My bad. D@8 is surprisingly dark. Travels...though, still fits.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
ick on both counts...
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
Well have YOU got any suggestions, Soto?
― Natalie Portmanteau (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 2 July 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
mega-retro in NYC Dec-Jan
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/george-cukor-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-judy-holliday-cary-grant
gayz, I dare you to fly in for The Women.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
gayz, I dare you to fly in for The Women Our Betters.
This I would actually totally do except it is on a weeknight
― Stevie D(eux), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
IMO that is the real one to see here; it is crazy hard to track down iirc
Pretty sure I missed this poll and didn't vote, but I would have def voted for Adams rib. One of my favorite movies ever.
― ACA: not bad, needs more death panels (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
I'd fly in for Holiday, not the film classic version of "Born This Way."
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Stevie, I've seen this one! Joel McCrea at the peak of his youthful smashability too, Alfred. (New Years Day):
GIRLS ABOUT TOWN (1931) 79 min, 35mmTwo girls, out to make their fortune in New York, loving and leaving wealthy businessmen, take a trip on a yacht, where they meet a Michigan millionaire and his young associate. Cukor said: “This was the period of the gold-diggers or playgirls, in reality, whores who charged 50 dollars an evening. Zoë Akins wrote these parts to perfection.”
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 October 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
now with all 50 films
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/winged-victory-completes-our-cukor-retrospective
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
rowr
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Bogdo opens up his card file
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-george-cukor-file-part-1
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 November 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
and more... he likes almost everything
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-george-cukor-file-part-2
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-george-cukor-file-part-3
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
critics (also Jeffrey Wells for some reason) pick their favorite:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/george-cukor-films-favorites-film-society-2013
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2013 07:40 (ten years ago) link
cukor was very up-to-date on world cinema, and had much more catholic tastes than most in hollywood (and probably way more eclectic than you might expect a studio director to have)
he struck up a correspondence w/ bresson, was known to like warhol's films (and later paul morissey's), praised fassbinder, admired dreyer
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 28 December 2013 07:47 (ten years ago) link
not many (any?) hollywood filmmakers of his generation who were anything like that
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 28 December 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link
Added 2013: While I still enjoy all the performances in this picture, I don't really like the intentions of the script, which were to dethrone and demystify the goddess Hepburn had become in the 30s. She is blamed for her own divorce, even though her husband was an alcoholic, as well as blamed for her father's philandering! Holiday, with the same two leads, the same writer and the same director, is an infinitely better movie. But this one is much more famous, unfortunately.
otm
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 12:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah, well at least she doesn't burn breakfast like in Woman of the Year.
I'm seeing the one with Lana Turner today, which I'd never even heard of before, abd probably The Actress, in which Spencer Tracy is amazing as the father.
I saw Candice Bergen introduce Rich and Famous a couple weeks ago, and she said the first A.D. essentially directed the last 3 weeks cuz the work just wore GC down. "81 then was not like 81 today" was her explanation; Cukor became confused about where he was at some times. Bergen says quick pacing was his primary concern: "At a good clip, ladies!" R&F manages not to be awful despite a pretty bad script.
Also, Sylvia Scarlett, wow.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
I was going to rent it until my records told me I did already in December '11.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
i wasn't as impressed w/ sylvia scarlett as i wanted to be, but it's probably time to revisit it after a decade.
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 28 December 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Grant and Edmund Gwenn do a lot of rough-hewn hoofing/movement -- it's like they're fresh from the music hall.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
I remember seeing Richard Burton rave about Tracy in this scene -- he watched them shoot it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kltwQK3Mhs
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
the actress is a paddy chayevsky script or adaptation, right?
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
just checked: it's not. what movie am i thinking of?
...
it's the goddess: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051667/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_22
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
yes, The Actress was scripted from her own autobiographical play by Ruth Gordon. It's really solid; Tracy is near his best, supported by JS and Teresa Wright, looking plausibly older than 34 as Ruth's mother.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
teresa wright moved frighteningly quickly from ingenue to playing matronly roles
teresa wright is the bomb btw
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Sunday, 29 December 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Brody on Cukor's themes of secrets and disclosure
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/12/the-celebrity-masks-of-george-cukor.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
The discreet charm of Cukor
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
David Phelps compares him to McCarey and LaCava as a "piano" director:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-second-hand-illusion-notes-on-cukor
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Hepburn and Olivier really got a star vehicle worthy of them in Love Among the Ruins, which won a bunch of Emmys. It's maybe her flat-out funniest performance aside from Bringing Up Baby, and he does some really great Oliver Hardy takes reacting to her. (The tender stuff mostly works too.)
It's "unavailable" but seems to be on YouTube in its entirety -- shame about the quality, very nicely shot by Douglas Slocombe.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
It Should Happen to You and Born Yesterday are two faves but I can't get anyone to watch them more than the first few minutes with me.
― *tera, Thursday, 2 January 2014 05:33 (ten years ago) link
more Bogdo index cards -- nice Welles story at the very end.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/00000143-5a25-d395-a377-7e6faa680000
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-cukor-file-part-5
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:01 (ten years ago) link
holy shit alfred otm abt lew ayers in holiday. completely robbed the movie for me. his monologue to k-hep abt what it's like to get drunk just stopped it. the realest saddest thing. runners-up: "mother tried to be a seton a while, till she gave up and died" and his exit line: "and... to grandfather!"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 9 August 2014 08:36 (nine years ago) link
Here's a list..
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
A Woman's Face is addled in the best way.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
Rich and Famous comes to the Warner Archive: https://www.wbshop.com/products/rich-and-famous-1981-mod
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
Koresky on Sylvia Scarlett
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-then-1935-katherine-hepburn-cary-grant-george-cukor/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 July 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
A marvelous read, and I've enjoyed his series.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/05f931fc02d365516a299774f13732fb/w0FMh8OYztwqUX6hYASaLhdr7lmeXL_small.jpg
Coming In January!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
The 20% of Dinner at Eight that is pure soap opera I'm happy to ignore, given how dazzlingly crafted the rest of it is. Harlow, Dressler, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy (who has two great long scenes with John Barrymore) all near career heights. Wallace Beery and Harlow are doing an early (better) version of Born Yesterday.
And Lionel Barrymore is almost... restrained? How the hell did Cukor pull that off? (Maybe just by whispering "Dressler will eat you alive.")
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 July 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
also... Marie Dressler's Carlotta has a dog named Mussolini, but they redubbed it as "Tarzan" by release date.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link