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Published Sunday, August 31, 2008 by skyes-blog5191.
I really had a blast watching Do You Remember Dolly Bell?. The movie was amazing and starred both of my favorite actors Slavko Stimac & Slobodan Aligrudic. The star power and the chemistry between Slavko Stimac and Slobodan Aligrudic made Do You Remember Dolly Bell? not only watchable and believeable, but a must see!
Director Emir Kusturica is known outside of his native Bosnia for films such as ARIZONA DREAM, UNDERGROUND and BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT. This early example of his work was shot in his home country in the early 1980s (when it was still known as Yugoslavia), is set in the 1960s, and follows the fortunes of a young man named Dino (Slavko Stimac). Enthralled by the life that flashes before his eyes in the local cinema, Dino becomes enamored of the criminal life, and enters into a life of petty crime. But when he is rewarded for his work via a liaison with local prostitute Dolly Bell (Ljiljana Blagojevic), his world is turned upside down as he falls in love with her. Showing signs of the stylistic flair that Kusturica was to effectively deploy in later movies, DO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL? is a must-see for fans of his work.
The cast of Do You Remember Dolly Bell? is: Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mira Banjac, Pavle Vujisic
I really loved watching Good Luck! Not only was it a great movie but had two of my favorite actors in it, Gregory Hines and Vincent D'Onofrio. Gregory Hines and Vincent D'Onofrio looked liked they really enjoyed making Good Luck. Their chemistry was so amazing! I have left some images, links, and ebay auctions for Good Luck below.
Good Luck--which played the 1997 film festival circuit under the unwieldy title The Ox and the Eye--is a casebook example of good intentions getting in the way of good filmmaking. This is one of those eager-to-please movies that works well on the surface while perpetuating a stereotypical (and therefore condescending) perception of the disabled. The story is strictly movie-of-the-week fodder, involving the odd-couple pairing of a former football star (Vincent D'Onofrio) who was blinded in a freak tackling accident, and a paraplegic (Gregory Hines) who dreams of entering a popular white-water rafting competition on Oregon's Rogue River.
Hines convinces the bull-headed D'Onofrio to join him in the competition, defying all those bumpkin nonbelievers who doubt that two "cripples" can pilot a river raft, and Good Luck settles into its predictable feel-good plotting. The movie is most enjoyable when Hines and D'Onofrio simply play off of each other's considerable talents, and humorous dialogue enables them to give engaging performances (although we could do without the gratuitous profanity and D'Onofrio's gleeful description of a prodigious bowel movement). The problem with this movie is that it avoids depth at every turn, favoring triumph-over-adversity clichs and offering nothing new (or particularly authentic) in its handling of the physical and emotional issues of blindness and paralysis. The direction varies from adequate to amateurish, and by the time the movie indulges an obligatory ending that's pregnant with saccharine uplift, only the most gullible viewer will be suckered into feeling good. --Jeff Shannon
The wonderful cast includes Gregory Hines, Vincent D'Onofrio, Max Gail, Joe Theismann, Roy Firestone.
If you are a big fan of Gregory Hines or Vincent D'Onofrio then you will really want to watch Good Luck!