She has a small but very important role, including a show-stopping monologue that’s both serious and hilarious, in a movie that’s in (some) theaters now called IN A WORLD. It’s a good movie too. She looks great.
Mmmm, Lake Bell and Geena Davis? Gotta check that out! Lake Bell looks smokin’ hot wearing only a big tattoo on the cover of this week’s New York magazine…
Definitely do. The monologue Davis has is being directed to Bell, so they even share the most important scene of the movie together. Since Bell also wrote and directed the movie, Davis’s casting is no accident.
Yeah, the movie’s getting good buzz for writer/director/star and apparently dialect/voice talent, Ms. Bell…
Scratch this post. I was confusing her with Andie MacDowell. Does anybody else do that?
Long Kiss Goodnight is mostly a good movie, but the one “outrun the fireball” scene utterly, completely takes me out of the movie. I could handle most of the other stunts and most are quite good. But that scene just…ehhhn. I recall Ebert singling that scene out as the signature piece for the trope before we even used the word trope.
Cutthroat Island…just didn’t know what it wanted to be. Kevin Murphy of MST3K once declared that it was a movie that failed on all levels. Its not that bad it just goes nowhere, doesn’t have much charisma to any of its characters. It sort of looks like what Pirates of the Caribbean would be like if you removed the Jack Sparrow character and just had Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightly- who are both charisma voids. Geena has more presence than Knightly, but she couldn’t carry the entire movie herself. I find it is worth a rental but there are too many cringe-worthy moments.
It’s Voice-Over lover’s Porn!
As a Knightley fan, I must object! I think she’s got charisma out the whazoo.
Since it wasn’t posted yet:
She also had some interesting things to say as the founder of the See Jane Foundation in the documentary Miss Representation, a very good documentary about how “mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.”
That is one of my favorite scenes in the entire history of cinema. Brian Cox is a god.
I just saw that last night, it’s so good! And my friends who went with me also loved it. And Davis’s monologue was good.
I saw her this April. She presented at a national conference I was attending.
She’s busy working on her non-profit organization Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
I see on preview that it’s been mentioned before upthread. Oh well.