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This Year In Film / Re: Anora (Sean Baker)
Last post by OstrichRidingCowboy - Yesterday at 05:35:24 PM
I saw the term "screwball" looking at the tumblr tag after seeing this and then I realized, "Oh, yeah. That was a reverse-gender My Man Godfrey." (I hope that's not a spoiler.)
#2
News and Theory / Re: Who's Next To Croak?
Last post by WorldForgot - November 08, 2024, 08:51:59 PM
R.I.P. Tony Todd – 'Candyman', 'Hatchet', and 'Final Destination' Star Has Passed Away at 69

QuoteBorn on December 4, 1954, in Washington, D.C., Todd pursued acting at the Eugene O'Neill National Actors Theatre Institute and Trinity Rep Conservatory, where he honed his skills and developed his commanding style. Among his first screen roles was playing the heroin-addicted Sergeant Warren in Oliver Stone's Best Picture Oscar-winning Vietnam War classic Platoon.

Todd went on to guest on such popular 1980s and '90s series as 21 Jump Street, Night Court, MacGyver, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, Law & Order, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills 90210, Xena: Warrior Princesss and Murder, She Wrote and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. He also recurred as pesky TV news reporter Matt Rhodes on Homicide: Life on the Street and as Gus Rogan in more than a dozen 2013 episodes of The Young and the Restless.
[...]

The 6-foot-5 Todd starred in the 1990 remake Night of the Living Dead as Ben, the role played by Duane Jones in George A. Romero's iconic 1968 original. His next big role likely is his most famous — playing the mythical title creep with a hook for a hand in Candyman (1992) — a character he reprised in the 2021 sequel of the same name.

#3
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: "Punch-Drunk Love" Was Rel...
Last post by Scrooby - November 08, 2024, 12:37:43 PM
I dig that colossally.

First-rate Art works in the manner of a magic trick. Punch-Drunk Love cannot change; it is finished; yet it continues to complexify throughout our duration into infinity. Thinking makes it so.

PTA requires more than a lifetime to understand . . .
#4
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: "Punch-Drunk Love" Was Rel...
Last post by WorldForgot - November 08, 2024, 12:05:37 PM
I dig that. Fun angle-game to think of Barry's plumbing/fixture enterprise as a part of the same domestic geometry as Mattress Man.
#5
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: "Punch-Drunk Love" Was Rel...
Last post by Scrooby - November 05, 2024, 04:22:41 PM
The marriage bed.

Has anyone ever considered a following symbolism of the Mattress Man in Punch-Drunk Love? Until Love beats the Demon—until Barry reckons with mattresses (so to speak)—Lena doesn't say "So here we go", a line which probably leads to much mattress-work and perhaps even a marriage mattress.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - November 02, 2024, 10:11:59 AM
Deliverance

While we're sitting here cosylike, let's meander a moment. Behind Industry doors on the Beverly Hills circuit, is PTA dismissed as an "arty" director who has never delivered the $? So now PTA is in the position of Warren Beatty during post-production of Bonnie & Clyde (1967). Scrooby recalls the well-documented story of Beatty premiering the film at the DGA. Will PTA deliver the goods and elicit the following response that one director gave afterwards? "Well," said whoever it was who stood up in the auditorum, "Warren Beatty just shoved it ** *** ***."

Highest grossing movies of 1967 : 5. Bonnie & Clyde Warner Bros.

PTA Power Incoming.

#7
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Phantom Thread - SPOILERS!
Last post by Scrooby - October 31, 2024, 09:41:19 AM
Amid the Halloween [ medieval? ] house of horrors









then, her turn . . .



then by this point in the reaction shots, cold abstraction.



and Bluebeard . . .



is Bluebearded.



and the repetition of this set-up (34:31)



at the end



may wistfulate in the manner of



&


#8
Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Phantom Thread - SPOILERS!
Last post by Scrooby - October 31, 2024, 08:39:28 AM
"Maybe he's the most demanding man."
ie, I must be the most miraculous woman in the world, to handle such a man.

"Where's yours?" "She's here in the canvas."
"Do you still got it? The Lincoln Letter? Where?" "Right here."

"You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat. Secrets."
"As a scientist and a connoisseur I have no idea the contents of this remarkable potion. What's in it?" "Secrets."

"Our nanny, the evil Miss Blackwood . . . Black Death, we used to call her. . . . Because of superstition . . . "
The Middle Ages.

"C'mon, boys, let's have a fire."
Ahhh, a [ romantic ] fire . . . addressed to the dogs!

"I ordered you a steak tartare."
Gordon Gekko : "Try the steak tartare."

"I can stand endlessly."
e.g., "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
#9
News and Theory / Re: Who's Next To Croak?
Last post by wilberfan - October 29, 2024, 07:17:02 PM
Teri Garr    :yabbse-cry:
#10
News and Theory / Re: letterboxd.com
Last post by ono - October 28, 2024, 07:12:30 PM
Updated!  I didn't add you at first, wilberfan, cuz you hadn't posted in the thread. :)  No worries.