Posted on 11/22/2019 9:53:39 AM PST by Rummyfan
After attending the PJ Media reunion in Orange County last week, Nina and I flew up to San Jose, both for Nina to visit her longtime legal clients, and for us to revisit our old Saturday night stomping grounds, the mixed-developed Santana Row. There, we saw Ford V. Ferrari, which as veteran film critic John Nolte of Breitbart.com wrote in his review last week, is a brilliant exercise in male bonding through massively souped-up American race cars:
Director James Mangold has delivered 152 minutes you never want to end. His screenwriters, Jason Keller and brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, crafted one scene after another that qualify as brilliant and brilliantly entertaining short films. FVF is beautifully structured. The story flows effortlessly. The dialogue is sharp and oftentimes hilarious (“They said I’d have carte blanche this time. I looked it up, it’s French for ‘bullshit.’”) The relationships between the characters are all believable. The cinematography is gorgeous. The production design is so flawless you forget it’s 1965. The characters are well defined. And the acting… Wow.
Bale is simply superb as an eccentric artist brimming with confidence, desperate to do what he was born to do, but only on his terms. He’s also a devoted family man with a bottomless love for his wife and son.
Damon is his equal, a proud and ambitious Texas man dealing with his own disappointments as he navigates Los Angeles and the buttoned-up corporate world of Ford in his cowboy boots and hat.
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I still wear a fedora. I’m captivated by the Mad Men era. Sue me.
LOL!
[Matt Damon had been cast]
Ugh. He’s the Marky Mark of the Hollywood Funky Bunch.
Airheads cop: You guys are the hottest thing since Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch!
Steve Buscemi: Marky Mark? That guy sucks!
He may be a liberal, but everything Buscemi is in is guaranteed to be good.
I saw the documentary a year or so ago and loved it. I’m looking forward to this coming out on Netflix.
He may be a liberal, but everything Buscemi is in is guaranteed to be good.
From Fargo: “He was funny lookin’.”
Ping.
The Death of Stalin, too.
I can’t afford a Ferrari so I drive a Ford.
Hate his politics, love his movies, admire his heart. Remember 9/11?
Superformance, who made some (if not most) of the cars in the movie, now has special movie versions of their models.
https://superformance.com/factory-models-cinema
He was great as Kruschchev. Everyone in that flick was great. I always pictured Beria as a lean predator type, but the rather heavyset guy who played him made him plenty evil.
The Ferrari P4 and the GT40s were built by “Race Car Replicas” near Detroit.
I thought it a damn tight movie with great acting, writing, and filming. It is one of the best stories I’ve seen on the screen in quite a long time.
The best Beria was in the movie “Stalin” with Robert Duvall as Stalin.
“Stalin said he would spare our lives”
Beria: “Comrade Stalin has revoked his promise”
Ping.
I knew they were involved, but I wasn’t sure to what extent. Thanks for the clarification.
I’ve seen the movie twice so far, but no-one I was with wanted to stick around for the entire end credits to roll.
:^/
Nice movie. I liked it very much.
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