J.J. Abrams touts Warren Beatty’s Bonnie and Clyde and Shampoo for must-see viewing as a part of the January 2024 Turner Traditional Motion pictures lineup in his personal TCM Picks video that dropped on Tuesday.
“They may not be extra totally different,” Abrams says of Arthur Penn’s 1967 crime spree drama Bonnie and Clyde, which additionally starred Faye Dunaway, and Hal Ashby’s Oscar-winning dramedy Shampoo. Bonnie and Clyde “portrayed violence in a method that had not sometimes been seen in American cinema and actually ushered in a brand new age of daring graphic storytelling in a method that you simply actually hadn’t seen earlier than,” Abrams says within the video.
Having made a reputation for himself in Hollywood with tv and widespread sequence like Felicity, Alias and Misplaced, you possibly can see the grounds for Abrams’ eventual success making motion tentpole motion pictures, given his love for traditional Hollywood pics.
Shampoo turns into a time capsule film for Abrams, as he grew up in Los Angeles in the course of the Nineteen Seventies. “It simply seems like Los Angeles in that period, that late Sixties, early Nineteen Seventies vibe,” he insists.
Different movie faves from Abrams this month as he helps TCM contains the 1938 romantic comedy You Can’t Take It With You, which he pairs with one other Frank Capra treasure additionally starring James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore, It’s a Great Life. “It’s a film that’s as candy and charming and romantic and related at this time, as ever,” he says of the madcap romcom.
Additionally on Abrams’ TCM sizzling record is Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary That is Spinal Faucet, with a inventive mind belief that features Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christopher Visitor. Humorous, sure, but in addition real looking, he says of the rock band send-up. “It’s so correct. Should you spent any time with bands, you realize, that is what’s actual,” Abrams says.
Rounding out his TCM picks is the Marx Brothers’ A Evening on the Opera and Steven Spielberg’s Shut Encounters of the Third Form. “It’s received this inevitability, this energy. Should you haven’t seen it, or haven’t seen it recently, undoubtedly verify this one out,” Abrams, along with his critics hat on, says of the sci-fi drama starring Richard Dreyfuss.
Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty in Shampoo.
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