Two of the world's most gorgeous actors, paired in one of the best
buddy films of all time, with a witty script and a light directorial hand.
Not exact matches
In the upcoming episode, guest Joe Swanberg reveals that Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is his favourite
film of all
time, and talks about the influence it had on Swanberg's biggest hit, 2013's Drinking
Buddies.
What it has going for it is the fact that it was written by his
buddy Jon Favreau, who once again co-stars, and it's directed by their long -
time friend Peter Billingsley (aka Ralphie from A Christmas Story) who has also produced many
of their
films over the years.
Considering Drinking
Buddies had roughly ten
times the amount
of budget that director Joe Swanberg had for previous
films, many thought this to be his crossover into the Hollywood system.
Straight
Time (1978)-- 9:30 PM, 35 mm «He's a lousy lover, a lousy friend (who is responsible for the deaths
of two
of his
buddies by the end
of the
film), and a hopeless failure as a parolee.
So even if you couldn't condone the criminal activities in their previous
films, Danny Ocean (George Clooney), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon) and the rest
of their con men
buddies (Eddie Jemison, Don Cheadle, Shaobo Qin, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Bernie Mac and Carl Reiner) at least appeared to have a good
time pulling off their heists.
When Augustine Frizzell's
buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination
of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey
of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first -
time feature director to completely scrap her original
film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.
Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter
of tough - minded crime
films to director
of elegantly - made bare - knuckle thrillers and action dramas with Hard
Times (1975), a depression - era tale
of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first
of Hill's guarded
buddy teams.
After a group
of partying
buddies discovered a hot tub capable
of transporting them through
time in the original
film, Lou (Rob Corddry) capitalized on his future knowledge to gain great wealth by creating the Internet.
The rest
of the
film, co-starring Charles «Buddy» Rogers and Richard Arlen (both virtual unknowns at the
time) as
buddies and fellow pilots, is sturdy studio filmmaking with romance, bonding under fire and rousing «war is hell» action.