jennifer jason leigh C/D?

The whole story of her dad's demise is also kind of sick and fascinating

Certainly all-time biggest crush for me.

Didn't Versus write a song about her too?

she's perfect

I have to admit I visit the Phoebe Cates memory bank more than the JJL.

king is alive was not so good. generally though i have a positive feeling towards her

i think i liked georgia pretty ok

She's naked a hell of a lot in Single White Female in case you care.

I saw (and liked a lot) The Spectacular Now, in which she has a supporting part. I went to start a thread on that film but then my long post about it got gobbled up, somehow, and I didn't have the energy to redo it.

She's really good. The Spectacular Now is really good. Both are neglected/underrated.

Did she suffer from "women on a certain age" mistreatment in Movies or did she decide to go down a different path? I'm aware that she's done a lot of theatre work in recent years. Prior to TSN I last saw her in the horrible Margot at the Wedding, which I walked out on but she was probably good in it.

She should be fun in the new Tarantino.

I hope she gets lots of screen time.

The Spectacular Now one of the better written and acted 2013 films.

Miami Blues just became "available" and she's revelatory in it.

wiki:

Leigh was originally cast as Vincent Gallo's girlfriend in his self-directed film The Brown Bunny, and was apparently prepared to perform oral sex on Gallo as the script required.

I saw Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle for the first time in 24 years last night, and Alan Rudolph said an executive after Cannes offered him $1 million for postproduction redubbing of JJL's lines "so you can understand her." Apparently it's very faithful to audiotapes of Dorothy Parker's voice, but I really didn't have much of a problem getting the dialogue. She's great in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ip47PpiVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOfddj5E4o

The problem with her studied fidelity to audiotapes in the first of those two clips is that she comes across a bit too much like a mimic doing Dorothy Parker, and not quite like a person being herself.

In the context of the film, where she talks like that throughout, she seems real to me.

that parker movie is hilarious. the ultimate in peter brady as george washington dress-up.

i put the hitcher on for rufus a couple of weeks ago. that movie is timeless.

shame on you, scott

I fell in love with Georgia tonight.

I haven’t seen it since it came out but I remember liking it (and JJL in particular, obv.).

The relationship with her sister took some turns I wasn't expecting, seems like (I too haven't seen it since first came out). Sister played by always intriguing Mare Winningham, who is or was in the play Girl From The North Country.

I watched a JJL movie tonight, too: In the Cut (she's Meg Ryan's sister). Made me realize I hadn't seen her in a while.

I rewatched Fast Times a few years ago and was really struck by how good she is in that, even better than I remembered.

I watched Altman's Kansas City a couple months back and JJL is terrific in it

Georgia's absurdly well-developed. Not too many films show a three-dimensional relationship b/w a woman and her brother-in-law (played by Ted Levine, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs). Even the expected scenes have twists: when Winningham joins JJL on stage, it's not a triumphant moment, more a case of nerves.

Have yall seen The Anniversary Party? Has its dramedy aspects, but mostly toward the end, and otherwise it's a hoot. Co-created by JJL and Alan Cummimg, somewhat (reportedly) based on based on their actual relationship at the time (2001), but you can tell they know their Altman and Mike Leigh---wiki describes it well, basically, though doesn't quite emphasize the age factor as I recall it: Neither is all that old, but feeling it, esp. being on the cusp, biz-wise: she's making a romcom with Kevin Kline, and both are likely to get some pushback for subliminally wrinkled sex appeal etc; meanwhile, she has, I think, pulled some strings to facilitate the production of hubbie/kept man's most recent novel---he's currently blocked and/or procrastinating about writing(also bisexual and just plain moody; she's afraid he'll finally get terminally bored of anxious olde her)---so now he's a director--annd he hasn't cast her because age---they're having big anniversary party, and their friends are on various rungs of biz ladder, none of them quite spring chickens, though pretty close in non-Hollywood terms---Kline does some excellent whining about why Cumming hasn't cast him, and gets the man-to-man runaround: ecstasy can't get in teh way of biz talk!

Because of conflicting schedules, there was a period of only 19 days in which the entire cast—consisting of friends and actors with whom Leigh and Cumming previously had worked—would be available for filming. This prompted the decision to film using digital video, which Leigh felt also added a sense of immediacy and intimacy that would draw the audience into the action as party guests observing everything from the sidelines.

The order in which the toasts were made was determined before the scene was filmed, although with the exception of that offered by Skye, they were improvised rather than scripted.[citation needed]

Retired actress Phoebe Cates* returned to acting for this one film, as a favor to director Leigh, her best friend.[citation needed]

Actress Mina Badie is Leigh's half-sister, from her mother's second marriage.

The one thing I remember from that movie is that there's a CD playing in the background of a scene (the Stones? the Kinks?) After the track ends the next one on the album immediately starts playing.
I have never heard that before or since in a movie.

I watched a JJL movie tonight, too: In the Cut (she's Meg Ryan's sister). Made me realize I hadn't seen her in a while.

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this one slipped under my radar on release and, even within the canon of JJL movies, it is batshit insane

Back in the 80s, she was as good as anyone, and better than most. Like so many of her peers (Debra Winger comes immediately to mind), she dropped off the radar as she hit middle age.

Wasn't she in "Annihilation"? I've avoided that film because I love the book so much.

Annihilation the movie is good - you just need to be ready for it to be essentially a different story

Yeah, I've seen comparisons to "Roadside Picnic"/"Stalker."