Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Pool by pool, they form a river all the way to our house.
About Me
Some Desert Island Discs
GANG OF FOUR: Entertainment
LOVE: Forever Changes
THE BEACH BOYS: Sunflower
AIR: Talkie Walkie
LIQUID LIQUID: Liquid Liquid
DEL SHANNON: Home & Away
!!!: Louden Up Now
THE CURE: Disintegration
JOHN BARRY: Body Heat
THE SMITHS: The Queen is Dead
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Born to Run
RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS: Blank Generation
ELVIS COSTELLO: Get Happy!!!
TELEVISION: Marquee Moon
MARVIN HAMLISCH: The Swimmer
JOHN WILLIAMS: Superman
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Back to Mono
MARVIN GAYE: What's Going On
GOBLIN: Dawn of the Dead
THE WHO: Quadrophenia
TALKING HEADS: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
ARTHUR B. RUBINSTEIN: Blue Thunder
GIORGIO MORODER: American Gigolo
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Larry Levan, Journey Into Paradise
BUZZCOCKS: Operator's Manual
VANGELIS: Blade Runner
TANGERINE DREAM: Thief
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Crème De La Crème: Philly Soul Classics And Rarities
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Cruising
ELMER BERNSTEIN: Heavy Metal
BELLE & SEBASTIAN: If You're Feeling Sinister
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hearing is Believing, The Jack Nitzsche Story
CURTIS MAYFIELD: Superfly
THE FEELIES: Crazy Rhythms
DELTA 5: Singles & Sessions 1979-1981
MICHEL LEGRAND: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
SLOWDIVE: Souvlaki
ESG: A South Bronx Story
TALK TALK: It's My Life
NEW ORDER: Substance
DAVID BOWIE: Low
ENNIO MORRICONE: Once Upon a Time In America
FRANCOISE HARDY: Comment Te Dire Adieu
6 comments:
Love De Niro's pimp mustache. Obviously, so did Sean Penn as he sports a similar 'stache in THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN.
Good call on the FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN connection. Penn was definitely channeling the Pupkin look there. IIRC, People Magazine, bastion of serious film journalism, pointed this out in their review of FALCON / profile of Penn published at the time of FALCON'S release.
You know I love these pics! Any Pupkin-like De Niro is always a good thing!
Rupe,
I knew you would appreciate these more than most!
What do you think of Penn's Pupkin-like appearance in FALCON? This is one of my favorite Penn performances. Overall, I tend to be more impressed by the great quiet performances--in Penn's case, things like BAD BOYS, STATE OF GRACE, AT CLOSE RANGE--than the showier ones like Penn's Daulton Lee. That said, the main reason I can revisit FALCON is because how damned magnetic Penn is here. If he wasn't thought of as a snot-nosed punk by so much of the establishment, I think he would have gotten more nominations when he was younger and FALCON would have been one of them.
Ned Merrill:
Good call on Penn in FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN. He was very, very good in that, esp. with the way of speaking he adopted. Very specific but worked so well. And yes, so many forget about AT CLOSE RANGE which is a really good film that still holds up. The scene where Penn points a gun at Christopher Walken still makes me nervous even though I know how it ends.
That being said, I do dig some of Penn's scenery-chewing roles, like his coked-up lawyer in CARLITO'S WAY. Man, he was good in that one.
J.D.,
Yes, I absolutely love Penn as Kleinfeld in CARLITO'S WAY--very much one of the great, wacky Penn performances along with FAST TIMES, FALCON, SWEET AND LOWDOWN. IIRC, CARLITO'S WAY was the first nomination Penn received (a Golden Globe). At times during FALCON and CARLITO'S WAY it seems like Spicoli has been resurrected. I recall reading an interview, perhaps in SEAN PENN: HIS LIFE AND TIMES, where his own mother recalled not recognizing him the first time she saw him in his Rupert Pupkin / Daulton Lee get up, complete with seedy mustache.
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