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Gigot (1962)
Perfect
I like others have stumbled across this film. It is a masterpeice that was expertly directed by Gene Kelly in his years in Paris and written tenderly by Jackie Gleason and John Patrick. There are so many words I could use to discribe this film. I will refrain from using them. I just have to say that if you happen on some strange rainy day to run across this movie. Watch it with a box of Tissues. You will see why Jackie Gleason was considered the "Great One". Forget the honeymooners and anything you have ever seen Jackie in, and watch this piece that should be a Master Class to any film student. I know that Art house wasn't a term for a film in the 60's, but this film is a work of Art that should be put to Video or DVD ASAP. It needs to be remembered by a generation that loves the film genre for I am a member of Generation X that has fallen in love with the artistry of a great actor and a dancer that could direct as he danced, with grace and with a great love for the story.
Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997)
Beautiful
The previous person that commented on this film must have seen a different one than I had. I ran across this film during a fit of imsomnia on Cable. I watched it because I have always liked Jack Thompson.
This film is about love and friendship. And how they come together when a group of friends spend time together. You can see the plot that winds between the main couple and the friends as they spend some time on the beach. The mixture of love and friendship works in my humble opinion.
The Cinemantography is absolutely wonderful. The shots of the coast make you feel like you are there... and the beach house is a place I would love to spend some time at. Paul Murphy catches the light so beautifully as it grazes the water and the land.
If you have a love of a good romance, and want to see Jack Thompson be romantic, then see this movie... It might just have you under the lighthouse dancing....
Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
Know the facts before you watch
This movie was directed by James Toback. He likes to allow his actors some room to breathe. In this film he did just that. He only gave the actors a few plot lines and then allowed them to Ab-Lib the rest of the movie. He has done this since then with Black and White also starring Robert Downey Jr.
I really enjoyed this movie. The love affair that Toback has with camera angles and the human condition are very previlent in the movie. the previous person that commented mentioned that he has wasted his time watching to the end. I beg to differ. The Dynamic that these three people have is pretty intense. The two women don't know each other but become friends while waiting for Blake to come home.
As you watch the film, you can see why Blake loves both of thise women equally. Carla is a little WASPy and Lou is street wise. they both have traits that has attracted him to them. As the film goes on, it shows you how we can love on many levels.
If you have never sat in a room with your lover and just talked about your lives and the problems relating to them then this movie is not for you. I can remember conversations with lovers. They start with one topic and then keep going to many others. We would talk as our lives happened. Phone calls from family and other friends, as well as appointments we had or what ever was on the agenda for the day.
This film is about the complexities of love. The people that we meet mean something to us at any given time. If you want to see a relationship expand past the limits of the Average film, then see this movie. Or any James Toback picture for that matter.
Sports Night (1998)
The best show that left Televison
I am your average New Yorker that happens to live in the middle of America right now. I am also the proud owner of the Sports Night DVD collection. I loved this show when it was still in production and it's send off to comedy central.
It was intelligent, fast paced and very well written. Josh Charles and Peter Krause were a perfect team to bounce things off of. Their personally dynamic was wonderful to watch. Aaron Sorkin understood his characters enough to allow them to breathe past the Canned laughter of your average sitcom. This wasn't a show about just two people. Felicity Huffman, Sabrina Lloyd, Joshua Malina, and the perfectly cast Robert Guillaume added to the seamless natrualness of the show.
I could identify with the Characters and with the multiple storylines that ran for the 36 episodes that the show had. Jeremy (Josh Malina) showing the gang about Chanukah was one of my favorite episodes. I could relate to the whole show.
There aren't enough sitcoms that peak my interest to actually remember when they are on. Sports Night did just that. I would be ready every Tuesday. Maybe, the show was before it's time. I just hope that the next time that something like it comes along, I will take a look and fall in love again.
Sweet November (2001)
It took a couple times...
***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I will admit that Keanu Reeves is a favorite person of mine. My friends joke that such a big movie fan that I am should have such better taste than Keanu. I even joke back that he can't act his way out of a paper bag but he is pretty to look at. That changed when I saw Sweet November.
I have read all the comments on here that Charlize was overly dramatic and Keanu was as exciting as a cardboard cutout. And that Jason Issacs would be better served somewhere else. I don't think so. Sara was a woman with a cause. She wanted to show one man a month that there was more to life than the bottom line. That they could be a member of the human race and not just a rat running a race. Her eccentric behavior was fitting to her character.
Sara is a woman that left her own rat race when she discovered that she had Hodgkin's, a form of cancer. I wonder how those that criticized the acting would act if their own doctor told them that they didn't have long to live due to incurable disease. Would they start all the treatments that would only weaken them over time? Or would they embrace the life that they had left? I know that I would, and have since finding out that I myself would never be cured of a disease.
The gay neighbor that is a transvestite. Yes, it is so overdone. But it was showing that Chaz/Cherry could also let his hair down. Some of the best emotion that Keanu Reeves has ever shown was the scene after the meeting with "God". You could see that he was happy being what he had become.
The ending...So many of you have hated it. Does a movie have to end in a neat little package? No, I don't think so. This movie showed that it didn't. As there is no cure for Hodgkin's, there would be no happy ending for Sara and Nelson. Nelson's life was changed when he met Sara. Nelson would in turn change those he happened to encounter.