Bonnie and Clyde DVD
I've seen Bonnie and Clyde so many times I'm not sure what to say about the new double-disc DVD (out 3.25). The transfer is slightly better than the last version. Disc #2 includes two deleted scenes without sound. The "making of" doc hits all the right notes and has observations from everyone, but I got more of a charge out of Mark Harris's account in "Pictures at a Revolution."
My favorite scene is still the one near the end in which Faye Dunaway asks Warren Beatty "what if we didn't have the law after us and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning clean?" and he gives her the worst answer imaginable.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 20, 2008 at 12:04 AM
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joncro
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they're dropping like flies now.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2266795,00.html
Posted by joncro
at March 20, 2008 3:46 AM
comment #2
George Prager
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Gotta get it.
R.I.P . Paul Scofield. I just saw BECKET for the first time a couple of months ago. He was awesome.
Posted by George Prager
at March 20, 2008 6:20 AM
comment #3
DiscLand
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Seriously Jeff, why don't you have a Blu-ray player?
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1269/bonnieandclyde.html
Posted by DiscLand
at March 20, 2008 6:23 AM
comment #4
MarkVH
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George, I also just saw Becket for the first time this past weekend - it's phenomenal. But Scofield's not in it. Imagine you're confusing it with A Man For All Seasons.
And as for Bonnie & Clyde, I caught it on the big screen back in the fall, and it never seems to age. Just a fucking amazing movie. This might be the thing that gets me to dive into Blu-Ray.
Posted by MarkVH
at March 20, 2008 6:50 AM
comment #5
the king
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He was great. His unyieding spirit and unwillingness of acceptance in the light of evidence in "The Crucible" -- one of my favorites. It sounds like he is the same in "Man for All Seasons." I'm looking forward to checking that one out.
Posted by the king
at March 20, 2008 6:56 AM
comment #6
T. S. Idiot
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AP obit for Scofield doesn't even mention The Train, his best film by far.
Posted by T. S. Idiot
at March 20, 2008 6:58 AM
comment #7
nemo
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More opposed characters than Scofield's in A Man for All Seasons and in The Train cannot be imagined. But he is equally great in both.
That long tracking shot in The Train just after Lancaster and his crew have caused that three-train pileup early in the morning, and Scofield is bumping along at high speed in that motorcycle sidecar shouting out commands to his forces. The motorcycle stops, and Scofield leaps out wearing his high German officer's overcoat over his high German officer's silk pajamas, still shouting out commands, without the least self-consciousness that he looks a bit absurd. Magnificent.
Posted by nemo
at March 20, 2008 7:26 AM
comment #8
le corbeau
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Yeah, I watched The Train again a couple of months ago and he's absolutely perfect-- you can utterly believe he appreciates the paintings, you can utterly believe he'd machiine-gun a bunch of Frenchmen over them.
I think he's powerful in A Man For All Seasons but there's something a little self-regarding about that performance-- it's not my favorite of his. On the other hand, he was marvelous as Mark Van Doren in Quiz Show, intelligent but faintly out of it, pampered without realizing it-- beautifully capturing the spirit of the WASP intelligentsia in the last moment before showbiz took over everything.
Finally, I've been soaking in his voice lately because I've been listening with the kids to the BBC radio production (paid for by Focus on the Family, talk about strange bedfellows) of all of the Narnia books, which he narrates. Well worth picking up if you have kids of that age, many good folks in it (David Suchet is Aslan, for instance).
Posted by le corbeau
at March 20, 2008 7:52 AM
comment #9
Joe Leydon
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Another great Scofield performance: Ralph Fiennes' father in Quiz Show.
Posted by Joe Leydon
at March 20, 2008 8:25 AM
comment #10
le corbeau
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What is this, Bob & Ray's komodo dragon routine?
Posted by le corbeau
at March 20, 2008 8:30 AM
comment #11
George Prager
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I meant A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. BECKET is great as well. A LION IN WINTER not so great. I saw them all in a span of a couple of weeks. Great actor.
Posted by George Prager
at March 20, 2008 8:46 AM
comment #12
StoneFan1
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What about his King Lear performance from 1971? I just caught that on TCM this past week and I thought it was pretty wild and out there! I agree his "Quiz Show" performance was outstanding, ditto "The Crucible"
Posted by StoneFan1
at March 20, 2008 9:02 AM
comment #13
Rich S.
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Don't forget Branagh's Henry V, where Scofield guns down the Dauphin for getting overly cocky about whuppin' on the English. It's little more than a cameo, but boy is he good.
And yes, he is also marvelous in Quiz Show. Damn, was '94 a great year for movies.
Posted by Rich S.
at March 20, 2008 9:07 AM
comment #14
Bocephus
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Completely unrelated, but I just read some wankoff article about Angelina Jolie's new babies, and it mentioned that she was "cooing about them ON THE SET of Tree Of Life." I looked it up on IMDB and it looks like it started shooting last month.
This could be old news to some, but I was excited as hell to see that Malick finally got the wheels rolling on this project.
Posted by Bocephus
at March 20, 2008 10:32 AM
comment #15
Edward
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Mgmax: Thanks for the Paul Scofield audio Narnia heads up. I started reading Narnia when I was well into my adulthood. I've re-read them several times. This is my roundabout way of saying you don't have to be a kid to enjoy them. If I ever become a Christian again, it will be the Christianity of C.S. Lewis.
Posted by Edward
at March 20, 2008 1:21 PM