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Post by Judy on Oct 25, 2008 10:54:21 GMT -5
oh geez. Kissing Jessica Stein is pretty ridiculous. Did you like it? yes, in fact, i like it quite a lot. i think tovah's scene on the porch with jessie ... when jessie is trying to say she loves a girl .. and mom/tovah says "i think she's a very nice girl" .. well, that moment alone floors me. the movie is based on a theatre piece that the two leads developed .. then they made into this movie on a shoestring .. i think its pretty adorable, and a love story to new york as well as to finding love where you find it ... I, too, liked this movie and I LOVE Tovah Feldshuh...By the way, some of you here may know - but some may not - that she played Kate in a 1977 TV movie called "The Amazing Howard Hughes," starring Tommy Lee Jones. It's been over 30 years since I saw it and I think that even then I said, "well, nobody can play Kate," but I seem to recall that she was a better fit in the role than Cate Blanchett. My memory could be playing tricks on me, though. The movie's available on DVD, I think, but it is apparently a chopped up version, so I don't know what, if any, of her scenes remain.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 25, 2008 12:17:08 GMT -5
yes, in fact, i like it quite a lot. i think tovah's scene on the porch with jessie ... when jessie is trying to say she loves a girl .. and mom/tovah says "i think she's a very nice girl" .. well, that moment alone floors me. the movie is based on a theatre piece that the two leads developed .. then they made into this movie on a shoestring .. i think its pretty adorable, and a love story to new york as well as to finding love where you find it ... I, too, liked this movie and I LOVE Tovah Feldshuh...By the way, some of you here may know - but some may not - that she played Kate in a 1977 TV movie called "The Amazing Howard Hughes," starring Tommy Lee Jones. It's been over 30 years since I saw it and I think that even then I said, "well, nobody can play Kate," but I seem to recall that she was a better fit in the role than Cate Blanchett. My memory could be playing tricks on me, though. The movie's available on DVD, I think, but it is apparently a chopped up version, so I don't know what, if any, of her scenes remain. I remember Tovah Feldshuh from Holocaust - the Hebrew Czech Helena - Rudi's girlfriend- what a lovely face. Could it be that The Amazing Howard Hughes is the one where we see "Kate" visiting Leland at his bed?? Am asking because many years ago got into a film where "Kate" vistited Leland on his dying bed - but don't recall the titel.
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Post by Judy on Oct 25, 2008 12:26:47 GMT -5
I, too, liked this movie and I LOVE Tovah Feldshuh...By the way, some of you here may know - but some may not - that she played Kate in a 1977 TV movie called "The Amazing Howard Hughes," starring Tommy Lee Jones. It's been over 30 years since I saw it and I think that even then I said, "well, nobody can play Kate," but I seem to recall that she was a better fit in the role than Cate Blanchett. My memory could be playing tricks on me, though. The movie's available on DVD, I think, but it is apparently a chopped up version, so I don't know what, if any, of her scenes remain. I remember Tovah Feldshuh from Holocaust - the Hebrew Czech Helena - Rudi's girlfriend- what a lovely face. Could it be that The Amazing Howard Hughes is the one where we see "Kate" visiting Leland at his bed?? Am asking because many years ago got into a film where "Kate" vistited Leland on his dying bed - but don't recall the titel. I don't think that scene you remember was from this film, as Kate wasn't the subject and my recollection is that, as in The Aviator, her role is only part of the bigger picture of Hughes's life. But, again, I haven't seen it since it first aired so I may be mistaken....I don't recall ever seeing a film where she visited Leland.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 25, 2008 12:56:55 GMT -5
Then it might be the film about Pamela Churchill Harriman - the scene with Kate was about 2-3 Min.
If I remember right - the woman ?Pamela? told Kate that she was the true love of Leland. Does that say you anything?
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Post by Judy on Oct 25, 2008 14:51:24 GMT -5
Then it might be the film about Pamela Churchill Harriman - the scene with Kate was about 2-3 Min. If I remember right - the woman ?Pamela? told Kate that she was the true love of Leland. Does that say you anything? I know the story from Brooke Hayward's book and other sources but have never seen a scene of it depicted. Now you have aroused my curiosity....
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Post by dreamer on Oct 25, 2008 17:21:28 GMT -5
The funny thing was - I didn't realize that it was supposed to be Kate before it was almost over
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Post by Hep on Oct 25, 2008 22:30:07 GMT -5
lets see, I saw Kitty Foyle today, finally. she won the academy award for it no? yea and she took it from Kath in TPS..ugh I think so LOL
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Post by lionessinwinter on Nov 2, 2008 19:00:10 GMT -5
I haven't been on the board in awhile but was still watching movies of course The movies I have watched lately are Candy with Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish. Not a classic per se but still a wonderful film sad but great. It makes me miss Heath all the more and the talent we miss. And today I watched A Streetcar Named Desire and all I can say is WOW ! Vivien Leigh was fabulous as well as Marlon Brando. Obviously I have missed quite a few great movies in my classics education thank goodness for You Tube !
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Post by babytheleopard on Nov 3, 2008 16:01:54 GMT -5
Vertigo- I still hadn't seen this movie and I loved it. I watched it on YouTube. The story was quite strange but that's what I think made it so good...it was just so different. And the filming and the music was amazing. This film is WAY ahead of its time! Kim Novak was amazing. I just felt Jimmy was too old for her haha...that tends to happen a lot in the older films. The paranoia scene is amazing when Jimmy has that dream. I think the music made the film...it was so eerie and fit the story. The scene in the woods is probably the best scene, the music and cinematography is just great for it. Anyway, I won't ruin it for people who haven't seen it. But if you haven't definitely go watch it! And lioness, Streetcar is amazing! I haven't watched it in so long but definitely really enjoyable. Brando yelling STELLAAA!!! is priceless hahaha. And yes, thank goodness for YouTube! I've watched so many movies on it
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Post by Tracy Lord on Nov 3, 2008 22:54:10 GMT -5
Sorrowful Jones and Golden Boy. Loved them.
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Post by Jone on Nov 5, 2008 9:21:10 GMT -5
Yesterday I watched Undercurrent on TCM. I didn't almost remember what was the movie about, and it was a beautiful surprise to see it on TV.
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Post by lionessinwinter on Nov 7, 2008 16:10:39 GMT -5
Today I watched on our On Demand free movie service a movie called Hard Candy with Ellen Page of Juno fame and Patrick Wilson who was in a movie called Little Children in 2006 with Kate Winslet . I don't want to give the entire movie away but let's just say that it throws the average pedophile storyline for a roller coaster loop then flips it over and turns it inside out. It is a psychological thiller but also a drama with some small moments of comedy thrown in (very small I might add) it is NOT for the faint of heart I will say that there is a lot of implication and nothing overtly sexual but it is intense.
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Post by martha on Nov 15, 2008 19:28:40 GMT -5
A RAISIN IN THE SUN (play and movie) .. fabulous! [the musical of it .. RAISIN ... is also worth a look sometime] ... set in the HYDE PARK neighborhood at the south end of town .... where the university of chicago is ... a great play based on events experienced by lorraine hansberry's family ....
i'm off to see a production of lillian hellman's THE AUTUMN GARDEN this evening ....
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Post by dreamer on Nov 16, 2008 4:11:12 GMT -5
I saw The Birch Tree Meadow yesterday. Marceline Loriadan-Ivens is both the author and director. I would guess that its kind of a autobiopgraphy. A very rare and one-of-a-kind film how Holocaust affected. We follow Myriam (Anouk Aimée) - now living in France - on her journey back to Birkenau in Poland. The film is beautiful in its own. Not much conversation - but we hear Myriam's thoughts - and if we don't hear them - what we see tells us the rest. To me it was 90 min. of remembering /dealing with the past - but without the usual violence that went on - most of us know what happend. As the author wrote: "Images of the camps have become stereotyped in the minds of at least two generations," she says. "It's up to today's audience to do their work, to see between the emptiness that I show and the images in their heads." So to be taken back in time with memories and thoughts was a different experince. A certain understanding of what the survivors went throug after 1945 became more clear to me. The article Reckonings With The Past tells more about the film www.thevillager.com/villager_38/reckoningwiththe.htmland The secret life behind a harsh journey tells more about the author and her story behind the film www.iht.com/articles/2003/11/26/dupont_ed3_.php?page=1Edit: To my surprise I learned this morning that Jeanne Moreau had contributed in the writing team. What a woman!
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Post by Judy on Nov 16, 2008 13:07:59 GMT -5
I saw The Birch Tree Meadow yesterday. Marceline Loriadan-Ivens is both the author and director. I would guess that its kind of a autobiopgraphy. A very rare and one-of-a-kind film how Holocaust affected. We follow Myriam (Anouk Aimée) - now living in France - on her journey back to Birkenau in Poland. The film is beautiful in its own. Not much conversation - but we hear Myriam's thoughts - and if we don't hear them - what we see tells us the rest. To me it was 90 min. of remembering /dealing with the past - but without the usual violence that went on - most of us know what happend. As the author wrote: "Images of the camps have become stereotyped in the minds of at least two generations," she says. "It's up to today's audience to do their work, to see between the emptiness that I show and the images in their heads." So to be taken back in time with memories and thoughts was a different experince. A certain understanding of what the survivors went throug after 1945 became more clear to me. The article Reckonings With The Past tells more about the film www.thevillager.com/villager_38/reckoningwiththe.htmland The secret life behind a harsh journey tells more about the author and her story behind the film www.iht.com/articles/2003/11/26/dupont_ed3_.php?page=1Edit: To my surprise I learned this morning that Jeanne Moreau had contributed in the writing team. What a woman! I've never heard of this film, but must look for it, dreamer....As you know, this subject has great meaning for me. Is this a NEW film?
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