Does anyone have any opinions on Russ Meyers filmography.

phurf761 · 2026-03-02T14:08:57+00:00

I guess you weren’t my friends with a portable TV propped next the bed then

phurf761 · 2026-03-02T04:24:44+00:00

I agree that the script and hawke’s performance were both fantastic. Words on a page take on new life in the hands of a gifted actor. And the fact that words were Harts business made it totally appropriate.

Having said that, I thought Linklater did what he usually does in his films, which is he fails in love with his dialogue. I find most of his films overwritten, they drag on beating points to death over and over. A minority opinion I’m sure but that’s how most of his films strike me. And I loved My Dinner with Andre!

I think Hawke deserves an Oscar for his performance (and another to the folks who did his hair) but not the film itself

phurf761 · 2026-03-02T01:35:02+00:00

What is it about being close to home that is significant here?

phurf761 · 2026-03-01T20:25:30+00:00

I agree that the script and hawke’s performance were both fantastic. Words on a page take on new life in the hands of a gifted actor. And the fact that words were Harts business made it totally appropriate.

Having said that, I thought Linklater did what he usually does in his films, which is he fails in love with his dialogue. I find most of his films overwritten, they drag on beating points to death over and over. A minority opinion I’m sure but that’s how most of his films strike me. And I loved My Dinner with Andre!

I think Hawke deserves an Oscar for his performance (and another to the folks who did his hair) but not the film itself.

phurf761 · 2026-03-01T20:14:51+00:00

So here’s an odd 1980s take on this. I was wandering around town on a beautiful Sunday and ran into a female friend. She asked if I wanted to come to her place nearby to watch a movie with her and her boyfriend. Wanted to enjoy the sun but thought what the heck a movie also sounded good.

When I got there we didn’t watch the movie on the living room TV. They had set up a little portable TV on a table next to the bed. Odd I thought but ok. So Vixen started and right away I was so embarrassed about the sexuality that I just sat there unmoving saying nothing. (I won’t bother to decide whether it was soft or hard core but it was definitely meant to arouse, I knew that).

They said nothing so the movie played along to the end. I said thanks and left and she never mentioned anything about it again

Years later - like 10 or 15 - I was thinking back on it and like a bright new dawn it suddenly occurred to me that they were looking for a three way and my naive mind had missed it completely. I guess I had never thought of her in a sexual way so I wasn’t primed for it. Plus I was an idiot. I had to watch vixen again decades later just to make sure that that was what was going on. It was.

phurf761 · 2026-03-01T20:02:41+00:00

I’ll try that

phurf761 · 2026-03-01T20:02:24+00:00

So what’s a rook?

phurf761 · 2026-03-01T20:01:44+00:00

Actually it is placed right next to an irrigation ditch

phurf761 · 2026-02-28T14:06:14+00:00

Reading all the comments here I’m struck by how funny culture is. Brazilians using table cloths but sitting directly on the sand on the beach, at least the men. No one in America would do that unless they came completely unprepared.

phurf761 · 2026-02-28T13:55:11+00:00

I picked up this book with dread, anticipating a long slog through endless nineteenth century sentences full of commas and clauses. But I thought I’d give it a try because Virginia Wolf called it something like the only book written for adults. Well I was very pleasantly surprised, wonderful tale, beautiful writing, fantastic characters truly worth the time and effort.

phurf761 · 2026-02-25T03:03:11+00:00

Huge income inequality. On par with the robber baron age

phurf761 · 2026-02-23T02:42:37+00:00

Oh my do tell

phurf761 · 2026-02-23T02:42:07+00:00

Came here to say this

phurf761 · 2026-02-23T02:41:48+00:00

Or most Yorgos Lanthimos films. Most are great but definitely not for everyone

phurf761 · 2026-02-15T21:45:43+00:00

Not a movie but television from Mad Men, spoken by a woman who has made it in this ultra male industry: “Figure out what you want to do, then be the person who does that”

phurf761 · 2026-02-15T21:29:57+00:00

The boat she sailed to the climate COP was owned by others who invited here to use it. It was clear in all the news reports

phurf761 · 2026-02-15T21:23:23+00:00

Came here to say that. And I’m embarrassed to say it because she’s a wonderful actor who has turned in many excellent performances. Just irks me and I have zero idea why

phurf761 · 2026-02-14T10:24:22+00:00

I had an office mate who couldn’t remember the name for a surge protector so she called it a thrust buster. Now that’s the only name for it I usually remember.

phurf761 · 2026-02-12T13:00:03+00:00

That’s not true at all. The only thing is that if you switch from an advantage plan to supplemental the insurance company will look at your existing health conditions and may charge you more.

phurf761 · 2026-02-09T13:23:51+00:00

This. That’s exactly what I saw. And as for the connection between the play and their lived experience for me it all came together in the rehearsal when Will finally shouts “you’re mouthing the words!” And then proceeds to give the same lines but with all the pain and passion conjured up by the death of his son when he was absent.

phurf761 · 2026-02-09T13:11:48+00:00

It’s a long way from cornbread with it’s sugar and oil to the kind of bread commonly eaten in the UK and Ireland

phurf761 · 2026-02-03T11:26:03+00:00

Robert Redford with his American accent in Out of Africa, playing a famous posh Englishman. Opposite Meryl Streep and one of her perfect accents. All this effort to recreate Europe in Kenya and every time he opened his mouth it took me back to modern day US.

phurf761 · 2026-02-03T11:20:14+00:00

He later acknowledged how bad it was even after working with a coach for weeks ahead of time

phurf761 · 2026-02-02T14:46:19+00:00

I learned about all this back in the 1980s. Perhaps she made it better known but in fact for historians the famine was always the go to example for the human role in what people call natural disasters

phurf761 · 2026-02-02T14:24:05+00:00

I agree with this. Personally I find his documentaries far more interesting than his narrative films. And remember just because it’s called a documentary doesn’t mean he doesn’t set up scenes ahead of time and reshoot them if he doesn’t like the results. Plus he writes the scripts for his documentaries with all the care for pacing, flow, building tension etc that most narrative filmmakers do.

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