Casting Coup: The Last Picture Show

NOMINATIONS

Best Picture

Best Director - Peter Bogdanovich

Best Supporting Actor - Jeff Bridges

Best Supporting Actor - Ben Johnson (WON)

Best Supporting Actress - Ellen Burstyn

Best Supporting Actress - Cloris Leachman (WON)

Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Bogdanovich/Larry McMurtry

Best Cinematography - Robert Surtees

I love The Last Picture Show, another film I didn't see until I took on the 1971 Retrospective. It is so damn beautiful -- beautifully-written, beautifully-shot, beautifully-acted. Roger Ebert ranked it among his Great Movies, saying, "It is about a town with no reason to exist, and people with no reason to live there."

But oh, what people! A perfect ensemble just ripe for the casting -- and really, I expect that this film, along with The Big Chill, will eventually be remade. And if it happened today, who might we see?

This guarantees to be the 2014 Academy Award Nominee-iest cast of the bunch...check it out after the jump.

Casting Coup Month: The Night of the Iguana

NOMINATIONS

Best Supporting Actress - Grayson Hall

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Gabriel Figeuroa

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Stephen B. Grimes

Best Costume Design - Dorothy Jeakins (WON)

 

It has all led to this.

Casting Coup: Lolita

*This is from the first 'audience pick' I ever did. I wound up doing all of them, of course, but this (understandably) got the most votes. It is also my favorite novel. Few votes, due to the small number of LJ readers I had at the time. Pics are different now, since some of the hot-links I used then are no longer in service.*

VOTES
Lolita: 3 (2 on lj, 1 in person)
Ethan Frome: 2 (1 on lj, 1 on facebook)
Breakfast at Tiffany's: 2

Becca's helpful and comprehensive list was the berries. I think everyone should do that from now on.

So, Lolita is clearly the winner.

On with the show then!

RITA
Who is She: "A woman in her mid-20s with whom Humbert has an affair".
My Choice: Christina Ricci (Sleepy Hollow, Black Snake Moan)



MISS PRATT
Who is She: The headmistress of the "progressive" Beardsley School for Girls.
My Choice: Elaine Stritch (Small Time Crooks, Monster-in-Law)



MONA DAHL
Who is She: A friend of Lolita's, who may or not know the "real deal" about Humbert.
My Choice: Emma Stone (Superbad, Archie: The Motion Picture Epic)



JEAN FARLOW
Who is She: One of Charlotte's friends in Ramsdale, a neighbor lady who crushes on Humbert.
My Choice: Cheryl Hines (Waitress, "Curb Your Enthusiasm")



JOHN FARLOW
Who is He: Jean's husband; on the surface, they are the Cleavers.
My Choice: Dylan Baker (Across the Universe, Spider-Man 3)



CHARLOTTE HAZE
Who is She: A religious woman, mother of Lolita, throws herself at Humbert, generally unpleasant.
My Choice: Felicity Huffman (Transamerica, Magnolia)



CLARE QUILTY
Who is He: A popular playwright, a producer of child pornography.
My Choice: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote, The Savages)



LOLITA
Who is She: The titular character, a nymphet, a young girl that drives men crazy, the lover of Humbert Humbert.
My Choice: AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia, Charlei and the Chocolate Factory)



HUMBERT HUMBERT
Who is He: Our protagonist, "a middle-aged scholar with an obsession for nymphets."
My Choice: Colin Firth (Love Actually, What a Girl Wants)



SPECIAL CAMEO: VIVIAN DARKBLOOM
Who is She: Quilty's writing partner and companion.
My Choice: Maggie Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Stranger Than Fiction)