This actress is captured beautifully in the sunset. Strange her career never went much beyond this film.
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Is it just me or does she look remarkably similar to a young Frances McDormand?
Curious, as I was watching the film, I keep getting the vibe that she was like a young Scarlet Johannsson, particularly the shape of her face.
and did you like the film Kurt?
I will let someone else guess.
What a great film. Too good to name
Genius. Indeed, there was a lot to love, and the director was instantly identifiable. I must admit, I do consider him to get better with each film though, although practically his entire ouvre are 5 out of 5 star films, so its kinda splitting hairs.
So many scenes just pop off the screen, you can’t even believe that the director and cinemtographers were able to capture so much ‘magic hour’ photography and make it meaningful. Wow!
(Wow this thread is turning into a bit of inside-baseball).
Perhaps a row-three litmus test
Although this fellow is not one of the auteurs named in the other thread (http://www.rowthree.com/2008/05/15/hidden-treasures-guest-contributors-for-may/) of much discussed filmmakers around these parts.
So we all know the answer but no one’s going to say? Lame.
Name two other films the actress was in. No cheating.
I agree Rusty, someone out with the title please ! And some thoughts on the film, I watched it for the first time last night, completing one of those ‘large holes’ in my viewing experience. Can’t believe it took me so long to get to this one.
Days of Heaven
two other films with Linda Manz – Out of the Blue (directed by Dennis Hopper) and of course Gummo.
Her voice-over narration in this film is really, really good, underscoring, calling attention to, lightening, bringing the film (which occasionally veers into heavy-handed symbols) back to earth. I liked her a lot, she was easily the most compelling character.
I did have a WTF moment upon seeing Brook Adams who is forever embedded as a Body Snatcher victim in my brain.
Adams’ is good in the film, although the film is clearly dwarfing the actors (particulary Richard Gere and Sam Shepard)…Linda Munz and Brook Adams are standouts, but the background tableau (the harvest, the celebration bonfire, the locusts, the gaggle of officers hunting on horseback, the train-ride, carriage to the pan-handle farm are all knock-out sequences.
Oh, and early 20th century airplanes are very cool. The scenes with the French clowns making their arrival by air is pretty awesome.
Kurt, it’s ironic that you would’ve flunked your own litmus test a week ago.
I can see the humour in that. Guilty as charged! I’ve got so many holes in filmographies and filmmakers I want to dig deep into, it always feels like life is waay to short! One day I’ll catch up to all of ‘em. Hopefully!
As for Days of Heaven, (and for that matter, Summertime and Sunrise) I do indeed feel late to the party. The site has been great for getting folks to urge me to catch up with some of those classics I’ve not managed to get to!
Litmus test? Pfft. How old are you Kurt? You *should* have seen a hell of a lot more movies than I have, I really have only had 6-7 years of conscious movie watching. so please, refrain from any ‘tests’.
@Henrik, allow me to somewhat explain. A litmus test is more of a test of tastes and interests (a loose indicator) not of actual specific knowledge or anything, it is a quick and dirty pH indicator…Now I know you can be acidic some times, but what I was going for is how it fascinates me with the regular commenters on this site and certain things jump out (I didn’t think that was an obvious shot from the film, yet several people immediately got it)…
The interests of what the people who hang out here fascinate me.
I wasn’t implying anything else.
Erm, not to belabour or dig any deeper:
Litmus Test – an English colloquialism: Any kind of social indicator used to classify someone either favorably or unfavorably…
“Now I know you can be acidic some times”
I would say unfiltered. But remember, acid is required to clean up alot of stuff.
I just saw this film for the first time last year. This shot didn’t stand out though. Great film.
@Henrik: “acid is required to clean up alot of stuff.” -Yea, If you are Jean Reno.
But acid also causes painful ulcers.
(The goofy chemistry joke originally is that the original litmus test was to determine the pH (acidity index) of things..)
Well, being nice has its drawbacks as well. Neville Chamberlain was probably a very nice man. He caused more than ulcers.
Yeah Kurt! Stop acting like Neville Chamberlain.
Wait a minute are Nazi’s entering into a thread on Days of Heaven?
All I’m saying is at least when I slag something off, I’m not being cute about it.
Henrik, you could stand to be more cute.
Of course, this is one of the few screen shot quizzes I knew right off the bat…and I check in late!
Gummo
Gummo begs another watch. in fact an Harmonie Korine minimarathon is probably in order once Mr. Lonely comes out on DVD.
I really disliked Gummo when I saw it originally, and I had the same kind of disgust for Doom Generation when I originally saw it. I understand why these films are made, and with Gummo in particular there is something to be said for the observations made in it I suppose, but it felt more cynical about people than even I am and I thought I was pretty cynical. At some point it ceases to be a worthwhile examination and becomes rubber-necking. I just think where I am at I am well aware of the shit the world can dole out, and rather than yet another depiction of it I need a dynamic between it and a character I can empathize with.
As a rip-rolling new-punk road sociopolitical allegorical music-video-tinged experiment-in-trashcinema, I thought the Doom Generation was a roaring success. Nude Rose McGowan never hurts.
I haven’t seen The Doom Generation for at least 10 years and all I remember is being traumatized by the closing rape scene. Considering I now have more of an appreciation for Araki, I’ve been meaning to see the film again. It’s on the zip list – it’ll come at some point.
@ “Gummo begs another watch”
Gummo don’t beg for nothing. It tells you how it’s gonna be.
Mr. Lonely gets a release here in two weeks. Can’t wait. Would Good Will Hunting be in you marathon?
@Rusty “Good Will Hunting be in you marathon?” -Huh? Am I missing something here?
“you want my ass. you want my ass.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/fullcredits#cast
“you want my ass. you want my ass.”
good will hunting, full cast
Hilarious. No, Good Will Hunting will not be on any Korine marathon for me. I hate them apples.
He also might be saing “chew on my ass”