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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Portrait of a Lady with Marie Bardi

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

This lady might not be “on fire” but she IS wearing a 19 inch corset! Social media maven Marie Bardi joins the boys to dissect Campion’s tepidly received follow-up to “The Piano” - the emotionally claustrophobic 1996 Henry James adaptation “The Portrait of a Lady”. If “The Piano” gave Jane her Blank Check, this film is a big swing and (in our opinion) a slight miss. Topics discussed include: John Malkovich’s clothing line for the modern dandy; the unfortunate plastic surgery-shaming of actress Barbara Hershey; Viggo Mortsenson’s performance in “Green Book” (one of our favorite topics); and, of course, the queen of AMC Theaters herself - Nicole Kidman.

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0:00.0

I know plenty of dingy podcasts I don't want to know anymore.

0:29.0

Nothing else. The cadence. Perfect. I was working on a lot of cadence. I think the volume

0:36.1

and the cadence, I think I have there's certain ways he pronounce certain words that I have not

0:43.4

exactly nailed. I really buy the argument that he is that he makes that he is a bad actor,

0:50.6

but there's just nobody like him. Like that's Markovitch's argument. Look, this is going to be

0:55.1

25% of Markovitch episode. Yeah, we ever talked Markovitch on the pod before. I know we've

0:59.8

invoked him. We've invoked the mighty Markovitch. And then he's never come.

1:05.2

People were, I'm like, in seven years have we never covered a movie? I'm calling up the filmography.

1:11.5

I don't know. Well, Bayo Wolf. He is in Bayo Wolf. Creepy CGI Markovitch.

1:18.9

Doesn't really care. But you know, when doing Spielberg, you don't do

1:23.3

him. We haven't done it. We didn't do it. Right. We'll do it someday. Man, he's got a lot of

1:28.5

credits. He's one of those guys who works more than you think. Yeah. He's got to maintain his like

1:34.4

Lisbon club. Did you know about that? Yeah. And his weird fashion line. We've been perked up.

1:41.2

Okay. Huh? John Malkovitch owns like a bar and restaurant or like a dance club in Lisbon,

1:48.3

Portugal. Okay. Yes. I've never been there. I've heard it's cool. But it's kind of an interesting

1:56.7

like side gig. But John Malkovitch also has a clothing line because he was like, no one was

2:01.7

making the blazers I wanted to wear. We did, we did a secretary at episode, right? We did do.

2:09.0

I think we did a Randall Wallace mini series. Let's see. I'm still I'm going and I'm not

2:13.8

see apart from Bay of Wolf. Of course. Look up. Look up. Ben just while David's doing this Google

2:20.1

Malkovitch clothing line. Yeah. No. Look. I mean, one of the most fascinating

2:27.6

figures in we never we've never done him apart from. Okay. So we're going to go deep on it because

2:34.0

this is this is it's not like this is quintessential performance. But in a certain way, this is a movie

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