The Awakening Land - NBC - February 19-21, 1978
Drama (3 episodes)
Running Time: 420 minutes total
Stars:
Elizabeth Montgomery as Sayward Luckett Wheeler
Hal Holbrook as Portius Wheeler
Jane Seymour as Genny Luckett
Steven Keats as Jake Tench
Louise Latham as Jary Luckett
William H. Macy as Will Beagle
Jeanette Nolan as Granny McWhirter
Bert Remsen as Isaac Barker
Charles Gowan as Alan Hamilton
Sean Frye as Resolve Wheeler, as youth
Tracy Kleronomos as Dezia Wheeler
Katy Kurtzman as Rosa Tench
Byrne Piven as Dr. Pearsall
Julie Gibson as Lady Peddler
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#columbo had the same actor play different villains all the time and it was fucking GREAT - klasdflksajldf for real???? i know only basic Columbo info, this delights me
yes, sure did! the columbo wiki tracks them all here. i knew william shatner had played villains in two episodes* but there's a handful of others who appeared as the villain in multiple episodes
(never the same character, never overlapping with a previous character, no tongue-in-cheek 'hey remember me' it's a whole new story every time)
* apropos of nothing except i love columbo lol but shatner's 70s episode (S6E1) is excellent for both the plot/columboness and also for shatner himself acting at PEAK ham. chef's kiss. kiss the ham. he's terrible. lil kiss
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy. Screenplay: Robert Altman, Brian McKay, based on a novel by Edmund Naughton. Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond. Production design: Leon Erickson. Film editing: Lou Lombardo.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller may be Robert Altman's best film, as well as the greatest of all "stoner Westerns." It's very much of the era in which it was made, with its fatalistic view of its loner protagonist, doomed by his naive willingness to go up against the big corporate mining interests who want to buy him out. Hippies against the Establishment, if you will. It's also very much at the heart of the mythos of the American Western, which always centered on the loner against overwhelming odds. McCabe & Mrs. Miller came along at a time when the Western was in eclipse, with most of its great exponents, like John Ford and Howard Hawks, in retirement, and some of its defining actors, like John Wayne, having gone over to the side of the Establishment. So when iconoclasts like Altman and Warren Beatty, coming off of their respective breakthrough hits M*A*S*H (1970) and Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), took an interest in filming Edmund Naughton's novel, it was clear that we were going to get something revisionist, a Western with a grubby setting and an antiheroic protagonist. The remarkable thing is that McCabe & Mrs. Miller, perhaps more than either M*A*S*H or Bonnie and Clyde, has transcended its revisionism and formed its own tradition. For once, Altman's mannerisms -- overlapping dialogue, restless camerawork, reliance on a stock company of actors like Michael Murphy, John Schuck, and Shelley Duvall, and a generally loosey-goosey mise-en-scène -- don't overwhelm the story. Some of this is probably owing to Beatty's own firmly entrenched ego, which was often at odds with Altman's. His performance gives the film a center and grounding that many of Altman's other films lack, especially since he works so well in tandem with Julie Christie's performance as Mrs. Miller, the only thing about the film that the Academy deigned worthy of an Oscar nomination. How the Academy could have overlooked the contribution of cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond remains a mystery, except that at this point the cinematographers branch was dominated by old-school directors of photography who had been brought up in the studio system, which was to flood the set with light -- one reason why Gordon Willis's magisterial chiaroscuro in The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) failed to get a nomination the following year.
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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10
Título Original: Stand Alone
Año: 1985
Duración: 94 min
País: Estados Unidos
Dirección: Alan Beattie
Guion: Roy Carlson
Música: David Campbell
Fotografía: Tom Richmond, Tim Suhrstedt
Reparto: Charles Durning, Pam Grier, James Keach, Bert Remsen, Barbara Sammeth, Lu Leonard, Luis Contreras, Willard Pugh, Bob Tzudiker, Mary Ann Smith, Cory 'Bumper' Yothers, Duane Tucker, Annie O'Donnell, Robert Covarrubias, Marty Zagon, Al Christy, Mercedes Alberti, Hanala Sagal, Kerry Yo Nakagawa, Joey Miyashima, Ed Pansullo, Alan Abelew, Thomas Rosales Jr., Del Zamora, Chester Grimes
Productora: Texas Star Productions. Distribuidora: New World Pictures, New World Video, Scorpion, Starmaker Entertainment [USA]
Género: Drama; Action
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The Best of June 2022
Best Discovery: Crimes of the Future
Runners Up: Chan Is Missing, The Girl from the Other Side, A Treasure on Bird Island
Best Rewatch: Bagdad Cafe
Runners Up: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Remains of the Day, Something Wild, Thieves Like Us, Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Most Enjoyable Fluff: The Contender
Runners Up: Aurora Teagarden: Haunted by Murder, The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells, Summer Lovers
Oddity of the Month: Dr. M
Best Male Performance: Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day
Runners Up: Keith Carradine in Thieves Like Us, Jeff Daniels in Something Wild, Marc Hayashi and Wood Moy in Chan Is Missing, Viggo Mortensen in Crimes of the Future, Fernando Rey in Tristana, Forest Whitaker in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Best Female Performance: Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day
Runners Up: Joan Allen in The Contender, Shelley Duvall in Thieves Like Us, Melanie Griffith in Something Wild, Shima Iwashita in Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees, CCH Pounder and Marianne Sägebrecht in Bagdad Cafe, Léa Seydoux in Crimes of the Future
Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Kristen Stewart in Crimes of the Future
Runners Up: Mia Farrow in Radio Days, Louise Fletcher and Bert Remsen in Thieves Like Us, Ray Liotta in Something Wild, Jack Palance in Bagdad Cafe
Most Enjoyable Ham: Marilu Henner in Aurora Teagarden: Haunted by Murder
Runners Up: Eartha Kitt, Oliver Reed and Claudia Udy in Master of Dragonard Hill, Kavan Smith in The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells
Best Mise-en-scène: Crimes of the Future
Runners Up: Bagdad Cafe, Dr. M, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Girl from the Other Side, Ilya Muromets, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Radio Days, The Remains of the Day, Thieves Like Us, A Treasure on Bird Island, Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Best Locations: The Man Who Fell to Earth (lake and abandoned mining town)
Runners Up: Bagdad Cafe (dusty southwestern roadside), Crimes of the Future (grimy post-apocalyptic Athens), Thieves Like Us (soft “pearly green” Mississippi landscapes), Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (ghostly cherry blossom grove)
Best Score: Crimes of the Future (Howard Shore)
Runners Up: Bagdad Cafe (Bob Telson), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (RZA), The Girl from the Other Side (Shunsuke Watanabe), The Remains of the Day (Richard Robbins), A Treasure on Bird Island (Zdenek Liska), Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (Tōru Takemitsu)
Best Cartoon: There's Something About a Soldier
Best Leading Hunk: Pablo Schreiber in Lorelei
Runners Up: Jeff Daniels in Something Wild, Niall Matter in Aurora Teagarden: Haunted by Murder, Franco Nero in Sardinia... Kidnapped, Alexander Skarsgård in The Northman, Patrick Warburton in Master of Dragonard Hill
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Runners Up: bear extra in Bagdad Cafe, Aaron Eckhart in The Pledge, Scott Speedman in Crimes of the Future
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- Sketchy, shimmering effects animation in The Girl from the Other Side
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