OneHourPhoto

Post by **RobB** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:07 pm

watched OneHourPhoto on video at breakfast time.
Never a Robin Williams fan ( i usually find him irritating,however talented he is ) i found him to be excellent this time in the role of a lonely photo technician who becomes fixated witha family whose pictures he developes.

Not as gritty as it should have been,but there's plenty of pathos in Williams performance to make the film a memorable one.

wirbel · Post by **wirbel** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:42 pm

The only movie i've really liked him in was Awakenings; but i haven't seen one hour photo yet

paulr · Post by **paulr** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:40 pm

love one hour photo. I don't really like Robin Williams, but he's doing a great job there. [crazy]

Post by **paul-pgss** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:36 pm

I like One Hour Photo a lot too.
I really think it's good to see Williams playing a different character for a change.

Post by **sound world** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:52 pm

I couldn't even stand him in 'Awakenings', having read the book,and knowing a lot of Oliver Sacks' work.
But that sounds like an intriguing idea for a film...

whatis · Post by **whatis** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:27 am

Robin williams is not bad in 1hourphoto...except the movie could be a lot more gritty..but that's the director's fault. awakenings was great...but i didn't read the book...

the man who mistook his wife for a hat is such a fascinating read...but woe to anyone who tries to make that into movies

blue · Post by **blue** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:45 pm

One Hour Photo was a really interesting movie, terribly poignant as a study of a lonely soul but it could have been more frightening than it actually was. If you're intrigued by the sort of performance Williams gave in this film, I can highly recommend watching him in 'Insomnia'. This is a good US remake of a terrifically bleak and haunting Norwegian film (see the original anyway, it's brilliant), with Al Pacino playing the insomniac cop investigating the murder of a girl in the frozen north, and Williams utterly loathsome and creepy as the murderer.

Post by **paul-pgss** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:47 pm

I have seen Insomnia too and that is even a better bad-guy performance of Robin Williams than he does in 1 hour photo.

blue · Post by **blue** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:50 pm

whatis wrote:the man who mistook his wife for a hat is such a fascinating read...but woe to anyone who tries to make that into movies

It'd be a fantastic challenge for a really experimental director, though.

The bit that always sticks in my mind from that book is in the case that gives it its title, when the poor bloke was asked to put his shoes on and simply could not grasp the concept - he thought his shoe, lying on the floor, WAS his foot.

Post by **sound world** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:38 am

It's been made into an opera of course.(Michael Nyman).Which I haven't heard-although i think it latches onto the musician who is the subject of the title story,rather than all the case studies.
The 'lost mariner'-the man whose memory is so brief that he has terrible realisations that he ISN'T a GI in world war two several times a day-and then promptly forgets-is a terrifying case history.
My favourite is the jazz drummer with Tourette's syndrome who manages to lead a normal life with the aid of L-Dopa-but can't any longer burn it up on the drums.So Oliver Sacks agrees to him coming off the drug on weekends so he can get wild on the kit.

picsou · Post by **picsou** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:07 pm

sound world wrote:It's been made into an opera of course.(Michael Nyman).Which I haven't heard-although i think it latches onto the musician who is the subject of the title story,rather than all the case studies.
The 'lost mariner'-the man whose memory is so brief that he has terrible realisations that he ISN'T a GI in world war two several times a day-and then promptly forgets-is a terrifying case history.
My favourite is the jazz drummer with Tourette's syndrome who manages to lead a normal life with the aid of L-Dopa-but can't any longer burn it up on the drums.So Oliver Sacks agrees to him coming off the drug on weekends so he can get wild on the kit.

Interesting thread, especially for us living where the DVD/video renting is very poor. That did surprise me, after Sweden where the choice was, by comparison, amazingly rich.
And I learn here that L-Dopa, a medecine for Parkinson's patients, my father being one, is also a medicine for a seemingly completely different disorder. This actually is quite a common feature of science, two apparently completely unraleted processes sharing some common biological mechanism.
I will be looking for films getting positive comments here. Curious to know if some of you do copies of some of the films you rent.