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Wednesday
Mar212018

Get Caught Up on "Pfandom"



 

P  F  A  N  D  O  M 
P F E I F F E R    R E T R O S P E C T I V E
Series Resumes March 31st. Saturdays at TFE

Coming Soon... Watch Along With the Series!
March 31st: Scarface (1983)
April 7th: Into the Night (1985) 
April 14th: Ladyhawke (1985)
April 21st: Sweet Liberty (1986)

Until then get caught up with...
Episode 1 Miss Orange County Beauty Queen
Episode 2 Early Bit Parts on TV
Episode 3 TV Recurring Roles Delta House and more
Episode 4 The Hollywood Knights (1980), her film debut
Episode 5 TV Movie Callie & Son (1981)
Episode 6 TV Movies Splendor in the Grass and The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)
Episode 7 Falling in Love Again (1980) and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Episode 8 First Starring Role: Grease 2 (1982)
 

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Saturdays we p'fight p'for Pfeiffer!

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful

Love this. :)

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterTyler

Pfricking Amazing!

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRami

YAS!

Finally. The Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds-documentary and this starting the same day. Im in cyber cinema heaven

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJesper

Finally. The Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds-documentary and this starting the same day. i'm in digital heaven

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered Commentermobfreak

Cannot Wait.Will you be discussing her many Oscar snubs.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMARKGORDONUK

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJoey

Mark -- we'll have plenty of time to discuss all sorts of things. It's EVERY saturday. (I needed a project that would make me feel joyful this year and I miss her so much so it seemed like the right time. )

January 3, 2017 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

That bathtub gif *slays* me! I love you Nathaniel...And of course, Michelle Pfeiffer XD

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAmanda Buffamonteezi

Thank you pfor this! I'm super excited pfor it, too.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

Those gifs are life.
Can't wait for this.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJB

Love her bitchiness in Wolf,can't wait.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMARKGORDONUK

I'm as excited about this as I am for her return to the big (and small) screen this year. I can't wait!

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterthefilmjunkie

I don't know what the top left gif is from, but I keep imagining she's going to devour him, like a human shaped praying mantis.

I'm hoping for a piece on her Grease 2 turn, a tragically terrible film that she somehow emerges unscathered from in spite of very poor safety practices on a ladder whilst pining for her 'cool rider'.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterBJT

Love her! Coincidentally, I just bought the Grease 2 vinyl over the new year merely because of her. Yes the movie sucks but she was FABULOUS in my opinion.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJans

Michelle was legit af in What Lies Beneath. She KILLED it..

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterDavid S.

No..... MEOW....? She owned that film.

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterSteven

Pfabulous!! This is exciting!

January 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJones

BTJ & Jans... I LOVE her in Grease 2. Yeah the movie sucks, but she transcends, she is so damn cool in that film, and so gorgeous.

January 4, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJB

Yay love this. Loved Michelle since I was 11 and have never stopped. Forever my #1 Screen Queen. Only works I haven't seen are Solitary Man and Splendor. Can't seem to find them, help!

February 25, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterKelduh

Thank you for providing a schedule for those Pfandom updates. I'm a huge Pfeiffer fan, and I was concerned that this feature had come to a premature end when we didn't receive an update last week. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to reading your thoughts now that we'll be getting into some of her more substantial big-screen roles.

February 26, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMarco

I couldn't love this any pfarther, pfurther, pfantastically!
A pfan

March 2, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMarcelo - Brazil

BJT, top left is Ladyhawke, a modern classic. Great screenplay, great actors - Broderick, Hauer and Pfeiffer - and a terrible score.

March 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMarcelo - Brazil

Here for Ladyhawke <3 <3 <3

March 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterCourtney

White Oleander is abridged on YouTube. Sometimes I sit down to watch all the Michelle Pfeiffer parts and skip through the other scenes. It's delicious in order, out of order, etc. The individual scenes and line readings are so searing and unforgettable.

There's really nothing like it. She is just a master of screen acting.

March 3, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterHayden

I'm so happy this is returning, I loved reading those write-ups!

March 21, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterthefilmjunkie

Pforever a pfan of Pfeiffer. Thank you for brining this back.

March 21, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

Hayden.


People laugh at me all the time when I say that White Oleander is one of my fav films. I think people assume it’s just a Lifetime type melodrama. It’s heartbreaking how good Pfeiffer is here and also Zellweger and Wright Penn kill it!

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterME

Pfinally! Pfandom is back!!! Can't wait for the series to begin again.
Thank you, Nathaniel.

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterferdi

Yay!!

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterJB

That Oscar snub for White Oleander will pforever sting. Should have been an easy nom and maybe win. F*ck you, Warner Bros for dropping the ball.

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterHeyya

I put this on another thread, but it actually isn't out of place here. The death of Louise Latham was just announced (although she died on Feb 12), Michelle Pfeiffer's mother in Love Field, but most famously Tippi Hedren's mother in Marnie. She was a whole 8 years older!

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterken s

Correction. Louise Latham played Michelle's boss's mom. It always helps to google my faulty memories.

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterken s

This makes my heart happy!

-I remember Michelle being adamant on Inside the Actors Studio that she tried to avoid typical "girlfriend" roles where women were just a setpiece. She said Scarface was different because Elvira is a set piece, but she is also saying something about those women.

I had never heard of Into the Night until Actors on Actors when Sarah Jessica Parker went on and on about it.

SJP: Don't people who are really into cinema, like movie buffs, come up to you and talk to you about that movie?
Michelle (very confused): ...No.

March 22, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterJakey

Such a brilliant actor. Pfeiffer mesmerizes and elevates each film in which she appears in.
I've been a fan ever since I saw her performance in The Witches of Eastwick, in which she went toe-to-toe with acting heavyweights and more than held her own. And then I had to visit her earlier work, such as Scarface ....
So pleased she is returning full-time to film -- and looking forward to more great performances from this most special of actors.
It would be fun, sometime, to rank and discuss our favorite Pfeiffer performances. Nathaniel?

March 23, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterCraig
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