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What does the DL think.
I found it pretty riveting. The performances are mostly all great (John Shea I found a bit affected.)
The music by Vangelis is excellent. (The scene where Spacek is trapped outside after curfew especially.)
The scene with the white horse running in the street was so beautiful.
Not sure I got the politics of it all though. I'll have to read up on it (or explain it to me!)
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 12, 2025 10:51 AM |
bump
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 4, 2025 1:45 PM |
No one?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 5, 2025 4:02 PM |
Compelling film that wasn’t afraid to show the horrible reality of a US-engineered coup.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 5, 2025 4:27 PM |
It's one of those non-flashy, well-acted movies you kind of forget about. Then, a week or two ago, it caught it on one of those vintage movie channels and was reminded of how great it is.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 5, 2025 4:27 PM |
Gripping, brilliant film. A cable staple in the 80s that’s been on TCM recently. Lemmon and Spacek are a battling father and daughter in law who try to figure out the best way to find her missing husband. Lemmon becomes increasingly disillusioned with the reality of how the American government operates when he always thought it was for the good. He gives a number of monologues in the film that are absolutely riveting. It at least won a writing Oscar in the year dominated by Gandhi and Meryl Streep.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 5, 2025 4:58 PM |
I want to watch it but I haven’t found it streaming.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 5, 2025 6:50 PM |
I read it was a pretty brutal shoot. Wherever they were filming was a somewhat volatile location.
The director's English wasn't perfect. At one point he asked Spacek if she needed anything. She said all I need is a hug. He then told wardrobe to get Sissy a hug thinking it was some sort of clothing.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 5, 2025 8:22 PM |
R7- I’ll tell you about brutal. I watched City Of Gods on a flight. On a scale of 1 to 10 the violence was insane. One little boy is forced to kill one of these two terrified crying boys - and he does.
This movie is not for the faint of heart- I couldn’t finish it- unrelenting violence.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 12, 2025 9:03 AM |
I think Lemmon in “Missing” gives one of the greatest screen performances of all time. No hyperbole.
Whenever I watch it, I think about the time Ving Rhames won a Golden Globe and surprised a dumbfounded Lemmon by calling him up on stage and giving it to him as a token of his esteem. I remember thinking how weird that was back then, but when I watch Lemmon in “Missing” I get why he did it.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 12, 2025 9:18 AM |
No one did angst like Jack Lemmon. Tension could just pour out of him in a split second.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 12, 2025 10:31 AM |
[quote]On a scale of 1 to 10 the violence was insane.
uh... ok
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