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Yes. Viola Davis had a smaller role in the film, one of her first.With Juliana Moore, right? One of my all-time favorites.
Yes. Viola Davis had a smaller role in the film, one of her first.With Juliana Moore, right? One of my all-time favorites.
Before the televised award season that became all about Kidman and Zellweger, Moore was having a banner year with Far From Heaven (and The Hours). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, the Silver Bear (with Streep and Kidman) for The Hours at the Berlin Film Festival, and all the critics awards. Whatever critics award she did not win, went to Diane Lane for Unfaithful or Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Teacher. Someone pointed out to me that Moore is only a Tony Award away from winning almost every award there is to win for an English-speaking American actress. That’s really incredible. I finally saw her Cannes Film Festival winning role in Maps to the Stars and totally see why she won. Totally playing against type and she really sells the spoiled, dark-hearted, and troubled Hollywood star archetype. She’s really incredible in it.I just rewatched Far from Heaven (2002). Really beautiful and nuanced, I read the director went for the textures that were common in the 1950s and it gives the film a lot more of a 1950s feeling. It won the prestigious NYC Critics Award for best film. I also preferred Julianne Moore to Nicole Kidman in The Hours
A version of this starring Vivien Leigh was made in the 1950's, based on the same Terrence Rattigan source.The Deep Blue Sea is a well made movie…but a real downer. Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston are the stars. Weisz plays a woman in the 1950’s married to an older man. She is unhappy in the marriage and begins an affair with an Air Force pilot played by Hiddleston. If you like movies where all the characters are in horrible emotional pain from the beginning of the movie to the very end, then you will love this. On the plus side (I’m reaching here…) Weisz and Hiddleston are very pretty to look at. Maybe watch it with the sound muted?
I love Support Your Local Sheriff so much, it's by far one of my favourite westerns.Support Your Local Sherriff is a light, fun comedy from 1969 starring James Garner. I did a bit of googling to see how old Garner was when this was made...about forty. He is very handsome in this movie! And the movie itself is good! The tone is breezy, kind of in the vein of a Doris Day movie. The movie is about Garner basically stumbling into the position of Sherriff and how a local family wreaking havoc on the town needs to be put in line. And into the local jail which doesn't yet have any bars for the door or windows of the cells.
Lots of famous people in this. The wonderful voice and acting chops of three-time Oscar winner Walter Brennan, Emmy winner Harry Morgan (M*A*S*H), Oscar nominee Joan Hackett (Only When I Laugh), two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern and wonderful character actor Jack Elam (the type of actor upon whose picture you see, you say, "oh yeah, I know that guy").
Trailer for Support Your Local Sherriff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSYjf8V8GF0
It looks bonkers. I can't wait.Venom official trailer
The cast sounds awesome! I want to see this movie.I enjoyed The Conspirator more than I expected. The script is very well paced...often I find historical dramas drag in the middle and my attention wanders. And the movie is just over two hours in length, so the fact that it keeps moving along at a pace that kept me happy is one reason to recommend the movie. The cast is another: James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Groff, Tom Wilkinson, Danny Huston, Alexis Bledel, Colm Meaney, Kevin Kline...and Norman Reedus from the Walking Dead! (But in a too-small role, however.) Robert Redford does a great job at directing the story about those who carried out the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the woman (Wright) whose boarding house was used to hold the planning meetings for the assassination attempt. If you like historical drama, I think you'll really like this one. Or if this great cast grabs your attention - another good reason to see it.
Trailer for The Conspirator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmoESMxbIIY