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Under the Influencer (2023)
Great Surprise!
A movie I thought I might enjoy, but one that I loved instead. From the very beginning, you can tell this is not what you thought it was going to be. Beautiful direction and acting.
The film is a meaningful tribute to the artist who is struggling with authenticity, when success seems to dictate giong in another direction. The take on social media success is both funny and only too believable. Great visuals, music and filmwork that keeps you interested while surprising you with what comes next.
Let's see more and hear more from these artists: Alex Haughey; Taylor Joree Scorse; Spencer Vaughn Kelly; Chandler Young. Ava Westcott is a special hoot.
The Time Machine (1960)
A Waste of Time
As much as I want to love this movie - I've seen it several times - I just can't. As the story moves forward in time, I lose interest to the point that by the end of it, if still awake, I'm irritated.
Russian Doll (2019)
Had to Drop Everything Else We Were Watching
What an incredible roller coaster ride through life (and death). I'm a fan of Groundhog Day, but Russian Doll is a huge evolution into exploring the meaning of needing others to make it all worthwhile.
Cast, Writers, Director, everyone who worked on this deserves accolades.
Sabrina (1995)
The Salvation of Linus the King
Tempting though it may be to compare this film to the 1954 version, you will miss the point if you do. To understand the true magic of Sydney Pollack's masterpiece, read the Samuel A. Taylor play both films were based on. While I'm sure the play was a great evening out at the theater between martinis in the 1950s, it's somewhat incredible that two film versions so profoundly translated this lightweight romantic comedy, each in its own time.
In 1954, Billy Wilder used an incredible cast to entertain. No, Bogart should never have been cast. Cary Grant might have created the dynamic relationship with Audrey Hepburn we fortunately got to see later in Charade, but if Bogart had not been cast would the film hold its classic status? Hepburn transfixed an audience and brought to the world La Vie en Rose. William Holden is period eye candy, and the film will always be fun.
Forty years later, however, Pollack made an important film. Taylor's play is, after all, just a fairy tale, and this film fully realizes it. Ormond is enchanting. Kinnear ripens the always empty David. Fanny Ardant brings a french cinema quality to the film's Paris episodes. Marchand's "I didn't teach you this" culminates what may be one of the best written scenes in American film. You can watch this scene over and over and each time gain a better understanding of how great acting can define a relationship, this one between mother and son, for an audience.
But this film should have been called Linus. Harrison Ford's tour de force performance as the greater Larrabee fulfills Pollack's mission to tell a simple story of how a king is transformed by the love of a woman.
"It was a lie, then it was a dream."