Yep, looking forward to the Oscars.
I watched the Independent Spirit awards this afternoon. They're sort of the anti-Oscars. Little Miss Sunshine won best picture there.
I forgot about the Independent Spirit Awards. They were on AMC this evening. I hope they repeat them.
Recap:
J = Jail, but women only. (A scene in which one of the leading female characters is locked up in a prison cell or is a prisoner, not a visitor, in a jail, or is a prisoner in a prison camp.)
1. I Want To Live - Susan Hayward
2. Chained Heat
3. White Oleander
4. Women's Prison
5. Chicago
6. Bridget Jones 2
7. Final Analysis
8. Paradise Road
9. Dancer in the Dark (2000), Björk in jail
10 Mata Hari (1985), Sylvia Kristel in prison
11. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
12. Notre Dame de Paris (1956), Gina Lollobridgida tortured by the inquisition
13. De Stilte rond Christine M. (1982), feminist prisoners
14. The Concrete Jungle
15. The Grey Zone (2001), several brave women in Auschwitz-Birkenau
16. Schindler's List (1993) (if concentration camp counts)
17. Sophie's Choice (1982), Meryl Streep in concentration camp
18.. Het Meisje met het rode haar (1981, The Girl with the Red Hair) Renée Soutendijk in jail as resistance fighter.
19.. Les Uns et les Autres (1981, Bolero.
20 De Aanslag (1986, The Assault), Monique van de Ven in prison as resistance fighter.
21. Evil Angels (1988, A Cry in the Dark), Meryl Streep in prison.
22. Vera Drake (2004), Imelda Staunton in jail.
23. Moll Flanders (1996), Robin Wright pleads her belly in jail.
24.Black Mama/White Mama
25. Women in Cages
26. The Big Doll House
27. Three Came Home
28. Ladies They Talk About - Barbara Stanwyck
29. Gunfight at the OK Corral - Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) locks Rhonda Fleming up in the local jail
30. House of D (2004), Erykah Badu in jail
31. Brokedown Palace (1999), Clare Danes gets into a Thai prison
32. Jackie Brown (1997). Pam Grier in jail
33. Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004, A very long engagement), Audrey Tautou visits a female murderess in jail.
34. Lady Sings the Blues (movie opens with Billie/Diana's arrest and incarceration)
35. Michael - Andie McDowell did a night in the same cell as Travolta, Hurt and the other guy)
36. House of Games (Lindsay Crouse plays a psychiatrist who counsels an incarcerated murderess.)
37. You Can't Take It With You - (Jean Arthur, family and friends arrested and all locked up in same cell)
Roberta: I don't know.
Wandeljw: Does the "incarcerated murderess" fit the definition?
Raggedyaggie wrote:Roberta: I don't know.
Wandeljw: Does the "incarcerated murderess" fit the definition?
I am not sure if the incarcerated murderess is a "leading" character. Lindsay Crouse has two scenes of dialogue with her. However, Lindsay Crouse's actions in the film's climax was influenced by what the murderess talks about.
OK. I'm going to include House of Games because even if she wasn't a leading lady, Karen Kohlhaas
did get billing as "prison ward patient". Don't you agree that after all the effort Wandeljw put into that one, House of Games deserves a spot on the list?
(I loved that movie.)
38. Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), a black woman prisoner (Aisha Hinds) is held in the precinct.
Is she the star of the movie?
eoe wrote:Is she the star of the movie?
The stars of the movie are men. There are three important female characters and she is one of them. She gets killed like almost everybody else.
Sounds important enough to me, Paaskeynen.
I'm adding it to the list.
39. Madame X - Lana Turner in jail cell
One more and we'll move on. I think Valli in The Paradine Case is in jail, but I'm not positive.
Raggedyaggie wrote:One more and we'll move on. I think Valli in The Paradine Case is in jail, but I'm not positive.
I can't remember either (strangely enough my only images remaining from that film concern Charles Laughton, who always had a quite strong screen presence), but the pictures from the film on IMDB show Valli being registered at a police station in preparation for being locked up and a scene of Peck talking to Valli in what looks like a visitor's area in prison, so that would support your surmise...
Already looking forward to K (k-9, karaoke, kindergarten, kingpin (i.e. mafia boss, etc), kitchenware (used as plot device), knitting?)
Yes, Paaskeynen, it was the visitor's area of the prison I recall, too, but it's time to move on. All good suggestions for "k", but I can't get "kilt" out of my mind.
K = Kilt - an item of Scottish national dress, a pleated tartan skirt reaching to the knees and traditionally worn by men (a movie scene where a character/s wore a kilt)
1. Random Harvest - (Greer Garson performs a dance routine wearing a kilt)
Thanks, Raggedy. Kilt made my day! (You knew it would.)
2. Brigadoon
3. Highlander
5. I Know Where I'm Going
(I love that movie)
6. Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Wow, kilt
hadn't thought of that one...
8. Braveheart (1995), of course
9. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Andie MacDowell's husband wears a kilt at their wedding.
10. Casino Royale (1967), David Niven wears one
Trying hard to remember more.
11. Wee Willie Winkie - Shirley Temple
