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While it's hit or miss all the way for me, there were several belly laughs. The moment that made me laugh hardest, I think, was a complete throwaway sight gag, during Martha Raye's big number near the end, when the creep in the audience was trying to frighten ladies with a mask, removed the mask and the lady next to him ran away screaming.
Well it's her most celebrated role and best-known film, yes. And she's brilliant in it, despite that unflattering blonde wig.
But Stanwyck deserves a top ten, and I'll list ten memorable movies not including DI.
Ball of Fire
The Lady Eve
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
The Miracle Woman
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Stella Dallas
Night Nurse
Baby Face
The Man with a Cloak
Executive Suite
It's true... Barry Lyndon can be filed with 2001... brilliant visuals, beautiful music, awe-inspiring film... acting takes a back seat.
Certain other Kubrick films - such as Lolita and Dr. Strangelove - are driven more by acting and story.
He's serviceable and does what is required. I don't think it's a film that relies upon great acting (Marisa Berenson is - and I know not all will agree - pretty wooden in it, in my opinion). It's a GREAT film despite this.
The only time I have been impressed by Ryan O'Neal, to be honest, is in Paper Moon, where he is charming and has great chemistry with his daughter.
One of the most nonsensical movie lines ever. To write this one would imagine Erich Segal had never even known another human being.
I'm a big fan of Montgomery Clift but I have to admit that I found his performance in this to be alarmingly poor. He was a wonderfully sensitive, natural actor but there was something horribly mechanical about his extended cameo here. Clift had such overwhelming personal demons by this stage in his life and his scene was certainly painful to watch, but not for the correct reasons. Which was a huge disappointment, as I had looked forward to finally seeing his work in this for a long time.
Julia, although his role is tiny.
Judgement at Nuremberg is a great showcase for him - best performance in the film, in fact - but it does suffer from Stanley Kramer preachiness at times.
All but two of them were American, too - and the ultimate winner lived in the same town where the factory was located. What a sham.
Many mediocre movies manage to make much money.
I like both films but prefer Missing with its wonderfully sustained paranoia and great work by Lemmon and Spacek. Sissy's post-curfew scene a classic, and this is one of Lemmon's greatest performances.
There's a scene where Lemmon cracks open a fortune cookie which has an Abraham Lincoln quote inside.
As film noir goes, I think this is a lesser entry. Mitchum is fine but Russell is uncharismatic (and her songs are boring), the great character actors William Bendix and Gloria Grahame are wasted, and while Brad Dexter does well with what he is given, his villain is ultimately ineffectual and unmemorable. Other than the excellent pursuit of Mitchum towards the end, I think the best sequences are those on the ferry at the beginning of the movie.
She is a limited actress who was quite well cast in the part, but really didn't deserve awards consideration and I was delighted with the far more deserving Paquin's shock defeat of WR.
Pfeiffer gave by far the best performance among the ladies of TAOI but even choosing from the supporting cast, I thought Miriam Margolyes made a much stronger impression than Ryder in a much smaller role.
Ryder's best work was earlier, in Lucas and Heathers.
Scorsese still seems to have a lot of energy and it's quite likely he'll work again if a project appeals to him.
I've never been a pantomime fan and wasn't impressed by his theatrics in Gladiator. He was better in Quills and The Yards the same year, and in many roles since.
Looking at my lists I have it as the 30th best film of 2000. But I've seen it, so at least I'm not an asshole, thank goodness.
There probably should have been... Garland was clearly too old for her character. But Tracy, Widmark, Lancaster etc were playing older, more experienced veteran characters.
I think Schell seemed like a man in his early thirties, which he was at the time. Anyway, he walks off with the movie IMO.
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Well considering Shatner was considerably younger than most of the cast... Maximilian Schell was the only other principal, I believe, born as late as 1930, and he lived to be 83. If Tracy, Widmark, Dietrich etc were still alive they'd be well over 100 - even Clift would be 99, Garland 97. I think it'd be more unusual for multiple members of a cast from an almost 60 year old film to still be alive, considering most of them were in their forties and above at the time!