The scene when shes told her well is dry and is so relieved because she thought it could just be refilled, followed by her rant and collapsing backwards, is a classic.
I have never seen it. I will put it on my list. But one of Keaton's BEST IMHO, is "The Little Drummer Girl" from 1984 based on the John LeCarré novel, which sadly, is still relevant today.
This is one the nicest tributes I’ve read or heard. My mother, a busy career woman decided to go to the movies with my grandmother, a rare occurrence, but daddy had died a couple years before and now mother was taking care of us 4 kids and her mother and going to school, teaching school and was the church organist at the ripe old age of 36 during the 70s when a woman could hardly get a credit card without a husband. This movie outing was a real treat. Wellll, she confused looking for Mr goodbar with the goodbye girl. For those of you who dared see goodbar there is a gruesome scene apparently. My grandmother developed a retinal detachment after a cataract surgery way back during dinosaur surgery times. There was a progression of events that ultimately resulted in the eye being enucleated (false eye situation). Grandmother never went to the movies again.
Loved the article! Thanks. And thanks to those who mentioned other Keaton good ones I’ll need to watch. One of my favorite scenes is from The Family Stone, where Keaton is the beautifully funny, sarcastic and complicated mother of adult children unsuccessfully trying to keep news of her returned cancer at bay during Christmas. When things come to a head with her oldest son, Diane and Dermot Mulroney slip out of the comedy for a great scene that gets me every time. She just had a way to elevate all of the actors.
This was such a ridiculous premise. A person dies and leaves their child ro someone they don't know? A career woman loses her job and ends up with her very own boutique food business AND a hot, hunky boyfriend? It's fantasy, and as talented as Keaton was, I just didn't buy any of this.
That climatic scence really encompasses the whole theme of the movie: women re-defining success in more human terms.
Yes! Beautifully stated!
The scene when shes told her well is dry and is so relieved because she thought it could just be refilled, followed by her rant and collapsing backwards, is a classic.
I have never seen it. I will put it on my list. But one of Keaton's BEST IMHO, is "The Little Drummer Girl" from 1984 based on the John LeCarré novel, which sadly, is still relevant today.
This is one the nicest tributes I’ve read or heard. My mother, a busy career woman decided to go to the movies with my grandmother, a rare occurrence, but daddy had died a couple years before and now mother was taking care of us 4 kids and her mother and going to school, teaching school and was the church organist at the ripe old age of 36 during the 70s when a woman could hardly get a credit card without a husband. This movie outing was a real treat. Wellll, she confused looking for Mr goodbar with the goodbye girl. For those of you who dared see goodbar there is a gruesome scene apparently. My grandmother developed a retinal detachment after a cataract surgery way back during dinosaur surgery times. There was a progression of events that ultimately resulted in the eye being enucleated (false eye situation). Grandmother never went to the movies again.
"Reds" was her best performance. Rest in peace.
In those days when there’d be free HBO weekends, I remember watching this movie over and over. There’ll never be another Diane Keaton.
One of my faves as well.
Baby Boom. What a treat!!!!! I was not familiar with it but the head of your article sent me right into that movie. Thank you!
Loved the article! Thanks. And thanks to those who mentioned other Keaton good ones I’ll need to watch. One of my favorite scenes is from The Family Stone, where Keaton is the beautifully funny, sarcastic and complicated mother of adult children unsuccessfully trying to keep news of her returned cancer at bay during Christmas. When things come to a head with her oldest son, Diane and Dermot Mulroney slip out of the comedy for a great scene that gets me every time. She just had a way to elevate all of the actors.
Same here! Loved her in Baby Boom!
A good read with video and print clips that helped with the memories. Thanks for this cute article about a cute, sometimes strange or silly, actress.
This was such a ridiculous premise. A person dies and leaves their child ro someone they don't know? A career woman loses her job and ends up with her very own boutique food business AND a hot, hunky boyfriend? It's fantasy, and as talented as Keaton was, I just didn't buy any of this.
As opposed to all those movies with fully realistic plots? 🤨
Well, we can simply disagree, can't we?
I believe that is what brought us here in the first place — being Contrarians 😉
Indeed