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Excellent, Gordon. Thank you for putting this up.
I love your point about the Lawrence performance, "...a character who seems to be trying on different affects..." is such a lovely way to put it. He seems genuinely interested in figuring out who he is going to become, even more than he is interested in actually becoming it.
Again...thanks.
-Christien
Commented Dec 16, 2013 on O'Toole at Picture's Up
O'Toole
I know little of Peter O’Toole’s career, and I have seen only a fraction of his output: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter, My Favorite Year, and perhaps a few other films. His death, all the same, was a blow. He is beautiful in Lawrence; the blue of his eyes and the pure white of...
Thank you for this entry, Gordon. Beautifully put.
Don't you dare apologize for waxing poetic. Do so as much as you want to (I daresay you've got a book in you on this subject). Your heart in exactly the right place.
Commented Mar 5, 2012 on Ralph McQuarrie, 1929-2012 at Picture's Up
Ralph McQuarrie, 1929-2012
Star Wars's debt to Metropolis is particularly evident in this early illustration of C3PO by the late and very much lamented Ralph McQuarrie. The picture moves me because it shows the working-out, the process by which the aesthetic of the Star Wars films would come into being and take on ...
Well done yet again, Gordon. I love this blog.
I'm particularly enamored of your True Grit write-up above. You nailed it. "...happy confluence of between subject matter and adapter" captures it exactly.
I didn't read a couple of entries as I haven't seen them yet (most notably Tiny Furniture), so I'll come back to comment on those later.
-xtien
P.S. HA-HA, you have a Tony Scott film on your top ten list! You will never escape this fact. NEVER! Mwahahahahahaha!
Commented Feb 2, 2011 on Top 10 Movies of 2010 at Picture's Up
Top 10 Movies of 2010
Well, to be honest, I haven't seen anywhere near enough of 2010's cinematic slate to offer a particularly authoritative Top 10 list. But, strictly speaking, I suppose one only needs to have seen eleven movies in a given year in order to separate out ten of them as being better -- and that much ...
That last paragraph is excellent. There you capture so much of how I felt about the film. Nicely done.
I also love this sentence in the preceding one: "They are trying their darnedest to be sexy, but his smile is completely devoid of libido, more like the indulgent grin a man might show when a little girl is showing off her tap-dancing."
-xtien
Commented Jan 11, 2011 on White Telephone Movie at Picture's Up
White Telephone Movie
Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere The setup is worthy of a high-concept Hollywood comedy: a dissolute, disconnected, obscenely wealthy movie star is adrift in a world without notable human contact, an endless whirlwind of premieres, junkets, parties, and meaningless ...
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