99¢ Deals: Lady Bird, Body Heat, Farewell My Queen, etc...
Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 7:15PM It's a Public Service Announcement.
← It's also False Advertising. Lady Bird as "Movie of the Week"? Try "Movie of the Year"! Lady Bird is currently 99¢ on iTunes. And we thought you should know in case by some mad and totally embarrassing chance you have not yet seen 2017's best movie.
We should probably check in on iTunes deals more often. They're better quality images than Amazon or Netflix after all. The "movie of the week" changes...uh... weekly (you might have deduced that) but we're not sure how short the deal period is on their other 99¢ deals and there's quite a lot of goodies right now if you want to program your own mini-fest. Here are a few things that caught my eye from their rental bargain bin...
1980s Essentials
• Body Heat (1981) the movie that should have netted Kathleen Turner her first Oscar nod... or even win. 1981's Best Actress roster pales in comparison to her steamy scheming Matty Walker. Just about the only actual nominee that year that can put up a fight is Diane Keaton in Reds
• Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott's awesomely influential moody sci-fi drama with immortal turns by Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah as incestuous androids.
• The Outsiders (1983) Every decade seems to have that one boy movie that contains every single future or short lived male star of that particular generation and this is the one for the 1980s: Cruise, Swayze, Lowe, Howell, Macchio, Estevez. With Diane Lane and Tom Waits, too.
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987) We'll be discussing that one next month in Pfandom, so if you've never seen it, now's the time. You can't beat 99¢
Four Best Picture Winners
• Casablanca (1943) PERFECTION
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) REALLY GOOD BUT GIVE ME NASHVILLE AS THE WINNER THAT YEAR, FOREVER
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989) UGH
• The Departed (2006) BLAM!
Two of the Worst Biopics Ever!
• J Edgar (2011) That old age makeup. That 'I wish this were in black and white but we didn't have the guts' severely depressive cinematography. Those heavy handed performances. Triple ugh.
• Diana (2013) I saw this with Glenn and we had a ball LOLing through it it was so unbelievably terrible
Underseen Actressing!
• Mauvais Sang (1986) One of Juliette Binoche's earliest roles from one of France's craziest directors Leos Carax
• Farewell My Queen (2012) Léa Seydoux and especially Diane Kruger are excellent in this Marie Antoinette drama which made my top ten list in its year.
• Blame (2017/2018) Worth seeing if you're interested in upcoming female directors. The young leading lady here, Quinn Shephard, also wrote and directed this story about warring troubled girls in a high school production of The Crucible. Her co-star Nadia Alexander won Best Actress at Tribeca last year for this film.
Reader Comments (4)
Ugh.... indeed for Driving Miss Daisy. One of the worst films I had ever seen.
Nashville is perfect but it'd never win BP. Ensemble pieces very rarely win. Crash, Grand Hotel... What else? They always go for individual journeys, and when one of them is as strong as One Flew... the movie becomes unbeatable. Specially when you have a super iconic character like Nurse Ratched to keep the movie in your mind. Nurse Ratched is the female Hannibal Lecter. You just can't shake her off.
Cal -- i wasn't suggesting it could have ever won. Just that it should have! But if the rule is individual journeys, DOG DAY AFTERNOON is > than CUCKOO'S NEST ;)
DIANA! That night out was wonderful as the film was unplanned after cancelled plans and that movie was totally hilarious trash.