Have You Ever Seen14 Syys 2020

Almost Famous

Almost Famous is one of the most charming and enjoyable pictures of the past 20 years, so it provides us with much fat to chew on in the 360th Ellises' Analysis. Well, okay, only one Ellis loves it. The other Ellis is no fan of Cameron Crowe's ultra-personal road movie about friendship, love and rock 'n' roll. A big part of the disagreement is that we're split on the effectiveness of Kate Hudson's work and especially about how she was written by Crowe, but only a paranoid Billy Crudup can deny that Patrick Fugit is lovable & delightful in his very first movie. Throw in some McDormand, some Hoffman, some Deschanel, some incredible music and some big laughs and you've got yourself a hit. Well, this movie wasn't actually a hit (wasn't even close) and the negative feelings of one of us might explain why. Anyway, it's all happening, so settle in for a lengthy gab and also…you have a good day!

Well, Actually: To be clear, Roger Ebert said in his review that he wanted to hug Almost Famous, not the documentary about him (Life Itself). Also, it's The Wind by Cat Stevens that's playing when Hudson is dancing alone after one of the concerts. Also also, Fugit (which apparently is pronounced "Few-gut", not "Few-jit") WAS indeed in Outcast.

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The King And I

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29 Kesä 45min

Airport

The podcast rulebook says you have to cover a plane movie for episode #747, so I went with the daddy of the '70s disaster craze. The planes are 707s in Airport, but oh well. George Seaton writes & dir...

22 Kesä 42min

The Last Laugh

F.W. Murnau didn't live long enough to direct a huge slate of films, but the man bullhorning The Last Laugh also has Nosferatu, Faust and Sunrise on his resume. Like those, The Last Laugh is a silent ...

19 Kesä 29min

Only The Lonely

The key word is charming in the 745th edition of Have You Ever Seen. Only The Lonely has John Candy playing a single Chicago cop who lives with his widowed mother (Maureen O'Hara). He's an extroverted...

15 Kesä 48min

The Rock

It's as if 007 went to prison for decades, was let out by government guys played by John Spencer & William Forsythe and then he had to help a nerdy Nicolas Cage save hostages on a deserted island. Wel...

8 Kesä 1h 2min

Moulin Rouge

The first episode of a non-theme month here in June (and the 743rd overall) gets loud about Baz Luhrmann's bombastic Moulin Rouge. It's the kind of zany project where the director and star of this Par...

1 Kesä 51min

My Darling Clementine & Gunfight & Tombstone

I put a jaunty bow on Heroes Month with another multi-movie episode. For #742, I'm mostly talking about John Ford's My Darling Clementine, but there's a bit at the end about John Sturges' Gunfight At ...

29 Touko 55min

Black Hawk Down & Battleground

Since it's Memorial Day, I'm tipping a cap to veterans. And I've got another doubleheader in episode #741, with the bulk of the show devoted to Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (where American soldiers ...

25 Touko 59min