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"Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) - Mike Newell

Films I've watched in 2024 (32/?)

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FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL 1994

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest; My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song. I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood, For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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The Way Home 2.02 - Hanging by a Moment

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Red Right Hand (2024) Review

Cash is attempting to live a nice quiet life with his brother and niece but when Big Cat wants him back on her services he doesn’t have a choice to try and protect those he loves. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Red Right Hand (2024) Review

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Bad movie I have Four Wedding and a Funeral 1994

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✧˖° → Immediate Family

Mother: Eleanora McCoy. Status: Alive Age: 75 Location: Georgia, U.S., Earth Faceclaim: Judi Dench

Father: David McCoy Status: Deceased (Died at age 69.) Death Date: October 10, 2252 Location: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta Georgia Faceclaim: Sam Waterson

Sister: Donna Withers Status: Alive Age: 45 Location: Centaurus Faceclaim: Andie Macdowell

Daughter: Joanna McCoy Status: Alive Age: 13 Location: Georgia, U.S., Earth Faceclaim:  Dakota Fanning (May change)

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Movies I watched this week (#167)

(I've gone overboard again this week!)...

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'A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism...'

The Young Karl Marx is my second film by Haitian Raoul Peck (After his 4-part documentary about colonialism 'Exterminate all the Brutes'). An historical German biography about the birth of the labor movement, with lengthy discussions of the political theories of the time. It's so refreshing to experience an unapologetic look at the revolutionary ideology of class struggle, improving and uniting the impoverished workers and taking down the exploiting bourgeoisie. Vicky Krieps is lovely as Marx's sexy and supportive wife. 7/10.

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Chan is missing, my 3rd by indie filmmaker Wayne Wang (After 'Smoke' and 'The Joy Luck Club'). Made for $20,000, this detective story was his solo directorial debut, and the first 'important' film about "ABC"s ('American Born Chinese') and other Asians living in Chinatown. I lived in San Francisco in the later 80s, and this brings back very fond memories to a long-forgotten time.

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2 by Tricia Cooke:

🍿 Tricia Cooke is an editor, who worked on many of the Coen Brothers' films (together with "Roderick Jaynes"). She's also been married to Ethan Coen for 30 years (in an open, "non-traditional" marriage, according to Wikipedia).

Drive away dolls, the new comedy was written by her and husband Ethan, but without brother Joel. It's a "Lesbian road trip", in the raunchy tradition of 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' and 'Bad Girls Go to Hell'. Andie MacDowell's foxy daughter is a free-spirit just looking for uncommitted, good time, but eventually falls in love with her girlfriend Marian. The romantic scene when it finally happens plays well to Linda Ronstadt's Blue Bayou background (but then, anything would!). The first 10 minutes were a bit confusing, but once they started driving, it got funnier (especially with the UNG soccer team 'basement party', and the Big Lebowski-style dream sequence). With time, it will earn its higher place at the Coen cultish pantheon.

"Who are you?"... "Democrats"...

🍿 Eve, (2008) an unexpectedly poignant story, Natalie Portman's directorial debut. A young woman visit her very old grandmother Lauren Bacall, only to intrude on her romantic dinner with very old beau Ben Gazzara. With score by Sufjan Stevens. 7/10.

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"...I'll see you in my dreams..."

First watch: First season of Twin Peaks. I've seen 4 of David Lynch's surreal films before ['Blue Velvet', 'The Elephant Man', 'Wild at Heart' and 'Mulholland Drive'] and none of these made me a fan. But I like to keep an open mind, so I gave this, his most popular work, a try. However, like many old classics you see for the first time many years after their production date, its charms were completely lost on me. I can see what a radical breakthrough it was for network television in 1990, but today it feels like the antics of a straight-forward Soap Opera with an added, pretentious 'quirk' to every move and character. The coffee fetishism, the dancing midgets and log ladies, the absurd police procedural, the eclectic twists and supernatural dreams. With every episode I hated it more. The mystery of who killed whom, or the obviousness of everybody sleeping with everybody else, were utterly uninteresting. I really wanted to like it, but after 6 arduous episodes, I had to just admit that it's not for me. 2/10.

But I always loved Angelo Badalamenti's theme, and I often listen to it on loop.

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"I feel so low that I could get on stilts and walk under a dachshund"

It (1927), my first silent film with the original 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl', Clara Bow. "It" being basically sex appeal. Pre-Code, sassy and cheesy. This version is 'Colorized'.

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"You notice things when you pay attention", and “We won’t be like them”.

Another frequent re-watch of my most cherished romance film, In the Mood for Love, with incomparable couple Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung. Her sad beauty, in these exquisite high-collar Qipao, and unrequited longings, are etched on my heart. With 2 different musical themes, the famous 'Yumeji's waltz', and the Nat 'King' Cole Spanish Boleros: I want to find an analysis of when and why each one was used. The 3rd act was unbearably sad. And what is exactly the meaning of the Cambodian coda? 10/10. ♻️

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4 Winning and Nominated Shorts from Last Night's Oscars (plus 11 more):

🍿 The Last Repair Shop - deservedly - won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short this year. (Video Above). A quiet story about a shop that maintains and repairs the 80,000 musical instruments used by students of the Los Angeles school district. It's about mending broken things so they can be whole again, performed by people who were also broken, but are now whole.

Similar and even better than the 2017 Oscar nominee Joe's Violin. One of the best films I've seen so far this year! 10/10.

🍿 The previous short directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers was the wonderful A Concerto Is a Conversation, about jazz pianist Kris Bowers' relationship with his grandfather. Nominated in 2021. 9/10.

🍿 The Queen of Basketball was another Ben Proudfoot short which won an Oscar in 2021. Their trade in stock is a well-told emotional human interest angle. This one is about a black woman who was college basketball superstar in the 1970's. Heart-warming.

🍿 Proudfoot's 2021 Almost Famous: The First Report told the story of a Louisiana reporter who broke the story of the Catholic church sex abuse scandal, but who did it in the 1980's. He was too early, and eventually got a mention in 'Spotlight'.

🍿 War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko, a lovely alternate World War One animated short about two soldiers from the opposite sides playing long distance chess with the help of a carrier pigeon. Won this year’s animated short.

Also, Dave Mullins previous story, Lou (2017), another Oscar nominated Pixar pre-feature item. It's about an anthropomorphic Lost & Found Chest, at a school yard identical to the one Adora used to go to her first 6 years. 7/10 and better than many of the later Pixar shorts.

🍿 The ABCs of Book Banning was nominated in 2023, but did not win. It features intelligent kids of 7-15 questioning the mass removal of books from schools and libraries, mostly about race, women and LGBT topics. Knowledge is power and the American Nazis who ban books have their eyes on much bigger prizes.

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🍿Island in Between, another terrific nominee from this year, about the Taiwanese islands of Kinmen. Made by a Taiwanese filmmaker, who reflects on his family relationship to china, Taiwan and the USA. Got me to listen to the songs of Teresa Teng again.

🍿3 by Jay Rosenblatt: "What do you want to do when you grow up? What are you afraid of? What is power? What are dreams? What is most important to you?" Nominated for the 2022 Oscars, How Do You Measure a Year? hit me very hard. New father Jay Rosenblatt started recording his daughter on her 2nd birthday, asking her about her life, and continued doing it every birthday until she was 18. My Adora Project didn't end so positively. Another 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 10/10.

🍿 In Jay Rosenblatt's 1998 Human Remains, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco and Mao share details about their intimate lives, what they like to eat and drink, their sexual preferences and bowel movements, likes and dislikes. Personally banal.

🍿 When We Were Bullies, a third reenactment by documentarian Jay Rosebnblatt, about a personal incident from his elementary school days, when he and others bullied a classmate. It gives some unpleasant ‘This American life’ vibes, but ends tenderly with a simple “I’m sorry”.

🍿 The Elephant Whisperers won the 2022 Documentary short with 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. An Indian 'Animal Planet' style story about an indigenous couple, caretakers of baby elephants at a large national park and elephant reserve. I wish it was me.

A couple of hundred years ago, most of the world was the space where animals lived, tigers, elephants, birds, monkeys. Then humans killed them all and took their place.

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🍿 The girl and the tsunami is an Argentinian animation about a 12-year-old Chilean girl who saved her island community in the 2010 tsunami.

🍿 Snif & Snüf, a little geometrical animation, by a guy who worked on 'Bojack Horseman'. It's a similar concept to Břetislav Pojar's Czeck award-winning Balablok from 1972, where squares and circles fight to the death.

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Jim Jarmusch/Tom Waits/Rosie Perez X 2:

🍿 "Tasty Porcinis..."

Re-watch: The Dead Don't Die, his slow, absurdist apocalyptic comedy about flesh eatin' Coffee Zombies. Full of meta-connections and allusions to a cinematic universe: Sam Fuller, Cliff Robertson, Patterson, George Romero, and breaking the fourth wall ("Jim gave me the whole script!")

An ensemble piece with a special 'Thank you': 'Would anyone object if I gave credit to Atilla Yücer?' Such a Jarmusch thing to do! ♻️

🍿 Night on Earth (1991) is an anthology about 5 unrelated taxi drivers in 5 different cities, and the clients they pick on the same night. I found it irritating, and the rides in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Roma couldn't end fast enough. But the last story which took place in Helsinki, as the morning was about to break, was sad and powerful. Jarmusch was a friend of Aki Kaurismäki, and this influence might have helped.

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Craig Ferguson X 2:

🍿 “Congratulations, Mr. Stuart. You are tonight’s lucky Scotsman.”

Saving Grace, an well-written, well-played and funny stoner comedy, about middle aged widow Brenda Blethyn whose irresponsible husband left her in an enormous debt, forcing her to grow marijuana in her greenhouse along with her pot-loving gardener Craig Ferguson to avoid losing her large country house in Cornwall. 7/10.

🍿 I’ll be there (2003) was the only film Ferguson's wrote and directed (and rather competently). A sentimental but enjoyable story of an aging has-been rock star who discovers that brilliant teenage singer Charlotte Church is a daughter he didn't know he had. A different slant on my favorite theme from 'After the Wedding'. It ends with a perfect 'Happy End' when she sings 'Summertime' on a stage, whose lyrics sums up very nicely the whole movie.

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I watched Larry David's Clear history last week, but I felt like laughing at it again. David is such an unbearable asshole, but it was a solid comedy. Now I'm considering seeing 'The Fountainhead' with Gary Cooper, which is mentioned as part of the joke.♻️

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"Those aren't pillows!..."

After seeing again the "I want a fucking car" clip, a re-watch: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the classic Thanksgiving dramedy with the classic 'Odd couple' plot. ♻️

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René Laloux, who directed the amazing 'La Planète sauvage', followed it up with another psychedelic, experimental movie. Together with bandes dessinées artist Moebius, they did Time Masters in 1982. I had a very hard time with this worthless science fiction story. Except of a few sparks of visual poetry here and there, it was more like a terrible, boring 'Time Wasters'. 1/10.

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I watched the super-light French comedy My Best Friend's Girl from 1983, but only because it features a young Isabelle Huppert. She plays a sexy, promiscuous temptress, who seduces 2 best friends at a ski-resort, so much so, that they both go crazy over her. Nothing wrong with some frothy ménage à trois, as she was glamorously prancing in revealing negligees for most of the time, but this was terribly-written and unwatchably juvenile. 1/10.

At least, I discovered this recording of Nirvana's 'My best Friend's Girl'.

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Throw-back to the "Art project”:  

“War is Over” Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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Hello! 😊

Could you please help me locate some people who could play the parents and a younger sister for Aisha Dee? Thank you.

Done a whole ass family template including brother, sister, mother and father here.

Some additions as that is five years old now:

Due to Aisha being biracial please make one parent white and one black (or biracial). Thank you. Those older adults who are biracial will have (br) next to them.

Younger sister

Maisie Richardson-Sellers

Kadiatou Holm Keita

Brittany O'Grady

Laura Harrier

Mercedes Morris

Ruby Barker

Taylor Russell

Alisha Boe

Mother

Laverne Cox - Trans woman

Candis Cayne - Trans woman

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Melissa McCarthy

Nina Sosanya (br)

Adjoa Andoh (br)

Andie MacDowell

Carmen Ejogo (br)

Suranne Jones

Rutina Wesley

Sanaa Lathan

Danai Gurira

Adina Porter

Regina King

Lillias White

Father

Roger Guenveur Smith

Sean Patrick Thomas

Richard Ayoade (br)

Laurence Fishburne

Daniel Sunjata (br)

Viggo Mortensen

Harold Perrineau

Omari Hardwick

Craig Robinson

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Zachary Quinto

David Tennant

John Krasinski

DB Woodside

Willem Dafoe

Michael Ealy

Skeet Ulrich

Rhys Darby

Andy Serkis

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ANSWERS ABOUT THE PAST PROMPT NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENT IN THE SEASON ONE FINALE OF ‘THE WAY HOME,’ PREMIERING MARCH 26, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

Episode Travels to Earlier Time of 8 p.m. ET/PT

STUDIO CITY, CA – March 20, 2023 – In “Not All Who Wander Are Lost,” some questions are answered while others are raised in the powerful season one finale of “The Way Home,” traveling to an earlier time of 8 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday, March 26, on Hallmark Channel. Andie MacDowell (“Maid,” “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove”), Chyler Leigh (“Supergirl,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), Evan Williams (Blonde, “Versailles”), Sadie Laflamme-Snow (“The Apprentice”), Alex Hook (“I Am Frankie”), Al Mukadam (“Pretty Hard Cases,” “The Detail”), Jefferson Brown (Masters of Romance, “Slasher”) and David Webster (Luckiest Girl Alive, “In the Dark”) star in the highly-rated and critically acclaimed series.

Kat (Leigh) and Alice (Laflamme-Snow) travel back to 2000 together to attend Colton’s (Brown) funeral. Elliot (Williams) tells Kat she should share with Alice the truth about her visits to the past. Meanwhile, Del (MacDowell) goes to the grief group and makes peace with her memory of Colton. Kat has an epiphany that sheds new light on Jacob’s disappearance.

“The Way Home” is a Neshama Entertainment production in association with MarVista Entertainment. Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke, Fernando Szew, Hannah Pillemer, Larry Grimaldi, Ani Kevork, Arnie Zipursky, Marly Reed, Suzanne Berger, Lauren MacKinlay, MacDowell and Leigh are executive producers. Kyle Hart is supervising producer. Jessica Runck is consulting producer. Tally Yong Knoll is story editor. The series is produced by John Calvert. Norma Bailey directed from a script by Conkie.

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Part 3 - Incoming Text for Keira Knightley (@keiraknightleyofficiall) and Paul Bettany (@paulbettany) and Scarlett Johansson (@scarlettjohanssonworld) and Eiza Gonzalez (@eizagonzalez): “An Idea Worth 500 Million Dollars”

Question:

Can you provide comprehensive information about the film Hudson Hawk? I would like details on the cast, producers, movie studio, budget, box office performance, and filming locations. Additionally, was the film based on a book, and what was the general reception upon its release?

Here's the link to the Hudson Hawk Wikipedia page:

Hudson Hawk - Wikipedia (click on the blue link)

ChatGPT Answer:

Sure, here’s everything about the film Hudson Hawk!

General Overview

Title: Hudson Hawk

Release Date: May 24, 1991

Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Director: Michael Lehmann

Producers: Joel Silver, Michael Tadross, and Robert Kraft

Writers: Steven E. de Souza and Daniel Waters, with story contributions by Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft

Running Time: 100 minutes

Language: English

Budget: Approximately $65 million

Box Office: $17.2 million (a commercial failure at the time)

Plot Summary

The story follows Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins (Bruce Willis), a master cat burglar freshly released from prison who wants to go straight. However, he's blackmailed into one last job, which involves stealing works of art by Leonardo da Vinci for a couple of evil billionaires who have discovered da Vinci’s secret for turning lead into gold. The film blends action, adventure, and comedy, with an offbeat tone and self-aware humor.

Main Cast

Bruce Willis as Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins

Danny Aiello as Tommy "Five-Tone" Messina, Hawk's partner and friend

Andie MacDowell as Anna Baragli, an undercover Vatican agent and love interest of Hawk

James Coburn as George Kaplan, head of the CIA team

Richard E. Grant as Darwin Mayflower, a villainous billionaire

Sandra Bernhard as Minerva Mayflower, Darwin’s equally devious wife

David Caruso as Kit Kat, one of Kaplan's eccentric agents

Frank Stallone as Cesar Mario, a minor mob boss Hawk encounters

Production Details

Studio: Silver Pictures, TriStar Pictures

Distribution: TriStar Pictures

Cinematography: Dante Spinotti

Music: Michael Kamen and Robert Kraft

Editing: Chris Lebenzon

Filming Locations

Hudson Hawk was primarily filmed in Italy, including locations in Rome and Cappadocia, as well as New York City for select scenes.

Special Notes and Reception

Concept and Script: The concept originated from Bruce Willis and his friend Robert Kraft, who came up with the idea in the 1980s and envisioned it as a humorous, cartoonish take on the heist genre. The story was not based on any book but was developed originally for film.

Tone and Style: The film is known for its mix of slapstick, surreal humor, and action, with Hudson Hawk and his partner timing their heists by singing specific songs.

Budget Issues: The film’s budget ballooned to around $65 million, primarily due to lavish action scenes and overseas filming, making it one of the most expensive comedies at the time.

Box Office and Critical Reception: Despite the high budget, it was a massive box-office flop, earning only $17.2 million worldwide. Critics widely panned the film upon release, citing its incoherent plot and clashing tones, though some found it entertaining for its unusual style.

Cult Following: Over the years, Hudson Hawk has gained a cult following for its bizarre humor, quirky performances, and unique style.

Legacy

Although Hudson Hawk was initially considered a significant failure, it has developed a loyal fanbase and remains a unique, memorable entry in Bruce Willis's career. Its mix of comedy and action was polarizing at the time but is appreciated by some audiences today for its distinctive charm.

[cardinalhq]

hi! could you suggest some more older fcs you'd like to see?

With pleasure! Aubrey Plaza, Laverne Cox, Anthony Mackie, Phillipa Soo, Rahul Kohli, Raymond Ablack, Constance Wu, Jessica Chastain, David Harbour, Isaiah Mustafa, Sandra Oh, Nick Offerman, Gillian Anderson, Stephanie Beatriz, Domnhall Gleeson, Gina Torres, Alfie Enoch, Rege-Jean Page, Rami Malek, Gemma Chan, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Kaluuya, Michelle Yeoh, Andie MacDowell, Harvey Guillen, and Lashana Lynch!

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QUATTRO MATRIMONI E UN FUNERALE, di Mike Newell, con Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Gallow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Bower, Charlotte Coleman, 1994

trama: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_matrimoni_e_un_funerale#Trama una scheda del film: https://www.mymovies.it/film/1994/quattro-matrimoni-e-un-funerale/

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In much more positive news the Trailer for David Macdowell Blue Adaptation Of Dracula- Wings of Dracula Recently dropped where you can hear yours Truly as Arthur Holmwood keep your eyes peeled for when it drops on His Patreon!

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