#Fred Schepisi

[20th-century-man]

Jamie Lee Curtis / during production of Robert Young and Fred Schepisi's Fierce Creatures (1997) / photo by Richard Blanshard.

#Jamie Lee Curtis #Fierce Creatures #Robert Young #Fred Schepisi #1997 #Richard Blanshard #film #1990s

[80smovies]

#Roxanne 1987 #Steve Martin #Daryl Hannah #Fred Schepisi #Edmond Rostand #80s

[90smovies]

#Six Degrees of Separation #Fred Schepisi #John Guare #Will Smith #Donald Sutherland #Stockard Channing #90s

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

#movies #polls #i.q. #tim robbins #meg ryan #fred schepisi #ended #result: unheard of

[cappedinamber]

Roxanne (1987)

Directed by Fred Schepisi

Cinematography by Ian Baker

#only for daryl #roxanne #fred schepisi #ian baker #1987 #daryl hannah #steve martin

[josefksays]

Six Degrees of Separation (1993) dir. Fred Schepisi

#Six Degrees of Separation #Fred Schepisi #Stockard Channing #Will Smith #Donald Sutherland #Mary Beth Hurt #Bruce Davison #Ian McKellen #Eric Thal #Heather Graham #Lou Milione #Anthony Michael Hall #30 years in 2023 #the art of cinematography #Ian Baker #scenes

[tourneurs]

“I don’t know what God wants anymore.”

Evil Angels (1988) dir. Fred Schepisi

#evil angels #a cry in the dark #1988 #fred schepisi #meryl streep #sam neill #february 2024 #screencaps #1980s

[moviemosaics]

Roxanne

directed by Fred Schepisi, 1987

#Roxanne #Fred Schepisi #movie mosaics #Steve Martin #Daryl Hannah #Rick Rossovich #Shelley Duvall #Shandra Beri

[eclecticpjf]

Now watching:

#Roxanne #Fred Schepisi #Steve Martin #Darryl Hannah #Shelley Duval

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#meryl streep #movie poster #movie posters #film #films #ian mckellen #tracey ullman #fred schepisi #ian baker #david hare #sting #sting musician #drama

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | A Cry in the Dark (Schepisi, 1988)

The Important Cinema Club podcast recently did an episode on Meryl Streep and one of the more intriguing insights they offered was that Streep's portrayal of the kind of characters she chose to play brought with it a certain tension. Namely, if I can paraphrase, there was a certain dissonance between these dressed down, unglamorous characters and the fact that they were being played by the First Lady of Acting, bringing the full force of her formidable, carefully calibrated talents. They didn't seem entirely convinced that this dynamic was a positive one and worked in the movies' favour, but it is something that weighed on my mind as I watched A Cry in the Dark, the 1988 film about the Azaria Chamberlain case for which Streep received one of her many Oscar nominations. I couldn't find anything wrong about Streep's portrayal, but the fact that it was Streep playing this mostly ordinary Australian woman was itself a bit distracting. I kept looking for the seams in her performance, or the little dials she was twiddling with for emotive effect, and despite the fact I didn't find all that much, I couldn't help but be taken out of the proceedings a little. In contrast, I found Sam Neill as her husband much more convincing, perhaps because he was using his real accent and his demeanour didn't seem too far removed from his other well known roles.

After I watched the movie, I decided to dig up Roger Ebert's review as I often do, and found a competing argument in favour of her performance. Ebert suggests that the character is deliberately off-putting. She doesn't grieve as expressively as one would expect. She keeps putting her face out there for media appearances, to the point that people grow tired of her. She allows herself to come across as cold and snarky. Streep's performance seems intended to hide her interiority, offering us a peek inside only at a handful of key moments, like when she begins to crack under questioning during the climactic trial scene. The direction of much of the movie is not especially showy, but this sequence, with its aggressive cross-cutting and use of flashbacks, proves isolating in a way that the rest of the movie doesn't always manage. But the idea floated by Ebert is that the movie allows you to develop a certain resentment for this character and understand why the public turned against her, and I'm not sure that would have worked without the specific notes Streep seems to play here.

As for the movie, I found it pretty involving, if a tad inelegant in structure. This portrayal of a wrongfully accused character persecuted by a venal media environment and unscrupulous law enforcement invites similarities with Richard Jewell. I think that movie handles this dynamic more elegantly by filtering the antagonism more directly through its hero's experience, in contrast to the awkward docudrama cutaways that are heavily employed here. (That being said, Richard Jewell unfortunately achieves some of that elegance by slandering a real-life character to concentrate its venom, so perhaps it isn't the best model to take on the whole.) And I do think Paul Walter Hauser's performance has a greater authenticity about it than Streep's here, but that also makes him harder to resent, which would not work in this movie's favour. Also, I should note that having watched Seinfeld religiously in my high school years, I was perhaps less moved by a certain line of dialogue in the big early dramatic scene, but otherwise found that sequence quite gripping.

#film #movie review #a cry in the dark #fred schepisi

[filmpalette]

The Eye of the Storm (2011) dir. Fred Schepisi

#the eye of the storm #fred schepisi #2011 #charlotte rampling #judy davis #geoffrey rush #req #2010s

[80smovies]

#Roxanne 1987 #Fred Schepisi #Edmond Rostand #Steve Martin #Daryl Hannah #Rick Rossovich #Shelley Duvall #80s

[herawell]

Has anyone watched the movie Iceman (1984)? It’s the sci-fi one about a 40000-year-old Neanderthal man found frozen in the Arctic and resurrected in the modern day, starring Timothy Hutton and John Lone. I watched it a few days ago and neeeeeed to talk about it with someone. If anyone has watched it my DMs are open.

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#submitted #movies #polls #roxanne #steve martin #daryl hannah #fred schepisi #adaptations #ended #result: unseen

[jerichopalms]

#23: A Cry in the Dark (1988, dir. by Fred Schepisi)

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