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Post by berkley on Aug 9, 2023 1:53:36 GMT -5
I saw Dead End on tv a few years ago and liked it a lot. Sylvia Sidney was really good, I thought - it made me want to seek out more of her films*. And that stage set where almost all the action takes place was beautiful, great atmosphere.
*I've been slow getting round to this, so far I've managed to see only two of her earlier movies, Merrily We Go to Hell and 30 Day Princess.
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Post by berkley on Aug 10, 2023 11:51:17 GMT -5
I saw Mikey and Nicky, a 1976 movie with Peter Falk and John Cassevetes playing two low-level semi-crooks, directed by Elaine May. I'd never heard of it until it played at the local cinema last week but I'm glad I took a chance on it because it was really good. Most of the film is Falk and Cassavetes interacting and it feels like it was largely improvised. Falk was so good, it made me wish he;d done more of this kind of thing - he wouldn't have been at all out of place in a Scorsese movie, for example. Cassavetes put in an excellent performance as well, but he plays a pretty dislikeable character. Anyway, hifghly recommend this one to anyone who gets a chance to see it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 10, 2023 12:50:47 GMT -5
I saw Mikey and Nicky, a 1976 movie with Peter Falk and John Cassevetes playing two low-level semi-crooks, directed by Elaine May. I'd never heard of it until it played at the local cinema last week but I'm glad I took a chance on it because it was really good. Most of the film is Falk and Cassavetes interacting and it feels like it was largely improvised. Falk was so good, it made me wish he;d done more of this kind of thing - he wouldn't have been at all out of place in a Scorsese movie, for example. Cassavetes put in an excellent performance as well, but he plays a pretty dislikeable character. Anyway, hifghly recommend this one to anyone who gets a chance to see it. It’s really good. I watched it on HBO Max’s TCM hub a few months ago when I was pet-sitting.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 10, 2023 20:28:09 GMT -5
I saw Mikey and Nicky, a 1976 movie with Peter Falk and John Cassevetes playing two low-level semi-crooks, directed by Elaine May. I'd never heard of it until it played at the local cinema last week but I'm glad I took a chance on it because it was really good. Most of the film is Falk and Cassavetes interacting and it feels like it was largely improvised. Falk was so good, it made me wish he;d done more of this kind of thing - he wouldn't have been at all out of place in a Scorsese movie, for example. Cassavetes put in an excellent performance as well, but he plays a pretty dislikeable character. Anyway, hifghly recommend this one to anyone who gets a chance to see it. They worked together on a Columbo, around that time frame, with Cassavetes as a conductor who murders his lover. They had some great sparring in that one.
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Post by berkley on Aug 10, 2023 22:29:20 GMT -5
I saw Mikey and Nicky, a 1976 movie with Peter Falk and John Cassevetes playing two low-level semi-crooks, directed by Elaine May. I'd never heard of it until it played at the local cinema last week but I'm glad I took a chance on it because it was really good. Most of the film is Falk and Cassavetes interacting and it feels like it was largely improvised. Falk was so good, it made me wish he;d done more of this kind of thing - he wouldn't have been at all out of place in a Scorsese movie, for example. Cassavetes put in an excellent performance as well, but he plays a pretty dislikeable character. Anyway, hifghly recommend this one to anyone who gets a chance to see it. It’s really good. I watched it on HBO Max’s TCM hub a few months ago when I was pet-sitting.
Did you know about it before or did you just watch because of the cast? I'm curious because now that Ive seen it I'm surprised it isn't more talked about. Or maybe it always has been and I just never happened to come across any references to it.
As often happens, it's raised my interest in everybody involved, especially Elaine May, because I never thought about her as a director much, but also Falk and Cassavetes, although I already have things of theirs on my to-watch list.
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Post by berkley on Aug 10, 2023 22:30:37 GMT -5
I saw Mikey and Nicky, a 1976 movie with Peter Falk and John Cassevetes playing two low-level semi-crooks, directed by Elaine May. I'd never heard of it until it played at the local cinema last week but I'm glad I took a chance on it because it was really good. Most of the film is Falk and Cassavetes interacting and it feels like it was largely improvised. Falk was so good, it made me wish he;d done more of this kind of thing - he wouldn't have been at all out of place in a Scorsese movie, for example. Cassavetes put in an excellent performance as well, but he plays a pretty dislikeable character. Anyway, hifghly recommend this one to anyone who gets a chance to see it. They worked together on a Columbo, around that time frame, with Cassavetes as a conductor who murders his lover. They had some great sparring in that one.
Good to know, I'll keep an eye out for that episode whenever I get around to watching Colombo.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 10, 2023 23:15:25 GMT -5
"Etude in Black," Season 2, Episode 1, 1972. Earlier than I thought. Also features James Olson (The Andromeda Strain, Battlestar Galactica: "Gun on Ice Planet Zero,"), Blythe Danner (Gwyneth Paltrow's mother), Pat Morita (playing a houseboy, in a rather sad comment on Hollywood) and Myrna Loy, of the Thin Man series and Hollywood's Golden Age. It is technically Gwyneth Paltrow's tv debut, as Danner was 5 months pregnant with her, at the time. It was directed by Nicholas Colasanto, who played Coach, on Cheers.
Falk and Cassavetes also worked together in 1969's Machine Gun McCain, though they have no scenes together. Cassavetes is a bank robber, recently released from prison, who reunites with his son and plans a casino heist. falk is a mob boss who wants to use it to muscle in on Las Vegas.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 10, 2023 23:47:08 GMT -5
It’s really good. I watched it on HBO Max’s TCM hub a few months ago when I was pet-sitting.
Did you know about it before or did you just watch because of the cast? I'm curious because now that Ive seen it I'm surprised it isn't more talked about. Or maybe it always has been and I just never happened to come across any references to it.
As often happens, it's raised my interest in everybody involved, especially Elaine May, because I never thought about her as a director much, but also Falk and Cassavetes, although I already have things of theirs on my to-watch list.
I knew about it before. When I lived in Los Angeles, there was a revival house that showed a lot of Cassavettes double features. I never went because I was more interested in other kinds of films and never got around to Cassavettes until later. But I remembered the names of the films and I eventually started watching them. I think the first was The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. I’ve seen Faces and Shadows. I especially like Gloria and Woman Under the Influence. I still haven’t seen Minnie and Moscowitz but I’ll get to it. Anyway, one night when I was pet-sitting, I watched about ten minutes of Mikey and Nicky and decided I really wasn’t in the mood for it. LOL. I watched it a few months later when I was pet-sitting for the same people. (My aunt calls it “watching the dog’s cable.”) This time I was ready for it. I had forgotten it’s not directed by Cassavettes.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 17, 2023 7:43:49 GMT -5
I saw Mikey and Nicky, a 1976 movie with Peter Falk and John Cassevetes playing two low-level semi-crooks, directed by Elaine May. I'd never heard of it until it played at the local cinema last week but I'm glad I took a chance on it because it was really good. Most of the film is Falk and Cassavetes interacting and it feels like it was largely improvised. Falk was so good, it made me wish he;d done more of this kind of thing - he wouldn't have been at all out of place in a Scorsese movie, for example. Cassavetes put in an excellent performance as well, but he plays a pretty dislikeable character. Anyway, hifghly recommend this one to anyone who gets a chance to see it. Try "A Woman Under the Influence," with Gena Rowlands in a bravura performance as a woman struggling with mental illness and Falk as her bewildered workingman husband, directed by Cassavettes (Rowlands' husband). It's grueling, and probably not a re-watchable, but the honesty and raw emotions of Falk and Rowlands' characters are so vivid and frightening that you think you're watching a documentary.
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 18, 2023 14:51:19 GMT -5
Today I discovered (on a wrestling podcast of all places) that George C. Scott turned down an Oscar. Marlon Brando was mentioned, too. I knew Brando had, but I had no idea George C. Scott had, too. I need to find details on this.
Who else might have turned down an Oscar?
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 18, 2023 15:10:16 GMT -5
Today I discovered (on a wrestling podcast of all places) that George C. Scott turned down an Oscar. Marlon Brando was mentioned, too. I knew Brando had, but I had no idea George C. Scott had, too. I need to find details on this. Who else might have turned down an Oscar? Scott informed the Academy that he didn't want to be nominated for Patton well in advance and also that he wouldn't accept it if he won. He called the Oscars "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." The producer accepted it, but Scott returned it to the Academy. The screenwriter of 1935's The Informer, Dudley Nichols, refused his Oscar because of a writers' strike. He accepted it at the 1938 ceremony. He was nominated three other times.
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 18, 2023 15:19:10 GMT -5
Thank you, Prince Hal. I have Patton on DVD, but it’s one of those films where I didn’t feel I needed or wanted to watch any extras. And I didn’t listen to the audio commentary (one reviewer claims the person doing the commentary just walks out halfway through, which, if true, is quite funny).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 18, 2023 16:29:47 GMT -5
Today I discovered (on a wrestling podcast of all places) that George C. Scott turned down an Oscar. Marlon Brando was mentioned, too. I knew Brando had, but I had no idea George C. Scott had, too. I need to find details on this. Who else might have turned down an Oscar? Scott informed the Academy that he didn't want to be nominated for Patton well in advance and also that he wouldn't accept it if he won. He called the Oscars "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." The producer accepted it, but Scott returned it to the Academy. The screenwriter of 1935's The Informer, Dudley Nichols, refused his Oscar because of a writers' strike. He accepted it at the 1938 ceremony. He was nominated three other times. I seem to recall that he also had a feeling that acting is an inherently interactive endeavor and that making it competitive was stupid.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 19, 2023 18:52:02 GMT -5
Not a refusal; but, there was an Oscar that had an imposter accept the award. It was the late 70s or early 80s, in one of th lower tier categories and the real winner was not there, but then suddenly he was, except it was an imposter accepting the award. I can't recall the exact year and Google has been no help, but I watched it live, when it happened. It was back when Johnny Carson was the regular host of the show.
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 19, 2023 19:02:52 GMT -5
Gosh, if that happened today, there’d be a Twitter hashtag within minutes…
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