loveless
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Post by loveless on Feb 21, 2024 23:22:39 GMT
BUT I just saw After Hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thelma Schoonmaker introduced it! she was very sweet. After Hours is tremendous! Bob Fucking Balaban!!!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 21, 2024 23:31:43 GMT
Yeah! and Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Verna Bloom, Cheech and Chong.... It was a blast. Scorsese had a tiny cameo too - hadn't noticed before. Griffin Dunne kept a lot of plates spinning, that's one hell of a performance.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 21, 2024 23:38:18 GMT
and Teri Garr dancing to 'Last Train To Clarkesville' ❤️
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loveless
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Post by loveless on Feb 21, 2024 23:42:19 GMT
"I could go to a party, get drunk...WHO KNOWS?!?!"
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 21, 2024 23:46:18 GMT
That got the biggest laugh 🙂
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loveless
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Post by loveless on Feb 21, 2024 23:52:13 GMT
Yeah, there's such a wonderful ongoing absurdity...characters saying the most unlikely, sociopathic things...
I've never really regarded Dunne, but...yes, he's really incredible in this.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 21, 2024 23:59:22 GMT
He starts off as something like a blank slate, other people's problems pushed onto him. And he slowly becomes a desperate character - but he never overdoes it.
And yeah, all these 'unlikely' moments that you buy into completely.
Thelma S said it came at a relative low point for Scorsese - he hadn't been particularly active for years (she said Raging Bull hadn't actually done that well, and didn't even mention King Of Comedy) so he just wanted to have fun.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 21, 2024 23:59:44 GMT
I prefer it to KoC, fwiw
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Post by loveless on Feb 22, 2024 0:06:31 GMT
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 22, 2024 0:22:17 GMT
I got to know John Heard a little bit. he wasn't exactly friendly but he was really low key. it didn't occur to me until later that I'm sure he got recognized everywhere he went due to Home Alone. The way he acts in "After Hours" is the way he acted to the staff at the store. He was pretty cool.
I love seeing Dick Miller is a Scorsese movie. I love all the cans of Aqua-Net in Teri Garr's place. Marty Baby certainly sprung back. Even the bad reviews sounded interesting and I guess they did it for like 4 million dollars or something. I don't know that I prefer it to KoC - I think Rupert Pupkin is one of DeNiro's most interesting performances especially hot on the heels of "Raging Bull" - also Jerry Lewis and the weirdly scary Sandra Bernhard.
I like both a lot.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2024 4:35:58 GMT
Yeah! and Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Verna Bloom, Cheech and Chong.... It was a blast. Scorsese had a tiny cameo too - hadn't noticed before. Griffin Dunne kept a lot of plates spinning, that's one hell of a performance. I thought he was great in it as he goes from being this rather uptight square guy to totally losing it. I used to love that scene in the gay guy's apartment when he's trying to explain his terrible night but gets more frantic and frazzled as he's explaining it. At the time I thought I'd discovered this great performer, but I've barely seen him since.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 22, 2024 4:37:11 GMT
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 22, 2024 6:11:19 GMT
I think “King of Comedy” is to “Taxi Driver” what “Beat the Devil” is to “the Maltese Falcon” I SWEAR these things make sense to me when I say them.
One is sort of a funhouse mirror version of the other.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 22, 2024 16:17:00 GMT
Just out of Adam Sandler's Spaceman. A Netflix movie, but don't let that put you off - it was very good. Strong echoes of 2001 with the spooky 'space colleague'. But a happier ending.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 22, 2024 16:26:56 GMT
and now I'm walking down the sexiest boulevard in Europe. Again.
Who'd have thought a STREET could be so outrageously handsome?
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