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Tennessee Williams | Suddenly, Last Summer | Trailer, 1959

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Suddenly, Last Summer | Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

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Suddenly, Last Summer | Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift

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The two scenes immediately above are in chronological order.

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Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.



Not so surprised in this case. It's a sad and timely joke though.


@ C2W, I agree about Val Kilmer, but in a different way. I don't watch many films (just read about them) and to me Kurt Russell was just the loveable buffoon from Big Trouble In Little China. Even Val Kilmer (despite his apparent rep as an artiste and diva) was just Madmartigen from "Willow" - in which he was very good, imo.

I had no high expectations of either of them. So when I first saw Tombstone, for all it's many, many faults as a film, it was like watching two likeable dorks that I'd been briefly accquainted with suddenly transform into something else entirely, and watching them chew up the screen from both sides with equal intensity until they met in the middle and narrowly avoided kissing.

Kurt Russell got robbed, right there on screen, true enough, but he wasn't ruined by any means. He stood his ground firmly - it's just he had a duller part, when all is said and done. And Kilmer, for all his assholenish, did sword fights in Willow after having a metal prop cage dropped on his foot, splittingit in two. He is a dick, by all accounts - but he does the actual job with no complaints. From interviews, it appears to me that he is constantly drunk or stoned all the time, but not a deliberate arsehole. I mean, I think he might be a bit like Gary Busey - he is, himself, kind of bemused by how totally wasted he is.

Tombstone, though. Loved it, still love it. It's a Bromance film, really, about the deep, enduring love between Doc and Wyatt, and the obstacles which that love encounters along the way. The rest is just for show. Even the rest of Wyatt's family are kind of throw away. It's the My Own Private Idaho of revisionist Westerns. But played totally straight. And it is straight too. The love story is not about sex, just loyalty - but that's more than most love stories are about nowadays, so it hits home.

Antarctica:



The Edukators:

The paintings of the artist in the beautiful French film 'Séraphine':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_8sWlTW ... re=related

American Psycho: Business Card Scene :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

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Mike Leigh's Naked: London as hell. It's hard to pick single scenes from the film, but this is as good a selection as any:

Johnny & Louise:


Johnny & Sophie:


Johnny & a nameless runaway:


The climax, but not the end (don't watch if you're feeling fragile):


David Thewlis's performance is like nothing else I've ever seen.

Bicycle Thieves - the restaurant scene (Lamberto Maggiorani & Enzo Staiola):



(He doesn't actually say, "...because we're both men". Don't know why they felt the need to spell it out in the subtitles.)