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A Wes Anderson fan's review
Cooper Hoffman and Brian Wilson
The Bizarro Jerry Show - episodes
Setec Astronomy
A line that still holds true today, alas.
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Archie
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Any scenes with the escaped road gang still shackled together, especially when they all inexplicably have bicycles except for Virgil.
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I wouldn't say there's anything weird or creepy about this. Many of these actors were fairly elderly back in the 2000s.
But you can't miss the Death Blow!
A pleasure. I've been rereading Moviechat comments on Hitchcock movies today, and your thoughtful posts are always an oasis in the mass of grunts and petty complaints one too often finds on this site!
The film "Women in Love" (1969) has the very same set-up in which characters, at a fete, are able to row across a lake to a nearby island. And one of them sings "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"! (Was director Ken Russell adding a homage to "Strangers on a Train" here?)
One tiny correction: Prescription: Murder (the stage play) premiered in Los Angeles, but never went to New York.
Levinson and Link were excellent at taking mysteries by others as a starting point and creating something new and sometimes better. I'm mainly thinking of two of their TV movies: "Murder by Natural Causes" (1979) which is quite "Sleuth"-like, but cleverer, and "Rehearsal for Murder" (1982) which begins with the premise of "The Last of Sheila" (main character's wife/fiancée is killed; a year later he gathers together the people from the time of the death and proposes they all participate in a project [a "murder game"/a reading of a new play script] - is he perhaps using this as a way to uncover a murderer?), but, if not as fiendishly brilliant as "Sheila," is a warmer take on that premise.
What more needs to be shown?
Ranking the 1986 Best Director Oscar nominees:
1. Lynch (Blue Velvet)
2. Allen (Hannah)
3. Joffe (The Mission)
4. Stone (Platoon)
5. Ivory (A Room with a View)
Should-have-beens: Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law), Neil Jordan (Mona Lisa), Jonathan Demme (Something Wild), Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue), David Byrne (True Stories), Martin Scorsese (The Color of Money), David Cronenberg (The Fly), Federico Fellini (Ginger and Fred).
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