#owning mahowny

[philhoffman]

[gonzogender]

Watching owning Mahowny this sweet baby is fucking Autistic

[snakes-and-island-fires]

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[cinemajunkie70]

Happy Birthday in the afterlife to Philip Seymour Hoffman!

[movie-titlecards]

Owning Mahowny (2003)

My rating: 5/10

Reasonably well made, I guess, but like a lot of these "based on a true story" movies, it's really not that interesting, and the constant Early 2000s Serious Drama Ambient Jazz Noodling gets old very fast.

[jimsmovieworld]

OWNING MAHOWNY- 2003 ⭐⭐⭐

Owning Mahowny is a candadian thriller based on a true story. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny, a mild mannered banker with a secret obsession. While keeping a low profile in his home of Toronto, he secretly embezzles millions of dollars to fuel his gambling addiction. He becomes known as a high roller in Atlantic City and struggles to keep his gambling a secret.

[fidius]

How would you rate the thrill you got from gambling on a scale of one to 100?

Um... A hundred.

What about the biggest thrill you've ever had outside of gambling?

Twenty.

Twenty? How do feel about living the rest of your life with a max of twenty?

Okay. Twenty's okay.

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Bugs: How much for the anvils?

Acme salesgirl: They're free for customers.

Bugs: Great, can I have one?

Acme salesgirl: Well, you're not a customer, so...

Bugs: Okay... how much for the anvils?

[animal71154]

youre on thin fucking ice dude

[philhoffman]

[woman-with-a-movie-camera]

Owning Mahowny (2003)

[caesarflickermans]

Emily’s Top Five Sexiest Phil Movies according to an “anon” from some months ago [Birthday present 4 Em @footnoteinhistory ]

The Boat That Rocked  —  He’s a mess, he’s got the beard, he’s got the belly

Mission: Impossible III — You’ve been hit by a smooth criminal

Moneyball  — Clothes make a man

Happiness  — supposedly she is simply “right” on that one

Owning Mahowny  — Unspeakable choice indeed

[laresearchette]

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THE $100,000 PYRAMID (CTV) 9:00pm THE BOLD TYPE (ABC Spark) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT CRIME SCENE KITCHEN (FOX Feed) LIFE AT THE WATERHOLE (PBS Feed) PRESS YOUR LUCK (Premiering on June 02 on City TV at 7:00/8:00pm) PROPERTY BROTHERS: FOREVER HOME (TBD - HGTV Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME/CRAVE/NETFLIX CANADA/CBC GEM:

CRAVE TV OWNING MAHOWNY

NETFLIX CANADA BAGGIO: THE DIVINE PONYTAIL GHOST LAB HIGH ON THE HOG: HOW AFRICAN AMERICAN CUISINE TRANSFORMED AMERICA NAIL BOMBER: MANHUNT

PWHPA HOCKEY (SNNOW) 5:00pm: Calgary vs. Toronto

MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 7:00pm: Jays vs. Yankees (TSN5) 7:30pm: Dodgers vs. Astros

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN4) 7:00pm: Wizards vs. 76ers - Game #2 (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 7:30pm: Hawks vs. Knicks - Game #2 (TSN/TSN4) 10:00pm: Grizzlies vs. Jazz - Game #2

HAUNTED HOSPITALS (T&E) 8:00pm: After almost dying, a woman is stalked by an angry spirit she met on the other side; at a Catholic hospital, a housekeeper encounters the ghosts of former nuns; an EMT comes face-to-face with a paranormal possession as he transfers a patient.

[drzito]

Las 241 películas que he visto en 2018 (parte 1)

1. Aelita (Yakov Protazanov, 1924).

2. La huelga (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

3. A nous la liberte (Rene Clair, 1931)

4. American madness (Frank Capra, 1932)

5. The crash (William Dieterle, 1932)

6. Dinner at eight (George Cukor, 1933)

7. Tiempos modernos  (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)

8. El camino radiante (Grigori Alexandrov, 1940)

9. How green was my valley (John Ford, 1941)

10. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood, 1941)

11. The grapes of wrath (John Ford, 1941)

12.The glass key (Stuart Heisler, 1942)

13. The blue dahlia (George Marshall, 1946)

14. The blue lamp (Basil Dearden, 1949)

15. The fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949)

16. The Lavender Hill mob (Charles Crichton, 1951)

17. Surcos (Jose Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951)

18. The prisoner of Zenda (Richard Thorpe, 1952)

19. Historias de Tokyo  (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)

20. House of wax (Andre de Toth, 1953)

21. Executive suite (Robert Wise, 1954)

22. Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954)

23. The salt of the earth (Herbert Biberman, 1954)

24. Woman’s world (Jean Negulesco, 1954)

25. Fruta loca  (Kô Nakahira, 1956)

26. Patterns (Fielder Cook, 1956)

27. The man in the gray flannel suit (Nunnally Johnson, 1956) 

28. The power and the prize (Henry Koster, 1956)

29. The solid gold cadillac (Richard Quine, 1956)

30. El inquilino (Jose Antonio Nieves-Conde, 1957)

31. The pajama game (George Abbott y Stanley Donen 1957).

32. Will success spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlln, 1957)

33. La vida por delante (Fernando Fernan-Gomez, 1958)

34. Day of the outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)

35. La vida alrededor (Fernando Fernan-Gomez, 1959)

36. Sapphire (Basil Dearden, 1959)

37. Los canallas duermen en paz  (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)

38. Cash McCall (Joseph Pevney, 1960)

39. Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti, 1960).

40. Burn witch, burn (Sidney Hayers, 1962)

41. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)

42. The counterfeit traitor (George Seaton, 1962)

43. The L-shaped room (Bryan Forbes, 1962)

44. Matango (Ishiro Honda, 1963)

45. The servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)

46. The wheeler dealers (Arthur Hill, 1963)

47. West 11 (Michael Winner, 1963)

48. Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (Michel Boisrond, 1966)

49. Missione speciale Lady Chaplin (Alberto di Martino, 1966)

50. New York chiama Superdrago (Giorgio Ferroni, 1966)

51. Upperseven, l’uomo da uccidere (Alberto de Martino, 1966)

52. What’s up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen y Senkichi Taniguchi, 1966)

53. How to succeed in business without really trying (David Swift, 1967)

54. La piel quemada (Josep Maria Forn, 1967)

55. The million eyes of Sumuru (Lindsay Shonteff, 1967)

56. Un millón en la basura (Jose Maria Forque, 1967)

57. Corri, uomo, corri! (Sergio Sollima, 1968)

58. Las secretarias (Pedro Lazaga, 1968)

59. Marquis de Sade: Justine (Jess Franco, 1969)

60. Adios, Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1970)

61. El dinero tiene miedo (Pedro Lazaga, 1970)

62. Il trono di fuoco (Jess Franco, 1970)

63. Performance (Donald Cammell y Nicolas Roeg, 1970)

64. La coda dello scorpione (Sergio Martino, 1971)

65. Asylum (Roy Ward Baker, 1972)

66. El castillo de la pureza (Arturo Ripstein, 1972)

67. Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (Sergio Martino, 1972)

68. La dama rossa uccide sette volte (Emilio Miraglia, 1972)

69. La noche del terror ciego (Amando de Ossorio, 1972)

70. Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1972)

71. The candidate (Michael Ritchie, 1972)

72. Tutti i colori del buio (Sergio Martino, 1972)

73. Eugenie (Jess Franco, 1973).

74. Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso (Umberto Lenzi, 1973)

75. Asesinato en el Orient Express  (Sydney Lumet, 1974)

76. Los nuevos españoles (Roberto Bodegas, 1974)

77. Stavisky (Alain Resnais, 1974)

78. Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979)

79. The China syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)

80. Rollover (Alan J Pakula, 1981).

81. Halloween III (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1983)

82. Local hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983)

83. Silkwood (Mike Nicholls, 1983).

84. Brewster’s millions (Walter Hill, 1985)

85. Baby boom (Charles Shyer, 1987)

86. The secret of my success (Herbert Ross, 1987).

87. Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987)

88. Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988)

89. Tucker: the man and his dream (Francis Ford Coppola, 1988)

90. Working girl (Mike Nichols, 1988)

91. Dealers (Colin Buckley, 1989)

92. Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990)

93. Other people’s money (Norman Jewison, 1991)

94. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)

95. Split Second (Tony Maylam, 1992)

96. The distinguished gentleman (Jonathan Lynn, 1992)

97. The Hudsucker proxy (Ethan y Joel Coen, 1994).

98. Dos tontos muy tontos  (Peter Farrelly, 1995)

99. Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995)

100. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)

101. La guerra del opio  (Jin Xie, 1997)

102. Ressources humaines (Laurent Cantet, 1999)

103. Rogue trader (James Dearden, 1999)

104. Boiler room (Ben Younger, 2000)

105. Naufrago  (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)

106. Pan y rosas  (Ken Loach, 2000)

107. El empleo del tiempo  (Laurent Cantet, 2001).

108. The bank (Robert Connolly, 2001)

109. The navigators (Ken Loach, 2001)

110. Smoking room (Roger Gual y Julio D. Wallovits, 2002)

111. Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski, 2003)

112. El principio de Arquimedes (Gerardo Herrero, 2004)

113. A bittersweet life  (Kim Jee-woon, 2005)

114. Arcadia (Costa Gavras, 2005)

115. Cinderella man (Ron Howard, 2005)

116. El metodo (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2005)

117. Thank you for smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005)

118. The constant gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005)

119. A good year (Ridley Scott, 2006)

120. Blood diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006) 

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this week - 45: “The Valley Of Ashes”

3 about Fathers & Daughters:

✳️✳️✳️ The Elephant and the Butterfly, a charming Belgian film, produced by The Dardenne Brothers, about an absent father who unexpectedly gets to spend a weekend with his 5 year old daughter for the first time. The little girl has no idea who is he. The director’s daughter plays the girl with incredibly natural skills. 7/10

✳️✳️✳️ Peter Bogdanovich had an fantastic early 70′s run. 9 year old Tatum O’Neal became the youngest Oscar winner for her beautiful role in his Paper Moon, and deservedly so. Two swindlers who find each other during the depression.

“I want my two hundred dollars... ” 9/10

(Photo Above)

✳️✳️✳️ Another real-life father-daughter examine their relationship on film, the sappy On Golden Pond, which did it in a roundabout way by focusing the main story on Norman and the boy. Henry Fonda’s last film.

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L’argent, Robert Bresson’s austere last film. An innocent delivery driver is being wrongly accused of passing a forged 500 franc note, and this injustice derails his life. Blank and minimalistic story with unemotional expressions and coldness. A world without grace.

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2 different films from Iceland:

✳️✳️✳️ An eye for an eye - In the new Icelandic film, Lamb, Noomi Rapace and her farmer husband raise sheep alone on a remote farm, among the majestic mountains. When one of the sheep give birth to a baby lamb that is half girl, they adopt it as their own daughter and name her Ada. A mystical, beautiful film that unfortunately has no good ending. 8/10

(I can’t imagine having a life of raising farm animals and then slaughtering them..)

✳️✳️✳️ Under the Tree, a simple feud between two neighbors over a tree that casts a shadow into the other’s yard escalate uncomfortably until it goes out of control. Dark and disturbing.

9/10

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One of my fondest memories from when I was five, is my Uncle Dov teaching me Tarzan’s famous yell in our front yard.

Tarzan, The “Ape Man” with Johnny Weissmuller & Mia Farrow’s mother, is the 1932 pre-code original chapter of the franchise. But its pro-colonialist and white-supremacist views of African “Savages” are 100% dated: You kill all the animals and the natives, and take what you want from your exploits. 3/10.

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2 with Al Pacino (Both with Jeremy Piven):

✳️✳️✳️ Pacino and Matthew McConaughey and Rene Russo ham it up in Two for the money, a middling ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-style drama that doesn’t work. It was written by Dan, the “third” Gilroy brother, and I have no idea how or why I came to watch it, since I have zero interest in football handicapping. 1/10

✳️✳️✳️ “..Told you I'm never going back...”

Michael Mann’s Heat is a perfect masterpiece. Even at 3 hours, it doesn’t have a single false sentiment, or a single wasted shot. A moving love story in the midst of an epic chase tale. And the cast! Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Natalie Portman (!), Amy Brenneman, Danny Trejo (!), Henry Rollins, Bud Cort, and most importantly, the incredible score (which was not composed by Tangerine Dream!).

The coffee shop scene pops at exactly the half point of the film.

Tight! Best film of the week. (And aren’t most of them best films I’ve seen multiple times?)

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Owning Mahowny, Canadian drama about sad schlub and compulsive gambler Philip Seymour Hoffman who embezzles 10 million dollars from his bank. Based on a real life story from the early 80′s. Films about such obsessive losers are always painful to watch, and this one doubly so.

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2 with Billie Eilish:

✳️✳️✳️ They killed Bond in No Time To die! But they left his pretty wife Léa Seydoux and lovely daughter to serve in the next generation of the franchise.

The great opening lasted for 30 minutes, before Billie Eilish started singing the theme song. And killing him was bold, James Bold. 5/10.

✳️✳️✳️ I’ve been admiring Billie Eilish’s phenomenal success for five or six years, without actually ever listening to her music until now. In Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles she recently performed her latest album for an empty Hollywood Bowl. The music is not memorable, but her husky, smoky crooner style is nostalgically evocative.

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Alain Resnais’s didactic My American Uncle is not about a real uncle, but the notion that there is a mythological one out there. The three loosely-related stories intersect with psychological screeds about dominance and the subconscious, as well as parallels to characters from classic black and white French Cinema (Jean Gabin, Jean Marais, etc). All three think they have free choice, but they behave like white rats in a lab. 4/10

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“...Rich girls don’t marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby...”  X 2

✳️✳️✳️ First watch: Insanely handsome star (but sweaty!) Robert Redford in the 1973 jazz-age version of The Great Gatsby. Based on a story by Scott Fitzgerald's real-life inspiration Ginevra King, “The one who got away”, FF Coppola wrote the script right after ‘The Godfather’ but not much of his writing remained. I wonder how differently it would be, if he actually directed it!

✳️✳️✳️ “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me...”

The excessive opulence and gilded Disneyfied settings of the Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version lacked gravitas and subtlety, and reduced the story into a upper-class romance. I wonder why the novel, which denounced the “American Dream” and criticized wealth and class, became such a big part of American pop culture. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. …”

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Promised Land, Gus Van Sant’s film about fracking. Earnest Matt Damon is a salesman who cons simple farmers in Pennsylvania to sign leasing rights to their lands, until he finds religion and ‘does the right thing’. Too simple, too two-dimensional. 3/10

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Throw-back to the art project:

Great Gatsby Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)