Dunaway Filming "Master Class" in Detroit- Page 2

[nealb1]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 5:58pm

Alxscrz2, you mean you're actually going to be objective?

Thank you!

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 6:59pm

C**t or not, her performance in NETWORK is one of the Top Twenty greatest female performances I have ever witnessed on screen.

And I love her in THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (and of course CHINATOWN and MOMMIE DEAREST). I wish they had kept more of her storyline and done some of the things from the book... but the "Blue car" conversation w/ Swoozie Kurtz always cracks me up.

And a friend was a lighting tech for a project she worked on once and did not have one nice thing to say about the experience, let alone her performance on and off the set. I think I'd get along with her just fine, but who knows?

P

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 7:01pm

It’s odd how you are the ONLY person who seemed to enjoy Ms. Funn-away in the show.

Maybe it was because you were with her assistant?

Maybe it was the comps?

Maybe it was the meet and greet?

She was horrible in the role. She obviously thought, "Wow, I can just play myself on a bad day" and did.

And how is it that NO ONE else in this thread is being objective in his or her assessment of the show?

A film version without Faye, and with someone who doesn't have her baggage, would have been fantastic. Too bad we'll be stuck with 'Master Class, Dearest'.

[nealb1]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 7:10pm

You're right, I'm the only one in the world how liked the show.

No, I enjoyed it because it was a great production. Regardless of who I sat next to, went with, or met afterwards has nothing to do with it being an enjoyable experience. There was no ulterior motive to my opinion of the show or her performance. To be able to have met her afterwards, was the icing on the cake.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 7:24pm

Yea. The reviews say it all:

"When Faye Dunaway, the Callas of the touring production at the Shubert in New Haven, proclaims herself the servant of art, tempering the ego of a diva to the needs of the students, one feels she must be kidding."

[nealb1]

Posted: 10/26/09 at 7:38pm

So because a newspaper wrote that, that makes it the law?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/11/09 at 11:24pm

Danielle de Niese, a really superb young soprano recently starring in the Met's Figaro is apparently playing Sharon, the role Audra McDonald won the Tony award for.

[nealb1]

Posted: 11/11/09 at 11:46pm

Thanks for the update. I wonder when it will be released? I assume sometime next year.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 12:41am

I think it will probably have to go the festival route to find a distributor since this isn't a studio financed project. Hopefully it will be strong enough to be picked up.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 3:06am

It'll go straight to video.

No one wants to watch her any more. Faye Dunaway is more box office poision than Joan Crawford ever was.

[nealb1]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 5:37pm

You're right, it probably will go the festival route until it's picked up. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[megxyz]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 7:54pm

Hey all,

I normally just stop by for Broadway news but I saw this topic and had to respond. They are filming this movie here in the Detroit-area and my friend was cast as an extra. She worked directly with Faye Dunaway (as she is the director and all) and worked all day on this 70's protest scene. Ms. Dunaway loved whatever my friend was doing and kept telling her to do it again and keep it up, things like that.

Well, my friend kept in touch with a few others who were asked back for other scenes and apparently everyone else has been having major problems with Ms. Dunaway and that whole entire scene that they shot all day she just decided on a whim that she hated it and wanted to do it all over again. I guess stuff like that has been happening a lot lately causing a lot of delays. Everyone my friend kept in touch with has been saying it's been a nightmare working for her and that the whole production is extremely unorganized.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 8:11pm

Unfortunately, Megxyz, that anecdote sounds like the behavior Dunaway has become known for and most people assumed would permeate the atmosphere surrounding the filming. I think it will be something of a miracle if this gets finished, but as the character of Callas says in the play: "I wish her well."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 8:49pm

Why God? Why this face?

I liked my mem'ries as they were
But now I'll leave rememb'ring her

[nealb1]

Posted: 11/12/09 at 11:16pm

Faye's behavior has always been all over the place. A friend of mine who used to be her assistant told me horror stories about her.

I've been on many a film set that has been disorganized in one way or another throughout the years. It doesn't mean doom or gloom. There could be anyone of a number of reasons why the scene was reshot...bad lighting, noise, planes overhead, etc. Look at all the times that Stanley Kubrick would reshoot a scene? Scenes are reshot quite frequently, it's not that usual. Certainly not comparing Kubrick to Dunaway as a director. This is her first time behind the camera.


Updated On: 11/12/09 at 11:16 PM

[KARMA2]

Posted: 12/12/09 at 5:18pm

100% of the people who left negative comments on this thread will more than likely never get at least 3 mins of fame outside these emails. It's very easy to criticize when you've never won an Oscar or may more than $100k in any form of entertainment. All of you are bitter and have only created bad karma for yourselves. In short, you're all a bunch of Z-rated haters who only know how to take the low-road in seeing negative in people when there is a world of good. I wouldn't be surprised if you all make less than 50K. Ha! Whatever Faye does, good, bad, great or excellent...at least she's doing it!

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/12/09 at 5:21pm

Thanks for the kind words, Faye!

Warm Wishes & Wire Hangers,
P

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/13/09 at 3:19am

This is becoming my favorite thread.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/13/09 at 7:34am

She is the female equivalent of David Hassellhoff.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 12/13/09 at 8:00am

Even though her performance in Network is superb, my vote will be for her excellent work in Chinatown for which I felt was more Oscar worthy. I will look forward to seeing this film because I enjoy Dunnaway's performances from the 70s. It would be nice to see her return to form in another Outstanding performance. We will have to see.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 12/13/09 at 3:37pm

I read on imdb that her son Liam is in this film.

There's SOMETHING likeable about it, her son is beautiful.

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/24/10 at 3:38pm

Any word from anyone as to when "Master Class" will be released, or hit the film festivals?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/24/10 at 4:22pm

It would be nice to see her return to form in another Outstanding performance.

If her performance in the film resembles anything to her performance on stage, then it would be best to wait until she does...anything else. What a waste.

[Helene2]

Posted: 3/24/10 at 5:15pm

Note to Karma2 - If it weren't for the supporters of theatre and film, whom you so casually dismiss because we aren't making money in the industry -- none of the "stars" would be making any money either if we weren't buying tickets. So yes, we do have the right to an opinion.

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/24/10 at 5:16pm

Hope the film comes out soon.