Narrated by Jeff Bridges
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Jeff Bridges' voice guides us though the making of...well, the attempted making of the movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, directed by Terry Gilliam. This was a very interesting and entertaining documentary. A look behind the scenes in Hollywood when things go wrong.
I can't say that I enjoyed seeing Terry Gilliam fail in completing his dream movie. But it is refreshing to know, when sometimes this business seems so hard, that it's also sometimes tough for the big wigs who have already "made it". But you have to keep pushing on! I'm off to direct my own movie!
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Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey
Directed by Ian Softley
I really liked this movie. It is listed under the sci-fi genre, I think it is more of a psychological mystery. But I guess that it could be considered either, depending on the conclusions that you come to at the end of the movie. Jeff Bridges plays a psychiatrist who is treating a man who calls himself Prot and clams to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. JB tries to find out who this mystery man is and where he really came from, because surely he didn't come from outer space...or did he?
A big part of Jeff Bridges performances is his research. In preparation for this part, he went to different institutions and met with multiple psychiatrists. He even had a doctor on set as a technical adviser. He wanted his performance to be as close to how a real psychiatrist behaves as possible. JB says that a psychiatrist considers themself a detective, investigating what is going on inside of a person's mind and trying to solve the mystery.
Here is a great interview conducted by Charlie Rose. Jeff Bridges talks about his performance in K-PAX and the craft of acting. It's actually a great recap of his career up to this point:
Part 1(46 minutes in):
Part 2:
JB talks K-PAX with Jon Stewart:
This movie had potential, but it just didn't come together for me. It's supposed to be a crime mob thriller. It just seemed to drag along. And we're stuck in a van for most of it. It had a few interesting moments. It just seemed like they threw way too many story lines in and it got a bit confusing. In the end, I felt like not much had happened. A few people got killed.
From the synopsis, I thought Jeff Bridges was going to be playing a mobster type and I was excited to see that. But no, he's just playing a normal dad type...with some skeletons in his closet. Throughout the whole movie, JB just looks miserable and like he's wondering how he got himself into this mess. That could be because his character is tied up with a gun in his face the whole time. While not my favorite performance, probably do to him being stuck in the same situation the whole time with not much to do, it did have it's moments. I really wish he would have been playing a "Godfather"-like mobster. That would have been interesting.
This was a very intriguing political thriller. Vice President nominee, Laine Hanson, gets caught up in her own Weinergate (or should I say Vaginagate?) and her morality is questioned in a big hearing. Repubs and Dems hate on each other, yada yada yada.
I loved Jeff Bridges as the POTUS. He just had a certain gravitas and underlying fire. JB's President really loves his power, and loves to use it. As was shown when he repeatedly ordered all kinds of random food from the butler just to show people that he can, because he is the President.
From an acting standpoint, I observed JB's character as wanting...I want to say power, but he is the President of the United States. You don't get much more powerful than that. So maybe he wants assurance of that power, hence all of the food ordering. And the main point of the movie, him attempting to appoint a female VP, something that had never been done before. His power would definitely be assured if he could do something that no President in history had every done.
Jeff Bridges was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting role with this fine performance.
Yay! I finally got to see this short! It was shown as part of a short films showcase for Shorts HD at the CGV Cinemas in LA. I had never even heard of this theater, but it was a pretty cool place. I will have to check out more stuff there. I think "Steve" is showing there for one more day if you can make it.
CGV Cinemas
As for the film, I loved it! Steve, played by Colin Firth, just wants a friend. And he will try anything to get one. Colin Firth's performance goes from quirky/funny to crazy/scary in a matter of 16 minutes. It's been a little while since I watched CF's films and I was pleasantly reminded of how fun his performances can be.
Why the question mark Brandon, huh, huh? Everywhere I've looked says that Jeff Bridges narrated this documentary, but the narrator in the film sounds nothing like him. Unless his narrator voice is completely different than his normal voice. I am awaiting official confirmation from @TheJeffBridges on twitter. We shall see.
And yes, I think I am going to watch docs that the actor whom I am excogitating has lent his voice to. There may be something to be gained, if not a cool documentary I may not have watched otherwise. Cartoons too. I did watch The Last Unicorn for JBs voice.
Anyway, this doc wasn't bad, but left more questions than I had going into it. A bunch of Jarkovs go looking for a frozen mammoth in Siberia. Actually it was just a few Jarkovs, the Jarkov family, who showed our adventurers where the mammoth was buried. So they dug up a big block of ice and flew it away with a helicopter. I don't know why I'm still going on, because I don't even think that it was JB's voice narrating this thing.
Here, watch this and let me know what you think:
http://youtu.be/lhwd1waacuE
Agh! I hate when I see a rating of a movie before I watch it. I saw the incredibly low rating of 4.4/10 on IMDB and feel like I consequently was continuously looking for what I shouldn't have been liking about the movie. All in all, I thought it was a fine movie. Some great performances from some great actors. And some fantastic cinematography from Oscar winner, John Toll. Oh, and based on a play by Sam Shepard. I think I'll definitely have to watch this one again without thinking that I'm not going to like it.
Jeff Bridges has another fine performance. He and Nick Nolte play great together. Their characters eventually almost completely switch places, and I feel like it was rather sudden. I'm not sure what it was that caused the switch. I feel like I missed some important detail. All of a sudden, it was like JB was playing Nolte's character from the beginning of the movie. It reminded me of True West, another Shepard play. Except I understood that one better. But, like I said, I think I'll just have to watch this one again sometime.
I would like to see them together again in something. Maybe in a funny good-cop-bad-cop movie. Maybe I'll write it.
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