Comments on: The Silent Flute

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:23:17 +0000

Brian took me and my sister to see this when we were kids at the old Valley Twin! It may have been my idea. I taped it and am watching it now. It’s a hoot!

The guy in the cauldron properly played his role for laughs, I thought.

By: Hilker

Hilker — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:51:29 +0000

Way too over the top and ham-fisted adolescent for me, though the guy in the cauldron was interesting, could have been straight out of a Samuel Beckett play.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:48:48 +0000

That was a strange movie. I switched on when he was talking to a guy who’d been in standing in a cauldron of oil for ten years trying to dissolve his genitals off.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:12:14 +0000

Mitchum is just about the best male American actor. Evah.

By: FDB

FDB — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:09:36 +0000

God I love Dead Man.

Johnny Depp, Jim Jarmusch, Mitchum, Niel Young…

I found it a bit low on the wimmens, but then JJ’s movies always are aren’t they?

By: Pa'vlov's Ca't

Pa'vlov's Ca't — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:01:58 +0000

Seconded re Mitchum. Far more menacing with far less effort than (even) Robert de Niro in the original version of Cape Fear c. 1960. And breathtaking in his cameo appearance in that great, great movie Dead Man, shouting at the stuffed Grizzly in his office.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:41:33 +0000

Ah yes,

It’s a fantastic movie! David Carradine did a really good job playing all of the “bosses”. He has a really interesting discussion of the making of this movie and working with James Coburn in his autobiography.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:39:49 +0000

But for me, the coolest US male movie star ever is Robert Mitchum. He got busted for pot decades before it was fashionable.

“I’ll play anything except a dwarf or a lesbian. No damn good at either.”

“Just paint eyes on my eyelids and move me in front of the camera.”

Made Jack Nicholson look like Lindsay Lohan.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:34:07 +0000

Yes, I forgot about Owen Wilson. He definitely has a certain timeless rascal with a heart of gold quality about him too. And remember Owen, it’s not over till the fat lady sits on you.

And oh yes, two more classic US male movie stars (not actors) in the same vein I discussed above: Clark Gable and George Clooney.

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:52:22 +0000

I did enjoy that Nabs. I want that hair and I’ll have those glasses. And spot on on the modern pretenders. Lot to be said for a job outside of acting for grounding like a mechanic – I think Russ would have been all the better for a six month stint in a meat packers. Sad though to see the news on Owen Wilson too, he had that rare effortlessly disarming quality.

And like all the others I’ve just mentioned, even in bad films he was always great value.

Thats the star value in one.