― scott seward, Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 1 May 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Screenplay -- The Edge, a movie I can't stop watching because Alec Baldwin is the current golden god of hammy actors. His delivery of "Don't tell me what to do" to Hopkins should be put in the Smithsonian on a loop.
Directing -- State And Main, cause I'm a sucker for movies about making movies + Alec Baldwin is it.
For the record I think Pidgeon is kinda hot... in a weird way.
― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 1 May 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 2 May 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
(will anyone but us defend baldwin here?)
― jones (actual), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
-- chants the unhinged angry mob.
― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
(also !!!)
about hannibal: if the lecter series turns into a string of mamet-scripted travelogues - following HL from locale to locale as he frequents fancy chocolate shops and chooses reputable tailors and redecorates his villas and occasionally disembowels someone - i won't complain
― jones (actual), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Friday, 2 May 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
she was charming in the charming state and main
― jones (actual), Friday, 2 May 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 2 May 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 May 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 2 May 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
"House of Games" is another one that is pretty good that is not as well known that has a good twisting plot.
Neither of these is as iconic as "Glengary Glenn Ross", but they are well worth watching. I like how The Simpsons created the character ole' Gil based upon Jack Lemmons character in GGR.
― earlnash, Friday, 2 May 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
mamet is a guilty pleasure for me. i think he's a hack, yet i enjoy his films. and i guess if i enjoy them, then what's wrong with that?the spanish prisoner i liked cause it's so ridiculous. state and main i thought was lighthearted and amusing; not brilliant or anything but worth my time. heist was pretty much terrible all over, but it had sam rockwell and gene hackman.
― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
(wasted in buffy btw)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The end of this is obscenity. Let's really see their genitals, let's really endanger the actor through stunts, let's really set the building on fire. Over the course of a movie, it forces the filmmaker to get more and more bizarre. Over the course of a career, it forces the filmmaker to get more and more outré; over the course of a culture, it forces the culture to degenerate into depravity, which is what we have now."
i don't know enough about Aristotle to understand how he and Eisenstein can be reconciled, but the implication that between them lies everything you need to know about making movies is endlessly entertaining
― jones (actual), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
The thing that irked was the linear nature of the double-crosses, which was also part of hte fun -- one con after another, this trick that trick, the life of a conman. But that was also what made it great, and delivered the fantastic payoff with his wife's betrayal and the degree to which he expected it.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Mametspeak is cheesy, but it's unique and FUNNY and I dig it. You people are too hip to be happy.
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 May 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
the other half don't have women.
just watched homocide! kept getting interrupted by phone calls so lost some of the buildup.
thought it didn't quite hang together, tho? the dialogue was even more deliberately delivered back in his early films -- not like the scripts were different, more that there was an awareness of the actors that they were hitting marks and repeating dialogue in the back&forth patter -- like one would give half a sentence then there was a beat before the other cut in.
macy and mantegna were perfect in this tho!
ok also can anyone name what playwrights/films actually TRY the cheap mamet knockoff to poor effect?
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 30 July 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Boiler Room really wants to be Glengarry Glen Ross.
― David N (David N.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 18 March 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I assume this is being discussed somewhere on ilx? Surely? For me the most shocking thing is not that he has moved right (I thought he did this years ago) but that he thinks that Paul Johnson is a towering intellect.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
has he done anything worthwhile in the last 10 years, or since becoming a Zionist tool?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i just saw The Edge after somehow overlooking it for years. pretty dope imo, basically you have Alec Baldwin being a dick, Anthony Hopkins as Bruce Wayne, and a giant grizzly bear as Jaws.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Things Change
otherwise best apprec'd as a playwright.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 January 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The Edge: "Why do people die in the woods, Bob?... they die of SHAME"
^^would love to hear dave "the edge" evans say this sometime
― ramón gastro (omar little), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Mamet's papers open to researchers. Some great images in the slideshow.
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link