This week on The Movie Gourmet – a new review of Joanna Arnow’s deadpan comedy The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed – brave, transgressive and brilliant. I also wrote about the 1960 movie even more scary than Psycho – Peeping Tom; if you missed it on TCM this week, you can still stream it on Amazon, AppleTV and Criterion.
REMEMBRANCES
I was surprised that Teri Garr had 44 screen credits (many as a dancer, including Viva Las Vegas) before her breakthrough role as Inga in Young Frankenstein. Then she played the mom in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, earned an Oscar nod for her most memorable role in Tootsie and went on to work in 200 more movies and shows.
You’ve seen David Harris in Brubaker, A Soldier’s Story, and NYPD Blue, but his most memorable role was early on, in Walter Hill’s indie cult classic The Warriors.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Sweetheart Deal: a triumph of cinéma vérité. In arthouse theaters.
- The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed: is she going to be a loser? Amazon, AppleTV, Hulu.
- The Outrun: facing herself without the bottle. In theaters.
- My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock: a trickster and his signatures. In theaters.
- Kneecap: sláinte! Amazon, AppleTV.
- Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!: rascal truth-teller. In theaters.
- In the Summers: they mature, he evolves. In arthouse theaters and VOD on November 5..
- Will & Harper: old friends adjust. Netflix.
- Wolfs: two charming stars and a chase. AppleTV.
- Tokyo Cowboy: he came, he saw, he changed. In arthouse theaters, but hard to find.
- Didi: learning to get out of his own way. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Mother Couch: obstreperous mom, surreal situation. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Evil Does Not Exist: not so mesmerizing. Amazon, AppleTV, Criterion.
ON TV
On November 7, Turner Classic Movies airs Martin Scorsese’s documentary Made in England: The films of Powell and Pressberger: It’s like a auditng a Scorsese guest presentation in film school.