Milburn Stone
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Was the title of this episode a response of sorts to Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Also, the different paintings that accompany the episode titles at the beginning...Are those works of art that the show creators found somewhere, or are they created expressly for the show? The one this week looked really disturbing, at least as I could make it out in the time it was on the screen.
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Loved/hated the scene where Jordan looks around their house with disgust. I knew it was coming and yet when it came it still killed me. Maria Bello was perfect.
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2 hours ago, sempervivum said:
Take away the family drama and there's very little 'mystery' here.
Kind of agree, but I find myself caring much more about Annika's ongoing story than the mystery of the week, so not a problem for me.
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On 9/13/2023 at 1:58 PM, possibilities said:
What was the crime, though? I guess leaving the torched bus to burn?
I think maybe their transportation, in lieu of burned bus, was by way of a boosted vehicle?
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In the season finale, we were confused by the ending. OK, so I get that Assane and Pellegrini are in adjacent cells. I think the letter Assane is reading is from Pellegrini, and is Pellegrini also reading a letter from Assane? Are we meant to know anything about what the letter(s) say? Or does the audience merely know that Assane looks consternated, without us knowing what in the letter caused this? Maybe we're meant to infer that the letter contains a threat against his family? Or maybe (I'm inferring again) Pellegrini is saying "let's become allies and we can break out of this joint"? (But then I'd think Assane would be smiling.) Any and all help appreciated.
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On 10/12/2023 at 6:02 PM, Bastet said:
I was going to stage a small uprising right here in my office if Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape was not highly ranked, so I'm glad to see that at #14.
This is so funny. I was prepared to be enraged if Rudy Behlmer's Memo from David O. Selznick had not made the cut. But luckily it did, coming in at #27. (Which isn't too bad out of 100, although I would have ranked it higher. His Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck also got an honorable mention.)
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On 11/3/2018 at 10:11 AM, wanderingstar said:
Great episode! All the action in the refiinery in Angola was great. And that tableau of the soldiers and Gary grabbing for the money, then shooting each other over it - don't know if I have ever seen anything like that on TV before.
That tableau! It was like a Jackson Pollack. I love that they held on it so long--long enough to study it as a work of art.
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On 9/2/2023 at 12:46 PM, seacliffsal said:
I really enjoyed seeing the more menacing side of Nandor who was, indeed, a mighty warrior.
Was just gonna say this. The actor (I still don't know his name) was really good at conveying anger/rage/menace. I bet he enjoyed the opportunity to show those chops.
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2 hours ago, krankydoodle said:
Craig Parkinson is also a big part of the appeal.
In the first episode, he was all of the appeal for me. His line readings frequently made me laugh out loud.
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On 5/20/2023 at 6:13 PM, shapeshifter said:
My daughter thought I'd be better off in a condo. I absolutely hate it and find it depressing. I have looked at realtor.com almost every day since I moved here a year and a half ago...
@shapeshifter, can you talk about why you hate it? We live in a house, but are of an age that the desirably/necessity of someday living in a doorman-building condo flits through my head.
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14 hours ago, Charlie Baker said:
They started with Shadow of a Doubt and Dressed to Kill, which was rated TV-14 (Really?)...
This week's Noir Alley is Deception, where Bette Davis as a musician/kept woman and Paul Henreid as the love she thought dead are quite good. But the movie is not stolen but owned by Claude Rains, as a composer who is Bette's benefactor. A good melodramatic wallow, though some noir devotees might not take to it.
Yeah, that rating for DtK is crazy! I'd give it an NC-17! I adore the movie and DePalma in that period, but I'm glad I didn't see it as a 14-year old. Or even a 24-year old.
Deception has a great Korngold score including a cello concerto. I guess it's kind of a film noir? The inevitable has happened with Noir Alley, which is that the number of films noir in the universe is finite. So if Eddie doesn't want to keep running the same ones over and over, yet wants to keep the franchise going, he has to expand to films that are "arguably" noir as opposed to actually. No problem as far as I'm concerned. Noir or not, his intros and outros are worth the price of admission.
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Definitely got pulled in by the first episode of S3. Welcome back, show!
That said, the opening "previouslies," while much needed, were too fast-paced for us to keep up with! We kept saying "wait, what?"--there was much we didn't remember at all and couldn't quite process.
But that that said said, we still understood the new episode (enough). Yay!
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I enjoyed this episode more than any this season except the first couple.
I even liked Selena. Why, I could swear, if I'm not mistaken, that I actually saw a human emotion flicker across her face for an instant.
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I got turned on to this show last week by the Streamageddon podcast. (Which I recommend.) So I'm only about halfway through the first season.
The thing that keeps going through my head is, how could a show be so much like The Americans, and yet also feel so fresh. It's definitely the same experience; and some of the incidents could be taken out of one show and dropped in the other, and vice versa. Yet I have none of the been-there-done-that feeling that usually comes along with that.
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I join you Birds non-lovers. Although there's something about Hitchcock that, to me, makes his movies endlessly rewatchable. (I may rewatch and say "this mostly sucks" just like I did all the other times, but I still rewatch.)
To me, the very best part of the movie is the beginning, basically everything in San Francisco. The single best scene in the whole darn thing is the one with a vaguely menacing Richard Deacon as an apartment neighbor. That's good Hitchcock. And I like all the scenes with Rod Taylor and Tippi in the bird shop. Both of them actually manage to be charming and/or interesting in the meet-cute, and not the stiffs they come off as in the rest of the film.
All the Hitchcockian San Francisco scenes remind of his San Francisco of Vertigo--I even get mixed up sometimes between the bird shop and the flower shop--and that's no bad thing.
@Rinaldo, do you find Valerie Hobson dull in Blanche Fury? I've not seen her in other films, so I believe you that she's dull in those, but I found her anything but dull as Blanche. Thanks for reminding me that she was the Anna of the OLC ofThe King and I. I wonder if there's an audio recording of that production. Seems like good casting.
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On 9/27/2023 at 10:04 PM, AZChristian said:
I'm old enough to have watched it, and young enough to remember doing so.
Me too. And I'm adapting this phrase for use in everyday life.
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10 hours ago, TimWil said:
Geez, that was an AWFUL episode, absolutely terrible. Incredibly slow pacing and badly shot. The credited director was someone called Cherien Dabis, which I think is a fake name/anagram because the “direction” was so embarrassing and downright inept.
I don't want to get into an argument, so I'm genuinely asking why you thought the direction was so terrible. The episode to me seemed totally of a piece in tone and style with all the other episodes of the season. Can you specify what you thought was badly shot? Perhaps I'll learn something.
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"SNL, like the daily late-night shows and reality shows including Dancing with the Stars, is covered under SAG-AFTRA’s Network Code, which means that theoretically everyone could come back to work."
How are the actors who make up the cast of SNL not actors?
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On 9/18/2023 at 1:18 AM, mynextmistake said:
PBS edits out 15 minutes of each episode...
What? This sucks. Even on Passport? (But I guess so, because that's how you're watching it too.)
I could live with PBS doing this to fit the show into a time slot (if strictly necessary for some reason), but it's ridiculous to do this for the world of streaming where there is no such thing as a time slot.
Not that I'm volunteering, but if iTunes were charging $2.99 for uncut episodes, I might go for it.
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12 hours ago, secnarf said:
If [Dickie] didn't know she is his biological mother, I don't know what the reason for those looks would be
My interpretation has been that he doesn't know--consciously--that she is his biological mother. But that he does know unconsciously. Our emotions are largely driven by the subconscious and the unconscious. Our genes and our earliest experiences are powerful, whether we know what they're up to in there or not.
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4 minutes ago, Mermaid Under said:
And despite the lovely scene between her and Sunny (I give him the credit for that) I still think the character is supposed be inflexible, hard, and cold. I forget the words her mother used in a previous episode, but it was something like that. Telling her mother that she should no longer speak to the other daughter was over the line. I don't doubt Jess would cut her own sons out of her life if they displeased her.
I think you're right about this. It's one of the things that makes her interesting to me. I don't "like" her. But I do like the season in part because of her.
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TCM adjacent...Watched Blanche Fury on the Criterion streaming channel. Whoa! They have it under the grouping British Noir and that's as good a genre to put the film as any.
It's a pretty darn good story. Here are some other reasons to watch it.
1) Valerie Hobson is a goddess in this. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more beautiful presence in a movie. I was half-afraid I might turn to stone from gazing at her.
2) A very good score by someone named Clifton Parker whom I'm sure I should be more familiar with! At this point I seldom hear a score that impresses me that isn't from someone I already know. I don't know this Clifton Parker from the realm of serious or light British classical music, either. @Rinaldo, you probably are familiar with him.
3) Breathtaking Technicolor photography by a team consisting of Guy Green, Geoffrey Unsworth, and Oswald Morris.
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58 minutes ago, Athena said:
Mabel/Selena doesn't really seem to have romantic chemistry with most of the people they have paired her with.
Possibly unpopular opinion, but I don't "get" Selena in this show, never have. She seems dead. Not in the manner that her character is dead, but like she, the actress, is dead.
Being old, I came to this show with no prior knowledge of her, which maybe is the problem. Maybe if I already thought she was great, I'd think she was great in this.
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There was an exchange in this episode where someone said "It couldn't have been [name of person] because of [this] and [that]!," and I went "wait, what's the logic there?," and I'm not entirely sure the problem was me.
I hope millennials are watching this show so they will finally hear the names Gilbert and Sullivan.
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No Hard Feelings (2023)
in Movies
Just read an item that this is the biggest opening days that a Sony movie has had on Netflix ever.