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For those unfamiliar, historical photos of Susan Sarandon during her Rocky Horror years are amazing.. I find her to be a sensational old woman and she was one of my favorites when she was very young.. Oh yeah and she is a good actress also..I had a Tower Records just up my street when I first moved to the States, it was very easy to just walk over and flip through all the vinyl old and new. Good times, good times.
The funnest and most bewildering movie-going experience I've ever had ages ago was going to a Rocky Horror midnight show, I just had no idea what the audience was doing because I had never seen Rocky Horror before. Don't know if they still do the shows, but at least now I would know better and I would take my own newspaper with me so I could partake in the fun.
Not surprisingly Irreversible is a gruelling film for many people as are many of Noe's movies. His latest movie about an old couple coping with Alzheimer's is a complete change of pace for him but supposed to be very good. Just about all of his movies are not easy to watch but interesting. Deliverance was a classic as was A Clockwork Orange. The other two were so so quality wise.
I thought it was Kubrick's worst film and it was very slow. Had a few moments, not many but the visuals were good.
Kubrick wasn't even around to say what the final cut would have been like being he died, I would like to think his vision would have been a bit better.
Yes, many movies get saved in the editing. I didn't mind it and will rewatch it in the future.but not up there with his best movies for me, anyway and you were right about the acting. many people have said the same. Unusual performances to say the least but it's hard not to think it wasn't partly to do with the direction they were getting.
It's kinda fun to watch youtube videos where people dissect and discuss various movies, I get the impression younger people who weren't around when Eyes Wide Shut came out seem to regard it a lot higher than when it was first released. And it's too bad Kubrick isn't around, apparently he was driving the entire cast and crew nuts with all his retakes, something tells me he would not be happy with the current and only version of Eyes Wide Shut.
Yes Pollack made some really good movies.
Watched it last night. I enjoyed it. I am confused about the movie and it's depiction of Kai Bird's book, American Prometheus, which I read months after it was released. I listened to a Terry Gross, Fresh Air interview with Bird and before it was over I couldn't wait to read the book. Still consider it one of the best things I have ever read, fiction or non fiction.
I really enjoyed it as well, especially the part after the bomb test. I mean, up to and including that scene, you kind of know what's going to happen even if you know very little about Oppenheimer, but the story about the security clearance I wasn't familiar with at all, so I found that really exciting to watch.
There were many geo political and historical issues that had to be boiled down and ultra concentrated to tell the story and even w that it still took 3 hours!! Oppenheimer went to a school in NYC and was raised as a very liberal progressive thinker. In history, not a stretch, that is pointed out over and over in the film that he was a man in demand. He would summer in New Mexico as a boy and young man. It was all smooth sailing in the movie, but history has Oppenheimer gave an ultimatum, either we build the lab and testing facility in New Mexico or I am out.
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