Diane Keaton - Our Top 10 Favorite Film Roles

0:00 I always was attracted to it since I can remember. You know, I was very attracted to being on stage or singing or being paid attention to. And I always shined under those conditions, or I certainly felt good until it was over, and then I felt guilty.

0:43 So we are smack dab in the middle of our salute the scary movies. It's Halloween, it's October, but that does not mean we are not going to stop what we're doing so that we can pay tribute to arguably one of the greatest actresses of all time. Is that fair to say? Oh, definitely. So just the other day we saw that Diane Keaton passed away. Amber, I am not even going to pretend like I've seen the bulk of her work. Honestly, I know we're talking seventy four acting credits to her resume.

1:28 I've seen four of them, and you and I were talking, Yeah, I've got some work to do that, which is why I asked you. I recognize how amazing she she was. And I asked you, I said, you know you. You were like, hey, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta do a tribute to to Diane Keaton. And I said, well, what I'm in the I can't I can't recommend anything, but you can, like, how about you help me send me a list? Like give me what are Amber Lewis's top ten Diane keaton film performances? And I appreciate how fat like you were, quick like you. Clearly I gotta I gotta believe she's one of your favorite actresses. Yes, absolutely, let's uh, let's hit let's take a pause on scary movie season and let's talk about Diane Keaton and her what we feel are our top ten favorite performances.

2:28 The winner is Diane Keaton. Well, it's simply true a pick up naturally. I'm very honored to have been nominated with actresses like Jane Fonda and Shirley McClain and Anne Bankroft and Marsha Mason. This is something anyway. Annie Hall was a wonderful experience for me, and I just would like to say thanks to Woody and thank you, thank you very much.

3:09 Hello everybody, I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm Amber Lewis, and this is a Film by podcast. We're dropping a special episode this Friday because we wanted to pay tribute to the legendary Diane Keaton and Amber. When we say legendary, we're talking about an actress that was nominated sixty three times for various awards, and one thirty seven of those sixty three, which is incredible. Yeah, just focusing on the Big four, which would be obviously we're talking about the Academy Awards.

3:49 Diane Keaton nominated four times for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She wins nineteen seventy eight, she wins for Any Hall, but she's also nominated nineteen eighty two for Red's, nineteen ninety seven for Marvin's Room, and two thousand and four for Something's Got to Give. I'm gonna tell you right now, I have not seen any of those performances, which I'm going to correct, and I'm gonna I'm thinking, I know, I know one or more of these might be on your list, which we will get to in just a quick second. But I did want you to know I did look in uh to Diane Keating. I wanted I wanted this to still be. I know, we're just gonna have a candid conversation. This is more or less I'm almost asking you what are your what tell Let's tell me why these ten performances are on your list and why these are the ten that you know we should watch. But before we do that, I know we like to always, you know, when we're talking about a director, we always do you know a couple facts and a nice quote. Yes, yeah, So I've got a couple of things I wanted to mentioned about Diane Keaton and listen, I know you probably know these things, but I thought, yeah, maybe you can shed a little light or maybe you can add something that that maybe makes sense of it. So I'll tell you right now. Let's start off with one of my favorite things that I found out just today. Diane Keaton amazing actress, amazing director.

5:24 She directed your music videos. Yeah, I did not know that. You didn't know this. Okay, you've watched them, you've seen them, you've sung to these, You've sang along with these songs. Amber like little Amber Lewis was singing along with these songs back in the day. I've watched these videos a one hundred times because I happen to be a big fan of Belinda Carlisle. I like her music. But my brother was like the one that had the crush on her. Oh well, so did I you know? It was Oh my gosh. Her video came on. It was stop the Presses. Yeah. Nineteen eighty seven, the music video for Heaven is a Place on Earth, directed by Diane Keaton.

6:05 I had no idea. A year later, nineteen eighty eight, she's back with Belinda directing her music video for I Get Weak. So next time you watch those videos, know that the talented director behind the behind the camera was, in fact, Oscar winner Diane Keane. I think, I think that's wild, Like I would never if someone, anyone could have told me that, and I would have been like, Nah, that's not that's not true. No chance. Next thing I want to talk about, we have to talk about this one. So Marlene Dietrich started something back in the day that Catherine Hepburn continued and amber, you know what I'm talking about, Like you're not, and you're it's I'm talking about fashion. And how so Diane Keaton revives this this fashion trend where women are wearing you know, suits, they're wearing what typically would be considered male clothing, you know, ties and bowler hats and what have you. It kind of went away and then Diane Keaton brings it back. In nineteen seventy seven.

7:14 Yeah, and like. Marlene and Dietrich and Katherine Hepburn, it wasn't like a little bit. It was in the seventies where she was literally wearing men's clothing, but it quickly evolved to you know, fashion houses tailoring that type of outfit to her. So it was women's clothing in that style tailored to her. So it looked glamorous all the time. And this this starts with it's seventy seven, so we're talking Annie Hall. Yes, right, okay, so that's people. She shows up and Annie Hall and everybody lost their goddamn mindes.

7:55 Okay, Okay, I haven't seen any Hall. You know that we I know I'm gonna coaxed to you. Well that's that's what That's what this conversation is all about. I I have ten picks from Amber Lewis in front of me, and I'm looking at someone going obviously because I have seen someone, Like I said, I've seen four of her movies. You know, I mean it's not zero, Yeah, it's not zero. I've seen It's not only The Godfather. It's exactly thank you. But you know, the whole point of this conversation is to your point, like you know, you're the voice of reason, so maybe you're gonna reason with me, and maybe maybe I go, Okay, well, I'm gonna check this one out now that now that you told me about this number three pick, I gotta I gotta see it, right or you know, and I just I just said number three. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see one more thing before we move on. Did you know that she has a street named after her in front of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California.

8:55 No, I did not. She went there, you know, she alumni though. Yeah, that's nice, you know, and she lived. She lived in California, so I'm sure she's like, eh, I'm gonna go down Diane Keaton Street. You know right, I would if there was a Jeff Johnson Street in Cincinnati, I'd be driving that all the time. Go out, I'd go out of my way, like here, you know, it's not forty five minute drive. No, it is because we're taking we're taking the long way. We have to take my route. We're going We're going, We're going my route. Can I share a quote with you? Yes? Now, I gotta tell you there's a lot of stuff out there that really revolved around you know, her love life, and.

9:37 Oh my god, that's all anybody ever wanted to ask her was about the guys that she did. Yeah, but but I found and like a lot of it was tied to like her dating life, right, And so I was happy when I found this one. This is Diane Keaton's advice to people. Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there, you do too much or you do too little, just have fun, smile and keep putting on lipstick. Amber. I gotta tell you, I'm gonna do at least two of those three. I'll leave it to you to figure out which ones. But that's that's a great love that.

10:18 Yeah, that's a great outlook. You know what I'm I know, I got I got one more thing for you. I got one more little tidbit. I'm gonna save it to the end though, because it's gonna you know, because I know you might, you might get a little, you might get a little emotional with some of these picks. I know that. But I got I gotta I gotta feel good. And I just learned this like two minutes before we started recording and talking awesome, and I was like, oh, I can't wait to drop that on there. But I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna hold that to the end, okay, because that's it. Just yeah, it just it just put a big smile on my face. So okay, So without further ado, then let's start off, and Amber, I kind of get the vibe. This is these are your favorites.

10:59 It's not like we're not ranking them. We're not saying this one's better than that one. This is just your top ten. So take what you know, right, Yeah, these are these are my favorites, these ones that I'll throw on anytime. Okay, Okay, So let's start with your number ten, because I'm a I'm a little I'm a little confused because you know, you like to break the rules and I see two choices here, and I'm I'm gonna I'm assuming you're gonna explain why there's two, right, Okay. Okay, So at number ten, Annie Hall from nineteen seventy seven and Manhattan Murder Mystery from nineteen ninety three. Hi hi, hi, oh hi, hi.

11:45 Well bye. You play very well? Oh yeah, so do you? Oh god, what a what a dumb thing to say, right, I mean, you say you playing well and then right away I have to say, you play well, oh oh god, Annie, Well, oh well, Ladi dati da. Okay, So I know Annie Hall. She's playing Annie Hall, yes, And she's playing Carol Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery. So she's not playing the same person. So you're. She's not playing a character with the same name, but they're pretty much the same person.

12:31 Now. I haven't seen any Hall, but I do know he. I know basically this role was written for her. It is her, yes, And you're saying Carol Lipton is also her, yeah, playing herself in these movies. Well yeah, I mean a lot. Yeah, And it's their dynamic together. And you know, we all know that Woody Allen and my extension his films are problematic, but we're not here to talk about that. You know, it's not what this episode is about. But after eight films together, you can't address Diane Keaton's legacy without mentioning a witty Allen film, especially not Annie Hall. And these two, to me are bookends because you have Annie Hall and then fifteen years later you've got Carol Lipton and Annie Hall. Is all about the relationship between Annie and Alvi Singer and how they meet, they fall in love, and eventually break up. Okay, and it's she's the one that got away, you know.

13:40 And you may go on to be happy, you know, with someone else down the line, but this will always be the one that got away. And Manhattan Murder Mystery is what would have happened if they had stayed together and gotten married. And now here they are after being married for fifteen twenty. Years and someone gets more and someone gets murdered. Okay, so they okay, I just want to clarify, like they're like one didn't kill the other, okay, because you're like, what happens if they stay together? It's a it's a murder. So let me ask because I you know again, and I know she did, like what eight films with with with Woody Allen any Hall. The first one is Manhattan Murder Mystery.

14:20 That any Hall was not the first one. It was like the third, okay, but this is like the one that the infamous one, the one that she's known before she won the Academy Award for it. I got you so And you're saying that these kind of bookend each other. Yes, okay, that's fair, just because I'm. Perfectly willing to never watch another Woody Allen movie again, but I can't give up on these two. Beautiful Can I give you a Can I give you a little extra credit here, A little fun fact? I learned something. I can't do this, you know, I just happened to stumble up on this. Any Hall, you said, she's basically kind of playing herself in Annie Hall? Right, Yes, I come to find out Diane Keaton. You know that's not her real name, right right? Okay, well, okay, obviously you know, but for our listener, but that's okay. I'll be honest. You know, we don't. We're not. We're not putting on a show here. Well we are, but you get it, we kind of are.

15:20 I know what you mean. Diane Keaton is actually Diane Hall. And Diane Hall always went by the nickname Annie, so I mean he could have called it Diane Keaton. I mean might as well. All Right, your number nine pick is I've never seen it again. I know, I got a lot of work to do here, but I recognize the film title. It's it's it's like one of those film titles. You hear it and it's like cinema history. What are we talking about Looking for Mister Goodbar, also nineteen seventy seven. I can't stay here and be myself.

16:02 She's like a lot of girls alone. Who's at the bars alone? It's kind of sad. Cheer up. I mean they don't leave alone. She's never been in that bar before. Huh right, right, right? So where did you want to go? It makes me feel good. You didn't know anybody there. They're that way, you know. I mean, you're drinking your nack. None of that off small too. I'll keep in touch. You've got one thing me, Oh that's what you've got, and to hold on to me. It's got to be me, not only me. Get this into one of your two heads, the only one that can think. I am my own girl. I have belong to me. Now get out of here. Yeah. Two movies nineteen seventy seven. She plays Teresa Dunn in Looking for Mister Goodbar. What is this movie about?

16:46 Because like the title just sounds like someone's hung your for a candy bar. No, no, I know that can't be what educate education. So this movie is a little bit People think why she got the oscar for Annie Hall Because if you watch these two movies, like they could not be two different characters. Okay, So it's based on a true story that was then there was a book written, Looking for Mister Goodbar, which everybody read back in the day. Ok And then like two. Years after the book came out, they made this movie. And it's about this woman who is a school teacher and you know, she's in like her mid twenties, you know, in the seventies, and she's you know, very conservative, and she's this great elementary school teacher.

17:40 I think she teaches at a school for the deaf. And then she goes out at night and goes to bars and picks up men and is adventurous with drugs and sex and what. Yep. And Jane Keaton is in this role. And she's living like this second life. I'm putting a note here next to Looking for Mister Goodbar. It's all all caps. It says watch this. It's very controversial and you won't see where the ending is coming. I think I cannot believe she plays. Don't read anything else about it. Just watch it.

18:20 Oh no, I just okay, I'm in you got you got, you got my attention. It is with me on. Issues about how it ends, But I mean it's real. It happened, but real quick. Uh you said you have issues with the healthy end and don't don't give it away. But is it? Is it the ending? Did they stick to the book ending or did they change it. From I mean no, it's based on real life, like it's. Oh, this is actually oh okay, it's what happened. It's what was in the book. And yeah, okay, all right, all right, I you got you got me, uh, I got me intrigued. I'm gonna find looking for mister goodbar. I'm see where its streaming or see if I gotta I. Got a bar half up like three dollars for it.

19:02 But that's why that sounds worth it, all right. Number eight, we're making out. We're gonna we're gonna count down to number one here. But what's what's number eight? So number eight is a movie called Hampstead from twenty seventeen that I found because it co stars Brendan Gleeson and my son adores. Him, love Brendan Gleeson, and. So he wanted to watch it because he saw that Brendan Gleeson was in it. And I was like, oh, Diane Keaton. I'm man, Okay, she's playing Emily Walters. Well, well, come on, these towers are a health hazard, and I would expect somebody who actually lives around there.

19:43 People wanted to say, attached to their radioactive walkie talkies, it's their business. Do I like what they're doing? No? Do I like them? Probably not. Do I respect their right to do as their little shallow hearts desired? I most certainly do so. No, I don't care. If I were a beton man wage or now that you don't really have a dog in this ones either. I beg your pardon. You don't know me. If you know me, and where I live, I know. I am the one I call the police. What, Yes, the other night you were being attacked and I saw you from my windows, So I telephone the police and I live. I live over there at West Teeth Road. I saw it all. I just I don't know. Are you all right?

20:24 I'm spiffy. You've You've got me on the hook with Brendan Gleason. M hmm, keep keep me there? How? What What's what's Hampstead about? So it's a romantic comedy. It's based on an actual guy who lived in like this shack that he built on Hampstead Heath in London, and you know, he's just kind of squatting and the developers want to come in and put in like a bunch of a part and buildings and stuff, and he is arguing with the city and saying, like, I've been here for seventeen years.

21:08 I deserve to stay here. This is my home. She lives nearby and they meet cute and start up a relationship, and she's recently widowed. And the thing that I love about her. In this movie and this character is it's so reminiscent of a character that Katherine Hepburn would have played if they had made this movie like forty years ago. Interesting, Katherine Hepburn would have been in this movie, you know, from it's like the way she's styled, to the fact that she doesn't look to Brendan Gleeson's character to solve her problems, like she deals with her own stuff. And she also doesn't just like throw away her life and her values to follow this kind of like bohemian life that he.

21:59 Has built for himself. You know, like, yeah, you know, they come together, but it's on her terms and I like that. It's very sweet. It's like just a delightful little movie. Okay, I don't know. I don't know about that one. But it's a little rhym com for you. But this isn't my list. It's okay. Before we move on to number seven though, so we drop back to number nine. Yes, just one more thing about Looking for Mister Goodbar. Yes, before we move on. You said it was probably you said that was the performance that probably got people looking at her for Andy Hall. My question to you that got her the Oscar where they looked at year and we're like, holy crap, Yeah.

22:46 Yeah, that's But what I'm saying is you've seen these two, they're on your list, you're recommending them. Is she better in Annie Hall or is she better in Looking for Mister Goodbar? What's the better what's the better performance? Because if this one's getting her the Oscar attention for a different role, I'm wondering, like putting you on the spot here, Like Teresa Dunn, there. Is nothing like Annie Halt. There's just nothing like her in this movie. Like I'm just begging you to watch it. Just ignore would he Allen every time he comes on the screen, and just look at Diane Keaton. That's a tall order but I'll try. I know, I know it won't be hard because she's like the whole movie.

23:27 I'm gonna go buy a Mister Goodbar and I'm gonna I'm gonna watch this, and that's that's my movie snack. Oh my god, I can't. I'm kind of you got be ready for it. With watch this, I was just like, well, wait a minute, hold on Oscar talk. Could she have been nominated for both of them? In your opinion? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean I know that was a time when we weren't doing that, like. But. Because Looking for Mister Goodbar, like, it's such an anomaly in her filmography. I can't think of of another like Annie Hall. It's so much her personality that you see pieces of it and other things that she's done. But Teresa Done, I feel like, is its own thing.

24:12 I know we've been zigging, but I got a zag. I'm gonna I'm gonna shut down our Looking for Mister Goodbar episode and I'm gonna jump back into your Okay, your top ten. So number seven, So we started off, she's in Annie Hall basically playing herself, and I got to ask about your number seven. Pick number seven is the book Club from twenty. Eighteen where she's playing Diane. Right, and you kind of feel like all of these legendary actresses in this movie are kind of being themselves. Oh I'm really.

24:55 I'm so sorry as well. No, I really didn't mean to disturb you. I know, I know. Oh it is so humili. I'm really scared offying. Oh yeah, well I won't be once these kick into my bloodstream. The safest way to travel? Do you know when you think that, why because you've never really met anybody who's been in a plane crash and you want to know why? Why because they're all dead.

25:37 I think those pills that are affecting you already. My god, what takes you to Arizona? Oh my daughters lived there. That should be fun. Not exactly. They're kind of forcing me to go. Well, my husband he died last year. So playing crush? So is she playing herself in book Club? Then? I mean, yeah, probably a little bit. Yeah, Okay, she's playing easy. You know I'm Diane and I'm playing Diane. Is that? What's up? Tell me about book Club? Because I in my my my minor research, I saw there's a sequel.

26:22 To it, yes, which I haven't seen Okay, so. We'll just let's just talk about book club. The premise is ridiculous. It's these women who have had a book club for like forty years, okay, and they and Jane Fonda is like like kind of the wild one of the group. And she shows up and it's her turn to pick the book and she picks fifty Shades of Gray. What And so they read it and they're all just kind of like some of them are inspired to be spicy with their heads and some of them are, you know, inspired to go on a dating app because they've been single for a long time. But Diane Keaton is her character's a little bit different than the others. When she's in a group, she's usually the outlier, and it's the same in this one. She is widowed, okay, and she has two daughters who are convinced that she cannot handle her life on her own.

27:29 They're like trying to you know. The one daughter is played by Elisia Silverstone, and she's trying to get her to like move it, you come live with me and. My family, you know, and she's like, I don't want to do that. I like my house. I'm perfectly fine, you know. And it's you know, I have a widowed mother and I have felt the way Alicia Silverstone's character feels. I'm also a single mom and I have my son who's like very protective, and I'm like, it's okay, I got this. So I can see on different levels, I really identify with this character. I can see why you're connected to this one. Then that makes sense. And it's fun to see these like icons from the seventies, all these wonderful actresses, like they're older, but they're funny and sexy, and you know they carry this movie.

28:21 It's a hoot. Your number six pick immediately got my attention, really, and it's not because I've seen it and it's it's because of the year it came out. Oh, yes, give us missed it. I guess, I guess so. From nineteen eighty six Crimes of the Heart. Who like this candy. Man? Do you see this was my one and only birthday present to May And look what she's gone and down? Will you please say that she's taking a one. Little bit at it, each piece of candy in this box.

29:01 And then she just put it right back in. Oh that is just so much like her. Nny so I can't help it. I can't help it. It just gets me mad, It gets me upset. Well, Megan's always done wild. You know, she started smoking and drinking when she was fourteen years old. She never mayr old bitch. She ever made. It's the great it somehow she always seemed to give what she wanted. Well, you remember how she's the one us sing the nantass, and you know you remember how she always had twelve golden Jinga belts sewed under her petticoats. Well you and I were only allowed three apiece. Just tell me why? Why? What? I don't know. I can't help it, babe, It just gets me so mad.

29:42 Look at this Crimes of the Heart. We we did our limited series for nineteen eighty six. I know, we closed the door. We revived it on Patreon to do another twenty episodes, so that we now have eighty six episodes about nineteen eighty six. Eighty six for thirty six is perfect. I have never heard of Crimes of the Heart and you're telling me. You've never even heard of it, never even heard of it, and. You're telling me that it stars Diane Keaton Sissy Spacek. And there's one more right, than there, Jessica Lang. Okay, so Diane Keaton is playing uh, Lenny McGrath. Yes, what's this about? What's what's Crimes of the Heart? Tell me?

30:25 Because now it's nineteen eighty six, and now I feel like I'm obligated. I don't I don't know what you're about to say, but I know it's I have to see it because otherwise I lose my I lose a little bit of street cred. Right eighty six is the greatest here for you to watch this, and I will be I promise I will. I'm circling it. It is based on the nineteen eighty one Pulitzer Prize winning play about three eccentric Southern sisters okay, and their relationships with each other and their relationship and ships with men. They have kind of scattered and they come back together in their family home because the youngest.

31:07 Sister, Babe played by Sissy Spacek, has shot her husband. She didn't kill him, Okay, she. Tried but she missed so, but she did injure him very badly. He's in the hospital. So then Lennie has is the oldest that's Diane Keaton's character, Okay, and she's the one that as a firstborn daughter, I identify with. You know, she is trapped by this responsibility. She's taking care of taking care of their grandfather who raised them, and taking care of her sisters, and she doesn't really take care of herself because she did it isn't take care of other people. And like you know we said before with book Club, like she's in this big group and she's the outlier.

32:02 You know. Jessica Lang plays Meg, who's the one in the middle. She's the flashy one. She was gonna go to Hollywood and become a star, you know, babes the baby, So she gets all the attention and Lenny's just kind of forgotten. And it's interesting to see what Diane Keaton does with that. All Right, I'm gonna I want to tell you you got two movies that are definitely on my list at this point that I definitely have to see. And then Crimes of the Heart. It's nineteen six. I have to see it. It's so funny. Okay. I feel terrible, like we we did we close the close the series out, and I feel like maybe this is when we should have we should have got well.

32:43 And I really love also when a movie is based on a play, and you get that flavor of it being a play. Yeah, when you're watching it, I. Think death Trap comes to mind when you say something like that. Yeah, that's I love it. I mean, given the subject matter, I was thinking more steel my noise, but yeah, death Trap as well. Okay, your number five pick. I know it. I have not seen it, and I know they made it's it's a franchise, got a great one of my favorite actors in it. So let's let's let's talk about it. Yes, Father of the Bride from nineteen ninety one. Yeah, Nina Banks, she's a I get, I get. I mean I've never seen it, but I get it. Like it's Dank Heaton and Steve Martin. Yes, their daughters getting married, and Martin.

33:30 Shorts there to be he's the wedding planner. He's the wedding planner. Because that's okay with. Like a fabulous you're a trash accent? Okay, all right, So Follow the Bride? Does it look like my cup of tea? But maybe I'm ready to ready to poor poor some Like, tell me, tell me about Father Bride? Why do I need to see this one? So Father the Bride is interesting because it's a remake of a Spencer Tracy movie. Yes that I know, and it just takes it and then you know, dials it up to eleven. Steve Martin is hilarious. He is not prepared for his little girl to get married. The whole thing is costing a fortune and it's driving him crazy. He has like one of my favorite meltdowns ever in a grocery store, Like I quote that meltdown all the time.

34:22 Excuse me, sir, what are you doing? I'll tell you what I'm doing. I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot dog buns to go with them, but no one sells eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns, so I end up paying for four buns I don't need. So I am removing the superfluous buns. I'm sorry, sir, but you're gonna have to pay for all twelve buns. They're not marked individually. Yeah, you want to know why, because some big shot over at the Wiener company got together with some big shot over at the Bun company and decided to rip off the American public because they think the American public is a bunch of trusting nitwits need rather than make us spink. Well, they're not ripping off this nit wet anymore because I'm not paying for one more thing I don't need. George Banks is saying no.

35:14 And what's interesting is Diane Keaton as his wife, Nina. She's this gifted comedian. I mean, she is hilarious and she is the straight man, and she's there to keep him calm and remind him how much he loves his daughter, and you know, rain him in when he is out of control. That was the low point, flipping out over four hot dog bunds. I couldn't figure out why I've gotten so nuts by the wedding had me so unglued to. Banks, your wife is here, an't you gonna let me out?

36:02 She wants to talk to you first. She wants to talk to me first. Hello, George, Why do you look happy to see me in here? Now? Now? Happy? No? No, no, I'm not happy, George. And I do have a story that I saw after she passed away that I just loved. Steve Martin and Martin Short do concerts. They travel around and do these concerts that are really really funny, and they were doing a show like I think the day after and they told the story and then they put her a picture up on the screen and.

36:50 Like raised a toast to her. It was really sweet, but they said that it was either doing the making of this movie or the sequel. Martin short asked her, who do you think is sexier me or Steve? And she said, I mean, you're both idiots. That's the one way to answer. Yeah, and she's I like that she's insulting both of them, but also she's not hurting either one of their feelings, right, like. She loves them both. And you can just tell what the dynamic was on those sets. And the fact that they told that story I think was adorable. Your number four pick I absolutely have not seen.

37:32 Me like that. Well when that he's seen this movie, everybody. Has I did. Okay, yeah, the First Wife's Club, you know. I jumped again. But yes, that's it. Yeah, we've been separated from months now. Let's not over dramatized. Okay, Aaron, She's allowed to be angry. Annie, Let's use this. He's found someone new. You're free closure. I'm sorry, but. That is not what is Annie. No, no, no, Annie, you are not helping us out here now. I am sorry in this way. I am very sorry I ever met you, and I am fine that I allow myself to love you for all those years. I'm sorry I did nothing but be there for you every minute of every day and by you.

38:19 In your every Now, hey, we we did. We did another limited series nineteen ninety six. Yep, this was not on the list. Well see I was not here then to put women on the movie you know scene. You do know that you were here? You did? Yeah? Yeah, yes, you were you. You did one of our nineteen ninety six episodes, as I recall, you did the Craft with Yeah, you did the Craft with our good our good friend, our slasher girl, Amanda Janic. Yes, yeah, you're around. Do you remember I was so excited about the Craft. I that's fair.

39:04 First Wife's Club fall, by the way side. Give me a little bit of credit here there. This is I know. I know. The premise is you've got one one woman gets dumped for like the husband goes after younger girl and then her friends. Her two friends try to no no no no no no no. Okay. So I'm just bab I'm going off the trailer that I saw. It's for four girlfriends, Okay, Stockard Channing, she was in it. Well, I'll get to that. Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn and they went to college together and they were best friends. Okay, So then they grow up, they get married, they kind of lose touch, and Stockard Channing's husband leaves her okay, and she falls into a depression.

39:53 She writes a note to each of the women and then she harms herself. So they come together for her funeral and they reunite. And once they reunite and re ignite their friendship, they realize they've all been going through the same thing. Diane Keaton's husband is leaving her but using her to like keep the business going. Bette Midler's husband left her for Sarah Jessica Parker. Okay, and you're like, I can't understand that, but no. I'm not trying to be a jerk, Jeffrey. And then Goldie Hahn is like famous actress with lots of really funny uh plastic surgery, and her husband left her for Elizabeth Banks, which I definitely know you that, but still he's better.

40:50 Horrible. I can I redeem myself real quick? What's that you said? Uh? You said the one guy left Bette Midler or you left Betty, he left Bette Midler for who Sarah? Okay, if you give me, if you're if you're offering up Bette Midler at the end of Ruthless People from nineteen eighty six, Yes, I'm definitely taking Bette Midler over Sarah. Jessica Parker. Proud for you, I promise you, all right. So they come together in a plot for revenge, okay, get revenge against our bastard cheating husbands. So they're like, is this like a murder plot or like no, They're.

41:31 They're gonna hit him where it hurts. They hit him in the wallet, they hit him in the reputation. They oh, okay, they. Really put him through it, and you know they it's they're all very heightened emotions, but Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler are the really outrageous characters. And Diane Keaton is trying to keep everything together and remain calm and you know, be sensible, and she's the glue that kind of holds them together. I happen to notice here because we've been we've been offering up her character names for these performances. Diane Keaton again playing character named Annie. Yes, Annie mcduggan and Verdice?

42:16 Is that am I saying that? Right? Okay? I think so? Well interesting your third pick. Should we take a quick break and then and then do your top three? Yeah? All right, Well we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll be right back to see what three performances are on Amber's list. And I gotta tell you two out of three are awesome. Maybe maybe three is all. I don't know. I haven't seen that one. You haven't seen it, So we'll be right back. All right, we are back. Amber has been giving us her top ten favorite film roles by the legendary Diane Keaton, who we recently lost. Amber. I know your number three pick is a sequel to a huge, huge movie, but I'm telling you I haven't seen it, and I'm kind of surprised, like she's doing I didn't know she. I didn't know she did voice work.

43:14 It's a very small part. This is a small part. It's your number three, Yes, tell I have a reasons. Okay, what do we talk about. From twenty sixteen? It's Jenny in Finding Dory. She plays Dory's mother. I'm playing Dory's mother, and my name is Jenny. And my feeling about Jenny is that Jenny is a really good hearted person, but not too bright. She's not a really smart person, but she's very determined and she's, you know, on mission. She's on a big mission, and her mission is to find her daughter because she's just. In a panic. I'm not really a voiceover actor person. But what I liked about Andrew was he made it fast. Things went fast, and and you know, sometimes you didn't have to stick directly to the script, which really feels good, and you can kind of just kind of play into Ankne unless you try a lot of things.

44:08 But he moves it. He keeps the action going. I really like that because I like a lot of energy. I think Pixar gets who you are in your mouth and how you express yourself, and so it's it's I don't know how they do that. I mean, it's just it's kind of like a miracle. I think they kind of I don't know it. It's amazing. I mean they just really kind of you see that it's Diane talking in a weird way. So Finding Dory picks up, you know, we're finding Nemo left off and Dorry starts having these flashbacks, and she starts remembering her childhood, and she's remembering her parents, and she's remembering like where she came from, and these flashbacks and here's where I'm gonna get like checked out as the mother of a neurodivergent child. To here Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy, who plays Dory's dad, like they're coming up with these strategies to try to help her not get lost because every time she leaves the house, she can't remember how to get back. And there's one scene where Dory's in bed and they're whispering, and Jenny is so worried about her, like, you know, what are we gonna do? We have to take care of her. How's she gonna be able to do things on her own?

45:29 And to have like lived that and have such an understanding script. And then the way Diane Keaton just like infuses the voice work with this warmth and humanity, like it's just this beautiful little bit part that she did in this kid's movie. I I find it amazing that she can have such a small role but can make such an impact on you. And I'm sure plenty of other people and we're and it's a Disney Pixar movie. Yep, you know, we we let's just take the toddlers to you know, they see colors and shapes on the screen, they'll be they'll be fine.

46:13 But I I really, I really dig the fact that they can they can have sustenance for for adults. Can you see these films? That's really cool, that's that's fair. And everybody was talking about it, you know, after the movie came out, they were like, oh, we thought it was just going to be like a fun sequel, and then we got hit in the you know, oh my has a d D too. You know, kind of feels your number two pick. I'm going to say, and I know you can disagree with me, yes, but I'm going to say it's probably okay with exception to Annie Hall. Yes, probably agree with me after you watch it. Probably her most memorable film role. And I'll tell you right now, speaking giving you the male perspective, this is the character every man I'm planning on earth is if you've seen a Diane Keaton movie, you've seen this performance.

47:08 Oh yeah, at least I honest, Oh. Yeah, Well, and I have thoughts you're gonna be surprised. Okay, so I. Specified Godfather one and two in nineteen seventy two and nineteen seventy four, she plays k. Yeah, and three she said, let's be Hones three nineteen ninety. She's in the third one. But Kay Adams, the wife of Michael Corleone. I didn't want your son, Michael. I wouldn't bring another one of your sons into this world. It wasn't abortion, Michael, it was a son, a son, and I had to kill because this must all end.

47:55 I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael, no way you could ever forgive me, not with this. Sicilian thing that's been going on for two thousands. Okay, so here's the thing. Yeah, I hate her from the moment she her eyes what until her last scene kidding. I have no patience for her bullshit. And that's why I don't like the third one is because I hate that she and Michael kind of reconcile. I'm like, screw that, absolutely not. She is the absolute worst.

48:41 And you know how I struggle to celebrate separate like the character from the actor. Because we talked about this with Jeff Daniels from terms of endearment, like it was decades before I could watch that man and anything and not want to just throw something at the screen. I can't wait to talk in terms of endearment with you at some point, because Flap is awesome. Sorry, hey, it shows you. But it shows great actress she is that not only can I still watch and enjoy The Godfather and enjoy hating her, but I love her other movies, like I can completely divorce her from any other film that she's made, like she's just not the same person, Like she completely inhabits this character and then completely sheds her so you can enjoy her other movies.

49:38 And Kay Adams is such a sad character when you think, hold on, wait, ye hold on, give me, let me, let me because you're let me land this plane. I'm not saying that she's not annoying. I'm saying she's a sad character. And here's why. Here's why. She is infatuated with young Michael Corleone. And then he. Basically ghosts her. He goes to Italy for however long, finds another woman, marries her, she dies, He comes back to New York, looks her up after several years, and She's immediately like, where's she been? Like what she been doing?

50:19 We don't know because she's right back in his arms. I'm like, come on, like, come on, kay, you couldn't have you could have found another guy, You couldn't have found happiness. She's she put everything on hold for this guy and it didn't really, it really didn't work out for her. That's sad. No, I'm not. She knew what she was getting into. She knew from the minute he brought her to that wedding. The first story he told her was about how they threatened to kill a guy. Like, yeah, don't turn around at the end of that movie and be horrified by what you got yourself into. Uh huh. And I don't even want to talk about the second movie like that. Ever. I have never wanted a bitch to get slapped more than I wanted the slapper in that movie.

51:01 I was so happy Amber Justice once you can ask about my business. So you're you're gonna you're closing the door. Let's close the door on kadamsche did Okay, that is shocking. I can't believe your number two pick on a Diane Keaton top ten and you love this woman and you just you just couldn't stand the character. That's that's awesome, all right. Uh your number one pick is such a fun, lighthearted movie. It's fantastic. It absolutely is. I watched I used to watch this all. This was this one of those movies that was on showtime like four times a day in the you know, in the late eighties, early nineties.

51:49 What yep, I love this one. What do you got? Uh from nineteen eighty seven baby boom? Well, do you know like approximity how much this is gonna cost me? No, Brian, Yeah, well just guess five. Six thousand dollars maybe more. Oh well, that's just fine. That's that I've had. I can't make it here, Okay. I mean I am not I am not to bad, you know, all right. I went to Harvard, I graduated the top of my class. For what to spend my life. Fixing up this eleminated shack where you can just forget it because I'm gonna get. Out of here. You see, I need to work, I need people, I need social life, I need sex.

52:31 Please, I'm a married man. Die here. I mean, how much bettyful this person's supposed to kill with? I'm making their lifetime. I mean, I am a career woman. I am used to having full less and dinner meanings. Do you know what I mean? No, I have been yupped and note to death by you guys. I have had it with whiskers and plaid. Look at me. I am going nuts. I used to be. I'm not prepared for wealth run dry. I just want to turn on the font and have water. I don't want to know where it's coming from. Six baby boom. She's j C. Wyatt Amber. I don't even I'm not even going to pretend to wonder why this.

53:23 Not only is this on your list, but it's your number one pick, because I know all about this character and what she represents. But I want you to tell us about j. C. Wyatt and why she's your number one. So as the ultimate power hungry yuppie. I mean, this is such an eighties movie. Executive turned stay at home single mom turned balanced mother slash career woman. Like you said, I watched this movie one hundred times and it was the one that I saw the most frequently mentioned on social media after she died.

54:05 This was the one that everybody was, you know, just talking and. Reminiscing about she is utterly believable in the beginning as a woman who is like fighting her way to the top of the corporate ladder and you know, dealing with like misogyny and double standards and glass ceilings, and you one hundred percent believe that this is who she is and this is all that she wants in life. And then her switch once she becomes the guardian of this baby is so natural and so such a slow burn, and it's awkward, and you know she's just trying her best and has like no clue and you believe every step of it. And then she retires from the corporate life.

54:56 She buys this farm in Vermont and she's like, Okay, I'm going to the person that relaxes and picks apples, and I'm raising this little girl. And then the way that she shows you her frustration and. Her loneliness, and she's not unhappy with her choice to raise this baby, she's not unhappy with where she's living. She's just lonely and it's not enough, it's not fulfilling enough. And so she kind of accidentally starts this gourmet baby food company and she finds this way of balancing, you know, having a corporate life and being a mom, and you know, for those of us, I mean, I worked because I had to, but I also worked because that kept me saying, like I could not have been a stay at home mom.

55:50 My mom did it with three kids, and I don't know how she did it, because I had lost my mind. And to see someone who shows that you can do both and still be a good mom and still be you know, good at your job, it's just so satisfying. It is a fantastic comedy and kind of blows my mind that in nineteen eighty seven you were going to the movies to see an amazing actress like Diane Keaton in Baby Boom, and that same year you could go to the theater and see Ted Danson and Tom Selleck and Steve Gutenberg in Three Men and a Little Baby, Because well it's not the same movie, it's the same premise where a little baby comes along and just totally changes people's you know, like your your lives are upside down and don't I don't know if Jason and d are listening to this, but like, we need, we need the Baby Boom versus three minute little Baby, right I read?

56:57 I don't know, I don't know which which which one I'd pick. I don't know which one they pick, but you know that'd be a fun one to You know, guys, if you're listening, we need a matchup. Give us, give us the matchup. Fantastic Amber. I love I loved your number one pick. I love the movie. I watched a bunch of times I was a little and it was fantastic. Now you have given me some great films to check out. I'm excited to check out some of these, several of these. Actually, if I'm telling the truth, I told you I had one more little little tidbit about Donne Keaton. I wanted to end on a on.

57:37 I forgot we were having something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I learned this today from the Hollywood Insider. Apparently, Diane Keaton used to joke that her great loves were her children, al Pacino Architecture, and Reggie Amber. She left Reggie five million dollars in her will. Now, from the look of your face, I think you know who Reggie is. Here's the amazing thing, listeners, Reggie is her golden retriever. If you didn't know, because it's no secret, you know, she was very involved with animals. She worked closely with the the Helen Woodward Animal since her in southern California for like twenty years, and to make sure Reggie was taken care of, she left five million dollars to him and and you know, some animal charities to make sure he had the best of care and you know was taking was you know, just I love that.

58:43 That's such an awesome thing. That's the best thing I've ever heard. Yeah, that's and it's so her like exactly, that's that's a Diane Keaton thing to do. He's got to be the richest golden retriever in the history. I don't know, but Reggie's gonna enjoy five million dollars worth of treats. Yeah, steak tartar every night for Reggie. And I dig that. I think that's cool. I read that right before we, uh we started, and I was like, she left five million dollars is some guy named Reggie? And then I had to click on it. I was like, oh, now, I understand, Yeah, that's I mean, there's animal lovers and then there's animal lovers, and Diane Keaton one in a million.

59:36 Yep. Well, Amber, I think that's a great place, uh to sign off on this one. I want to thank you for uh interrupting my work day the other day, because the truth be told, you know, I just I'm at work and you know, I get this random text and you're like, Diane Keaton, tell me we're gonna do an episode. And I was like, and my response was why why the hell would It's right's scary movies. Why are we doing why? And then you know, I didn't hear from you for a minute, and I was like, what is what's going on? Did something happened to Diane Keaton? And then I, you know, I found out and I was like, well. And I fell back because your schedule is so different from mine that I didn't realize at work. So I'm like, oh, sure that's right on social media on our lunch break, and yeah, I knew all about it.

1:00:26 Yeah, So I was I was glad that you you reached out, and I was glad that we did this because, uh, you know, I hate to say it, we've done We've done too many of these this season. Oh my gosh. It's kind of you know, like I'd like to pump the brakes on these. Types of to not do anymore. Let's let's make it six. Yeah, I don't me wrong. I love doing our top ten favorite performances. But I like honoring these legends in this way. Like yeah, but I'd like to do it while they're still with us. We'll try, we'll try, We'll try to season well. Listeners, what do you think of Diane Keaton and her her many amazing performances?

1:01:09 Uh? Did? But did Amber? Did Amber's list? Did? Did she have all of your picks? Are we missing some Amber? I know there's some big movies out there that we didn't talk about, like Red's Reds with Warren Batty. Yes, which I that's on my list. I've always wanted to see that. So uh but. Listeners, Uh, let us know, like tell us, like what which which Diane Keaton movies are we missing from this list? You can reach out to us on social media. You'll find us on Facebook, Instagram, and x. You can email us at a Film by Podcast at gmail dot com. And you can always find us and check us out at www dot a film by podcast dot com. And when you do, if there's a chance we we we call you out on a future episode. We'll definitely send you some A film by Swag all right, Amber, Uh, we'll get back to our regularly scheduled programming in just a few days Monday. If I'm not mistaken, you and I are back again talking about one of your favorite directors, Guermo.

1:02:16 Get it, mel del Toro. We're gonna do another another episode for this incredible director. You want to, you want tell him which what movie we're doing. We are doing The Devil's Backbone. The Devil's Back whone I one of his first one of us is Free. I haven't seen this one, but I love del Toro. I'd be surprised if I didn't absolutely love it. Interested to hear what you think because i've seen it at But. Yeah, Well, for all of you listening along us on social media, subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you and we'll see him Monday.

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