It's been a while since I saw Annie Hall, but I think I stopped watching it as I was so horrified by its gender politics. Like you, I'd already watched it and anjoyed it, and it was when i was older and re-viewing it that I became uncomfortable ...
Then I saw The Way We Were, which I'd never seen. God, how could anyone stand Barbara Streisand's character for 5 minutes much less marry her? Yipes.
Ha, I started to watch it with my sister one time and we never got round to finishing it before we returned the dvd. I loved how she was so radical in a way that no one could be in a contemporary mainstream film - "oh, politics,
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It's been a while since I saw Annie Hall, but I think I stopped watching it as I was so horrified by its gender politics. Like you, I'd already watched it and anjoyed it, and it was when i was older and re-viewing it that I became uncomfortable ...
<i>Then I saw The Way We Were, which I'd never seen. God, how could anyone stand Barbara Streisand's character for 5 minutes much less marry her? Yipes.</i>
Ha, I started to watch it with my sister one time and we never got round to finishing it before we returned the dvd. I loved how she was so radical in a way that no one could be in a contemporary mainstream film - "oh, politics, <i<yawn</i>" - and yet it was like there was a concerted effort to also make Streisand quite, well, strident and overbearing. Weird. And the Robert Redford character was so.annoying! He was so smug and bland. Did they break up, in the end?
<i>I am now watching The Anniversary Party. I've wanted to see it since that Jennifer Jason Leigh thing I was at. Alan Cummings is pretty convincing as a woman's husband, which surprises me. Phoebe Cates is cool. Never thought I'd say that when she was first on the cover of Seventeen. I don't know Phoebe Cates at all but I've had like tiny interractions with her on more than one occasion and she's kind of playing herself here, I think. Jane Adams is playing a whacked out woman, which is exactly the way I remember her from the thing. God, she was high as a kite and totally embarassing, just like she is here.</i>
Wasn't Alan Cummings married for a few years before coming out as bisexual? He and Jennifer Jason Leigh co-wrote the script, I think, and it shows. This is one film you couldn't pay me to watch again, I was in agony throughout it. It's so structurally flawed, the actors are all doing their little mannerisms, and it's just, really, utterly boring. Jane Adams, I loved her in Happiness and Wonder Boys. Have you met her?
<i>Nobody told me Gwyneth Paltrow was in the movie, and it was a nasty shock when somebody opened the door to let her in. She's one of the rare actors who for me is reason to avoid a movie. Had I but known, I'd probably be on a diffrent channel.</i>
I have a soft spot for her, actually, as I read interviews with her pre-fame in which she was so cool, and talked about loving 16 Candles, and 80s music, and so forth.
The best part of the movie, for me: when Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates' real kid gets up and sings, in the most piping, grating voice ever - "I recognise love/HAPP ANNIVER-SAR-EEEEE!!!!' We died laughing ...
<i>In other news, there was a bit of a mix-up at the groomers and the dog's bald. Well, she's got some hair on her head but her body is pink, save for a little fringe on the end of her tail. You can see her scar and her crooked tail and she looks like she's made out of pipe cleaners. The roommate does not find this amusing, as she feels the dog's neighborhood fans, who are legion, will blame her for this.</i>
Your dog has fans? That's the cutest thing I've ever heard.
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Then I saw The Way We Were, which I'd never seen. God, how could anyone stand Barbara Streisand's character for 5 minutes much less marry her? Yipes.
Ha, I started to watch it with my sister one time and we never got round to finishing it before we returned the dvd. I loved how she was so radical in a way that no one could be in a contemporary mainstream film - "oh, politics,
<i>Then I saw The Way We Were, which I'd never seen. God, how could anyone stand Barbara Streisand's character for 5 minutes much less marry her? Yipes.</i>
Ha, I started to watch it with my sister one time and we never got round to finishing it before we returned the dvd. I loved how she was so radical in a way that no one could be in a contemporary mainstream film - "oh, politics, <i<yawn</i>" - and yet it was like there was a concerted effort to also make Streisand quite, well, strident and overbearing. Weird. And the Robert Redford character was so.annoying! He was so smug and bland. Did they break up, in the end?
<i>I am now watching The Anniversary Party. I've wanted to see it since that Jennifer Jason Leigh thing I was at. Alan Cummings is pretty convincing as a woman's husband, which surprises me. Phoebe Cates is cool. Never thought I'd say that when she was first on the cover of Seventeen. I don't know Phoebe Cates at all but I've had like tiny interractions with her on more than one occasion and she's kind of playing herself here, I think. Jane Adams is playing a whacked out woman, which is exactly the way I remember her from the thing. God, she was high as a kite and totally embarassing, just like she is here.</i>
Wasn't Alan Cummings married for a few years before coming out as bisexual? He and Jennifer Jason Leigh co-wrote the script, I think, and it shows. This is one film you couldn't pay me to watch again, I was in agony throughout it. It's so structurally flawed, the actors are all doing their little mannerisms, and it's just, really, utterly boring. Jane Adams, I loved her in Happiness and Wonder Boys. Have you met her?
<i>Nobody told me Gwyneth Paltrow was in the movie, and it was a nasty shock when somebody opened the door to let her in. She's one of the rare actors who for me is reason to avoid a movie. Had I but known, I'd probably be on a diffrent channel.</i>
I have a soft spot for her, actually, as I read interviews with her pre-fame in which she was so cool, and talked about loving 16 Candles, and 80s music, and so forth.
The best part of the movie, for me: when Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates' real kid gets up and sings, in the most piping, grating voice ever - "I recognise love/HAPP ANNIVER-SAR-EEEEE!!!!' We died laughing ...
<i>In other news, there was a bit of a mix-up at the groomers and the dog's bald. Well, she's got some hair on her head but her body is pink, save for a little fringe on the end of her tail. You can see her scar and her crooked tail and she looks like she's made out of pipe cleaners. The roommate does not find this amusing, as she feels the dog's neighborhood fans, who are legion, will blame her for this.</i>
Your dog has fans? That's the cutest thing I've ever heard.
-brodie