Warren Beatty's Best Movie

[romantico]

'REDS'
'Bulworth'
'The Paralax View'
'Heaven Can Wait'
'Bonnie & Clyde'

& one of my all time guilt pleasures:
'Dick Tracy;

Beatty will be honored at the Kennedy Center this December (is it me or is Beatty one of the laziest actors in Hollywood? Not sure if he's retired or is just letting his wife bring home the bacon now as he seems to be a stay at home Dad)

Still think beatty made a mistake by passing up the part of Bill in "Kill Bill" IMO.

[ugarte]

1. 'Shampoo'!

Shame on you.

[rocktivity]

2. Ditto!!!

With Parallax running a close second.

:headbang:
rocknation

[romantico]

4. How did I forget Shampoo?!

Please forgive me!!!

[VOX]

17. Yes! Terrific film.

The story took place on election eve, 1968 -- the movie was made in 1974, but it was already considered a period piece!

[terrya]

3. What, no "Ishtar"?

"Ishtar" really wasn't THAT bad. :-)

[Chef]

5. Warren Beatty

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

[Richardo]

6. Parallax View...what a movie.

Alan J Pakula (directing) at his political best (He also made 'All the President's Men'). :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


Parts of it are pretty dated now (like walking on to an airplane and paying for the ticket from your seat like you were on a train), but overall the paranoia in the movie holds up - now more than ever. :scared:

[swag]

7. "Mickey One" directed by Arthur Penn

I've never seen it on DVD or VHS, but I did find it on Laserdisc of all things.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059447/

Date: 13 February 2003
Summary: One of the great lost 1960s movies! A dazzling mindbender

Director Arthur Penn and Star Warren Beatty were the team behind 'Bonnie And Clyde', a movie which literally exploded on to Hollywood screens in 1967, and caused some serious repercussions still being felt today. There's no argument from me that 'Bonnie And Clyde' is a milestone, and definitely a modern classic. But I have heard hardly anyone mention Penn and Beatty's previous collaboration 'Mickey One' released two years earlier. In its own way this movie is just as stunning, yet it is almost forgotten and unseen. I had been curious about the movie for some time and was ecstatic when I stumbled across an old VHS copy in my local video store (apparently it was never released on video in the US, this is certainly not the case here in Australia). I must say this was one of the most original and surprising movies I've ever seen. It reminded me in some ways of Boorman's 'Point Blank' and Seijun Suzuki's 'Tokyo Drifter' and 'Branded To Kill' ( all of which it predates by the way) in the way that it uses a genre crime film as an excuse for some mind-blowing visuals and ideas. 'Mickey One' shares a similar stylized surrealism and hip approach to the aforementioned, though they are all quite different films in other ways. Warren Beatty is an actor I have long lost interest in, but the movie reminds you of just how good he was in his heyday. The rest of the cast is eclectic and interesting and includes Canadian beauty Alexandra Stewart, veteran character actor Jeff Corey and an unforgettable appearance by Kamatari Fujiwara as an enigmatic performance artist in one of the movies most striking sequences. Beatty plays "The Comic" a wise-cracking comedian in the Lenny Bruce/Mort Sahl mold who finds himself on the run from the mob. He drifts along keeping an extremely low profile and doing odd jobs, before the lure of the stage proves to be too strong to ignore. He starts performing again under the name Mickey One, but as his reputation increases he becomes extremely paranoid wondering where/if/when his past will catch up to him with (presumably) fatal consequences. I see others who have seen this film have mentioned Kafka, others Fellini, and many have commented on the jazz influence (Sax legend Stan Getz is a featured soloist on the soundtrack). I can see what everyone is getting at, but those comparisons and the others I have made, really give you little idea of just how special and unique this movie is. If you get the opportunity to watch it please do so, as I believe you will be impressed. There are many contenders for "the great lost 1960s movie" and 'Mickey One' is as good as any. A truly remarkable movie that deserves to be rediscovered.

[meegbear]

8. Trivia: what was Warren's first major acting role?

Hmmmm?

[Richardo]

9. Dobie Gillis? I can't remember the character's name,

...but he was the rich kid, right?

[romantico]

11. Beatty needs to act more

If he does another movie I will forgive him for "Town & Country" & even "Love Affair"

[meegbear]

12. Yep ...

Milton Armitage, trying to be with Thalia Menninger, played by Tuesday Weld.

[Richardo]

13. Tuesday Weld - I was hoping you would say that...

One of the all-time cuties!

:loveya:

[peekaloo]

10. Splendor in the Grass

I think. It's a very good film.

[romantico]

14. My mom confuses Beatty with George Hamilton!

Didn't arly Simon write 'Your So Vain' about Beatty & is there a ball park number of how many women he has seduced?He must be the horniest guy in Hollywood!

[peekaloo]

15. LOL....that scene in 'Bulworth' at the club where the owners

think the Senator is Clint Eastwood....."Nah man that's George Hamilton!"

Later on he runs across Hamilton at a TV taping and notes, "Nice tan, my man".

I still don't know who Simon wrote that song about.....I thought since M. Jagger sang back up it was about him. :silly:

[romantico]

16. I thought Beatty more or less

said in a interview it was about him. I could be wrong. Yeah, Bulworth was great! Beatty does political films very well. Years ago there was rumor that he wanted to do a sequel to Shampoo(well, more like his charachter George than anything else)I thought that would be interesting to see how he's changed in all these years. Beatty would make a great Senator!

[Blayde Starrfyre]

18. Bulworth

That movie was both hilarious and thought provoking. I think it was a brilliant assault on the crippled voices of so-called liberal politicians.