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Cail wrote:Keitel's best role is The Bad Lieutenant.
yick. crappy abel ferrara movie. what WAS the point of that movie.

i prefer Harvey in The Piano.
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I second the Piano--good in Bad Lt., bad film.
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I HATED The Piano.
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danlo: you are very lucky. wish i had the chance to have seen Cazale, but I was a wee lad. :)

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Lucimay wrote:
Cail wrote:Keitel's best role is The Bad Lieutenant.
yick. crappy abel ferrara movie. what WAS the point of that movie.

i prefer Harvey in The Piano.
Hated The Piano.

B.L. is brilliant in that it centers on a character that is completely unlikeable and evil, and is completely unrelenting until the end until it's revealed as a (bizarre) spiritual tale about sacrifice and redemption.

Keitel should've won an Oscar for this performance, it's easily the best he's done.
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Cail wrote:
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Cail wrote:Keitel's best role is The Bad Lieutenant.
yick. crappy abel ferrara movie. what WAS the point of that movie.

i prefer Harvey in The Piano.
Hated The Piano.

B.L. is brilliant in that it centers on a character that is completely unlikeable and evil, and is completely unrelenting until the end until it's revealed as a (bizarre) spiritual tale about sacrifice and redemption.

Keitel should've won an Oscar for this performance, it's easily the best he's done.

yes yes i know i know...abel ferrara is BRILLIANT and i'm the one idiot who doesn't get it.
and btw...MOST men i know hated the piano (cept danlo)...and i just wanna know why? what was it that was such a turn off? i've never understood. i thought both harvey and sam were really great in it. so tell,...what was it about that movie?
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio



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I never said a word about Abel. I just think very highly of that film.

The Piano bored me to tears.
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Cail wrote:I never said a word about Abel. I just think very highly of that film.

The Piano bored me to tears.
do you like any of Ferrara's other films as well? The Funeral, The Addiction, King of New York, New Rose Hotel...there's more, but those are the ones i've seen...i keep trying because everybody says he's such a genius but i can't relate...

so The Piano was boring to men? sexual tension is boring? 8O
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio



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The only other film of his I've seen was Body Snatchers, wich was rather clever, but inferior to the Sutherland version.
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Cail wrote:The only other film of his I've seen was Body Snatchers, wich was rather clever, but inferior to the Sutherland version.
didn't see that one!
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio



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John Ritter in Sling Blade was a revelation.

Kris Kristofferson in Trouble In Mind.
Genevive Bujold also from Trouble In Mind.
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I don't know why guys weird on The Piano--too quiet? Well what do you expect with a woman who never talks...Man's historical treatment of women--quilt? (Holly Hunter does have a way of intimidating or weirding out men...tho...I can't put my finger on it--too hard core? hmmm...) I thought it was a brilliant period piece, Anna Panquin was great and so were Sam and HK. You guys know me--I love everything Sam's in--even if it's crap--I can't help it...
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danlo wrote:I don't know why guys weird on The Piano--too quiet? Well what do you expect with a woman who never talks...Man's historical treatment of women--quilt? (Holly Hunter does have a way of intimidating or weirding out men...tho...I can't put my finger on it--too hard core? hmmm...) I thought it was a brilliant period piece, Anna Panquin was great and so were Sam and HK. You guys know me--I love everything Sam's in--even if it's crap--I can't help it...
i think holly Hunters great. cant stand the piano though. its just boring.

anything Daniel Day Lewis has been in. one role hmmm...Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Holly Hunter was awesome (and made me want to touch myself) in A Life Less Ordinary.
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Holly Hunter was also great in Crash and Home For the Holidays. and Once Around as well.
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Interestingly enough, this month's Premier has the same topic as I started: 100 Greatest Performances of all Time.

Intersting list. Don't agree with about half of them, especially since it is missing my pick in F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus. BUT, I actually do agree with their #1 pick (and am ashamed I did not remember it)

Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.
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oh! Usivius...you've just reminded me...

Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn in Lion in Winter!!!!
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio



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