I really enjoyed Summer of 85' as well. Benjamin "David" Voison can also be seen playing sweet, sympathetic rent boy Jean (a very revealing performance) in Rupert Everett's The Happy Prince, his 'labor of love' that picks up where Wilde leaves off. A glimpse of Oscar Wilde's life in France...
It's still a comedy through and through, but did represent a radical departure from his norm. It was strictly an adult comedy (remember those?) and doubt it would have really appealed to you in 1979 (I was 12 and I had NO interest in it until years later)
It's also famous for being Candice...
I am still positively flummoxed by this one. I usually detest movies like this (if you know, you know, is all I can say) and, by all accounts, this should not have remotely worked as well as it did. Yet there I was (and there I remain) devastated and bawling like a baby over it. I don't get...
Thank you for the kind words, Philip, but it's really not as altruistic as it sounds! The purpose is to get a lot of "watchers" early on and run the auction for at least a week so they can follow it and bid against each other. None of them sold for a penny, lol.
It's been awhile but I think I...
You're going to hate me for saying this, but (although it's a bit of a pain) I bought the Sony Pictures Classics 4K box because I was desperate for the 4K of Call Me By Your Name. I put all the others on ebay (starting at a penny) and let the marketplace decide how much they were worth to...
Well, I'm interested in is His Girl Friday and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? so MAYBE we can find someone (or some ones) interested in Sleepless In Seattle, Kramer vs Kramer, and Punch Drunk Love and make a proper split of it!
(and I'm only half-joking)
The same is also true of the Ralph Richardson/Diana Rigg/Deborah Kerr TV remake from 1982. No real effort is made to completely fool us, which both movies could have done if they really wanted to.
If you're talking about what I THINK you're talking about, I honestly believe that we're always supposed to see through it and feel ourselves clever for having done so. I mean, the surprise to the audience isn't . I've always treated it as a red herring.
Of course, If you're talking about...
September 2nd fell on a Monday in 1957 and wouldn't do so again until 1963. I think it's safe to assume the newspaper ad for the show at Bluefield Auditorium in West Virginia is most likely from 1957.
I just saw this and I am absolutely gutted. What a marvelous, devastating movie this is. I haven't finished processing it all as yet.
Tremendous, indeed.
I honestly don't think so. I logged in to vinegarsyndrome.com from my work computer just now and $39.99 is the price that's displayed for anyone.
https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/little-darlings
I thought it was an Irving Berlin musical called Say It With Songs and, after the box office debacle of Darling Lili at Paramount, MGM wound up paying her off to the tune of a million dollars rather than make it. Am I "misremembering?"
In my opinion,
I want to say that, when I said we could see things coming, I didn't mean to imply that we could see them clearly from the very beginning (I certainly couldn't.) I just meant that we could guess at most of them (with certain exceptions) before they happen. I think that's half...
Since you asked, of course I believe it's intentional. It gives us an almost delirious look at what might have happened to had been . It's a deliciously dark comedy with large dollops of absurdist satire. I get that it didn't work for you, but I'm sort of amazed that anyone wouldn't realize...
I saw this on Saturday. I found it an exhilarating experience and thought Emma Stone really knocks it out of the park with able assist from Ruffalo (a truly wonderful performance) and Dafoe. A lot of the production design reminded me of Fassbinder's Querelle, but I thought this one was both...
I can assure you I am a grown-up and have seen good movies and read great novels that cover roughly the same ground. For my part, I loved every minute of it and have seen it once in cinema and three more times streaming. I happen to think it's masterful.
If you didn't care for it, that's your...
To add on to what Mark wrote about new or upcoming queer treats, I'm absolutely obsessed with Emerald (A Promising Young Woman) Fennell's new film, Saltburn. It will NOT be to everyone's taste, in fact it may me one of the most depraved things I've seen in recent memory. It's already proving...