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I mean, I suppose traveling and visiting friends and family and going to museums and concerts and attending festivals and galleries is good and all but gee whiz, this is all the movies this month? Golly.
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I really love this movie. The 15yrold, seeing it for the first time, has no idea what to make of it. An appropriate response. We need to at least train him to laugh at the jokes. Or to recognize them, rather. Of course he asked me once midfilm to explain a joke and I realized it wasn't really a joke.
(My first two watches.)
Anyway, this is a meditation on how art explains life. There. Simple.
(Incidentally, although the screentested a gazillion women looking for Liesl, they landed on a child of fame. In this one, it's Maya Hawke. And way back in film two, he cast a Coppola. I think Wes Anderson might have a subconscious bias for nepobabies.)
I find it interesting that this film satirizes the very sort of drama (stylized, verbose, uninterested in the hard science) of which Wes Anderson is one of the great inheritors.
Speaking of The Phoenician Scheme, it was interesting to learn that Michael Cera was intended for a role in this film but couldn't make it to do scheduling. My guess is his was to be the Steve Carell role. But I suppose it could have been the playwright? Anyway. He's too old to be the lead kid these days.
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Love this movie.
Surprised this time by how emotionally I found certain moments. The combination of brokenness and hope pierced me.
Also, I'm now of an age to find 41yrold Maureen O'Hara crazy hot.
I mean.
And Brian Keith seems pretty well put-together himself. Wasn't it Pauline Kael who said he was one of our great actors who just never entered the pantheon because he never got the right role to push him there? Anyway, he's good.
And I'm sure this owes a lot to direction and editing, but Hayley Mills did a good job defining the two characters a bit more or a bit less as the scene required.
But the film is filled with iconic lines and looks from smaller characters, and solid Sherman-brothers songs. Hard to complain about any of it.
In other news, this is July 28th and THIS IS THE SECOND MOVIE I'VE WATCHED. Between travel and Girls Camp and the 8yrold never going to bed, this is shaping up to be the scantest month since records were begun. Boo.
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From a position of what the camera's doing, it seems like a very flashy movie. But it's not, really, because all the tricks are working to focus our attention. It's flare serving function.
Pretty stunning movie. Not sure what I want to say about it. This one will require some digesting....
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One third of the screens at the bowling alley were playing The Sandlot on a loop and so I saw the whole thing minus when I was paying attention to the other two thirds (half WNBA, half ChiveTV which I guess is just internet clips with commercials?), the bowling, and my family; but plus about ten minutes near the end when they meet James Earl Jones and Smalls plays catch with his dad. Anyway, I'm counting it.
It's a great movie minus the distressing lifeguard scene. I remember arguing with a friend of mine when the movie was new. He said it was funny. I said it was awful. Not sure where he stands on that today, but I'll betcha Gen Z is on my side.
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This one doesn't hold up quite as well as The Parent Trap as some of the silly things are so plot-convenient, but it still provides excellent laughs and some classic moments.
I just wish I would watch more Barbara Harris movies. I really think she was one of the brightest lights of her generation. Supposednly she's best in Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? but I most want to see her in nashville. And I suppose I should give Family Plot another chance.
Anyway. She's great. And this movie came out only ten months after Jodie Foster was in Taxi Driver!
Incidentally, I reread the first couple chapters of the novel in a thrift store earlier this month. Based on that, it seems like BOTH bodies have the girl in them? Is that right? I loved the novel (and its sequel) when I was a kid, but I don't remember them that well. Really, just one extremely evocative scene from Summer Switch.
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