConaughey inexplicably morphed into our Robert Mitchum. Even in his good characters, you can sense a menace or derangement just below the surface.
The movie is excellent. You know everything you need to know about growing up on an Arkansas river delta town without any unnecessary exposition or over the top caricatures of white trash life. The visuals and directing is just top notch. You really see the town and supporting characters through Ellis' point of view. The acting is phenomenal and it captures what it's like to be a kid and to not understand the nuances and complications of being an adult, seeing everything in black and white. It's a coming of age story that isn't all that triumphant about how adulthood isn't anything like you imagine when you're a kid. It's disappointing, hard and full of contradictions and complications.