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classicfilmblr · 1 year

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James Dean and Lois Smith screen test for East of Eden 1955 | dir. Elia Kazan

#east of eden #filmedit #classicfilmedit #oldhollywoodedit #james dean #lois smith #ours #by teri #requests #1950s #film #screen test

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javierpenaispunk · 2 months

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This is a non spoiler free review of The Uninvited published in The Daily Beast by Fletcher Peters after the SXSW viewing. She appears to be praising Pedro's performance despite him only appearing quite late in the movie.

#the uninvited #the uninvited spoilers #pedro pascal #elizabeth reaser #walton goggins #rufus sewell #eva de dominici #lois smith #sxsw #sxsw 2024

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ritahayworrth · 1 year

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LOIS SMITH and JAMES DEAN in a wardrobe test for East of Eden (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

#oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #filmedit #movieedit #James Dean #Lois Smith #East of Eden #1950s #1955 #idk how to tag this #mygifs*#requested*#anon i'm sorry it took me so long to get this up 😭#like you literally requested this in december and it's february!!#also i'm not sure how exactly you wanted me to gif the test so i just did a part i thought was cute #so if there's any other part of the test you want me to see let me know #and if the anon who requested sunset boulevard gifs ever reads this i'll try to get to it hopefully this weekend or sometime next week!!!!!

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pedropascal24-7 · 2 months

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#pedro pascal #walton goggins #elizabeth reaser #the uninvited #lois smith #sxsw #indiewire

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yestergaze · 7 months

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James Dean and Lois Smith on the set of "East of Eden". (1954)

#james dean #lois smith

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movie--posters · 11 months

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#twister #movie poster #movie posters #90s #1990s #movies #tordado #jamie gertz #helen hunt #philip seymour hoffman #cary elwes #alan ruck #bill paxton #lois smith #poster

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ratleyland · 2 months

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This Sci-Fi Masterpiece is over 20 years old... but it's still as impressive as when I first watched it back then.

#minority report #sci fi #sci fi movies #masterpiece #tom cruise #colin farrell #samantha morton #max von sydow #neal mcdonough #peter stormare #kathryn morris #lois smith #movie #movies #movie nerd #movie night #movie review #movie poster

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citizenscreen · 6 months

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Happy birthday, Lois Smith

#lois smith

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stimtickle · 7 months

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“It's funny how all living organisms are alike...when the chips are down, when the pressure is on, every creature on the face of the Earth is interested in one thing and one thing only. Its own survival.”🌿🥀☠️

Dr. Iris Hineman / Minority Report (2002)

#minority report #philip k. dick #steven spielberg #lois smith #tom cruise #dr. iris hineman #survival #scifi movies

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superficialcinema · 2 days

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TWISTER - 3.4 / 5

☆ 1996 ☆ Jan de Bont ☆ Action / Adventure ☆

You wanna know something? I watched this film exclusively for Philip Seymour Hoffman and I only slightly regretted it!

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Plot: ★★★☆☆

3.5 / 5

I have to be sort of nice about this film because my mum loves it, but I did not love it.

Helen Hunt and her hippie, tornado chasing gang get together to hunt down the most powerful hurricane in decades to test out their revolutionary hippie technology. Bill Paxton comes back ‘just this once’ as a rival gang of weather men have stolen their hippie tech ideas and will try to play it off as their own, if it works. It does, but only after Bill Paxton has an affair with Helen Hunt… or something.

So, Bill Paxton’s wife is this psych lady and she genuinely seemed normal but the movie tried so hard to push her away. If my husband took me hurricane chasing with his old girlfriend, and then proceeded to CHEAT on me with said girlfriend, I would’ve done so much more than her (genuinely cute) parting speech. In the movie’s defence, they didn’t demonise her as much as I was expecting them to - I think a lot of films have this nasty habit of gaslighting the audience into thinking the rational one is insane for the (specifically romantic, re-kindled love) plot. Though, I do love a good Edward Cullen: ‘No one will believe you’, so maybe my opinions wouldn’t be so sour if the film just went guns-a-blazing with the manipulation tactics.

Soundtrack: ★★★★☆

4 / 5

Okay, so there’s two soundtracks. I think one is of the instrumental and the other, well - in the movie, most of the soundtrack is comprised of whatever PSH’s character is playing in his truck because he’s the Radio Guy ™ (I LOVE YOU PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN!) but the music is GOOD even if I didn’t know any of it! Eric Clapton, Stevie Nicks, Lisa Loeb, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Goo Goo Dolls and various others seem like a pretty good recipe for success, though. The instrumental score was forgettable but I have no idea what to compare it to. I never listen the scores in films, besides maybe whatever Hans Zimmer puts out - and it was certainly not on par with Hans Zimmer. The lyrical soundtrack bumps the score up a star or two.

Acting/ Cast: ★★★☆☆

3.5 / 5

Maybe not acting, but the dialogue was so odd and (to me) unnatural in places and the kiss between Bill Paxton and (the lady) at the end was so weirdly placed: they just survived a HURRICANE, alright, but they only start making out once all the rest of their friends arrive?? I don’t know. I feel like they could’ve done that at literally any other time. Anyway. You already know Philip Seymour Hoffman ATE THIS ROLE UPPP (foood). I have never seen him be bad in a film yet, and I don’t think I ever will. The psych lady (Jami Gertz) was great! I remember her being good in ‘The Lost Boys’ too, so no surprise there. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were also good, but Paxton was weirdly off in this one? Something just didn’t feel right - maybe he just wasn’t as insane as I was expecting him to be. The rest of the cast were fine. It was like Movie 43 but half decent, and with niche side characters instead of weird main stars. It felt like everybody was somebody in something else.

Visuals: ★★★☆☆

3.5 / 5

90s CGI. Yeah. There were some explosions, though, and they were pretty sick. Nowhere near ‘Forrest Gump’ or ‘The Matrix’, but just far enough from ‘Deep Blue Sea’ for me to mind it. As someone who grew up in the era of Marvel, some percentage of the stars were for effort.

Enjoyment: ★★☆☆☆

2.5 / 5

Half of this is for PSH - I probably wouldn’t watch this again, even so. I remember seeing parts of this as a kid (specifically the final tornado chase bit) and I would genuinely get so stressed about it, so the negatives are probably from a deep seated psychological issue and just flat-out disappointment: I expected a lot from this film, but I didn’t get a lot back.

Overall: ★★★☆☆

3.4 / 5

But tell me your views! Does anyone actually like this film, wholeheartedly? I’d love to discuss with those of you who like Philip Seymour Hoffman, and also those of you who are wrong! Joking. I’m not.

Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day :3

- KC

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laserpinksteam · 8 months

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Film after film: The French Dispatch (dir. Wes Anderson, 2021)

This film came out during the pandemic lockdowns in Vienna, when I barely ever would go to the cinema, and this somehow collided with me giving up on liking Anderson's movies. This summer's been a pretty great revival, with his last two films making me quite happy. He never reaches the smoothness of The Royal Tenenbaums or the sad and imperfectly told pathos of Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, but his films have the pleasant quality of detail-filled diaoramas, which usually gives their performers an idiosyncratic tone. McDormand, for instance, or Brody usually operate at a different modality, which they also lend here to an interestingly melancholic effect.