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Post by windmill on Aug 9, 2021 15:12:42 GMT -5
The story flows as easily as water down a slope.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Aug 9, 2021 15:13:45 GMT -5
One of my favorite actors -- where did you see it?
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Post by Taildragger on Aug 9, 2021 15:29:20 GMT -5
We saw it awhile back. It's a good'n. Have you seen "Assassination Tango"? Another, pretty strange one, in which he stars. He is apparently actually a tango fanatic in real life.
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Post by RockAndRoll on Aug 9, 2021 15:59:22 GMT -5
"There's alive and there's dead, and there's a place in between I hope you never know nothing about."
Duvall is one of my absolute favorites. Godfather, The Great Santini, The Apostle, Tender Mercies, Lonesome Dove, just about everything I can remember seeing him in he's been great.
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Post by Riff Twang on Aug 9, 2021 19:40:39 GMT -5
Robert Duvall is a fine actor. I remember seeing "Get Low" a few years ago. A rather whimsical treat if I recall correctly. "Assassination Tango" would appear to be a passion project of his. I have not seen it, but now my interest is peaked and I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Post by K4 on Aug 9, 2021 21:23:41 GMT -5
Get low, I remember seeing it and thought it was good, but for the life of me could not tell you what it is about without google.
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Post by Taildragger on Aug 9, 2021 22:01:00 GMT -5
Don't forget, "A Night in Old Mexico".
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Post by jhawkr on Aug 10, 2021 7:34:10 GMT -5
And Secondhand Lions. Just watched that yesterday.
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Post by windmill on Aug 10, 2021 19:50:29 GMT -5
Any takers for "Days of Thunder".  |
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Aug 12, 2021 15:56:23 GMT -5
I looked this up -- it seems I watched this in the past year or two. I recall liking it. No longer free on Amazon.
I searched Netflix for "Robert Duvall" -- it returned "Robert Duvall Not Available". How is this even possible? I just canceled my Netflix account -- they have been abject crap for years. This was the last straw.
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Post by RockAndRoll on Aug 12, 2021 16:39:51 GMT -5
I searched Netflix for "Robert Duvall" -- it returned "Robert Duvall Not Available". How is this even possible? I just canceled my Netflix account -- they have been abject crap for years. This was the last straw. I agree. Netflix is a complete waste of money. |
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Post by larryguitar54 on Aug 12, 2021 16:50:42 GMT -5
I would have no problem binge watching Lonesome Dove. I think his finest work is in "The Apostle". But if somebody wants to argue Godfather we won't be fighting.
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Post by Taildragger on Aug 17, 2021 11:24:23 GMT -5
Then again, not every role was a gem. Was a time he just needed to take what came in order to put bread on the table:
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Aug 17, 2021 12:06:46 GMT -5
Watched a Duvall flick called 7 Days in Utopia the other night. Wow, was that bad. He must have owed someone a favor.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Aug 17, 2021 12:13:10 GMT -5
I would have no problem binge watching Lonesome Dove. I'm in the middle of it right now thanks to this thread.
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Post by muttley on Aug 17, 2021 17:24:37 GMT -5
He was great in Apocalypse Now. Had the most quoted line in the whole movie.
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Post by windmill on Aug 17, 2021 17:43:05 GMT -5
Watched Tender Mercies last night.
One of those low key films that just keeps you watching.
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Post by Taildragger on Aug 17, 2021 18:04:44 GMT -5
Here is one of his lesser-known, early films. It was the second movie in which I saw him, after I'd seen "To Kill a Mockingbird":
Duvall based Jackson Fentry's unusual accent on a man he met once while walking the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. He was so struck by the man's deep-voiced accent, he never forgot it. He has said that this film is one of his personal favorites among those in which he has acted. It is based on a William Faulkner short story.
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Post by Taildragger on Aug 18, 2021 10:43:23 GMT -5
An interesting interview:
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Post by windmill on Jan 2, 2022 18:58:34 GMT -5
Watched The Godfather for the first time last night.
Took a little while realise it was Duval playing one of the characters but again he was one of the standout characters in the film.
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Jan 2, 2022 19:20:29 GMT -5
In Tender Mercies I heard my grandfather's voice and phrasing coming from the screen. Duval always got Southerners right. And as someone raised in Southern Baptist Churches, The Apostle had a ring of authenticity that still amazes me.
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Post by roly on Jan 2, 2022 20:20:54 GMT -5
Don't forger "Open Range".
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 2, 2022 20:47:19 GMT -5
"Joe Kidd" (Eastwood/Duvall western) is playing on a local TV channel here right now.
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