Christopher Walken - Classic or Dud?

(Christopher Walken and Jamie Oliver prompted the birth of ILE as I recall)

esp.as jamie oliver is no longer merely a fat-tongued c*nt, but veritably the new dr barnado

"Have some SHAM-PAN-YA...wowwee zowwee!"

Classic: producer during Blue Oyster Cult recording sessions

"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell."

(pearlman was r.meltzer's study-buddy in "philosophy of art" under allan kaprow!! the aesthetix of rock wz begun by pearlman and meltzer brainstorming in the dorm abt how you could include surf music in the history of art!!)

The guy who predicted totally inane things about people when he touched them, CLASSIC.

anyone seen the comfort of strangers lately? i remember liking the walken/mirren sinister pair-up, but i wonder how well it would hold up now.

: \.

right the first time

favorite walken role: whitley strieber in 'communion'. he high-fives one of his alien abductors in one scene!

The Dogs Of War was one of my favorite movies in high school and I hadn't watched it since then until it showed up on IFC. Great movie with Walken in 100% full-on buggy paranoia mode. Guns guarding the beer in his fridge. The snowy TV never turned off.

"Shannon, get him out of here! This whole country's bought and paid for!"
"You're gonna have to buy it all over again."

Has Tombot seen this movie?

YOU'RE LATE

A+++ Would Buy From Again classic, if only for:

http://twitter.com/cwalken

# An associate told me that he'd been cheating on his wife. He asked me not to talk about it and I probably won't. Unless it comes up somehow.

I don't care if this is fake or not, read them in his voice and, as sully says, twitter finally feels justified.

he's beEn CheATIng onnis WIFE. he....assed me not to TAWKABBOUDIT

saw prophecy last night for the first time in a few years. such a hit/miss film, but there are so many moments of sublime madness from walken and viggo

Watching Dead Zone right now. When do you think that Walken turned self-aware or self-parodic? He's definitely acting in this flick, so I'm thinking early 90s, especially after all his SNL appearances.

When Tarrantino made him shove a watch up his ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkdW5UC_BQ

you cultists do know he's coming to Broadway in a Martin McDonagh play?

Wow! Communion!
Is the whole film that great? Or is there a Jacob's Ladder feel, with most of it being really boring shit about him wandering around with no one believing his shit? (Actually, I didn't mind Jacob's Ladder, but uh. Still, confused Walken > confused Shawshankdude)

Oh boy, it's based on some guy's account of being abducted. Rules.
Wandering into ship full of dancing aliens is fantastic -- peeling of the exoskeleton of one and saying "No, that's not it!" Oh man, that's film-making.

Also, first minute of the clip being Walken wandering into the light with righteous 80s guitar + keyboard = Yeah!

Can't figure out what the little mask-dudes remind me of. Ringmaster from "Eyes wide shut"?
Oh wait, I think it's Salieri in Amadeus, when he's scaring the bumpus out of Wolfie.

A bax! A chinese bax!

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/young-christopher-walken.jpg

Is the whole film that great? Or is there a Jacob's Ladder feel, with most of it being really boring shit about him wandering around with no one believing his shit?

It's more of a drama about a dude trying to figure out what's happening to him. But there are many crazy scenes, plus Walken playing Walken playing an eccentric writer. It's worth a watch. Definitely not your typical alien abduction movie.

Abduction scenes are very proto Twin Peaks red room stuff.

watched "hairspray" this weekend. walken reads his lines like he's (a) having trouble remembering them and (b) not on the same planet as the rest of the actors.

granted, i had to fast-forward through any scene with a substantial john travolta presence (his accent/voice her is completely repulsive).

so they've reopened the case in Natalie Wood's death. Film sites differ on whether CW, who was on the boat, was having an 'affair' with Wood or Robert Wagner at the time.

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Tom Waits joins Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell in Martin McDonough's Seven Psychopaths...filming now.

McDonagh's making documentaries?

*rimshot*

Yeah the whole Wood case getting reopened now is...weird.

Don't think prosecutors need to show the world more photo reminders of Robert Wagner's '81-era hairpiece.

i am totally repping for communion in the sight and sound poll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcRzLAX0yZ8&feature=related <-- just part of the reason

that movie is so awesome, it's 100% walkenness plus rubber aliens

plus LINDSAY CROUSE (plus cliffie from cheers's mom as their analyst)

rumor mill / TV interview suggests it's Robert Wagner who may need his lawyer

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/11/wagner_fingered.php

are they doing a 2012 s&s poll? can you get more/younger directors to participate and more/more international critics?

they are -- i'm not privy to who get to vote though, i've been off-staff since 1998

more/more ilx critics <--

Friday, November 18, 2011
Anonymous / AP

The Associated Press has withdrawn the 12th and 13th Ld-Writethrus of its story about the Natalie Wood investigation. The story mistakenly quoted Christopher Walken as telling Washington, D.C. sports talk radio station ESPN980 about his recollections from the night that Wood died. An Associated Press reporter mistook what was actually a station employee's impersonation of Walken as a real interview.

So then who fingered Wagner?

yuk yuk

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/4/12/12/enhanced-buzz-25618-1334249806-59.jpg

it's the Self-Parody Twins

Maybe they're going to a Gigli cast reunion.

Oh please say they were shooting a Grumpy Old Mobsters movie

that's essentially it, in fact

Is this Mamet's Phil Spector movie?

omg this is being directed by Fisher Stevens

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sometimes-i-wonder-what-life-would-be-like-if-i-ha,31642/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66srduIhOI8

Haha, I am in a bar waiting for my wife reading that Walken thing on my iPhone and laughing out loud. They probably think I'm drunker than I am.

Who? Is the. Meanest man in the... world...

http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2014/09/christopher-walken-as-captain-hook-first-look-photo.jpg

I’m not a good singer,” he said, but he’s taking cues from another Broadway and film legend. “The songs are done almost like patter. Think Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.”

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/24/see-an-exclusive-photo-of-christopher-walken-in-nbcs-peter-pan-live/

So will the clock be up the crocodile's ass in this version?

If NBC were smart, they'd do a one-hour special on the rehearsal process.

For PETER PAN, I mean.

HOOK

You can be the first person to tell me this wasn't terrible.

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I do not understand why a network broadcasting a live musical has become a "thing" recently - especially given the uniformly awful results...? who watches this shit and why?

apparently The Sound of Music's ratings were good bcz Carrie Underwood is a big country star.

the live format is so stiff and shitty looking, I just don't get it

It used to be commonplace to do original musicals for TV in the '50s and '60s (Peter Pan, R&H's Cinderella), but the budgets were lower and the spectrum of what networks did was wider afaik. Now I think they're a little desperate about what network TV is in the digital/online era, they'll occasionally try anything. (Except originality.)

"a shitty musical? live on tv? who taught you to do this? WHO?"

"i learned it from watching you, grandpa! i learned it from watching you!"

admittedly, between "SNL vintage", new shows for every former peacock regular who wants one, those random weekend nights they show 80s reruns and these musicals, nbc's really on the forefront of networks looking back

First, and foremost, there’s the aforementioned performance by Christopher Walken as Captain Hook, which alternated between inspired brilliance and an apparent lack of awareness that he was even on national television, depending on a scene. At one glance, he’s doing the Tarantella and it is as fierce as his feathered cap. In the next, he’s opening his mouth to sing and there is blatantly no noise coming out, or just flat out forgetting his lines altogether.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/05/peter-pan-live-review-no-amount-of-clapping-brings-it-to-life.html

I'm calling it now: NBC will be the first of the current major networks to follow in the footsteps of the DuMont Television Network.

time to rewatch COMMUNION (1989)

are they doing a 2012 s&s poll? can you get more/younger directors to participate and more/more international critics?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 18 November 2011 bookmarkflaglink

Hope amateurist is in heaven rn

amt reading my 2012 vote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLqJEIq6A8

this is a nunc dimittis joek not a george smiley joek

I guess this is the thread where I mention the time in the 90s when I was listening to Skinny Puppy’s Too Dark Park while Communion was randomly playing on TV at low volume. Had no idea of any connection, but they sample a line from the movie on that record and seconds after the sample I hear it repeated back to me from the TV. Freaked me the fuck out.

scared?