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Post by karina on Jun 10, 2005 8:54:23 GMT -5
What's the last Kate film any of you have seen? I don't get much opportunity to see any on TV over here, and only have a couple of DVDs with me (most of my private video collection is back in UK). But to my utter amazement, GWCTD is just about to start on a local satellite channel and I can't wait! I've seen it several times before, but not for many years - I'm like an excited child just thinking about it! Must dash.........
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Post by Cate on Jun 10, 2005 13:47:43 GMT -5
A couple days ago I started watching Desk Set but didn't finish it... but the last complete Kate movie I watched was Bringing Up Baby. I made a friend of mine watch it with me to try and convert him to old movies (and Katharine Hepburn). Didn't work. I'm probably not going to hang out with him anymore.
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Post by Shaun on Jun 11, 2005 8:50:32 GMT -5
I saw Long Day's Journey Into Night for the first time. I loved Kate's performance but the movie was way too long. I saw parts of Suddenly, Last Summer on AMC the other day and I loved Violet Venable's exit scene. We see her get onto an elevator and it going up. Kates's face disappears into the darkness first followed by the rest of her body. I was mesmerized by this scene...the way it was shot just looked so cool. But the most recent Hepburn film I've seen was Bringing Up Baby. I've always liked it but for some reason this time I seemed to really get into it! It might be my new favorite Hepburn movie.
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Post by Richard on Jun 11, 2005 11:59:32 GMT -5
I watched 'Summertime' yesterday afternoon. It wasn't her best work, but still high on the entertainment value.
Tomorrow 'The Rainmaker' and 'Suddenly, Last Summer' on going to air on AMC. The Rainmaker is on at 2:30 a.m. and Suddenly, Last Summer at 5 a.m. Both Pacific time.
I'll be watching both, even though AMC is a film butcher.
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Post by Cate on Jun 11, 2005 15:25:54 GMT -5
If you haven't watched Bringing Up Baby with the commentary on the DVD version, you must! I was cracking up the whole time with the things he pointed out. It's probably one of the best commentaries I've seen (of Kate films). Definitely better than Desk Set...
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Post by Richard on Jul 2, 2005 12:48:15 GMT -5
I watched Love Affair yesterday. 6/10. And here's my official review which can be found below at my website... Allow me to further elaborate my feelings toward this movie and the actual reason I'm giving it a disappointing rating. Haven't you at one time or another ever gotten sick and tired of watching a movie with an unoriginal storyline that's been done one too many times...? And not even a great storyline to begin with it, it manages, or someone manages to recreate it for a modern depiction of what's in my opinion, nothing more than a sappy romantic comedy. If anyone has seen this movie will quickly realize (if you're avid film viewer) the similarities between this film and the 1957 version titled 'An Affair To Remember'. Which in all accounts, is superior in so many ways, Hell... even the more recent 'Sleepless In Seattle' from 1993, except without the heartbreaking climax. I found the two lead characters in this movie too unexciting, too uninteresting. 'Love Affair' stars Warren Beatty as Mike Gambril (a role previously and beautifully immortalized on screen by Cary Grant in 'An Affair To Remember', though of a different name) and Annette Bening as Terry McKay (a role previously played by Deborah Kerr alongside Cary Grant in the same film). To be quite honest, I didn't care at any point the events that would momentarily happen, though it is obvious what to expect. I was just about feed-up with this movie after a nice scene with Katharine Hepburn, which was really, the only reason why I decided to watch this movie in the first place. One thing is for sure, Mr. And Mrs. Warren Beatty are no substitute for Cary Grant or Deborah Kerr. And I believe most people will agree that the special appearance by Miss Hepburn is probably the one and only highlight in the movie. And I have every reason to say that, of course. I haven't seen the original 1939 version of 'Love Affair', and I have a feeling it's not even necessary. Warren Beatty co-wrote, produced, and starred in this modern take of 'An Affair To Remember'. But somewhere along the writing table someone screwed up and left us a completely uninspired script about two characters depended upon two actors who, in my opinion, never even had the star power to portray them. In closing, watch it for Hepburn, and listen closely for her insane expression for ducks. But if you're not a fan, just avoid it altogether. Either way, you've been warned.
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Post by Cate on Jul 2, 2005 17:48:15 GMT -5
Doesn't she say "Go f*ck a duck"? Just wondering.
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Post by Richard on Jul 2, 2005 21:47:15 GMT -5
Yes, but very softly. I had to go up close to my television set and increase the volume just to hear it. It kinda makes you smile, if you know what I mean.
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Post by alucino on Jul 4, 2005 2:27:03 GMT -5
The two last Kate films I've seen are The lion In Winter and Rooster Cogburn which I both saw this weekend for the first time. Even if Kate have been my favourite actress for awhile now and I've seen very well performances from other actors I've never seen a more incredible performance than Kate did in The Lion In Winter. I was so amazed that one could act like that. All performances I've seen until now isn't even comparable to hers in that movie. I've finnally seen what acting is all about and I really like it. Only from now on I'll be more critical to other performances... So seeing Rooster Cogburn after The Lion In Winter I wasn't much impressed at all, the least impressed of all of her movies that I've seen actually. The story was, In my opinion, not very trustworthy and the acting poor. Also I couldn't deny the resemblences I saw between Rooster Cogburn and The African Queen. The story was very much alike, don't you agree? And compared to The African Queen the movie got even more poor since The African Queen is one of my absolute favourites.
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Post by Shaun on Jul 4, 2005 9:54:45 GMT -5
Sometimes I hear that Kate's performance in Long Day's Journey into Night is her greatest and other times I hear it's her work in The Lion in Winter that is the most remarkable. I've never seen The Lion in Winter and just wanted to get some opinions here.
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Post by Judy on Jul 4, 2005 13:12:30 GMT -5
Hi,
IMO - that's a near impossible choice to make. To those two films I would add so many other of her performances because I think she gave so many sensational ones in her long career. But I read this recently about her towering performance in Long Day's Journey and I have to agree:
The director, Sidney Lumet, reports that she refused to view the dailies along with her co-stars becuse she didn't want to think about how she looked on camera, and certainly an utter absence of vanity is one the the virtues of her performance, along with emotional courage, and a brilliance of technique that American actors are rarely given credit for. And then her range of approaches to this single role (including the variety of ages she evokes, wearied by life one moment, recapturing her convent-school girlishness the next) surpasses what most actors play in the course of entire careers. I believe that this is the most extraodinary performance an American woman has ever given on screen, and that katharine Hepburn was the most gifted film actress since the advent of sound."
The above was in a tribute article called "She Was the Best," written by Steve Vineberg of the Portland Phoenix (I think). I found the article on the net not long ago but unfortunately don't have the link.
And I agree with every word he wrote. Her Mary Tyrone, to me, is her most courageous performance in a LONG list of courageous performances that certainly includes The Lion in Winter and Summertime and goes back to The Phila. Story, Alice Adams and Little Women.
I'm sorta biased :-)
Judy
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Post by smith on Jul 4, 2005 21:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by Cate on Jul 5, 2005 16:43:57 GMT -5
IMO, it would be Long Day's Journey into Night but when I watched The Lion in Winter I had gotten home at like 3 am and decided to watch a Katharine Hepburn movie in my just-sobering-up state. So... it's not a fair decision but I was blown away by her LDJIN performance.
Most recent Kate movie: Adam's Rib -- watched it on June 29th in her honor. lol Yeah, dork.
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Post by alucino on Jul 6, 2005 4:01:40 GMT -5
So Long Day's Journey into Night is even better!? I can't believe anything can be better than Kate in The Lion In Winter, but even it's only half as good it's amazing! I'll sure keep my eyes open for LDJIN from now on (haven't seen it).
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Post by Richard on Jul 9, 2005 19:03:40 GMT -5
I have a question.
I just finished watching 'Sylvia Scarlett' yesterday and for those who have seen the film there is a particular scene that takes place on the beach, which I believe was shown in the 'Aviator' when we're first introduced to Kate. Now, in Sylvia Scarlett she had short hair, and during that scene in the 'Aviator' she had long hair.
The only possible explanation I told myself then is that the director of Sylvia Scarlett, which was George Cukor, shot that beach scene very early on during filming before Kate had to cut her hair short for the rest of the film. (Anybody who has some knowledge of the process on how a film is made will know that in almost every case scenes are always shot out of order.)
But then I told myself that can't be right. Kate had short hair during that entire scene in Sylvia Scarlett, and many scenes after that. So... the 'Aviator' is wrong. Did Martin Scorsese foul up there? Or am I just confused?
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