I've wanted to see this for at least two years, and it was playing nearby in an authentic turn-of-the-century movie house with live organ accompaniment by Clark Wilson, a professional organist who's the first to teach the organ in college degree courses since the 1920s, and Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, Harold Lloyd's granddaughter, sharing with the audience some 35mm home movies with and memories of her grandfather.
I couldn't miss it. I saw the organization setting things up was looking for…
I'm not sure how uncomfortable I should feel for relating so heavily to a Steve Buscemi character, but it sure did.
Completely unafraid to make these characters a little unlikable and uncool that wouldn't really happen a decade later, and comes off much more genuine for it. Seymour's party, that art teacher, and Enid's Peter Pan syndrome are so perfectly crafted that I feel I could have been in the same room with them at some point. I'm not sure whether or not I should reevaluate a few things from that observation.
"John and Mary" is supposed to be a contemporary movie, I guess ~ Roger Ebert
This year I'm stuck in the late 60s and there's nothing you can do to stop me. This is an odd one. Starts out great, with Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow's meeting in a bar intercut with the morning after with each of their internal monologues on top, but then sort of looses sight of that as we learn more about their separate lives.
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This is the third or fourth time I've seen The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and it only keeps getting better. This time was unique for two reasons: I was with an audience who laughed at all the right parts, and I was watching the original international cut that hasn't seen a home video release since 1998. There really isn't any reason the original cut couldn't have been included on the current Blu-ray with seamless branching, but I digress.…
