FAYE DUNAWAY

incredible actress, such a run up through Mommie Dearest

which I enjoy but it's pure camp - the John Waters commentary is v fun

don't remember her in Little Big Man at all, I should rewatch that

short, funny role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtNBUBSukY

I don't know if she was incredible, but she was a real presence. We need Eric H for ILE gays Network love. She tried hard to humanize Joan Crawford, failed and turned her into a monster, and it worked anyway. My rundown:

No mention of Don Juan Demarco?

Bonnie and Clyde
Chinatown
Network
The Eyes of Laura Mars
Mommie Dearest
Barfly

agree those are the best

Barfly best 'late' performance i've seen for sure.

she's a delicious villain in the Lester Musketeers too.

A Place for Lovers directed by De Sica and with Mastroianni? Probably soapy and ridiculous but I want to see it for the fashions if nothing else

where's yr love for Arizona Dream, Morbz

she's the nicest of many nice things to look at in The Thomas Crown Affair

Certainly an essential part of the weirdness in Kusturica's Arizona Dream. Def curious to see what she did opposite George C Scott in Okl Crude, which was often on TV when i was a kid, and with Stacy Keach in "Doc," which seems hard to locate.

Write in for Casper

p sure First Deadly Sin was theatrical

not in the US. aired on NBC. didn't she play Sinatra's ailing wife, in a hospital bed the whole time?

p sure i'm voting Mrs Mulwray.

she's already got one going

she did the Guys & Dolls doubleheader

http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/files/2015/02/sin1.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PId4rD2M0wQ/hqdefault.jpg

ive seen 'Doc', its middling iirc, tho yea best stuff is btwn keach + faye, including an early scene where he 'wins her' in a card game

whats the anecdote maybe from 'raging bulls, etc' of her being referred to as dunne fadeaway or something?

lmao that if u search dunn fadeaway now u first get the providence college point guard/pro-prospect kris dunn, hitting a fadeaway jumper

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31400000/Faye-faye-dunaway-31437108-480-260.gif

her chemistry with William Holden was palpable ("I'll eat anything").

i mean..

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jPPunq0tCuc/TDdTdeBx7jI/AAAAAAAAEfw/uugDFOqyAKU/s1600/FAY-DUNAWAY-OSCARS.jpg

best post-Oscar-win photo ever, especially that headline.

realizing her career was only going down. Grim.

http://jgeilsband.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1977_28_March_Wolf_Faye_Press_Photo_900.jpg

Chinatown, but let me take this thread as an opportunity to once again say, fuck Network.

Network is great if you enjoy monologues

^^Underrated Fear jam.

https://24.media.tumblr.com/27cd250e612e591bf4431160b1268f6f/tumblr_mxnmi2QPqe1sb1yhlo2_r1_500.gif

she handles Chayefsky's polysyllabic twaddle the best.

The 1999 Pierce Brosnan-Rene Russo remake >>>>>>> McQueen-Dunaway

btw Dunaway is Cate Blanchett's biggest influence but Blanchett has shown no talent for pulp.

not sure i agree, but it's fun to think of Faye as Carol

only seen the most well known films on this list, but yeah she is great.

Watched Little Big Man again over the weekend cuz of this revive. It's more or less an overtly comic picaresque, albeit one with frequent and abundant detours into a kind of grim reevaluation of western tropes particularly in regard to the racist genocide of native Americans, which is repeatedly witnessed with wide-eyed horror by proto-Dances With Wolves protagonist. Dunaway's appearances bookend the film and she does fine with a not particularly nuanced role. The comedy is often goofy and obvious, which is a strange contrast to all the other grim shit that happens, making for something that veers wildly in tone. No idea how this was received at the time.

The Eyes of Laura Mars is excellent giallo, I should have voted for it instead of Chinatown

The comedy is often goofy and obvious, which is a strange contrast to all the other grim shit that happens

well this was Thomas Berger's stock in trade, right? have never read the novel.

I have no idea. I distinctly remember seeing the back half of this film on TV as a teenager and thinking it was somehow a more serious revisionist western (in the vein of Peckinpah) than it actually is. It's really more like a dopey Dickens story with the massacre of Native Americans/Old West as a backdrop.

Highly recommend the novel. Have read it several times. I believe Film Forum programmer Mike M. is also a big fan.

i think the only part of LBM i'd seen was the Little Big Horn stuff, i remember being surprised seeing the dude from Empty Nest playing Custer.

Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision.

oh shit I didn't even recognize him! The scenes w Custer are all great.

"Muleskinner!"

Going with Four Musketeers for nostalgic reasons.

we watched little big man in american history class in high school. that was a weird one.

better than the longest day.

lol idk if I would go to that movie for historical accuracy...

instead, Mommie Dearest

a clear and realistic portrayal of the mid-century conflict between wire and wood coat hangers

movies i saw in high school, during class, under state coercion: little big man, the longest day, apocalypse now (conrad unit), spartacus (ancient greek unit -- teacher recognized his error about 20 minutes in but had no backup so we went the distance), the de niro/branagh frankenstein, the fishburne/branagh othello, the washington/branagh much ado, all quiet on the western front, sleepy hollow, finding forrester, anne of the thousand days, remember the titans (many times), stand and deliver...

sorry: apocalypse now redux.

anyway

she handles Chayefsky's polysyllabic twaddle the best.

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this is otm; she rescues big chunks of it. even her Is Everyone Clear I Am A Frigid Harpy Who Cares Only For "Shares" sex talk is funny imo, indeed sexy.

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Saw a damn near pristine 35mm print yesterday of Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), written by Carole Eastman (same year she did Five Easy Pieces) and the first feature directed by Jerry Schatzberg, who'd been a big-deal fashion fotog (and snapped the cover shot of Blonde on Blonde) in the '60s. The quick summary is "breakdown of a neurotic fashion model," with lots of elliptical nouvelle vague-style editing and structure, but Dunaway goes to extremes I haven't often seen from her. Lots of humor too, which feels authentic since J.S. knew that world (and gave Eastman interview tapes he'd made with an ex-model upon which to base the script).

Schatzberg (who is 90!) did a Q&A after. Dunaway had committed to the film while they were having a romance, which had ended by the time the cameras rolled (she left him for Mastroianni). Asked if it was a "sober" or partying set, Schatzberg said "I don't know if you can call any set with Faye on it sober." The film was nearly shelved by Universal, but French acclaim partly saved it.

there's no video release available in the US, but what looks to be an uncut version is on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVcgiZgvu7A

Eyes of Laura Mars: she's already doing Joan Crawford here. The movie revels in the glitz and sleaze of '78 NYC, which saves it (mostly) from the shabby serial-killer plot.

It's that Irwin Kershner visual sumptuousness

also the cinematographer was Victor Kemper, who did Dog Day Afternoon, Mikey & Nicky, Friends of Eddie Coyle

(all much better movies)

shots in Laura show the streets of Soho looking like shit, the way I remember them.

the MAD parody was called "Eyes of Lurid Mess"

I wonder how many people who see that movie fail to ID the killer. It seemed disappointingly obvious on a recent viewing (though maybe I was recalling it from a viewing decades earlier)

I thought it was too obvious for them to do.

original screenplay by John Carpenter, I doubt it would look as good if he had directed

I guess the location cinematography looks okay, but god the performances are embarrassing in The Eyes of Laura Mars. One of Kael's more inexplicable enthusiasms (going to look up her review).

I wonder how many people who see that movie fail to ID the killer.

Well, they work really hard to make you think it's one character; I was sitting there going back and forth between "either this is so heavy-handedly obvious it has to be someone else" and "they're doing a double-reverse; the obviousness is meant to deflect me so I'll be surprised when it actually is him." But even having seen it once years ago, I failed to ID the killer. Also failed to decide if Jones, Auberjonois, or Julia gave the worst performance. Dunaway and Dourif were only intermittently awful.

Read Kael's review, and I really felt the exasperation people can have with her. She goes on about some perceived resistance to the film because it unnerves us, and we like everything neat and tidy. Didn't unnerve me at all--it's just a bad film. (I might be wrong, but I think she had some degree of friendship with Irvin Kershner...I'd have to check that; bad idea if I'm remembering right.)

There might be a poll for the most lurid late-'70s thriller: Laura Mars, Lipstick, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Hardcore, Cruising, Star '80 if you move ahead a year.

Oh dear, I have to disagree with Dr Morbius about Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Dunaway is so so bad in this. She seems to… think that… putting random… pauses between… her… words equals… naturalistic acting, when it actually makes her sound anything but natural. The script is partly to blame, which is surprising considering it’s the same screenwriter who did Five Easy Pieces, a film that looks better every time I see it.