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Sun 18 Mar, 2007 09:09 pm
The best movie ever! If you haven't seen it, rent it. If you have, rent it again.
I never saw it, but I saw the trailer at least two dozen times... which may be why I never saw it...
Made in 1971 (!), H&M still strikes chords today. There is the obsession with materialism, the distracted, self-interested mother, the androgynous son, the pediphiliac priest, computer dating......
Gosh littlek, I've seen that movie so many times, and it is always pleasurablemagain. I especially like the scene at the end with Cat Steven's music. *sings* "Morning has broken......"
Ruth Gordon was just brilliant, wasn't she?
Indeed she was. I just looked her up. If I'm doing the math right, she was about 75 when she did that movie.
Ruth Gordon was my heroine. When I am old, I want to be just like her. When she was in her middle seventies, I saw her in summer stock. Although she did not speak all through the play, she was onstage for the entire two hours. Quite a woman, she was!
Saw it, decided it was an OK movie!
Will most probably not see it again!
Phoenix32890 wrote:Ruth Gordon was my heroine. When I am old, I want to be just like her. When she was in her middle seventies, I saw her in summer stock. Although she did not speak all through the play, she was onstage for the entire two hours. Quite a woman, she was!
When she received an award for her work at 72, she said that it was
such an accomplishment for a young actress like her.
Loved it! Saw it a long time ago, but loved it, and Ruth Gordon. So much verve, that gal!
I like it. It used to run every weekend as a matinee at this little bar on Comm Ave...
When I was a kid going to the movies was a real treat. When H&M first came out our parents loaded us up and off we went!
The movie opens with the scene where H hangs himself. I thought my mom was going to pass out and I thought my dad was going to laugh his head right off. My mother later swore us to secrecy about having seen it least our peers parents and our teachers think she was a lunatic.
Ahh. Good times.
Well, if you want to sing out, sing out
And if you want to be free, be free
cause theres a million things to be
You know that there are....
I think I've seen it at least eight times since it's initial release. I can now remember the key scenes, and, of course, that would include all the "attempted" suicides (I'm smiling as I write this), probably the most eerie and effective black humor ever committed to film.
One of my favorites.
Bud Cort played the Insurance Guy in the Life Aquatic. Love to see him pop up.
At first I'd thaught, it was something new.
But it's really the film I've seen in 1972 the first time - really good, worth seeing more than once (whcih I did over the years :wink: ).
We looked up Bud Cort. He's been in a consistent number of movies and tv productions from the 60s on through to the 2000s.
I haven't seen him that much, I guess.
I did see him in a tiny cameo on Arrested Development--when he, Bud "Cort" and "Judge" Reinhold were trying to get Court TV shows.
(I love A.D.)
I do too! I saw the 1st and 2nd seasons on dvd. He's in the 3rd, they've just come to my rental place. I'll be renting them next month when I have some money.
Loved it! Saw it in the late '70's I guess. Should rent it again.
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