Big Screen Bates

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The IFC Center here in NYC is doing a miniature Charlotte Rampling series over the next two months - they're showing eight films from her 50 year career (literally fifty years -- her first two roles were in 1965) starting this weekend and running through the start of March. Clearly this is meant to coincide with what everyone who's seen 45 Years is hoping will be her first Oscar nomination ever (god that's depressing) for 45 Years, in which she's typically devastating -- hell if you've seen the movie you're probably hoping she wins the statue.

Anyway the series starts this weekend with Georgy Girl, her third movie and a great big gargantuan hit which made her a star, and which I just now realized I totally need to go see not because of Rampling and not because of Lynn Redgrave, even though they're both terrific in the movie, but because of Alan Bates, oh Alan Bates, who plays one of my biggest crushes ever put on a screen in it. I've posted about it in exquisite detail before - he's the dreamiest dreamboat in the movie. Don't mind if I do!
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