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Ooooh...Ros Russell was fabulous.
Hitchcock's an easy pick though. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Gene Wilder was in "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory". The remake with Johnny Depp was "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory".  | |
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Okay. These are my recommendations for today - and only for today. Because they will change by tomorrow, I guarantee you.
Favorite Director: Frank Capra Movie: It Happened One Night 1934 Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Favorite Actress: Bette Davis Movie: Now, Voyager 1942 with Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper
Favorite Actor: William Powell Movie: Life with Father 1947 with Irene Dunne and a teenager-ish Elizabeth Taylor We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Great recommendations.
I think everything about Now, Voyager was flawless; EVERYTHING, just take a pick. But to me, the one thing that dominated the story was the dynamic interaction between Bette Davis and the character that played her mother. Its still a heavy thing to watch.
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director--Martin Scorsese The Last Waltz
writer--Woody Allen Crimes & Misdemeanors. The perfect blend of Woody's light & dark sides
actor--Robert DeNiro Midnight Run. Underrated classic with Charles Grodin. Lots of improv. Bobby D plays for laughs, but not in a disgusting meet the parents/analyze this kind of way
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@ your whole list, esp "Mignight Run". I think that was Robert's finest comedic moment.
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I recently watched Zombieland and liked it a lot, and the director mentioned in the special features that they wanted to do "Midnight Run with zombies" and I decided I liked it even more for that reason alone. 
oops I misread, I left out actress & included writer...
Actress is harder for me to choose, since I don't want to choose Meryl Streep.
How about a little Robin Wright?
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I haven't followed him closely for a while, but I did like Clockers & Get on the Bus of those I've seen. My Legacy
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Harle kept it to just ONE. | |
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There so many to choose from, hell I would've been stuck at my computer forever trying to pick 
I'm not sure why I said that! I think I was referencing the book, which was my favorite book for a while as a kid. The book made a deeper impression on me than the movie, so that makes sense. Parts of that movie are corny, but Gene Wilder is brilliant. I didn't pay attention to the remake. | |
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I am WAY out of the loop on Spike Lee. I've never even heard of Get On The Bus. | |
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Easy mistake to have made - the titles are so similar. Actually, I haven't even seen Johnny Depp's "Charlie", and have only seen bits & pieces of "Willy Wonka" on TV through the years. Which is a shame because Gene Wilder's version goes back to MY childhood (...even have Sammy Davis Jr.'s version of "Candy Man" on 45 - from when it first came out!!! It was a big hit on the radio). "Willy Wonka" was a HUGE deal back in the day.
So many movies I still need to catch up on. This is a great thread. | |
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this clip has me guffawing | |
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Sorry for your loss. I love The Fountain and Vanilla Sky as well. You're list is really interesting because the main theme is loss and (with the exeception of the Fountain) specifically the loss of a parent. Were they your favourite before your father's passing?
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Gladys Cooper played Mrs. Vale. She was a wonderful and underrated actress (IMO). She often played snooty or cold characters, but by all accounts, was one of the warmest and most gracious women in Hollywood. She and Bette Davis became great friends.
It's amazing how often she's in a film and you don't even realize it's her - like Beatrice Lacy (Maxim's sister) in Rebecca. Or Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady. She had some great lines in that movie - including one of my favorites of all time (when her son, Henry Higgins, turns up at Ascot). He says, "Hello, Mother." And she replies, "Henry - what a disagreeable surprise."
She's a lot like Judith Anderson in her shape-shifting ability. I never realized (until recently) that it was Judith Anderson (Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca) who played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Okay, I'm going to put a twist on it. I'm going to do a favorite director, then do movies for two of the people who starred in the film I selected for that director.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Movie: Suddenly Last Summer
Actress: Elizabeth Taylor Movie: The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954 with Van Johnson, Donna Reed and Walter Pidgeon
Actor: Montgomery Clift Movie: The Heiress 1949 with Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson and Miriam Hopkins
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Loved that film. I'd say it was her finest hour.
Speaking of Olivia De Haviland, I only recently discovered that Joan Fontaine(From The Women was is her sister). [Edited 6/23/10 14:44pm] | |
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I'm surprised many people don't know those two were siblings. Then again ....lots of folk didn't know this Danny is Angelica's half brother.
Somebody ought to start a thread on actors/actresses you didn't know were related. | |
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Who's Danny? | |
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Danny Houston. He's all over the place in terms of his film choices. He's been in 30 Days of Night as a vampire, X-Men Wolverine as the wicked military man who puts the adamantium in Logan, and he was in this movie I can't quite recall that starred ...constant gardner? | |
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Thanx, Ms.Desiree | |
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I read her wikipedia biography, apperantly the woman is a descendant from a hollywood royalty.Actor Bruno Ganz: Wings of Desire
Actress Audrey Tautou: Amelie
Director Jim Jarmusch: The Limits of Control | |
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How much hollywood royalty do we have?
The Houstons The Barrymores The Carradines The Bridges
That's all I can thinking of in terms of generations of actors/directors within the same family.
In about 20-30 more years it might be:
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Hi, sorry for the delay - only just caught up with this thread.
The Fountain has been my #1 favorite movie since the day I saw it. I was fortunate enough to see it for the first time on the big screen in a private screening for about 20 people at 20th Century Fox HQ in London with none other than Darren Aronofsky. He was gracious with his time and answered many of my questions, even signing a quad poster which I now cherish.
Vanilla Sky comes in at #3 in my all-time favorite movies (Blade-Runner being my second place favorite), and yes - all 3 mentioned above were very personal to me and touched me deeply even before we all learnt my Father was ill.
A month or two ago I sat my Mother down to watch The Fountain, and simply said, "I think this is going to help you like it helped me" (not long before I finally got to see the film, I was very seriously ill in hospital for a month, and long story short, it helped me not fear Death any more). At the films end, she looked over at me with tears in her eyes and a smile on her face and burst out crying. But they weren't sad tears, it was like she 'got it', and I really think it helped carry her forwards thru her grief.
I wish I could tell Aronofsky that. It's amazing how music, film, books, art can touch people in the most profound of ways. I even managed to get her into 'Battlestar Galactica', and it became a regular thing we would do each evening - sit down and watch a few episodes. It surprised me because its not the kind of thing she would normally watch, but I explained to her that it was more a drama that just happened to be in space. She got totally hooked, and it helped her switch off from the world for a few hours every day. I was lucky enough to meet Ronald D. Moore recently, and I explained to him how my Father had recently passed, and that my Mother loved the show and how it helped take her away 'somewhere else' for a few hours every day and that he too, was instrumental in helping her make it thru, and that he should never feel that it was just some show that he lucked out on - that idea that sprang from his head ended up helping someone out in a very real and tangible way. He was really touched by it and he was very giving of his time.
So yeah...it's amazing what art can do in all it's forms. Sure, 'The Fountain' may not be to everybodys tastes, but to me...it will always be something beautiful, touching and special. | |
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