Quite a good article! (In the Atlantic - link below avoids the paywall)
He was hot back in the day
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 30, 2024 5:13 PM |
[quote]He was considered a lock for another Oscar nomination after he played a vicious L.A. gangster alongside Ryan Gosling in the gorgeously shot film noir Drive (2011), but it didn’t happen. “I got ROBBED,” Brooks tweeted the morning the nominations were announced. “I don’t mean the Oscars, I mean literally. My pants and shoes have been stolen.”
That line is funnier than his last movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 30, 2024 6:48 PM |
I'm interested in buying one of Albert Brooks' movies from Criterion but I don't know which one to choose: Real Life, Lost In America, Defending Your Life or Mother?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 17, 2025 1:14 PM |
All of them, R3.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 17, 2025 4:17 PM |
But Defending Your Life first.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 17, 2025 4:18 PM |
Defending Your Life is perfevtion.
Streep and Lee Grant and Rip Torn (who should have been nominated) are delicious.
And it contains the best cameo in film history.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 17, 2025 4:22 PM |