A Place in Your Cinematic Mind

What's going on in that movie-lovin' head of yours today?

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[morganisaqt]

Still thinking about Bachelorette and how much more of a phenomenon it could have been if Bridesmaids hadn't been released before it. It just keeps running through my mind.
Also Cate Blanchett, I was watching an old episode of Graham Norton and I just realised how much I miss her presence (the hobbit doesn't count) - really hope this Woody project is everything she deserves.

[AR]

Thinking I feel like the prisoners in Sullivans Travels- it's been a really rough week and I'm going to see a Harold Lloyd movie tonight and it BETTER make me laugh all my troubles away. Boyfriend wanted to see a thriller but I told him there was no way my head could deal with that.

[cal roth]

I am dying to see Juliette Binoche as Camille Claudel in this new Camille Claudel 1915.

[SVG]

My Brilliant Career. I've watched it twice in the past two days. I'd never seen it before and wow! I can't stop thinking about it.

Also, because of the blog discussion, Michael Bay. I'm really looking forward to Pain and Gain!

[Devin D]

I can't stop thinking about Mud. I really can't.

[Hannah]

@Devin D -- so it's worth seeing? matthew m continues the streak?

[Brookesboy]

I need more Chastain, more, more, more...please...

[Pam]

Just saw Joss Whedon's newest (U.K.?) trailer for Much Ado About Nothing and June 7 can't come fast enough!

Still having a Redford thing (part deux, since the last time occurred in my teens). Couldn't sleep last night, so I watched The Great Waldo Pepper streaming via Netflix.

@morganisaqt: OMG! Saw The Hobbit last weekend, and when she came on the screen for the first time, I said -- "Wow, Cate, I've missed you. Please come back to us!"

[Devin D]

Hannah - Mud is worth seeing twice, in my opinion. I don't want to say much more until it's been out for a bit longer... but my expectations were sky high after Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter, and, to put it simply, this more than met every last one.

[Jorge Rodrigues]

Far From Heaven, 'cos I just wrote something about it today.

Ah, a VERY good thing to be on my mind...

Where is Juli's Oscar? --'

[Travis]

On my cinematic mind? The Jake Gyllenhaal doppelganger film called An Enemy. Two Jakes!

Also on my cinematic mind: balancing film obsession with "real life". In other words, do I go outside and enjoy a gorgeous 74 degree day in scenic Idaho or watch Judy in "A Star is Born"? Seriously. Tough choice, but I think sunshine wins... for now.

[Troy H.]

"A Late Quartet," because I just watched it. I still fail to see the appeal of Philip Seymour Hoffman among so many actors and cinephiles, but I was impressed by Christopher Walken and Mark Ivanir. The film itself is somewhat all over the place.

[Brady]

I went to see Trance yesterday and it was... a lot. There was just so much going on always. I kind of loved it, but it's also not very good. I really need someone to talk to about it though.

I guess Mud is next on my list for the theaters. Thanks Devin!

[iggy]

1.- Not cinematic, but tv-tastic (?). I've been trying to catch up with Community. I don't know if my mind is more fragmented (sleep deprived) than ever, or they're just throwing unrelated random episodes. It doesn't make any sense, it didn't make sense before either, but it used to be funny.

2.- Now, cinematic. Who would've thought Herbert Ross was an ass with all the cast in Steel Magnolias?? There're and have been so many Michael Bays, and such few Cukors....

That's all I can come up with. Night.

[Dback]

The only movie this summer that I'm really, REALLY amped about in a sea of sequels is, in fact, a sequel, but it's a very special one: "Before Midnight." The buzz coming out of Sundance was rapturous.

[Anne Marie]

It's Carol Burnett's birthday today, and I am going to have a CAROL BURNETT MOVIE MARATHON.

Actually, since the only great movies she's in are "Noises Off" and "Annie," I'm going to have a CAROL BURNETT SHOW MARATHON and watch as many episodes as I can before my roommate gets fed up and whines about being forced to watch "Went With The Wind" too many times. There is no such thing as watching "Went With The Wind" too many times. Fact. That dress is in the Smithsonian for a REASON.

[Tim]

Anne Bancroft in 'The Pumpkin Eater.' Perhaps the peak of an amazing career.

[MDA]

I recently watched Farwell My Concubine and I just have to mention how much Leslie Cheung's performance wrecked me; just absolutely wrenching, I can't get it out of my mind. I then googled to see what films he's been in recently only to find he took his own life in 2003...which wrecked me for a second time.

[murtada]

I'm also thinking about Blanchett cause I missed her. Hope Blue Jasmine is fantastic.

Nathaniel - are you going to be nice to her this year? She took a long time off and was exactly the opposite of ubiquitous - she can't help the mag covers. In return I promise to lay off the Hathaway.

[Brookesboy]

Tim, The Pumpkin Eater is brilliant. Anne's hauntingly quiet despair mesmerizes.

[James]

Thinking about narrators. Is narrating acting? Both of the Alec Baldwin in "Royal Tenenbaums"/Will Lyman in "Little Children" sense (both elevated the movies from fun/engaging to truly captivating) and the campier, fun variety a la Taye Diggs in "Chicago" or Charles Gray as the Criminologist in RHPS.

Also: why are all narrators (not voiceovers) men? Where are the great female narrators?

[Troy H.]

Brady, ditto everything you said about "Trance," including seeing it yesterday.

[marcelo]

johnny depp maybe joining "into the woods".
I don't know the musical, but I remember people not particularly digging meryl doing this, but understanding it.
now johnny depp?

[Henry]

I have so many dvds lined up to watch that I feel spoiled for choice. Just got Contagion or maybe just go back to Haywire again.

[Nic]

I watched Rock of Ages the other day and I'm baffled as to why so many people hated it.

Also, still deciding whether I should go and see Warm Bodies. I can't decide whether it looks ridiculous or amazing.

[Henry]

Into the Woods is sounding more and more like a train-wreck. The witch is supposed to be Sharron Stone in Basic Instinct, Halle Berry in everything sexy. Not the Iron Lady on female viagra and the Wolf is supposed to be Jarvier Bardem dangerous sex on a stick, sexy. I like both Streep and Depp but neither are right for the roles. Johnny Depp is sexy but not a sexual threat....

[Ricopolo]

I made a table:

Close 6 0 66

Mason 4 0 71
Bening 4 0 55
Moore 4 0 53
Adams 4 0 39

Lansbury 3 0 88
Laurie 3 0 81
Ladd 3 0 81
Weaver 3 0 64
Winger 3 0 58
Allen 3 0 57
Pfeiffer 3 0 55
Linney 3 0 49
Williams 3 0 33

[JohnnyBS]

Jean Arthur. Just watched The Devil and Miss Jones. Love her. Love the Coney Island Beach Scene. Sigh.

[Drew C]

I'm with morganisaqt. I miss Cate Blanchett. Lord of the Rings does not count in this situation, and I do hope that her role is big and worthy of her talent.

[Yavor]

I realized I would like to make a film about a boy/man who is in the process of understanding that the best way to enjoy buildings is from a distance.

[Ed]

I'm thinking about how much I need to re-watch "Lost In Translation", "The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" and "Notes On a Scandal" in order to see Scarlett Johansson doing something really great (the girl has so much potential) and in order to amaze my mind with Winslet and Blanchett (thank God they will be back this year with Oscar-buzzy roles!)

[NathanielR]

ricopolo -- i love your table :) though it's sad too.

[Ricopolo]

If the numbers in the middle column change someday, I'll be jumping up and down like Tom Cruise on Oprah's Couch, especially it's for one of the over-50 gals.

[CMG]

I watched a bunch of Don Hertzfeldt animated shorts in addition to It's Such a Beautiful Day. I feel so ashamed it took near universal acclaim for me to discovers years-old work. So wonderful. I hope that one day he can be able to create a full-length feature.

Zero Dark Thirty has been on my mind since I saw it in early January. I've seen it four times. You'd think I would forget about it post-Oscars. Certain political events have brought this up in my mind be it the events in Boston, the drone debate, and the recent reports of a Gitmo hunger strike. Hell when people casually mention it as some right-wing opus like they're clever I want to yell at them and go through a frame by frame breakdown and honestly ask if they saw the movie (surprisingly, I have gotten into more than a few ZDT related arguments with people who still have not yet seen the movie).

I am planning on seeing Mud. Take Shelter is masterful (I compare it to a Twilight Zone episode in the best sense with the metaphors, the humanity, the rawness, and the ambiguous) and it has been a while since I have seen Shotgun Stories which luckily is on Netflix Instant so I plan on watching that to pre-game for Mud.

morganisaqt- Bachelorette is completely underrated. Such good turns for Dunst, Caplan, and a very against type performance by Adam Scott. My only possible issue was James Marsden played his character in broad strokes throughout but the female relationships and gender dynamics felt so on-point that such a criticism could be forgiven. It made me think of Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl oddly because I remember somebody complaining how horrific the one sister spoke of the other and just thought, 'Sometimes when you're close enough friends or family, you can get away with saying anything- even to their face'.