Wow...Kudos to you for putting this together...I can't imagine how difficult it must have been like to choose the films (Personal opinion: If you'd subbed out Con Air, The Wicker Man and Vampire's Kiss with Face/Off, Valley Girl and Peggy Sue Got Married it would've been practically perfect).
@3: Face/Off has too much Travolta. I love Cage's performance in Face/Off, but I think Con Air is his best, purest showcase action role.
As to Valley Girl/Peggy Sue: I love both those movies, but I wanted movies where Cage had the most screen time. Maybe if enough people are into this one, someday we'll do a Tag-Team Cage Match where we show off his best supporting roles.
And finally, I will cut anyone who says Vampire's Kiss doesn't belong in this festival. I love that movie so, so much.
When did Frances McDormand take over for Holly Hunter in playing Ed McDunnough in "Raising Arizona?" (cf http://www.siff.net/cinema/nicolas-cage-…) -- someone's been messing with your program notes over at SIFF, birthday boy.
I so, so completely support a Nic Cage film festival. And I can accept that you wanted pure Cage showcase films and therefore (sob) no Face/Off. (Although I feel like it should get some kind of pass out of sheer awesomeness.) But, unfortunately, I'm just not a fan of over half these movies and the Wicker Man just has so many bees. No chance of subbing in Matchstick Men for anything?
I don't live there anymore but so would love to do this. Excellent lineup! Something about Honeymoon in Vegas I always enjoyed - Ka'p'a'a! , the Flying Elvis's, Caan, crazy poker rage, even a baby Bruno Mars.
“I just came off Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and that was sort of like a pop-art operatic performance, larger than life, what I would call a jazz acting thing. It was time to remind people that that is not all I can do and I actually can be quiet and cinéma vérité and be more into the minutiae of the performance.”
To that end, I have a dog crate you can borrow if you want.
@3: Face/Off has too much Travolta. I love Cage's performance in Face/Off, but I think Con Air is his best, purest showcase action role.
As to Valley Girl/Peggy Sue: I love both those movies, but I wanted movies where Cage had the most screen time. Maybe if enough people are into this one, someday we'll do a Tag-Team Cage Match where we show off his best supporting roles.
And finally, I will cut anyone who says Vampire's Kiss doesn't belong in this festival. I love that movie so, so much.
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@12: Wild at Heart is a favorite of mine, too. That's definitely one that easily could've made the cut.
@14: Two million.
@15. Nope, that's my mistake. I don't know how that happened. (Well, McDormand has her own Coen connection, but that's still no excuse.)
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Nicolas Cage, Independent (UK) 20/7/13