Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

[MifuneFan]

This will be a lightning deal in about 17 mins

[Cutter_]

Got mine. Glad I was online at this time!

[octagon]

I blinked. How much was it?

[MifuneFan]

Looks like it was $12.94.

To Have And Have Not is an upcoming deal, starting at 7:10 pm (est) for Prime members

[octagon]

Ouch. Figures I would pick the one good lightning deal in the last year to back burner.

Whattayagonnado.

[Paul.R.S]

Originally Posted by mikesncc1701

Just finished my disc. Yeah it looks damn good but what a joy it was to revisit this after so long. Just wonderful all around and absolute spot on casting. I cannot believe The Lady Chablis was not nominated for best supporting actress. She's absolutely the show stealer and her scene at the ball is fall on your face funny.

Oh, I can believe it. That would have been scandalously "progressive" for the Academy at that time (or even now?).

Watched this recently; first time seeing the picture in its entirety in about 15 years. Perhaps I'm getting crankier in my old age but IMO the picture does evince a minor strain between, on the one hand, the primary narrative thrust (the murder trial; and to hear Sonny Seiler tell it in the supplements there were actually four trials) and, on the other, a desire to represent "local color."

I agree that Chablis' scene at "the black people's ball" is not without its charms. But what does it have to do with the larger narrative, or even Chablis' role in it? It feels a bit to me like maybe Clint was titillated by something new-ish to him (?), drag culture, and included more of Chablis than he otherwise might have. Her primary ultimate goal as far as the narrative is concerned is to testify at trial and thereby besmirch Billy Hanson's reputation. But she's one step removed from Billy: She didn't date him ("much too trashy" -- LOL). She was simply roommates with Billy's GF, Corinne. So including so much of her is something of a stretch IMO, one which adds to the length of a film that was criticized for being about 2.5 hours long. (Having said that, given what a figure she was on the "Savannah scene," I imagine there would have been accusations of "whitewashing" had the Lady not had a palpable role in the story. I have not read Berendt's book. I recall one critic saying that 'just because Clint decided to make a movie of Berendt's novel doesn't mean he had to shoot the whole thing.')

Still dig Paul Hipp ("Jim shot somebody. Canape?") and love kd's reading of "Skylark."

[biggquis]

Really good movie. Just watched for the first time. I loved so much about it... the score, the scenery, the acting. It really reminded me of Savannah, where you can still go and see horses trotting along to this day.