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Feud (2017)
Feud: Capote vs The Swans 2024
Your site has amalgamated both Feud series. Outrageous. FIX it, please. The only things both seasons of Feud have in common are Ryan Murphy, showrunner, writer, producer, and Jessica Lange, who plays the ghost of Truman's mother.
This Feud concerns the final sad years of the great writer Truman Capote's life. He climbed to fame with Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime book In Cold Blood, about the Kansas murders of the Clutter family, the murders, and the capture and executions of the killers. It was unlike any true crime nonfiction ever written. He used first person to tell the story. Parts were first published in the New Yorker. It was the beginning of New Journalism (see Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, etc,), combining elements of fiction and nonfiction together.
The Swans had been his trusted friends, wealthy women, Sondheim's 'ladies who lunch.' These ladies and Capote had a standing reserved table at La Côte Basque, 60 West 55th St., between 5th & 6th Avenues, NY, NY. The Swans, according to Harper's Bazaar, were Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Lee Radziwill, C. Z. Guest, Pamela Harriman, Marella Agnelli, Gloria Guiness, and Ann Woodward, who had been accused of murdering her husband, and who then killed herself after Esquire published La Côte Basque, which used Woodward's husband's scandalous affairs and Ann's reaction as 'a major plot point,' according to Town & Country.
The Swans were the wealthy powerful wives of powerful men. Babe Paley was married to William Paley (played here in his last role by Tommy Lee Jones), for example. They themselves had political power -- Pamela Harriman, for example.
After La Côte Basque was published Ann Woodward killed herself. The other ladies also felt that Capote had violated their trust in him. They vowed to shun him, refused to lunch with him, refused to be seen in public with him. They cut him, cut him off, and in the end contributed to his death, alcoholism & overdosing of narcotics.
The series is based on the book by Laurence Leamer: Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. La Côte Basque became part of Capote's final unfinished published work, Answered Prayers, Vintage International, Random House, 1987, published five years after his death. It is divided into three sections: Unspoiled Monsters, Kate McCloud, and La Côte Basque.
I leoni di Sicilia (2023)
at first, dubbed in english by disney, BUT try again!
There is now an option, watch in Italian! Look at the top of the screen. Subtitles on, audio Italian.
Original post follows, but no longer holds true. I will watch the series then amend it.
Had been looking forward to this but sadly dubbed in English, and refuse to watch anything not using the original language. The timbre, temper of foreign film and television is its original language. Language is our most precious and unique way of expression. It is why imperial powers throughout centuries have forbidden people to speak in their own languages, stripping places and their native peoples of identity. Until Disney and Hulu take their heads out of their accounting books and allow users to listen to what appears to be an exciting epic series .
Kin (2021)
My Cup of Noir Grit
Love this Irish family gangster revenge series. Not as needlessly bloody as Gangs of London it is subtly as lethal. Two of my favorite male actors here, Charlie Cox & Aiden Gillen, have never been 'dull' in anything, contrary to another reviewer's view. The writing's what counts, so thanks to the writers for making Amanda so wonderfully sharp and deadly.
Cherry (2021)
should've been nominated for an Emmy
Maybe it was, maybe i got it wrong. Hard-hitting story of Ohio man who falls in love, signs up for the Army just in time for Iraq. No spoilers, so I'll just say: goes home. And that the movie really takes off from here. Highly recommended.
Sarajevo (2014)
historical advisors matter
This was made to remember the 100th anniversary of WWI for German & Austrian television. First thing I do when watching a work of historical fiction is see who the writers are. They wrote and directed documentaries. Second thing is look at the whole crew. Way down at the bottom are four names. 'Historical advisors' who also worked on documentaries. This movie poses an interesting theory and maybe is more than theory. You can see from other reviews the topic touches a nerve. This person was really this and not that, and so forth. Questioning expert opinion because it is not what you read or were taught is not the best way to critique a movie.
The Expanse (2015)
Season 4 (no spoilers)
Wow. The visuals on this Amazon-created season are extraordinary. The tech is HDR, High Dynamic Range, and the images are beautiful. The storylines and characters remain intricate & exciting, I am so glad Mr. Bezos loves this show as much as its other fans. Season 5 is already in the works.
La piovra (1984)
10 Seasons not 10 Episodes
There are 10 seasons of this series. There are 6 episodes in season 1. Six in season 2. Seven in season 3. No editors, nothing. Sigh.
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Exciting, inspired by the characters movie
The one and only character Lisbeth Salander was created by a writer who unfortunately died young. The original Swedish movies based on his books need to be seen before viewing this movie (the English versions are okay too, but imo, the Swedish ones are superior.) This English-language movie is inspired by but not based on the original books. It is based on a fourth book by another Swedish writer who gives us a look at what Lisbeth's childhood was like, gives her another case to work on, another computer or three to hack, and more injustices to right. Claire Foy is fine as Lisbeth. Users complaining she's been turned into a cartoon hero are taking the first few scenes too literally. Maybe they're memories, maybe dreams; either way, a bit surreal. She is no superhero -- like all the other Lisbeths she's a survivor, feels pain, is guarded and compassionate.
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Leslie Caron, Brock Peters, Tom Bell
A pregnant young French woman comes to London to have or not have her baby, searches for rooms to let and meets a boarding house full of characters played by the inimitable Brock Peters (famous mostly for his role in To Kill A Mockingbird) and Tom Bell (who three decades later would be Helen Mirren's nemesis police officer in Prime Suspect). Caron is elegant and lovely, innocent and tough. The older women in the house, Doris, Maisie, and Sonia downstairs are fascinating glimpses into London's earlier days, during and before the second world war. Johnny (Peters) playing his horn in a beatnik jazz club presents life in the early 60s scene, biracial, jazzy, kind of sad. There are fiercely judgemental stares from middle-aged married couples throughout the film, harsh words from policemen, self-pitying screeds from lonely depressed writers, but 'Jane' (Caron) grows less innocent and tragic as the film moves along, becoming more self-assured, composed, and brave. A lovely realistic film, highly recommended.
État de siège (1972)
Now streaming on FilmStruck
I am a 'Z' and 'The Confession' fan, have been since a teenager. I am about to watch this for the first time. Skimming these reviews, I saw so many people bemoaning the lack of a DVD release, I thought to make note that this film is now (June 2017) streaming on Filmstruck (a service that includes Criterion films). Having read some reviews, I am expecting something truly extraordinary. I am rating it 8 of 10 based on my previous encounters with Costas-Gravas.
Wodehouse in Exile (2013)
Simple and sad
Hugely disagree with the one other reviewer on this site. That Wodehouse was too innocent to understand how the Nazis were using him also explains why he didn't blink an eye at Macintosh's anti-Semitic doings. Wodehouse was sequestered from the war by the Nazis. How was he to know what was happening? Absurd critique. And the movie is paced well, not too fast, certainly not too slow. Pigott-Smith is wonderful as Wodehouse, Zoe Wanamaker brilliant as his beloved, not-so-easily fooled wife. Julian Rhind-Tutt plays Malcolm Muggeridge, PUNCH editor, satirist, and Guardian writer. Flora Montgomery, once Ireland's EFP's Shooting Star, is lovely as Leonora, Wodehouse's (step)-daughter.
Calling the Shots (1993)
Calling the Shots DVD?
Lynn Redgrave's brilliant performance as a haunted newscaster in 'Calling the Shots' gave me nightmares. It's been 24 years and I still get the chills remembering the show. Memory, however helpful, is not good enough. All the words one wants to avoid using these days, simply because they're used too many times, must be applied here. 'Calling the Shots' was poignant, and full of gravitas. Remembering 'Calling the Shots,' I think about how women survive in the television news industry, how they survive childhood traumas, how they transcend survival, but am I remembering correctly? Who knows? I haven't seen this show for 24 years! How long must the world wait for this fantastic dramatic television miniseries to be released on DVD?
What's My Line? (1950)
GSN says:
The gentleman I just spoke to says it will return Monday mornings 3 AM on October something -- oh, d---n -- well, just figure out what day of the week Monday is, it was maybe the 12th? I'm sorry. Can't remember. A middle-aged moment.
My comment does not contain enough lines. So, why I love this show: it's a history lesson. I'm 48 and was an infant in the 1950's. On What's My Line we meet all kinds of people, every day jobbers, celebs, government officials (federal, state, etc.). Political people, though they may not even have known it. The Korean war, pre-MASH.
Dorothy always fascinates me. My Dad says she was considered a very conservative newspaper woman in the 50's, and that's kind of scary, in hindsight. I can't tell from the show. Mr. Cerf -- President of Random House, wow.
Anyway, hope they'll let me post this now. Don't forget. Mondays at 3 am beginning October something 2006.