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The Last Picture Show (1971)
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Cloris Leachman Must Be Driving ...
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"Chris posted this a couple of weeks ago but, since the Bog Saget Comedy Central roast thing finally aired last night and the whole internet is going batshit crazy for Cloris Leachman, I thought I’d post this video again. Also, I just kind of get a kick out of imagining what Peter Bogdanovich thinks of all this. I know he was distracted on the set of The Last Picture Show, what with all that leaving his wife for his 18 year-old ingenue business, but even so, you have to assume he never imagined that his direction of Leachman would lead, almost 40 years later, to a nationally televised anal sex joke. I bet he’s really loosening his ascot over this one. For more on the Bob Saget roast, check out Chris’ original post. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Ka "
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"Chris posted this a couple of weeks ago but, since the Bog Saget Comedy Central roast thing finally aired last night and the whole internet is going batshit crazy for Cloris Leachman, I thought I’d post this video again. Also, I just kind of get a kick out of imagining what Peter Bogdanovich thinks of all this. I know he was distracted on the set of The Last Picture Show, what with all that leaving his wife for his 18 year-old ingenue business, but even so, you have to assume he never imagined that his direction of Leachman would lead, almost 40 years later, to a nationally televised anal sex joke. I bet he’s really loosening his ascot over this one. For more on the Bob Saget roast, check out Chris’ original post. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog< "
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"It was a given that Comedy Central’s Bob Saget Roast would be raunchy. Especially without the Olsen Twins present to make the roasters feel guilty (the night was apparently filled with jokes about Saget having sex with his TV daughters). But who expected Cloris Leachman to steal the dirty show by threatening to use her Oscar as a strap-on in order to fuck John Stamos? Or did she want to fuck Jon Lovitz? Either way, it will make me think differently of her winning performance in The Last Picture Show from now on. Don’t you wish your grandmother was so crass? Only yesterday, while writ "
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He is a camera: My Life On Ice
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"Etienne's grandmother gives him a video camera for his seventeenth birthday. Right away he takes to it, trying the whistles and bells, zooming in on his mother's face, urging her not to pose. Etienne's story is all about distances, intimacy, alliances. At the beginning, the subjects of his video-biography (his mother, grandmother, best friend, teacher) are flattered, self-conscious. Gradually they become annoyed, then barely tolerant, and finally, subdued. From the moment he starts shooting, he gets bolder and bolder, asking personal questions, spying, catching his mother in her skivvies. Some of this we can chalk up to adolescent mischief, curiosity, lack of respect for privacy. What therapists call boundary issues. But by the final chapter, he is capturing incidents far better left off-camera. Which is, of course, what makes for good cinema.My Life on Ice (originally titled Ma vraie vie à Rouen or The True Story of My Life in Rouen) is the directing project of Olivier Duca ... "
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A Thousand Clouds of Peace: Poe ...
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"A Thousand Clouds of Peace is an ode to loss and yearning, an extended fever-dream or hallucination that we share with Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuño) as he carries Bruno's letter in his pocket, haunted by the words he used to explain why he can no longer see him. Sometimes he appears to be looking for Bruno (Juan Carlos Torres), for others he meanders and malingers, making contact with friends, clients, and strangers. There is something intuitive and almost preverbal about the way he connects, as if he knows them intimately and not at all, as if they can read each other's minds. It's a familiarity of attraction and repulsion that reminds you of Bergman. Like when you mingle drunk at a party where social conventions have been dropped and there's a kind of jovial, empty intimacy. It doesn't seem adequate or appropriate to describe Gerardo as a prostitute. He accepts money from the men he engages only grudgingly, as if looking for something else. His urgency i ... "
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Dogboy: O FANTASMA
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"Joao Pedro Rodrigues' O Fantasma is a rich, spellbinding celebration of raw male adolescent sexuality unlike any film I have ever seen. It is a paean to tawdry, squalid, horndog homo-sex. A glorious reverent escapade in shamelessness. But far more than that, it soars. It is poetry culled the from the trash heap of a mean and meager world where imperative need turns us all into scavengers. Lyricism from the reckless rush of teenage testosterone that grips us in its bite and shakes us like a rag doll. Ricardo Meneses, in what has to be one of the most auspicious film debuts of all time, captures all the urgency, electricity and innocence of male coming-of-age without affectation or apology. He is so completely intuitive and unselfconscious that his most outrageous behavior seems plausible and rational. Even sympathetic. 17 when he auditioned for a role that has almost no dialogue, and self-identified as straight, he nonetheless copped to several same-gender experiences, which he read ... "
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Stuck in My Head
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"I watched this last night. It is a beautiful, sad film about the realities of small towns. What I've been thinking about the most is how this film destroys all romanticized ideas one may have of 1950's Americana. These characters are not rejoicing in their freedom--they're trapped and sad in a landscape of scrub grass, dust, and decrepit store fronts. What's hopeful are Sonny's relationship with Sam the Lion and Billy--but before the end, both of these characters have died and Sonny is left in the kitchen with Ruth, the coach's wife with whom he's had an affair. Nevertheless, the cinematography is beautiful. I love the choice to film in black and white; it's as if the audience enters the 1950's and participates in reality, not some glitzy, full-skirted, shiny appliance world. "
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