Academy Award Nominations for Best Original Screenplay: '70s edition

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For the life of me, I can't remember what Cousin, Cousine is.

It was remade as a bad American movie by Joel Schumacher and starring Ted Danson, I know that.

Also parodied on Arrested Development:

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I believe Cousin, Cousine holds the record for longest Criterion-tease. They announced it in one of their first dvd catalogs and it still hasn't happened.

I also haven't seen it, but a quick gis tells me Marie-France Pisier is all 70s and French and hot in it:

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I have a hard time separating screenplay from the quality of the direction and acting...Intuition tells me Chinatown or My Night at Maud's. But I might just be cowed by how verbose the latter is.

Not sure if I'm surprised or not that Nashville was by-passed. The feeling must have been that it was mostly improvised (don't think that's true...from what I've read, Tewksbury's script anchors the whole film), and Altman in general was viewed with suspicion by Old Hollywood. Too bad--the flow of words in Nashville is amazing.

anyone seen 'save the tiger'? first i've even heard of it.

One of my favourite films when I was a teenager! I've probably seen it 20 times. There's some pretty heavy-handed speechifying throughout.

Jack Lemmon starred in Save the Tiger. If not his last then it was near to his last film, and it was very well reviewed. I can't recall seeing it, tho.

Transitioning from Old to New:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSGITS4wXQ

Jack Lemmon starred in Save the Tiger. If not his last then it was near to his last film

Jack Lemmon's last film?

Don Luis' script over My Night at Maud's, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Annie Hall, Breaking Away.

Think he made quite a few more, aimless. Save the Tiger might be when he starts to lay on the mannerisms that would overwhelm him eventually.

Lemmon was in Short Cuts and Glengarry Glenn Ross and and and wtf guys

They were always ready to leap out of that collar he was always tugging, but yes otm

Yeah, that's right. It was more like his jump into old man roles. How could I forget Grumpy Old Men, et.al.?

chinatown over my night at maud's, annie hall, shampoo, the late show

ugh at wertmuller and network, lol at star wars and china syndrome, both at the deer hunter

xpost jack lemmon was great but yeah save the tiger is probably the turning point from the horny striver to the pathos w/ a side of ham. i'm fine w/ him in gggr (there are still hints of young lemmon during that brief interlude when he thinks he's made a sale and doesn't know he's fucked, that giggling triumph), not so much w/ him in short cuts. days of wine and roses is probably the midpoint between the two lemmons.

Jack Lemmon wasnt even 50 in StT. Saw it on TV once, kinda mediocre and obvious.

it's weird seeing young Al Pacino and youngish Jack Nicholson
when was the last time a Best Actor/Actress nominee skipped the Oscars?

Save the Tiger is a friggin' masterpiece.

haha apparently the last jack lemmon movie i saw was that ridiculous branagh hamlet. his last movie was narrating the legend of bagger vance, his last on screen role was go figure the odd couple II, though (good lord) he made a few mitch album tv movies after that.

it does seem like it used to be more common for acting nominees to skip the oscars, either cuz they were working (eg michael caine skipping his hannah win cuz he was making jaws iv) or they just hate los angeles (woody allen, albert finney). the last one i can think of was finney skipping circa erin brockovich. did hoffman skip it in the 70s/60s? i know he was on record that the oscars were bullshit and that this supposedly was one reason he didn't win until kramer vs kramer.

somebody famous skipped last year

ha - i think the last oscars i watched was the one dylan performed via satellite.

It was more like his jump into old man roles

I hope you get your midlife crisis tomorrow.

Even a lot of the scripts here that got turned into lame movies probably could've succeeded with a real director -- A Touch of Class, The Hospital.

Again, hard not to vote for Buñuel, but also easier, because this competition is stiffer. Star Wars aside.

Annie Hall over Chinatown.

The Nashville snub is hall-of-shame outrageous.

Will probably have to vote Network for the number of times its (to quote a negative review of the movie) "25-cent words" have come in handy in arguments.

denouncing the hypocrisies of our times?

More when I and another are impugning each other's cocksmanship.

in which he's Count Vronsky and you're Anna.

network

We're all in for some dreadful grief.

...it's Chinatown.

I love The Conversation but i dont think that has much to do with the screenplay, probably.

Kinda shocked to see this one was nom'd... Altman-produced, splendid comic rapport btwn Carney and Tomlin. Kael called it "a love-hate poem to sleaziness."

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^^ I used to watch The Late Show every time local PBS aired it. Joanna Cassidy is smashing.

also smhing

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