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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 26, 2018 22:31:24 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 26, 2018 23:42:38 GMT
Jessica Lange (top) as Frances Farmer (bottom) in Frances (1982), such an epic performance from Lange.  ![]()  Yes, a remarkable performance and a heartbreaking story. These days Farmer probably would not have endured the atrocities she endured back then. One can hope. And you've reminded me of what Natalie Wood endured in Splendor in the Grass (1961) during a similarly repressive era; also heartbreaking. |
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 27, 2018 0:02:07 GMT
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Speaking of Jimmy Piersall, I saw him play several times for the Washington Senators. Once, after getting on first, he tried to distract the pitcher by taking a lead and doing the twist. He remained quite quirky!
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Post by telegonus on Mar 27, 2018 8:28:46 GMT
If alcoholism and drug addiction can be classed as a mental illness, The Lost Weekend, A Hat Full Of Rain and Days Of Wine And Roses surely qualify.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 27, 2018 16:47:40 GMT
The Other based on the Tom Tryon novel of the same name and introduced the Udvarnoky twins...
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Post by movielover on Mar 27, 2018 16:49:58 GMT
Has anybody seen Nuts with Barbra Streisand? A friend has recommended it to me. Is it a good film? Yes, I've seen it. It's a good movie. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 28, 2018 1:19:10 GMT
One that's apparently little seen or remembered: The Shrike (1955)  Jose Ferrer directs himself, as a theater director driven to breakdown, and June Allyson, turning her sweet, all-American-girl image against type as the passive/aggressively dominating wife who relentlessly undermines his senses of self-worth and identity. |
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Post by telegonus on Mar 28, 2018 2:48:56 GMT
I've heard of The Shrike, good things especially about June Allyson's performance, have never seen it, not sure if I've ever seen it listed. A rather obscure film. From around the same time there's the better known The Cobweb, set in an asylum.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 28, 2018 7:43:10 GMT
A very well-done, compelling Hungarian film I enjoyed: Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007) www.imdb.com/title/tt0803052/
Deals not only with mental illness (amongst patients in an institution) but with the opiate addiction of one of the doctors. Haunting glimpses of a twisted reality. Definitely worth a look if you can find it.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 28, 2018 8:00:31 GMT
I think that the Stanley Kramer produced (but not directed) 1962 Pressure Point qualifies. The main character is a law breaking sociopath; a bigot and petty criminal, well portrayed by Bobby Darrin. It's a sometimes surreal film, well directed by Hubert Cornfield. Sidney Poitier is exceptional,--I don't think I've ever seen him so good in a serious dramatic role--as the psychiatrist who helps Darrin comes to terms with at least some of his PTSD issues.
The script is flawed, doesn't tell us quite so much as we would perhaps like to know about the principals; while some of the melodrama feels overdone, as the film has the air of an art film that moves into exploitation territory now and again, an area in which it does not, thankfully, linger in. There are many striking, shocking and downright disturbing scenes in this movie. I wouldn't go quite so far as to say it's not for the squeamish it has more than its fair share of chain-yanking moments
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Post by teleadm on Mar 28, 2018 18:14:57 GMT
I came to think of the early Marilyn Monroe movie Don't Bother to Knock 1952, that her character had some kind of mental illness.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 29, 2018 7:16:17 GMT
I think that the Stanley Kramer produced (but not directed) 1962 Pressure Point qualifies. Haven't seen this since it was released, but I remember being moved by it, particularly by Poitier's performance, as you note. I'd like to see it again, but it doesn't show up very often. Another one worth mentioning is Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). In it, Bobby Darin again plays a soldier suffering from PTSD, and this time he received a well-deserved Oscar nomination. Yup. I've never watched Captain Newman in one sitting, start to finish. There's something bland about it. Antiseptic? It doesn't draw me in. Robert Duvall played one of many mentally disturbed characters in the film, as he had in the previous year's To Kill A Mockingbird. It's good to see Teleadm mentioned Don't Bother To Knock. Although framed as a melodrama it's really a study of the unstable character played by Marilyn Monroe, whom I think is excellent in it, and very moving. There seems to be a lot of maybe not mental illness in the formal or clinical sense but by implication in the George Cukor directed 1942 Keeper Of The Flame, a much better film than the Citizen Kane wannabe its detractors have called it. Structurally, yes, but it goes its own way, and it features some disturbed, unstable and downright sick characters. It seems almost enveloped in madness and yet madness isn't its theme. The films that deal with Leopold & Loeb type characters are worth a look, from Rope through Compulsion. I believe there are other, similar films.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 29, 2018 18:40:54 GMT
Films about tortured artists come to mind. Crumb, a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) and his family, is one example.
Lust for Life (1956), a bio-pic about Vincent Van Gogh, is another.
Both were very intriguing and well-done pictures.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 30, 2018 20:27:28 GMT
Good ones, Zolotoy. Each is haunting, and in a different way. I love both, find Crumb more watchable, but then I haven't seen it much. Maybe twice.
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