I want to see this movie based totally on this still. I have no clue what it’s about, all I know is it stars Colin Firth wearing Dieter glasses and a white oxford and appears to take place in the ’60’s. That’s enough for me. I WANT TO SEE IT!
LATER…
Other reasons why this movie may be awesome or not
- it’s based on a short story by Christopher Isherwood
- a reviewer wrote: (story of a) middle age man that spends a day drowning in a memory that tortures him
- He’s playing another gay man… Grrrrrrrrr, I should have seen that coming since it’s an Isherwood story.
What I hoped it was about:
- A man who loses his lovely wife and mourns her loss while being haunted by an evil dwarf
- A couple who are mourning the loss of a child and are haunted by an evil dwarf
- An emotionally paralyzed man who falls in love with a warm woman who allows him to live life more fully yet they somehow still fall victim to an evil dwarf
Still hung up on those evil dwarfs.
Yes and I blame Mom because she took me to see The Time Bandits at such a formative age… followed by The Wizard of Oz and Willie Wonka and Snow White, the list could go on and on.
In the movie “Don’t Look Now” there’s an evil dwarf
dressed in red. Very creepy.
http://www.terrortrap.com/supernatural70s/dontlooknow/
That is the movie I was thinking about! It’s been rumored that Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland had actual sex during the love scene!
Trick photography and magical editing was used in “Don’t Look Now”, so Mr. Sutherland says. There was plenty o’ fooling around, though, even if they didn’t actually break the plane of the goal line. Isn’t acting a great profession?
FWIW — Julie Christie didn’t like being in bed with an ugly creep. At least SOMEONE in Hollywood has some scruples
(I’m sure she cashed the check anyway).
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/christie-shrank-from-sutherland-sex
So if anyone’s curiosity is piqued… here’s a pretty good youtube video on Don’t Look Now– sums it up perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmOY_7Im1m4
Nice review, but I don’t think Roger Ebert’s job is in jeopardy. Some reviewers think that movies have to make SENSE(!)….that in itself is an absurdity. This is entertainment, people, not haute art. Example: In “Collateral”, the Tom Cruise/Jamie Foxx “drama”,
Foxx’s character coulda and shoulda easily avoided danger by simply driving away or running away. But he doesn’t, because that would result in one of he shortest movies in history. Moral: Enjoy your movies, and leave your brain on the shelf
And as long as we’re pounding this occult/sex subject into the ground with a jackhammer, there’s another recent movie called “Antichrist” starring Willem Defoe that might strike your fancy, or some other body part.
In this flick, a couple loses their child and then as a form of La-La Land marital therapy engage in some extra super duper weird kinky sex that makes “Don’t Look Now” look like a Doris Day movie. I’m sure now that you’ll run out and see Antichrist pronto. (Besides, the movie has such an uplifting, inspirational name)
I heard about Antichrist– I like sick sh*t but I think that’s too sick for my taste! 🙂
N*ce to know that there’s a threshold of sh*t that you won’t cross.
Funny, my keyboard *s also m*ss*ng the letter *.
🙂