i liked lyndon the one time i saw i tbut think of it as a kubrick film. love story on the other hand i cant recall if ive seen but paper moon was probably one of the first adult movies for obvious reasons i can remember watching . was gonna say i watched it again not too long ago but rewatched nickelodeon, the other bogdanovich o'neals troika more recently.
Saw BL on a big screen theater original run in college town Denton Tx. Saw paper moon '74 at senior weekend drug fest at weird Salvation Army camp somewhere in NY. Seen both multiple times since. RO rose to the occasion and then some making BL all the more better. He brought the necessary sleaze but also some sympathy
Both movies had great cinematographers. Laszlo Kovacs shot paper moon with very fast and wide lenses to get an extreme depth of field. I remember a shot of Ryan O'Neal on a front porch trying to hawk a Bible to someone on the other side of a screen door. Both characters and the screen and all the props inside the house and the view out the backyard with kids playing, trees in the distance etc. were all in focus.
was looking for something to watch. settled on slither starring james caan with peter boyle, sally kellerman and louise lasser. early 70s not quite funny enough to be a "comedy" road movie hunting down some buried treasure in a manner of speaking. not great by any stretch but some nice looking southern and central california vistas and along with the cast there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half. noticed at the end director or photography, laszlo kovacs.
My parents took us to see it when it came out. I remembered nothing about it other than some joke about two RVs being ufos and a bingo game in the desert. I watched it again in the 90's, figuring it was probably good because of the cast and era but that's still all I remember about it.
Saw it on TCM recently. Interesting for the actors and as a 70s relic, but bad title; sounds like a horror movie and was later used for one. Serpentine. - alex 12-22-2023 9:26 am [add a comment]
Bad? It’s rated PG, so it’s pretty good. Caan is such a primitive. Love the 1973 flair pants. I’ll give this one a try - bill 12-22-2023 10:59 am [add a comment]
if you like caan in a pair of jeans with a big honking belt buckle and a chambray work shirt with plenty of chest hair revealed like half his movies than this is another movie for you. if only they could have found a reason for him to have an emotion other than slightly put upon.
from edgar wright the writer/director of baby driver. also heard it inspired the movie drive. never seen it.
The Driver
Lives alone.
Chauffeured getaways for 12 years.
Best Wheelman in the city.
Works off the street.
Never asks a question.
Always wears a dark suit.
And never wears a tie.”
This is the opening introduction to Walter Hill’s screenplay and his description of the titular character, The Driver, who would go on to be played by Ryan O’Neal.
I have loved Ryan O’Neal in many films. He was the star of a number of classics and favourites, especially for me: ‘What’s Up Doc?’, ‘Paper Moon,’ and ‘Barry Lyndon.’
But of course, I am obsessed and endlessly inspired by Walter Hill’s 1978 film ‘The Driver,’ a diamond-tight, minimalist masterpiece that unfolds flawlessly over a succinct 91 minutes.
Walter Hill had written the film with Steve McQueen in mind, and after he passed, (“I don’t want to do another car movie”), the script made its way to Charles Bronson and then finally to O’Neal, a super-hot actor at the time, but perhaps not one who you think of as the lead of a tough crime film. And yet, it’s precisely because O’Neal is the more unlikely lead that the character becomes infinitely more beguiling, with the look of faded playboy glamour and an inscrutable, taciturn presence. I truly love O’Neal as this mysterious walking question mark in the centre of this crime story, so much so that it inspired my own script about an unlikely wheelman.
Ryan, thank you for all the great films and the inspiration. RIP.
where would the 70s be without endless car chase scenes with cool as a cucumber anti-heroes behind the whee?. o neal doing a slightly less hardboiled twist on mcqueen as far as i can tell through the first 11 minutes. that the audio is only coming through in mono isnt doing it any favors except lowering maybe diminishing the wreckage cacophany.
rip ro'n
- dave 12-08-2023 5:33 pm
https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/19/showbiz/oneal-fawcett-warhol-verdict/index.html
That was terrific, but Barry Lyndon was a tour de force.
- bill 12-08-2023 5:43 pm [add a comment]
i liked lyndon the one time i saw i tbut think of it as a kubrick film. love story on the other hand i cant recall if ive seen but paper moon was probably one of the first adult movies for obvious reasons i can remember watching . was gonna say i watched it again not too long ago but rewatched nickelodeon, the other bogdanovich o'neals troika more recently.
- dave 12-08-2023 7:11 pm [add a comment]
Saw BL on a big screen theater original run in college town Denton Tx. Saw paper moon '74 at senior weekend drug fest at weird Salvation Army camp somewhere in NY. Seen both multiple times since. RO rose to the occasion and then some making BL all the more better. He brought the necessary sleaze but also some sympathy
- bill 12-08-2023 8:03 pm [add a comment]
Both movies had great cinematographers. Laszlo Kovacs shot paper moon with very fast and wide lenses to get an extreme depth of field. I remember a shot of Ryan O'Neal on a front porch trying to hawk a Bible to someone on the other side of a screen door. Both characters and the screen and all the props inside the house and the view out the backyard with kids playing, trees in the distance etc. were all in focus.
- steve 12-09-2023 12:14 am [add a comment]
was looking for something to watch. settled on slither starring james caan with peter boyle, sally kellerman and louise lasser. early 70s not quite funny enough to be a "comedy" road movie hunting down some buried treasure in a manner of speaking. not great by any stretch but some nice looking southern and central california vistas and along with the cast there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half. noticed at the end director or photography, laszlo kovacs.
- dave 12-21-2023 8:14 pm [add a comment]
My parents took us to see it when it came out. I remembered nothing about it other than some joke about two RVs being ufos and a bingo game in the desert. I watched it again in the 90's, figuring it was probably good because of the cast and era but that's still all I remember about it.
- steve 12-21-2023 11:51 pm [add a comment]
its a confused movie and bad ultimately but not bad enough to be terrible. i think kellerman makes the hippy dippy ufo joke.
- dave 12-22-2023 8:00 am [add a comment]
Saw it on TCM recently. Interesting for the actors and as a 70s relic, but bad title; sounds like a horror movie and was later used for one. Serpentine.
- alex 12-22-2023 9:26 am [add a comment]
Bad? It’s rated PG, so it’s pretty good. Caan is such a primitive. Love the 1973 flair pants. I’ll give this one a try
- bill 12-22-2023 10:59 am [add a comment]
if you like caan in a pair of jeans with a big honking belt buckle and a chambray work shirt with plenty of chest hair revealed like half his movies than this is another movie for you. if only they could have found a reason for him to have an emotion other than slightly put upon.
- dave 12-22-2023 12:25 pm [add a comment]
https://www.indiewire.com/news/obituary/ryan-oneal-dead-1234933693/
- dave 12-08-2023 8:48 pm [add a comment]
from edgar wright the writer/director of baby driver. also heard it inspired the movie drive. never seen it.
The Driver
Lives alone.
Chauffeured getaways for 12 years.
Best Wheelman in the city.
Works off the street.
Never asks a question.
Always wears a dark suit.
And never wears a tie.”
This is the opening introduction to Walter Hill’s screenplay and his description of the titular character, The Driver, who would go on to be played by Ryan O’Neal.
I have loved Ryan O’Neal in many films. He was the star of a number of classics and favourites, especially for me: ‘What’s Up Doc?’, ‘Paper Moon,’ and ‘Barry Lyndon.’
But of course, I am obsessed and endlessly inspired by Walter Hill’s 1978 film ‘The Driver,’ a diamond-tight, minimalist masterpiece that unfolds flawlessly over a succinct 91 minutes.
Walter Hill had written the film with Steve McQueen in mind, and after he passed, (“I don’t want to do another car movie”), the script made its way to Charles Bronson and then finally to O’Neal, a super-hot actor at the time, but perhaps not one who you think of as the lead of a tough crime film. And yet, it’s precisely because O’Neal is the more unlikely lead that the character becomes infinitely more beguiling, with the look of faded playboy glamour and an inscrutable, taciturn presence. I truly love O’Neal as this mysterious walking question mark in the centre of this crime story, so much so that it inspired my own script about an unlikely wheelman.
Ryan, thank you for all the great films and the inspiration. RIP.
- dave 12-09-2023 11:20 am [add a comment]
https://www.tokyvideo.com/video/the-driver-1978
- steve 12-09-2023 9:55 pm [add a comment]
where would the 70s be without endless car chase scenes with cool as a cucumber anti-heroes behind the whee?. o neal doing a slightly less hardboiled twist on mcqueen as far as i can tell through the first 11 minutes. that the audio is only coming through in mono isnt doing it any favors except lowering maybe diminishing the wreckage cacophany.
- dave 12-10-2023 11:55 am [add a comment]
Thanks I’ll watch driver. Recently watched what’s up doc. Liked Streisand , but not so much the movie.
- bill 12-09-2023 10:47 pm [add a comment]