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the backbone to several other later films in the sense style and movement including "Far From Heaven", Julianne Moore, Dennis Quade, Dennis Haysbert.
There is a great film with Jane Wyman that takes place in Nova Scotia - "Johnny Belinda" - this movie should be on everyone's list of must see if you like
great film. I'm surprised it wasn't on this list of 50 films.
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Films that broke ground in film industry and smashed social norms. Example: In “A patch of Blue” he kisses a white woman.
We had to watch Raisin in the Sun in high school. Other than that, no.
There are a lot of big names in that group. Burt Lancaster, Walter Matthau, to name just a few.
Who'd have known that Regan's mom from the Exorcist (Ellen Burstyn) was just in a movie a year or two ago. Shit, she played an aging actress in the Exorcist almost 50 year ago.
Brilliant short story collection - a wonderful film. I recommend it. but first read the short story, it's absolutely brilliant.
Cheever was a great writer.
Ellen Burstyn is a marvelous actress. She did a film with Robert Mitchum "the Ambassador" 1984 that everyone missed, about the middle east. Interesting film. Interesting
book by Henry James.
I can read a short story and appreciate the art of the telling, as in this case. The prose is quite artful, and the increasing sense of foreboding is very well developed.
However, I'd hate to invest a couple hours in a movie only to be left confused and/or saddened, especially when the main plot premise is hidden from the viewer such that the movie is largely pointless, leaving the viewer unsatisfied and discomfited as the credits role. This sounds like one of those types of movies. Not my idea of a pleasant evening.
Link: https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Cheever_Swimmer.pdf
He writes: "This was at the edge of the Westerhazys' pool. … He had been swimming and now he was breathing deeply, stertorously as if he could gulp into his lungs the components of that moment , the heat of the sun the intenseness of his pleasure."
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It was in a regular rotation of Sunday afternoon TV movies when I was a young kid that included Casablanca, King Kong (the Fay Wray version), Hitchcock movies and others like that. I didn't understand it at first, but on subsequent viewings I started to get all the subtle hints along the way on how it would end. I was cheering for Burt Lancaster's character the whole ride, thinking the people he met along the way were crazy.
I'd always assumed it was set in California but it was Connecticut.
The Sutton Place, Greenwich CT crowd.
He was an amazing writer. He captured life in that circle to a T.
That might have been the time I first watched those films too. There were some goodies on TV then.