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Post by timshelboy on Jul 3, 2022 20:07:23 GMT
Not quite early enough to be "Classic era", but I have always enjoyed his laid back, rangy charms. It's forgotten now but he was a serious Indie cinema sex god 1975-85 or so. He is now in his 6th decade on the big screen.    His debut in the well liked (although not by me) MCCABE AND MRS MILLER, the start of a fruitful series of collaborations with Robert Altman  His first lead and first great role/film - THIEVES LIKE US, with Shelley Duvall  Even better was his turn in NASHVILLE as the lothario C&W singer - he won an Oscar for his song "I'm Easy"  Another fruitful collaborator was Alan Rudolph  Another art house hit with Harvey Keitel - Ridley Scott directing   In Louis Malle's controversial PRETTY BABY with Brooke Shields excellent in the final section of OLD BOYFRIENDS with Talia Shire  in THE LONG RIDERS which featured  brother David The uber masculine  My favourite - Alan Rudolph's delightful sex comedy CHOOSE ME, with Lesley Ann Warren    Hunky enough to appear in a Madonna video - MATERIAL GIRL   More Alan Rudolph - the neo Noir TROUBLE IN MIND with an increasingly extraordinary quiff  and yet more Rudolph  This was not a success, but he did get to appear opposite Vanessa Redgrave  Supporting Goldie  Yet more Rudolph - a cameo as Will Rogers  a trashy thriller - but one of his higher profile 90s efforts -  One of the better PULP FICTION wannabes - small part though and not even on the poster  Ladies to the fore in  He had a nice part as folkie/environmental activist in this modern dress adaptation of THE BOSTONIANS  High profile film but not good and a small part  Not yet seen this Terence Davies look at Emily Dickinson but spiderwort's review got me keen  I'm hoping his bit in this much liked (critically) one will bag him some decent offers  What have I left out and/or favourite Keith Carradine movies and performances?  |
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Post by jervistetch on Jul 3, 2022 21:24:04 GMT
This is a good one:  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 3, 2022 21:49:10 GMT
Street of No Return (1989) Dir. Samuel Fuller. Michael (Carradine) was a fashionable singer, whose beautiful warm voice stirred the hearts of women. Everything seemed to smile at him, until the evening he met....now nothing more than a wreck with prematurely bleached hair with a broken voice, hanging out among other tramps, in a miserable neighborhood plagued by race riots, he seeks revenge... A great performance from Keith Carradine in a typically excellent, over-the-top Fuller film... 
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 3, 2022 22:14:14 GMT
Street of No Return (1989) Dir. Samuel Fuller. Michael (Carradine) was a fashionable singer, whose beautiful warm voice stirred the hearts of women. Everything seemed to smile at him, until the evening he met....now nothing more than a wreck with prematurely bleached hair with a broken voice, hanging out among other tramps, in a miserable neighborhood plagued by race riots, he seeks revenge... A great performance from Keith Carradine in a typically excellent, over-the-top Fuller film... Never heard of that one. Its on OK.RU so I'll give it a whirl. Am on a bit of a Fuller jag - saw SHARK last week and a revisit of CHINA GATE 
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Post by movielover on Jul 3, 2022 22:16:47 GMT
In addition to all those movies, he also played Penny’s dad in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.  And who can forget his appearance in Madonna’s music video for the song Material Girl.   |
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 3, 2022 22:32:05 GMT
And who can forget his appearance in Madonna’s music video for the song Material Girl. Sadly more people will have seen that than NASHVILLE and CHOOSE ME combined 
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Post by movielover on Jul 4, 2022 3:49:27 GMT
And who can forget his appearance in Madonna’s music video for the song Material Girl. Sadly more people will have seen that than NASHVILLE and CHOOSE ME combined  Ha! So true.
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Post by stryker on Jul 4, 2022 5:28:36 GMT
Check him out in AIN"T THEM BODIES SAINTS (2013).
And as Wild Bill in DEADWOOD.
And as Special Agent Frank Lundy in DEXTER.
Keith also turns up to good effect in the cracking TV adaptation of Elmore Leonard's western yarn LAST STAND AT SABER RIDGE.
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Post by stryker on Jul 4, 2022 5:37:13 GMT
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Post by stryker on Jul 4, 2022 5:49:51 GMT
Let's not forget his performance as serial killer Foxy Funderburke in the epic telemovie CHIEFS - for which he earned a prime time Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 4, 2022 13:00:01 GMT
This is a good one: Indeed it is.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 4, 2022 17:39:40 GMT
Thanks for the tribute. Remember a TV-movie where Tuesday Weld joins forces with Keith in a revenge on a swindler, played by Peter Coyote. Scorned and Swindled 1984. Think Keith's sister also had been swindled, that's why their paths met.  |
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 5, 2022 13:57:44 GMT
"I'm Easy" is a fine song, and one of my favorite movies in "Nashville" (my #3).. All the women think he's singing about their 15-minutes. Lily's face says it all.
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 5, 2022 14:05:09 GMT
"I'm Easy" is a fine song, and one of my favorite movies in "Nashville" (my #3).. All the women think he's singing about their 15-minutes. Lily's face says it all. Yes that is a favourite scene for me too. 
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Post by Power Ranger on Jul 5, 2022 14:14:22 GMT
I think he’s excellent. He was in so many great films with quality directors. He worked with Robert Altman many times. He was good playing young, naive greenhorn characters and also slick, confident characters like in Southern Comfort.
As to why he peaked around 1980, who knows? It may have been his choice. Maybe it was a burden to be known as just another Carradine. I think that having a name from a prestigious acting family can be a burden sometimes. But he was the more talented of his siblings IMO.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 9, 2022 0:31:09 GMT
I don't remember Keith Carradine being an indie-arthouse pin-up. There was no centrespread in my 'Sight & Sound' magazine collection like the type to show off David Carradine's power, agility and muscular frame.
Robert Carradine was a drive-in stud in the 1970s but retroactively became the ultimate nerd pin-up, and this is the era of the nerd, by God!
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 9, 2022 8:23:43 GMT
I don't remember Keith Carradine being an indie-arthouse pin-up. There was no centrespread in my 'Sight & Sound' magazine collection like the type to show off David Carradine's power, agility and muscular frame.
The Alan Rudolph in particular usually cast him as a successful ladies man. Brian Dennehy went on record circa 86 or so as bemoaning the fact Carradine got all the lover parts and sex scenes he fancied for himself! Nobody gets to be in a Madonna video unless they are a certified hunk
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Post by petrolino on Jul 9, 2022 13:16:17 GMT
I don't remember Keith Carradine being an indie-arthouse pin-up. There was no centrespread in my 'Sight & Sound' magazine collection like the type to show off David Carradine's power, agility and muscular frame.
The Alan Rudolph in particular usually cast him as a successful ladies man. Brian Dennehy went on record circa 86 or so as bemoaning the fact Carradine got all the lover parts and sex scenes he fancied for himself! Nobody gets to be in a Madonna video unless they are a certified hunk
Brian Dennehy was sometimes mistaken for Brian Keith. Whenever Keith Carradine and Brian Dennehy got together, like in the saddle for 'Dead Man's Walk' (1995), they melted the screen.
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