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Post by evilbliss on Sept 19, 2018 22:37:28 GMT
What are your top 5 favorite Lauren Bacall performances? One of the most gorgeous women!
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 19, 2018 23:53:03 GMT
Oh honey, she wasn't very versatile as an actress but I love these
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo
How to Marry a Millionaire
Designing Women
The Mirror Has Two Faces
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Post by countjohn on Sept 20, 2018 4:39:05 GMT
Oh honey, she wasn't very versatile as an actress but I love these To Have and Have Not Key Largo How to Marry a Millionaire Designing Women The Mirror Has Two Faces Everyone can't be you MsMovieStar, it isn't fair to hold them to your towering standards all the time! |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 20, 2018 9:22:23 GMT
Written On The Wind.
It is almost pathologically odd that this board doesn't talk much about Douglas Sirk - we love to act like the 50s was just about Hitchcock and Brando (it wasn't) and we love to talk about people who do imitations of Sirk now (Todd Haynes!) - but Sirk invented a whole aesthetic - the trashy big budget epic, somewhat ironic but not quite and full of grand OTT emotions.
Written on the Wind is the refracted America in the 50s in cinema - look at the cast (!), Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone - and look at what they are playing - big business (alcoholism), sexual passions unfulfilled (alcoholism), family failures (don't get me started), business failures, death - all in lush Technicolor and all stemming from ..........um....... alcoholism.
Bacall actually has to act here instead of just looking like SEX holding a cigarette but who would cast her as a boring good girl secretary anyway?!? (Which gets me back to Douglas Sirk....)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 14:17:35 GMT
It is almost pathologically odd that this board doesn't talk much about Douglas Sirk Um... There are no other directors besides Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lynch, and Christopher Nolan. Sirk... Who is Sirk?  |
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Post by wattsnew on Sept 24, 2018 23:15:56 GMT
No mentions for 'The Big Sleep' yet? Iconic performance.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 25, 2018 1:11:22 GMT
She's very good in her debut To Have and Have Not and keeps the movie afloat, what's otherwise a boggy and vaguely pointless Casablanca rip. Her introductory line "Anybody gotta match?" I nearly went for my own pockets to check.
She's ok in Key Largo and The Big Sleep - but the former character isn't needed or add much to the film and latter character is too stacked and awkward on the page (she keeps showing up behind doors!) for her to figure on a way to play it.
But from what I've seen her best is Dark Passage. Her performance is sincere and confident. She's at her most beautiful too with her careful, caring eyes - and that fourth wall break in the elevator! And there's a deep and possibly perverse subtext to the character that she plays with, it's not fully explored but it's there.
Gotta see more.....
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