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Last night, caught Casino again. Missed about the first half hour, but I love that movie.
Now I'm in full blown mob mood and want to get out my Sopranos dvds. And The Godfather movies. My daughter made me laugh, she asked me if that was a mob movie. I said, It's THE mob movie! She said, Oh, I thought it was some religious thing.
Then I watched a recommend from fljoe over at SKMB with Sydney Poitier and Anne Bancroft called The Slender Thread. It's a gritty black and white that I really enjoyed. There were many recognizable faces in this too, young and vibrant.
While Sydney gives his typical indignant speech-type performance, it was good and I can't say enough great things about Anne Bancroft. What an artist!
Both of those movies were on the Criterion Channel.
As I recommended over there, I will recommend again. If you have not seen 'night Mother with Anne and Sissy Spacek, you are missing out on a terrific piece of work.
A different type of movie so if you're looking for a shoot em' up action packed thing, this isn't it. This is an intimate look at two women, mother and daughter, and you watch this movie to watch Sissy and Anne. They are brilliant and seamless and believable. Such a beautiful, sad film.
Right before the great Covid Pandemic of 2020 hit, I upgraded a couple phones and the Disney+ channel was free for a year. So yay!
The movie with Vivian, Marlon etc... was a great ensemble piece with terrific performances.
Agreed, not a bad movie. I wished I looked at good as he does while inflicting movie violence upon people. There's just something a bit more demoralizing about getting shot by a guy with that chiseled of a jawline and a stellar beard.
This was really fascinating. It would have been a perfect movie to discuss with a group of people. If you could really get them to actually discuss it. Debate it. Challenge ideas.
Most discussions are labeled discussions and aren't really that at all.
I would enjoy a group talking about what this meant. What each character represented. What the situation represented. What the ending said about the whole thing. How this spoke to our society today.
I really liked this because it is that "think piece" you hear about.
Also watched Coming Home with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight. This was good. I think I saw it when it came out but don't remember a lot about it for some reason. Maybe I was making out with some guy.
Anyway, both Fonda and Voight were very brave and I was very surprised by the sex scene in it. What was this rated originally? I felt this was probably a pretty honest portrayal of being a vet, although very shocking at the time, it really doesn't show the horror that these vets face coming home. Trying to be normal. Trying to fit in. Trying to forget.
Good flick.