*When a better quality version of this comes out, I will repost it.*
DIRECTED BY: Rob Marshall
SCREENPLAY BY: Anthony Minghella & Michael Tolkin (adaptation) Arthur L. Kopit (book)
CAST: Daniel Day-Lewis Marion Cotillard Penelope Cruz Judi Dench Nicole Kidman Kate Hudson Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson Sophia Loren
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2010 Oscars FYC:
Lead Actor - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer Lead Actress - Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Original Screenplay - Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, (500) Days of Summer
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Originally posted by Pucifer: Daniel Day-Lewis... sings?!
I take it NO ONE from the musical theatre was available?!
I have no idea if Daniel Day Lewis singing is a good idea but almost all actors with the classical English theatre training (RADA, RSC, etc) seem to have been trained to do it and have musicals in their background. I am no longer surprised when any English actor suddenly breaks out into beauteous song.
As much as I liked "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" I would say Helena Bonham Carter must have slept in the days she was to receive coaching in that area.
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Originally posted by Pucifer: Much as I love La Dolce Vita, I loathe 8½ — Fellini at his most self-indulgent — except for the prostitute dancing on the beach.
I didn't care much for Nine, either:
"The Germans at the Spa" — YIKES!
I love "8 1/2". It is probably my favorite Fellini film. Well, maybe after "I Vitelloni". "Juliet of the Spirits" or the awful "Fellini Satyricon" seem far more indulgent to me than " 8 1/2".
Have never seen "Nine" onstage though I did have the CD in my theatre crazed youth. There were probably few major musicals I did not own on CD. Found the music in that show to be a very mixed bag. Still am excited about the movie. That cast. The director of "Chicago".
P.S. Even if we disagree on the merits "8 1/2" I am glad to see you do not love every movie they tell you to love in film school.
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Originally posted by pacinofan: I love "8 1/2". It is probably my favorite Fellini film.
Quelle surprise!
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Originally posted by pacinofan: Even if we disagree on the merits "8 1/2" I am glad to see you do not love every movie they tell you to love in film school.
IMO, most films about filmmaking (even if not the central theme) are like navel gazing and about as interesting as picking lint.
Originally posted by pacinofan: I love "8 1/2". It is probably my favorite Fellini film.
Quelle surprise!
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Originally posted by pacinofan: Even if we disagree on the merits "8 1/2" I am glad to see you do not love every movie they tell you to love in film school.
IMO, most films about filmmaking (even if not the central theme) are like navel gazing and about as interesting as picking lint.
I like Fellini. My favorite film by him is Amarcord, and I also enjoyed Satyricon, Roma, 81/2, La dolce vita, and even, Casanova. I'm happy to see another film by him. He's a tad strange, admittedly, but he's interesting and somewhat daring.
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Just off the tip of my head, some of the many good to great movies set among movie making and makers:
Le Mepris/Contempt Sunset Boulevard In a Lonely Place The Bad and the Beautiful A Star Is Born (twice) What Price Hollywood Two Weeks in Another Town Susan Slept Here Nickelodeon Show People The Errand Boy The Cameraman The Player Who Framed Roger Rabbit RKO 281 Inside Daisy Clover The Cat's Meow The Last Tycoon Mommie Dearest The Big Picture What Just Happened S.O.B. For Your Consideration Ed Wood Cecil B. Demented Adaptation Barton Fink The Stunt Man The Barefoot Contessa Intimate Stranger/Finger of Guilt
and many, many more.
I can't think of a genre that has a higher percentage of interesting and worthwhile films to be honest.
Not a big Fellini fan; La Strada and Nights of Cabiria are solid, parts of La Dolce Vita are interesting, but 8.5 began for me his serious decline, although it is far better than most of his later work.
What a bizarre list. I'd have to agree mostly, although we disagree with your take on Fellini and your mention of Mommy Dearest. I also didnt think anyone had seen The Last Tycoon. I understand that film had trouble getting completed.
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I don't have equal enthusiasm for all those films, but all of them have fans.
The Last Tycoon was released, actually was meant to be an Oscar contender, including expectations that DeNiro might win best actor. It was released in December 1976, and did not do particularly well.
You might be thinking of the novel, which Fitzgerald had not finished when he died.
Originally posted by seanflynn: Just off the tip of my head, some of the many good to great movies set among movie making and makers:
Le Mepris/Contempt Sunset Boulevard In a Lonely Place The Bad and the Beautiful A Star Is Born (twice) What Price Hollywood Two Weeks in Another Town Susan Slept Here Nickelodeon Show People The Errand Boy The Cameraman The Player Who Framed Roger Rabbit RKO 281 Inside Daisy Clover The Cat's Meow The Last Tycoon Mommie Dearest The Big Picture What Just Happened S.O.B. For Your Consideration Ed Wood Cecil B. Demented Adaptation Barton Fink The Stunt Man The Barefoot Contessa Intimate Stranger/Finger of Guilt
and many, many more.
I can't think of a genre that has a higher percentage of interesting and worthwhile films to be honest.
Not a big Fellini fan; La Strada and Nights of Cabiria are solid, parts of La Dolce Vita are interesting, but 8.5 began for me his serious decline, although it is far better than most of his later work.
Surprised by no mention of Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night". Was that film absent from your list on purpose or just forgotten? It is not anywhere near my favorite Truffaut film but it is a highly acclaimed film about film-making.
I actually agree on Fellini. I love most of his early stuff ("I Vitelloni", "La Strada", Nights of Cabiria") and even into the early 60s ("La Dolce Vita", "8 1/2") but to me the big drop-off into annoying self-indulgence begins with "Juliet of the Spirits" and I do not like much after that film. Even the acclaimed "Amarcord" annoyed me when I saw it at a Fellini Festival at UCLA. "Fellini Satyricon" I found to be nearly unwatchable.
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Day for Night should have been listed - thanks for catching that - I got very few of the many fine non-English language movie-shoot plot movies.
John Grierson once made the (for me) unfair comment on Josef von Sternberg that when a director dies, he becomes a cinematographer. For me with Fellini, it would be when a director dies, he becomes a costume designer.
Some other obvious titles I forgot - The Party, Sullivan's Travels, The Aviator.
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Originally posted by seanflynn: I don't have equal enthusiasm for all those films, but all of them have fans.
The Last Tycoon was released, actually was meant to be an Oscar contender, including expectations that DeNiro might win best actor. It was released in December 1976, and did not do particularly well.
You might be thinking of the novel, which Fitzgerald had not finished when he died.
I SAW The Last Tycoon, and I've read the novel. Thank you. It's just that I've never heard anyone mention it before. The ending was tacked on by what I was told by, a different screen writer.
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Originally posted by seanflynn: Just off the tip of my head, some of the many good to great movies set among movie making and makers:
Le Mepris/Contempt Sunset Boulevard In a Lonely Place The Bad and the Beautiful A Star Is Born (twice) What Price Hollywood Two Weeks in Another Town Susan Slept Here Nickelodeon Show People The Errand Boy The Cameraman The Player Who Framed Roger Rabbit RKO 281 Inside Daisy Clover The Cat's Meow The Last Tycoon Mommie Dearest The Big Picture What Just Happened S.O.B. For Your Consideration Ed Wood Cecil B. Demented Adaptation Barton Fink The Stunt Man The Barefoot Contessa Intimate Stranger/Finger of Guilt
and many, many more.
I can't think of a genre that has a higher percentage of interesting and worthwhile films to be honest.
Not a big Fellini fan; La Strada and Nights of Cabiria are solid, parts of La Dolce Vita are interesting, but 8.5 began for me his serious decline, although it is far better than most of his later work.
OK, I grant you Sunset Blvd., a masterpiece... but remember, it casts a gimlet eye upon the workings of Lotus Land... "wax works," "take the vicuna," etc. etc.
Indeed, most of the good films you mentioned make a mockery of the movie industry... that is perhaps the ONLY way you can approach the subject and not be pretentious and tedious.
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