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Approximately Infinite Universe
Anybody else attempting 31 days of horror in October? Last year was the first time I ever did it, so I might try again.
well I'll definitely have to finish it then. I've read that there seems to be 2 versions or something of that sort. The version i have is like 2 hrs and 36 mins. Read that there's another version out there that clocks in at just under 2hrs? You know anything about this? A lot of scenes seemed very stretched out or padded, maybe i should look for the shorter versionYeah I've watched that, huge fan actually.
I believe that is the longer version. I'm going to give it another go. Shouldn't have tried to watch it as late as i didOh shit never knew there was a longer version. The one I saw is 155 mins or thereabouts.
From what i can gather it looks like the u.s. got the longer version and everywhere else, including canada got the shorter oneMy bad I just checked my DVD and it's the 120 min version.
rita moreno was in singin' in the rain in 1952 and has multiple 2023 acting credits.
sophia loren was in a bunch of solid stuff as early as 1954 and was still active in 2020, nothing since except a doc about herself though.
lois smith was in the classic east of eden back in 1955, and is still going (she was in the french dispatch, and something else in 2022).
bruce dern was in the great wild river in 1960, albeit uncredited.
robert duvall was in to kill a mockingbird back in 1962, he's still appearing in stuff. robert redford was in the fairly acclaimed war hunt in the same year.
james earl jones was in dr strangelove in 1964, which matches the year of eastwood's first 'major' film. ditto michael caine in zulu (he was in stuff all the way back to 1950 but not sure any of it was good), and maggie smith in the pumpkin eater. julie andrews was in mary poppins in 1964 but she's only active as a voice actor now. morgan freeman was an uncredited nobody in 1964's the pawnbroker. jane fonda was also in solid stuff around the same time.
forgive me if i missed that any of these died recently lmao.
edit: you beat me to a couple of these.
2) wagon master (ford western/languid outcast hangout movie, nothing else quite like it)
i had a similar experience and then rewatched it a couple of days later (i hardly ever do rewatches straight away but i really wanted to clarify my feelings on it) and it clicked way more the second time. definitely an odd film even by ford's standards. is that your first ford?What a strange movie. I got to the ending montage and had a simultaneous reaction of "that's it?" and chills down my spine. I get what people mean when they describe it as a visual poem about the frontier spirit. I think I loved it but didn't know it until it ended. I'm making a toplist of my own and so far it looks like a majority of the entries end with the protagonist dying because 1950 cinema is fucking bleak apparently, so it's a nice break to see a movie that's this light without coming off naive or contrived. In terms of vibe it actually reminded me of Scandal from this year so maybe you'd like that, though nobody seems to like that movie as much as I do.