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What's on your cinematic mind?
Friday, October 3, 2014 at 8:00PM While we've been film-festing, what have been doing? Tell us about your latest movie adventure. I'll start: I accidentally watched First Wives Club again the other day and though it's a really bad (but fun) movie in a lot of ways the ladies are pretty hilarious. Goldie Hawn just kills in her big breakdown scene.
You think just because I'm a movie star I don't have feelings. I'm an actress. I have all of 'em!
I promise that there will be some non-fest stuff for you to enjoy this week. But you still haven't answered my October questions. How should we celebrate the spooky month. Any requests?
Reader Comments (36)
This show isn't that well made but it kills me every time. And I quote it often. "Who'd you have over? Guns and rose?!?!"
"This is restaurant quality!" and my other favorite. "Those Lips!"
When do you plan to post that TIFF podcast you recorded a while ago? Would be nice to listen to it at some point on the weekend.
I just saw Sans toit ni loi. Sandrine Bonnaire really went for it! I'm not so sure about certain aspects of the movie, but her downfall is quite touching.
If I were an American actress I would try to remake it and get every single award out there.
1) Favorite moments from The First Wives Club:
Annie: "I'M SORRY!!!!!!!!!"
Brenda: "You wanna talk crucifixion? Happy Easter, Morty."
Elise: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. And right now I wanna be young. Science fiction YOUNG."
2) For October we could take a look at scary/eerie/disturbing moments in non-horror films. Or scenes from family films that go a little too far with the spook factor. (I'm thinking of the hallway of heads in Return to Oz.) Just an idea. :-)
FWC-"And Daddy, I'm a lesbian. A BIG one." Debra Monk in the bar looking at Bette's husband's photo "She's Butch!" Maggie Smith at the auction. "Ox-y-gen."
For Oct. why not 'Favorite Halloween moments from films without Halloween in the title.'
Kathleen Turner and Angela Bassett are currently on my mind - I can't get enough of their filmographies. The most underrated American actresses of all time?
As for Halloween/October, I'd love to see a piece on 1996's "The Crucible". A bit of a stretch, perhaps, as it's not really horror, but I'd love to revisit with all of y'all!
1) I have three screenings in the next couple of days: The Equalizer, The Good Lie and The Theory of Everything. I think I'm going to pass on the first one, unless someone here gives me a good reason not to (in the next 30 minutes). Not looking forward to the second one, but I guess I'll give it a chance. Very curious about the third one.
2) October 20 is Montgomery Clift's birthday. Just sayin'...
4) "Say What, Arnold & Abigail"...?
You Nathaniel, you're on my cinematic mind!
Just discovered this site and im incredibly happy and trying to catch up with all the posts.
The last movie I Saw was White Bird in a Blizzard. It's good. Eva Green kills. But the end is a little so-so.
Thanks for the amazing site!
Wednesday was Julie Andrews' 79th birthday. Filmathon set this weekend.
Maybe all the staff should pick a favorite trick (horror/scary movie/thriller or mystery) and a favorite treat (guilty pleasure) for a write up.
Also, saw Gone Girl - the book was better but the movie was still pretty fantastic. Pike and Coon deserve some actressy love. And I love Goldie Hawn in First Wives Club!
October 20 isn't Montgomery Clift's birthday, October 17 is. Not to mention that Paul apparently failed to realize how much attention Monty is already getting during the rest of the year.
I for one am not sure if October is the kind of month that deserves to be celebrated, but if we must, then how about doing so with an article on Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), a really good bad film that's certainly filled with some kind of "Halloween spirit"? The Ray Bradbury novel this adaptation is based on even begins with the rather promising sentence "First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.", and if I remember correctly, that line is also said early in the movie version.
Just for the record, the fest coverage has been loads of fun in itself. So non-fest stuff would only be a bonus really.
Meantime, was The First Wives Club really a bad film? I was 12 when I last saw it but I don't remember it being that bad...
Just saw an off-off Broadway production of NEXT TO NORMAL and I know we have a bunch of movie musicals coming up this year, but can someone adapt this one like yesterday?
I beg your pardon, Willy, I was thinking about 1920 (his birth year) when I typed that.
I was just thinking about the fine run of films I got to see on big screens last year courtesy of the BFI's "Gothic" series, including such finery as "The Innocents," "Rebecca," "Nosferatu" (1922 and 1979), "Rosemary's Baby," "Black Narcissus," and "Häxan" (1922). It was a great way to set the mood for Fall in London so I'd love to see some sort of spooky throwback (especially black and white) write-ups in October.
Guilty pleasure!
I absolutely love The First Wives Club! Goldie Hawn is best in show for sure with all those great line deliveries. Great cast of actresses including SJP, Maggie Smith, Stockard Channing, etc
A pivotal period of my early adolescence revolved around VHS copies of Clueless, this, and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.
Willy, why is it you only ever comment to correct other people? First Team Experience writers, though I'm sure they can handle the grief, and now other commenters. Thank you for the updated information on Clift. I hope that next time you express it in a nicer way. You catch more cinephiles with honey than with vinegar.
Anyway, Gone Girl is on my cinematic mind this week because I just saw it. Did it remind anyone else of Basic Instinct?
First Wives Club isn't bad. It's an absolute gem of a movie with 3 stand out performances from 3 terrific actresses. Who doesn't love Bette and Goldie.
I have seen this movie 4 times and have enjoyed it EVERY time.
Can't say the same about some Oscar winners. Rain Man and A beautiful mind were unwatchable the first time round.
What about aSigourney tribute it's her 65th b/day on the 8th,isn't winslet 40 on the 5th october/
I don't want to know people that think The First Wives Club is a bad movie.
I know there are probably.... 39% on RT.... Geez...
To me, it's not a guilty pleasure. It's a pleasure.
Some movies just are.
I've just seen Lilies on the Field and I'm stunned it was labled as a DRAMA. For me it was pretty much a Comedy.
Well, whatever then.
As for your question.... I'd not mind discussing movies that have a Halloween senene, but aren't Halloween movies at all.
I'm fully on board with 'inappropriately scary family films' - I could discuss how terrifying Babe: Pig In The City is for days...
Just saw and fell in love with Gone Girl. Trash, art, and the movies all in one.
"I speak on behalf of your father, my beloved brother, that Morty is garbage, and it would be an honor to me to take him out."
There are entirely too many items to list, but since we're talking about First Wives Club? This is seriously one of my favorites in terms of character acting. Philip Bosco nailed it here. Such non-clance, the words trickling out to those who has little to nothing to quench my third for another nailed in the box.
Mack, I hardly "only ever comment to correct other people", not even in my last comment. I assume you got that wrong impression because I'm different from a lot of the regular commentators who firmly believe that every thought tumbling through their heads would be worth sharing. Or we simply see things differently: You may think that my last comment was rude, but I do not. You may think that the so-called "cinephiles" around here would be worth, um, "catching", but I... Well, at least I've got my doubts here. But let me assure you that Paul Outlaw is among the ones I respect the most; not for his bizarre taste of course but for his impressive knowledge. You probably know what they say about the one-eyed man in the country of the blinds.
One way or the other, if I'd correct every factual error I see on this site, I'd be as ever-present as brookesboy, and I hope we both can agree that I'm already annoying enough with my usual posting frequency which is rather few and far between.
Still thinking about Gone Girl and Maps to the Stars and I'm pretty sure in addition to Snowpiercer, 2014 is my year for pulpy, trashy, weird, stylish, ensemble-driven, but undoubtedly full of star turns, entertainment.
Willy, I didn't realize there was a maximum number of posts allowed. Thanks for pointing this out. Must be nice to be right all the time.
Brookesboy, I knew that you're in constant need to talk, but I didn't know how limited your reading skills are. May I suggest putting on new glasses before your next kneejerk reaction?
In any case, thank you for confirming what I actually DID point out.
Just saw Maps to the Stars and Gone Girl.
Maps to the Stars D+
Gone Girl B
First half of Gone Girl I really liked even though the score was really suffocating, second half about a C+. I was liking the screenplay then that second half threw out most of the goodwill, what the heck happened? It's like David Fincher lost interest halfway through. Also, I feel the editing hurts Rosamund's Oscar chances a bit. Rather than have the camera stay on her they opt for that delivering lines back and forth edit, to the point that her best scenes can't be used for her Oscar clip (getting ahead of the game but she's the only one I can see getting nominated). I'm starting to dislike Neil Patrick Harris, he's entering James Spader creeper territory every time I see him.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. FWC is definitely not a bad movie. Hilarious throughout with a completely gratitutious musical number. Plus I always crack up with the window washer DRAMA. .
Plus, I always thought the shots between the ladies' answering machines with their various setups (Elise with numerous pictures of herself, Brenda's with takeout menus, can't remember Annie's) were lovely little character moments.
NEW -- thank you so much. and welcome. can i ask what brought you here? I need to find new eyeballs ;)
BROOKESBOY, WILLY, AND EVERYONE - please keep it civil and respectful it's fine to disagree with people and even offer corrections so long as its productive to conversation / cinematic knowledge but I don't like a combative insulting environment. My suggestion to anyone who is accused of being rude but doesn't feel that they were. Remember that we can't read your mind or hear your tone of voice. When in doubt, reread back to yourself before hitting "create post".
It's not fun for me and, I suspect, based on years of talking to readers, that most of you like TFE as a fun sandbox to play in and not a sand-kicking war zone. You can get that at many many other movie sites most of which we try hard to be different from in our coverage and tone.
DERRECK -- hmmm. i maintain that First Wives Club is kinda bad. Don't get me wrong. I love it too but it suffers from lazy musical montages, one of Diane Keaton's weirdest performances (why is she constantly squealing and screaming? the things she's reacting to almost never deserve her complete hysterics) and REALLY overstated setpieces and tacky special effects - that window washing. But yes, the cast is mostly great. i love love love love love love Goldie and SJP and Maggie Smith in this one.
Why did no one tell me that Melancholia is a comedy? Okay, a tragicomedy, but still... I just finished watching it for the first time and I was laughing out more during this film (from the first shot) than I was watching this year's The Grand Budapest Hotel or Magic in the Moonlight. One of the best wedding reception sequences ever, btw.
Willy, you have also proved what everybody thinks about you. Which is you are a moron.
Sorry Nathaniel.
No one accidentally watches The First Wives Club...that movie is so awesome!
The First Wives Club really loses steam in its last third, but I still unabashedly love it -- especially Diane Keaton ("BUT WE JUST MADE LOVE!!!!"). And I will always find it so sad that the movie was a blockbluster and all three women were willing to do a sequel, and the studio felt its success was a fluke (Bette Midler said this in an interview, and I know I've read it elsewhere, too).
"ROACH. GO."
"Pushover."
"Lesbian!"