Edith Nicholson 1910
I’m not in any mood for deep thinking about 1910 and now so…
I saw today in Salon.com that I Love you Phillip Morris is to be finally released. It’s a film with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor about a gay couple – and apparently there’s nothing noble or thoughtful about this movie. It’s a crazy Carrey comedy.
These are two of my favourite actors, although I prefer Carrey in his serious roles. (Eternal Sunshine is one of my favourite movies, or perhaps my very favorite.)
And the King’s Speech opens this week, although it’s playing right now at Cinema du Parc, a small art cinema.
So I’ll drag my husband to both of these films, I guess. (I don’t think any of my friends would be that keen on either movie, although my son and his girlfriend would like the Carrey one.) My husband simply adores Carrey in his crazy roles, but this has crazy gay sex, so it will be an experiment of a kind. But he’s pretty cool about such things.
As for the other, my husband does not particularly like period pieces. Well, he doesn’t like them at all. So we’ll see.
Anyway, it’s easy to figure which of the movies the Nicholson girls would have liked:The King’s Speech.
And they would have recalled the era and perhaps that final speech too. I assume it was broadcast in Canada.
The other movie, well, they probably would have been appalled. Edith and Flo died in 77, late enough to have seen some ‘controversial movies.’ Well, every era has its controversial movies. But still.
The genie’s out of the bottle with respect to movie topics these days.. or is it? I Love You Phillip Morris has been slow to be released, probably because they tested it and realized that Carrey’s silly-side audience cringed at the in-your face-homosexuality.
And this in era of Milk, which had lots of male to male kissing, A Single Man, which had little of anything graphically speaking, except a nude Old Guy/Young Guy beach scene, and the Kids are Alright (which has lots of sex scenes, of all configurations, although not ‘sexy’ scenes.) But none of these movies is aimed at your average American or Canadian male.
Ps. I just saw the 1980 ish documentary about Harvey Milk (which won the Academy Award) as my husband taped it off the TV and it was rivetting, because it was clear his Harvey Milk had tonnes of charisma, more than Sean Penn actually. And although the documentary is dated, it still packs a powerful punch. And I loved those 70′s patterns on the textiles!!
Pss. As I have blogged, I’ve been watching Colin Firth’s older movies, all on YouTube, and I saw this film Londinium, that is a Woody Allen Style couples movie with very good writing and acting and it has the cutest scene about oral sex, featuring Colin Firth and a French actress and Stephen Frye. Anyway, these movies, (I watched A Month in the Country and Tumbledown, too) are proof positive that the man didn’t learn to act last year, as American movie reviewers seem to think.
