Word: mias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casting is both daring and first-rate. Altman has somehow made an ensemble out of a group that includes (in no particular order of significance) Lillian Gish, Pat McCormick, Howard Duff, Vittorio Gassman, Dina Merrill, Nina van Pallandt, Lauren Hutton, Mia Farrow, Geraldine Chaplin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Amy Stryker, Paul Dooley, various veterans of his stock company and a title card full of newcomers. They are all wonderful. If someone deserves to be singled out, it is Carol Burnett, who plays the bride's up tight but restless mother. For her to appear in this film took guts...
...days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout. After languishing for days in her new quarters, Giovanna falls in love with Daniel. He too is smitten. Offstage he croons the aria Posa il tuo capo sulla mia spalla (Rest your head upon my shoulder...
...helicopter to the crew to scout locations, waived permits to allow equipment to be hauled across state lines and persuaded the owners of a Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash for the cast and crew at a Chicago disco. Which points up another advantage of attracting film makers: besides being good business, hanging out with movie people...
...Madonna mia!" she cried...
Rosemary's Baby. This Polanski effort, made back when Mia Farrow was still Big Frank's wife, is simply awful film fare. The case of the beautiful young actor's wife who bears the child of the devil, with the aid of the creepy people downstairs and tanin leaves, is just boring--the sense of horror builds so slowly the movie passes like a bad dream. Farrow gives a jittery, flittery performance; I leave it to you to place the blame--can she act, or is it merely what she has to work with? This film goes over like...