Longtime Companion

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime Companion#1

Posted: 10/6/11 at 7:00pm

Believe it or not, I've never seen this movie. It's on Netflix instant and I'm kind of in the mood for something depressing tonight. Is it any good?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Longtime Companion #2

Posted: 10/6/11 at 7:49pm

Yes.

[NYadgal]

Longtime Companion #2

Posted: 10/6/11 at 7:53pm

Agree.

Haven't seen it in ages... might be a movie to re-visit. Thanks for the suggestion.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[NYadgal]

Longtime Companion #3

Posted: 10/6/11 at 7:55pm

...good soundtrack, too.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[Mister Matt]

Longtime Companion #4

Posted: 10/6/11 at 9:19pm

I remember seeing it in Dallas when it was released. Years later, I saw Fuzzy in a production of Jeffrey in San Fransisco. Wonderful film. Love the nod to Dreamgirls. And the appearance of a young Dermot Mulroney is much appreciated.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[mominator]

Longtime Companion #5

Posted: 10/6/11 at 10:06pm

Really love this movie. If you are in the mood for a good cry, this is the one for you.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[FindingNamo]

Longtime Companion #6

Posted: 10/7/11 at 12:24am

The word on the street at the time was Fuzzy was a bit homophobic in real true life.

Mark Lamos is fantastic in it.

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[Roscoe]

Longtime Companion #7

Posted: 10/7/11 at 9:42am

A good film overall, fine performances in particular. Mr. Davison's Oscar nomination was very well deserved.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[SonofRobbieJ]

Longtime Companion #8

Posted: 10/7/11 at 10:49am

And his loss to that shrieking howler monkey, Joe Pesci, still drives me up a stick sideways.

It's a truly great film. The ending shatters me every time.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Longtime Companion #9

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:02am

It's on my top 5 list of favorite films. Between the tears and the drooling over Patrick Cassidy, I'm one hot mess every time I watch.

[AC126748]

Longtime Companion #10

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:02am

I'm currently planning to teach a class on GLBT representation in the arts, and this was one of the first films that came to my mind to include. I re-watched it again last week and found it as fresh and moving as it was when I first saw it. The acting is superb, and yes, it's a crime that Davison didn't win the Oscar.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime Companion #11

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:11am

Well Netflix kept telling me it was "unavailable" last night so I'll try to watch it this weekend. I ended up sobbing watching X-FACTOR. (Full disclosure, I typed X-FARTER twice before finally managing to type the word FACTOR. Just thought I'd share.)

[Roscoe]

Longtime Companion #12

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:17am

Sorry, but I'd say that Pesci's win for GOODFELLAS was entirely deserved. I saw the film again recently, for the first time in many years, and was enthralled and appalled by the brilliance of Pesci's performance. He's funny and frightening in equal measure, and it isn't all over the top shrieking: that quiet little moment when he's sitting there looking at Michael Imperioli's Spider, making up his mind what to do, is one of the more awful moments in the film.

No disrespect to Davison's performance in any way, of course. The famous "Let Go" scene is heart-rending to any mortal with functioning emotions.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[SonofRobbieJ]

Longtime Companion #13

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:27am

It could be that, like Helen Hunt, Joe Pesci just inspires a completely overwhelmingly negative reaction in my viscera.

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime Companion #14

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:28am

Ok, you really need to back off of Helen Hunt.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Longtime Companion #15

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:36am

Please. You're lucky I spelled it with an 'H' rather than a 'C'.

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime Companion #16

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:36am

*gay gasp*

[Jordan Catalano]

Longtime Companion #17

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:37am

[doodlenyc]

Longtime Companion #18

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:38am

Patrick Cassidy AND John Dossett.

And that guy from Sixteen Candles.

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[NYadgal]

Longtime Companion #19

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:41am

The 'let go' scene shatters my heart... absolutely shatters it.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[SonofRobbieJ]

Longtime Companion #20

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:43am

Dear Mr. Catalano,

Thank you for the pictoral history of the one moment when Ms. Helen Hunt was fun, refreshing and relevant.

Much love,

The Dowager Maitner

[NYadgal]

Longtime Companion #21

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:46am

SO agree about Helen Hunt...

If you know me, you know I despise, detest, abhor the C-word. However, in the case of Ms. Hunt, I make an exception.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Longtime Companion #22

Posted: 10/7/11 at 11:55am

Fun Fact - Whenever I want to practice airbrushing with Photoshop, I use a picture of Helen Hunt.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Longtime Companion #23

Posted: 10/7/11 at 12:10pm

Not only do I enjoy that fun fact, but I would very much like an entire blog called Phyllis' Fun Facts. Filled with the wit, wisdom and helpful household hints of one Mrs. Phyllis Rogers Stone.

Hint number one: How to clean $30,000 of Georgian silver!

[Q]

Longtime Companion #24

Posted: 10/7/11 at 12:32pm

I believe it was on this board that we learned the crew of MAD ABOUT YOU referred to Ms. Hunt as "The Knee" - because it was something lower than a C...