Toronto Argonauts
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2007
- Messages
- 562
- Real Name
- David Thompson
Tonight:
Fitzcarraldo (Shout BD) 1982. Werner Herzog, an obsessive film director, tackles another film about a man with a single-minded obsession to bring opera to the Amazonian jungle in the first decade of the 20th century, the actor playing him being none other than the obsessed Klaus Kinski. Incredible location images give life to this incredible tale of two cultures meeting (European and Jivaro) via the extraordinary recordings of Enrico Caruso, the miracle of the human voice lifted in glorious song.
Given Lindsay Lohan's very public troubles later in life, it's easy to forget just how insanely talented she was from an early age. At the age of eleven, she was pulling off the same feat that Tatiana Maslany won an Emmy for on "Orphan Black" -- and more or less as successfully. Two characters with different accents, different personalities, and different body language that are pretending to be one another for long stretches of the movie, and you're never confused as to which is which. Lohan is flawless as each character when they're themselves, and flawed in some relatively subtle ways when they're pretending to be the other twin. I wasn't sure, over two decades later, that the visual effects would hold up. But they do, beautiful. The movie gets by with body doubles quite a bit, but when it does use compositing to have Lohan acting against herself, the effect is seamless. And Lohan's timing and eyelines are impeccable.