Posted on 03/18/2008 7:47:26 AM PDT by Clemenza
A lot of people felt it was overdescriptive. I’m a sucker for poetic description. Dickens, Nabokov...
Kidman has never had chemistry with anyone. In ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ it looked as if she and Cruise had met the day shooting started.
I wonder what caused his death?
Good point. In fact, her very best role was To Die For - and in it she played a sociopath unable to form any meaningful emotional bonds with other people.
Ditto to Mr. Minghella’s family, but even though it was a dark movie, I did like Cold Mountian, but maybe it was cause one of my favorite actors was in it..
Jude Law *sigh*
LOL yes I am crazy
I still say that the greatest cinematography I have ever seen was Nestor Almendros’s work on “Days of Heaven.” Every screen shot you see from that film could hang in the Met.
And right after that Almendros showed how that sort of evocative nature photography could be vulgarized ...’The Blue Lagoon’.
This is too bad. I admired his work.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” is absolutely mesmerizing, one of a handful of films that certify Matt Damon’s absolute genius as an actor*, and Minghella extracted every drop from him. A very disturbing film, but about as perfectly done as a movie can get.
He’ll be missed.
* (And please spare me the diatribes on Damon’s politics. I know all about it. If you’ve seen his silent scene in the gendarme’s office in the second Bourne movie, you’ll have to agree that he can out-act the rest of Hollywood with just the flick of an eye.)
While I wouldn't call it poetic, what do you think of Richard Price's work over the past twenty years. Some of my friends think he goes overboard with his detail.
Didn’t he write The Wanderers? I read it when I was a kid. Don’t really remember it well enough.
it was missing zombies! try this: “Night of the Living English Patients” now that’s a movie!
Why else cast that couple?
I agree. It's almost not a movie, but some other, ethereal, undefined art form.
Perhaps. He did cast another completely incongruous couple in The Shining (Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall) to critique the very idea of nuclear family.
Especially the vacuous third installment which was 120 pages in search of a plot.
Yes. His early stuff (The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, Ladies Man) were rather straightforward, slice of life tales about NYC, particularly among the white lower middle clas in the outer boroughs. The movie version of the Wanderers (with Ken Wahl and Karen Allen) is awful.
To this day, when anyone asks me what I consider to be the worst use of celluloid and bagels, I don't hesitate.
"Popeye."
That wasn't spinach Robin Williams and Duvall and the entire cast and crew were munching. It was Qualudes.
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She was intentionally cast that way to make the couple seem completely implausible. There’s no way those two would have ever exchanged more than a few words in real life much less gotten married. The nuclear family being completely artifical and stifling. According to the film anyway.
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