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| re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins | |
| Posted by: NeoAdamite 04:53 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins - KingSpeed 04:41 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| I've got the DVD :) Is it available streaming? |
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| Sept. 18 on TCM The Last of Sheila | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 01:16 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins - NeoAdamite 04:53 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Catch it then... | |
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| re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 05:21 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins - NeoAdamite 04:53 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Can be rented on Prime Video, Apple TV, Vudu, Google Play, and YouTube. It is free on Tubi. Is it worth watching? | |
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| Absolutely; also, re: Mary Rodgers | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 10:55 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins - KingSpeed 05:21 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| The Last of Sheila is a must for Sondheim fans, but also for anyone who enjoys murder-mystery comedy-thriller plays or movies such as Sleuth, Deathtrap, Knives Out, or any of the various Hercule Poirot adaptations, whether with Kenneth Branagh or, better yet, the ones from the 70s and 80s with Peter Ustinov and Albert Finney. Unlike any of those movies, though, I have yet to meet or hear of anyone who 'figured it out' while watching it. The mystery and puzzle IS solvable, for certain – it's just even more clever than any of the ones I've mentioned above, and so more than any of those I've never known of anyone who solved it while on a first viewing. (I'm sure they're out there.) At the same time, though: one of the most perplexing things about the new Mary Rodgers book "Shy" is that only 5 or 6 pages in, while discussing Sondheim's legendary NYC puzzle games, she says, "Steve's scavenger hunts were especially ambitious, and eventually famous – or in the case of that movie, infamous; the plot was so complicated I eventually gave up." Which only made me think that she either must not have been nearly as good at games as she otherwise claims to be in that chapter– or at the very least, didn't have much interest in playing games when others planned them (not unlike 1 or 2 of the characters in The Last of Sheila... which Sondheim had explictly based on several of his friends!!) |
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| re: Absolutely; also, re: Mary Rodgers (major spoilers) | |
| Posted by: mikem 02:42 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: Absolutely; also, re: Mary Rodgers - ShowGoer 10:55 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| (major spoilers for The Last of Sheia) I'm surprised that Mary Rodgers would think the plot of The Last of Sheila is so complicated that she had to give up. There's a lot going on, but on a certain level, the plot is very simple. The Last of Sheila wouldn't do as well as a miniseries, where the audience has a chance to digest and ponder what has happened in between episodes. Agatha Christie has Miss Marple say in one of her novels something along the lines of, "Take away all the distracting trappings, and what actually happened?" In this case, what actually happened is that a guy whom everyone thinks is a jerk is dead, and the rich wife of an unsuccessful husband is dead. And one can go from there... When you re-watch the film, the clues are everywhere. But the film is expertly done, and we fall for the misdirection over and over again. My big beef with the plot is the completely independent second person who's responsible for the propeller being turned on. It's kind of waved away in the denouement, but it's too convenient and coincidental. The propeller part is very cinematic, and Dyan Cannon does a great job in the aftermath scene, but the whole thing should have been left on the cutting room floor. |
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| re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 07:05 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins - KingSpeed 05:21 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| "Can be rented on Prime Video, Apple TV, Vudu, Google Play, and YouTube. It is free on Tubi. Is it worth watching?" Of course it is! TCM shows it quite frequently, most recently last week when they devoted a day to the films of Raquel Welch. You read that right. |
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| Yes! | |
| Posted by: Charlie_Baker 09:48 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I just read that Sondheim wrote screenplays with Tony Perkins - TheOtherOne 07:05 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| See it! A great cast, and Ms. Welch holds her own with them, IMO. | |
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