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Post by hi224 on Apr 16, 2017 23:25:28 GMT
He needs to do more noires what an awesome voice.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 17, 2017 1:40:35 GMT
For my money, he's now officially the go-to guy for sparse narration or silent fury, a man recovering in the dark, and this is a sentiment echoed by his good friend Denzel Washington. He's appeared in so many great movies out the blue. What a dude.
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Post by itsthatguyme on Apr 17, 2017 18:21:54 GMT
The poor man's Brad Pitt
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Post by politicidal on Apr 17, 2017 19:12:42 GMT
exactly what they will put on his epitaph. |
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 17, 2017 19:53:55 GMT
I like Ethan Hawke but he isn't one of my favorites.
He was very good in a movie I recently watched called 10,000 Saints.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 17, 2017 20:21:21 GMT
I like Ethan Hawke but he isn't one of my favorites. He was very good in a movie I recently watched called 10,000 Saints. Also he can have questionable tastes in projects. |
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Post by eplay on Apr 17, 2017 22:03:55 GMT
I personally like him much more than Brad Pitt. Ethan has always fascinated me, for some reason. I've even read his novel (though only "The Hottest State" so far). |
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Post by petrolino on Apr 23, 2017 2:56:43 GMT
Ethan Hawke : 10 Essentials
“A good genre movie has a great punk-rock feeling to it. I always liked early John Carpenter films. My first movie was with Joe Dante, who’d done The Howling. My mentorship was in Roger Corman genre movies. What you can do with a genre movie is similar to what you can do with a comic. It’s hard to make movies that people want to see. As much as I love Before Midnight, it’s not a physically lucrative project. More people saw Captain America in a tiny town in Montana in one weekend than saw Before Midnight!”- Ethan Hawke, The Independent
'Mystery Date' (1991) - A delightfully old-fashioned date comedy from Jonathan Wacks teaming Teri Polo and Ethan Hawke. 'A Midnight Clear' (1992) - Keith Gordon is that rare thing; an actor whose also a great director. If he hadn't made 'The Chocolate War' (1988), this would be my favourite, a haunting anti-war drama based entirely around tradition, ritual and quiet interaction. 'Training Day' (2001) - Great crime thriller from Antoine Fuqua. It's just fantastic, I've seen it half a dozen times. Perfect casting too, right down to the smallest character roles. 'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead' (2007) - If you were to make an argument that Sidney Lumet directed a surefire classic in six different decades, I'd nominate this one for the noughties. Another gripping crime picture. 'Brooklyn's Finest' (2010) - Another beautifully cast crime picture from Antoine Fuqua, an ambitious quasi-sequel to Mario Van Peebles' classic 'New Jack City' (1991). It's tough-going but the strands all come together and the set-pieces are pulsating. 'The Woman In The Fifth' (2011) - I don't think this is a particularly good movie as it seems to have been tampered with during production, but Hawke is terrific. 'Sinister' (2012) - This is far better than 90% of the mainstream horror glut that overwhelms us each and ever year. Scenes in darkness with Ethan Hawke amply demonstrate how he can do so much with so little. 'Boyhood' (2014) - This film was many years in the making. It's a very slow burner that creeps up and grabs you, with naturalistic performances that bely the skill that went into them. You need to set aside a significant chunk of time to watch it, but if you do, you might just find it's worth it. 'Predestination' (2014) - I watched this completely blind; didn't know what it was about, who was in it (other than Hawke), or at the time that it was based on a story by sci-fi grand master Robert Heinlein. It's fantastic, I ordered a copy online as soon as I'd finished watching it. Easily one of my top 5 sci-fi pictures this decade. 'In A Valley Of Violence' (2016) - Coincidentally, I wrote something about this just last week because I saw it for the first time, and I loved it ... 'Hard-bitten drifter Paul (Ethan Hawke) clashes with the Marshal (John Travolta) of Denton, Texas, a makeshift township dubbed “the valley of violence”, when the Marshal's son Gilly (James Ransone) goes out of his way to pick a fight.
The existential western ‘In A Valley Of Violence’ is a twisted morality play that confounds expectations and transcends traditional genre limitations. It’s a lean, green wholegrain oater with nutritious performances from Ethan Hawke as wounded warrior Paul, James Ransone as aggressive bully Gilly, Taissa Farmiga as local hotelier Mary-Anne, Karen Gillan as wanton hussy Ellen, Larry Fessenden as hostile hand Big Roy, Tommy Nohilly as hired muscle Tubby, Toby Huss as intense rifleman Harris and John Travolta as the self-appointed Sheriff who finds himself in way over his head. The cast are beautifully costumed by Malgosia Turzanska, their movements set to a throbbing soundtrack by Jeff Grace. Writer-director-editor Ti West crafts some exquisite establishing shots in the style of comic book panels, allowing cinematographer Eric Robbins’ clean compositions to occupy immaculate shot constructions assembled through crisp inter-cutting. West’s typically pared-down storytelling creates a tight frame for him to hang his obsessions with tantalising regularity including the act and art of redemption, the accidental or incidental discovery of illegitimate worlds, and the pressures upon misfits to find each other without the advantage of conventional social skills. On a miniscule shooting budget, West and his small crew have chiselled out a compact thriller that pulses with tension during its darker moments and engages humanity at others. This has instantly become one of my three favourite westerns of the decade so far with ‘Django Unchained’ (2012) and ‘The Hateful Eight’ (2015).'
"His charisma has a slightly haggard intensity these days, his face gaunt, his trademark goatee a little scruffier than you remember it; he looks like a starved version of himself. But he is still a fabulous talker, making unbreakable eye contact during long, soulful riffs on the importance of keeping your personal flame alight that recall the Huck Finn-ish sneaker-clad boulevardier who talked Julie Delpy into getting off a train in Before Sunrise. But there's no mistaking the black halo Hawke wears these days. The guy has taken a beating – the worst of it, one suspects, self-administered. "I call it the black years," he says of the period following his divorce in 2004, sequestered in the delicious post-punk rot of the Chelsea hotel. "It was really difficult. It was difficult in ways I couldn't even see at the time. There was the obvious way in which it was difficult – the death of a dream, the inability to parent in the way that you want to. But for me it was – what's that Dante quote? 'At the midpoint of my life, I've come to the part of the forest where the straight way is lost.' Nothing teaches you like getting levelled. And I got levelled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would. Wait a second: love isn't real and, holy shit, I put all this energy into not making the same mistake my parents did and I just re-enacted them all! I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not." What saved him was his first love: theatre."
- Tom Shone, The Guardian
Barry Pepper & the Jagged Edge
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Post by Ass_E9 on Apr 23, 2017 3:27:05 GMT
The rich man's Stephen Dorff.
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2017 3:34:11 GMT
I like Ethan Hawke but he isn't one of my favorites. He was very good in a movie I recently watched called 10,000 Saints. Also he can have questionable tastes in projects. Yes he can, but most actors do imo. Most actors don't have the options that Leonardo DiCaprio does. Or people like Robert DeNiro, who I think is the person who said he accepts every role he is offered. |
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Post by petrolino on Apr 23, 2017 3:35:19 GMT
The rich man's Stephen Dorff. You got it, baby. |
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2017 3:40:46 GMT
Ethan Hawke : 10 Essentials
“A good genre movie has a great punk-rock feeling to it. I always liked early John Carpenter films. My first movie was with Joe Dante, who’d done The Howling. My mentorship was in Roger Corman genre movies. What you can do with a genre movie is similar to what you can do with a comic. It’s hard to make movies that people want to see. As much as I love Before Midnight, it’s not a physically lucrative project. More people saw Captain America in a tiny town in Montana in one weekend than saw Before Midnight!”- Ethan Hawke, The Independent
'Mystery Date' (1991) - A delightfully old-fashioned date comedy from Jonathan Wacks teaming Teri Polo and Ethan Hawke. 'A Midnight Clear' (1992) - Keith Gordon is that rare thing; an actor whose also a great director. If he hadn't made 'The Chocolate War' (1988), this would be my favourite, a haunting anti-war drama based entirely around tradition, ritual and quiet interaction. 'Training Day' (2001) - Great crime thriller from Antoine Fuqua. It's just fantastic, I've seen it half a dozen times. Perfect casting too, right down to the smallest character roles. 'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead' (2007) - If you were to make an argument that Sidney Lumet directed a surefire classic in six different decades, I'd nominate this one for the noughties. Another gripping crime picture. 'Brooklyn's Finest' (2010) - Another beautifully cast crime picture from Antoine Fuqua, an ambitious quasi-sequel to Mario Van Peebles' classic 'New Jack City' (1991). It's tough-going but the strands all come together and the set-pieces are pulsating. 'The Woman In The Fifth' (2011) - I don't think this is a particularly good movie as it seems to have been tampered with during production, but Hawke is terrific. 'Sinister' (2012) - This is far better than 90% of the mainstream horror glut that overwhelms us each and ever year. Scenes in darkness with Ethan Hawke amply demonstrate how he can do so much with so little. 'Boyhood' (2014) - This film was many years in the making. It's a very slow burner that creeps up and grabs you, with naturalistic performances that bely the skill that went into them. You need to set aside a significant chunk of time to watch it, but if you do, you might just find it's worth it. 'Predestination' (2014) - I watched this completely blind; didn't know what it was about, who was in it (other than Hawke), or at the time that it was based on a story by sci-fi grand master Robert Heinlein. It's fantastic, I ordered a copy online as soon as I'd finished watching it. Easily one of my top 5 sci-fi pictures this decade. 'In A Valley Of Violence' (2016) - Coincidentally, I wrote something about this just last week because I saw it for the first time, and I loved it ... 'Hard-bitten drifter Paul (Ethan Hawke) clashes with the Marshal (John Travolta) of Denton, Texas, a makeshift township dubbed “the valley of violence”, when the Marshal's son Gilly (James Ransone) goes out of his way to pick a fight.
The existential western ‘In A Valley Of Violence’ is a twisted morality play that confounds expectations and transcends traditional genre limitations. It’s a lean, green wholegrain oater with nutritious performances from Ethan Hawke as wounded warrior Paul, James Ransone as aggressive bully Gilly, Taissa Farmiga as local hotelier Mary-Anne, Karen Gillan as wanton hussy Ellen, Larry Fessenden as hostile hand Big Roy, Tommy Nohilly as hired muscle Tubby, Toby Huss as intense rifleman Harris and John Travolta as the self-appointed Sheriff who finds himself in way over his head. The cast are beautifully costumed by Malgosia Turzanska, their movements set to a throbbing soundtrack by Jeff Grace. Writer-director-editor Ti West crafts some exquisite establishing shots in the style of comic book panels, allowing cinematographer Eric Robbins’ clean compositions to occupy immaculate shot constructions assembled through crisp inter-cutting. West’s typically pared-down storytelling creates a tight frame for him to hang his obsessions with tantalising regularity including the act and art of redemption, the accidental or incidental discovery of illegitimate worlds, and the pressures upon misfits to find each other without the advantage of conventional social skills. On a miniscule shooting budget, West and his small crew have chiselled out a compact thriller that pulses with tension during its darker moments and engages humanity at others. This has instantly become one of my three favourite westerns of the decade so far with ‘Django Unchained’ (2012) and ‘The Hateful Eight’ (2015).'
"His charisma has a slightly haggard intensity these days, his face gaunt, his trademark goatee a little scruffier than you remember it; he looks like a starved version of himself. But he is still a fabulous talker, making unbreakable eye contact during long, soulful riffs on the importance of keeping your personal flame alight that recall the Huck Finn-ish sneaker-clad boulevardier who talked Julie Delpy into getting off a train in Before Sunrise. But there's no mistaking the black halo Hawke wears these days. The guy has taken a beating – the worst of it, one suspects, self-administered. "I call it the black years," he says of the period following his divorce in 2004, sequestered in the delicious post-punk rot of the Chelsea hotel. "It was really difficult. It was difficult in ways I couldn't even see at the time. There was the obvious way in which it was difficult – the death of a dream, the inability to parent in the way that you want to. But for me it was – what's that Dante quote? 'At the midpoint of my life, I've come to the part of the forest where the straight way is lost.' Nothing teaches you like getting levelled. And I got levelled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would. Wait a second: love isn't real and, holy shit, I put all this energy into not making the same mistake my parents did and I just re-enacted them all! I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not." What saved him was his first love: theatre."
- Tom Shone, The Guardian
Barry Pepper & the Jagged Edge
Boyhood didn't creep up and grab me, it curled up and fell asleep in the corner. |
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Post by petrolino on Apr 23, 2017 3:42:17 GMT
Ethan Hawke : 10 Essentials
'Boyhood' (2014) - This film was many years in the making. It's a very slow burner that creeps up and grabs you, with naturalistic performances that bely the skill that went into them. You need to set aside a significant chunk of time to watch it, but if you do, you might just find it's worth it.
Boyhood didn't creep up and grab me, it curled up and fell asleep in the corner. Because it was so boring? |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 23, 2017 5:43:32 GMT
He needs to do more noires what an awesome voice. Check him out as junkie jazz trumpeter Chet Baker ("The James Dean of Jazz) in the excellent and atmospheric BORN TO BE BLUE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1DQ9qIECoAlso check him out in the underrated basebal drama THE PHENOM. Nobody plays a dad quite like Ethan Hawke. He was a cool dad in BOYHOOD and 10 000 SAINTS, but here he is a real bad dad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_REqmML9YPS. Brad Pitt wishes he was as cool as Ethan Hawke! |
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 23, 2017 5:52:09 GMT
Boyhood didn't creep up and grab me, it curled up and fell asleep in the corner. Because it was so boring? I wouldn't say it was flat out boring, just that it didn't have much of an emotional effect on me. I was pretty indifferent to the whole thing. |
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Post by petrolino on Apr 23, 2017 12:39:58 GMT
Because it was so boring? I wouldn't say it was flat out boring, just that it didn't have much of an emotional effect on me. I was pretty indifferent to the whole thing. It took me weeks to settle on a time to watch it, almost like a mental barrier I'd put up. When I finally did, I got pulled along by the performances and the story. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Apr 23, 2017 12:54:41 GMT
He always seems to be involved in some quality project that no one will hear of. Then he will pop back up in a more mainstream movie to remind us he's still around. One of the more likable actors working today.
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Post by nausea on Apr 23, 2017 14:02:58 GMT
Straight up.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 23, 2017 23:36:31 GMT
...among contemporary actors, he is my favorite. And I agree with a previous poster here that "Predestination" is a great science fiction film.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Apr 24, 2017 3:53:32 GMT
He needs to do more noires what an awesome voice. Interesting, I usually pay attention to voices, but can't say I really noticed his voice. I want to see his new movie 'Maudie', I'll pay attention this time.
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