The Swimmer (1968)

[quote] Please share.

I’ll share just like you shared a link about the movie.

I thought it was interesting. I think it would be cool to hit every pool on your way home, without all the drama. Burt Lancaster is a ham.

Watch for a young Joan Rivers!

Excellent soundtrack by Marvin Hamlisch; I especially love the very dramatic music for the final scene.

Just finished it. Great movie. There's something visually stunning about it. The way the story very gradually unwinds is paced perfectly. Ebert called it Burt Lancaster's best performance ever. At the end I wasn't sure exactly how to feel about his character.

[quote]Watching this right now on Tubbi.

TUBBI! All Chrissy Metz, All the Time!

It works surprisingly well. I'm not a fan of short stories(or films based on them) because they often rely on melodramatic endings, but this one builds toward an ending that is sad but understandable. Lancaster tended toward "filling the screen" with his hamming-it-up, but seems more restrained here. Very good cast. It was a flop in its time, with mixed reviews, but achieved cult status with time.

Joan Rivers claimed Lancaster fucked her.

Look what beautiful Burt had under those trunks!

R7 I sort of find that hard to beleive.

I liked it, I liked that I had no idea where it was heading and then you see it’s a downward spiral.

It's so depressing. I love it.

[quote]you see it’s a downward spiral.

You mean Lancaster fucking Joan Rivers, right?

His years of smoking and drinking had really started to take a toll on him by then. I was distracted by his yellow teeth.

If you want to call 36 year old Joan Rivers “young.”

Well, the source material is John Cheever, so it’s going to be depressing. Always thought a film adaptation of Bullet Park would be good.

I saw it on the afternoon movie when I was in my early 20s and I don't remember much of what it was about. I only remember thinking that it was really weird.

Perhaps I'll see if I can find it was watch it again.

Sorry -- that was supposed to be an "and."

Hey NEPA at OP! How's the weather up there? I guess you're not wishing you had an outdoor swimming pool!

BTW, I lived in East Stroudsburg for six l-o-n-g months. Ghastly town.

R18 I'm not even sure I would want to live in East Stroudsburg. Ever since it became the far outer outer suburbs of NYC and the Disneyfication of the Poconos the area just doesn't seem quite right. What was your experience like?

Same, OP. The coal crackers and the former NYC denizens are an evil mix. I couldn't afford to live there on the money I made at ESU because the NYers caused rental rates to jump sky-high (for PA, anyway - I'm sure the NYers thought it was cheap). I lived just up the hill from the bus station where the NYers caught their daily busses into the city. I know a train route into the city was supposed to start "any day now," but I don't know if that ever happened.

I had oil heat (!) on top of a high rent, and the cottage I lived in had no insulation whatsoever, so I basically had to leave to take a state job back in the 'burg. I don't know how people live there. The surrounding area can be beautiful, but it was too damned cold for me!

An uneven film, but Lancaster is very good. Also Janice Rule is always a welcome presence.

Is Tubbi the service for fat whores? Jokes aside, I do love this movie. It feels like it operates in a liminal space and just gets more bizarre as it goes.

R20, just checked our East Stroudsburg on Google Maps. It looks pleasant enough, nice mix of colonials and Victorians. I assume the people were the problem.

I really miss Joan Rivers. We really need her right now.

After Joan’s jokes about Trump in 2025, he’d put a hit on her.

Can you imagine Joan ripping on Melania? Would be priceless

She'd definitely be on him and his Trashy wife. I was really shocked when died.

[quote]nice mix of colonials and Victorians

I take it you mean on [italic]your[/italic] budget?

Hahahahaha!

It feels like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone. b. 1913 Lancaster was 55 when the film was released. At some point director Frank Perry was replaced by an uncredited Sydney Pollack who directed Lancaster in 1968s The Scalphunters and 1969s Castle Keep.

R27 Joan was on The Apprentice with Trump and spoke highly of him. She said Michelle Obama was a tranny. She was basically a Republican

R30, Trump only showed up for the Apprentice for the minimum needed when he was on camera (after hair and makeup of course). Joan was trying to keep her job.

R30 Joan after she was on The Apprentice which she and her daughter won said that Trump would have made a great President