Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we’re being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Martha considers keeping John at the school as a handyman. This week you might have been hearing the buzz about the new horror/comedy (hormedy?) Cast : Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman. John has been eating the mushrooms and the others pass the bowl without taking any except for Edwina. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good. Filming started in April 1970 and lasted 10 weeks.[9]. Universal initially wanted Siegel to film at a studio at Disney Studios Ranch, but Siegel preferred to have it filmed at an antebellum estate near Baton Rouge, Louisiana in Ascension Parish: the Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, an historic house built in 1841, that was a plantation estate and home of Duncan Farrar Kenner. We’re two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. The new Beguiled has much the same ending as the book and earlier movie, but it hasn't quite figured out the right tone to make that ending work, and while I'm sure that I wouldn't have felt the same sped-up hollowness in Coppola's third if I wasn't mentally checking the new film against the old, I … She brings him to the school's gated enclosure where the school headmistress, Martha Farnsworth, first insists on turning him over to Confederate troops, but then decides to restore him to health first. Nothing can stop me. At dinner, John apologizes for his actions, and Edwina reveals that she and John have made plans to leave the school and marry. Clint Eastwood was given a copy of the 1966 novel by producer Jennings Lang, and was engrossed throughout the night in reading it. Weird, yes; trashy, yes; pathetic, yes; beguiling, no. This eventually led to his leaving the studio in 1975 after the release of The Eiger Sanction, which he directed as well as starred in. A transfixing boondoggle that has treated slavery at a level of tacky exploitation that we haven't seen since the '70s. This is a place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. ", Kay, Karyn. [3] This was the first of several films where Eastwood agreed to storylines where nubile females look at him adoringly (including minors in this film and Pale Rider). Martha asks Amy to pick mushrooms they can prepare "especially for him" and Amy says she knows just where to find some. Well, we’re not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. He sneaks from his room into Martha's room and steals a pistol and some personal items of Martha's including some letters from her brother. This was the first film on which former camera operator Bruce Surtees served as director of photography, and it was enough for him to become an Eastwood regular for the next decade and a half. "[14] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times praised The Beguiled as "a film of psychological suspense laced with dark humor that is a triumph of style, totally engrossing and utterly convincing.

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