RIP Deborah Kerr

I can't remember if I saw the Sid Caesar/Imogene Coca version.

Anyway on the way home last night I finally went and bought a copy of Black Narcissus. I was going to go on the "Paler Shade" thread and make a joke about Black Narcissus having a low Sacha Frere Strongo score, and Black Orpheus having a high one, but I couldn't be bothered.

so you're foisting it off on us?

I saw Caesar/Coca! that one was done the same year, of course. (and you can tell the water was really cold)

I figured I had a better chance of being heard on a 30-post thread than buried in that bad-and-hated-Dave-Matthews-length one over there.

Without a Kerr

it's pronounced like "car" right?

yeah.

Night of the Iguana is so good, a certain kind of movie lover's dream mix (I wonder if Geoffrey O'Brien likes it?) of B-movie overripe dialogue and overaged stars with A-movie director Huston (although maybe he was on the rocks at the time?) and cinematographer Figueroa (although maybe Hollywood didn't care about him?). It's the kind of thing that might easily have ended up a half-baked mess, like a latter day Peter Bogdanovich project. Did Tennessee Williams really write the dialogue, was there no script doctor to punch it up?

I don't know if it's her best role or most typical, but DK is very good in this in many ways: her initial jittery portrayal of somebody way down on her luck, dependent on the kindness of strangers or suckers, her catfight shadow-boxing with Ava Gardner, her sympathetic ear for Richard Burton, her later show of strength. I think I'm going to look in the Lee Server Ava Gardner bio to see what he has to say about the production.

Of course, Ava G is good too in what could have ended up being the Ruth Gordon part.

The 97 year old grandfather is even more wrinkled than David Johansen.

I'd forgotten she was married to Peter Viertel -- who has now died.

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/004860.html

Yeah, he was there on that Night of the Iguana set.

How is From Here To Eternity? MUBI is showing, anything there beyond the beachside kiss?

yes, Clift and Sinatra are good

otherwise overrated; wildly entertaining novel tho

Entertaining movie. An adult potboiler.

ERnest Borgnine pretty terrifying in it iirc

Thanks all, I'll give it a go.

Kael thought The Sundowners might be her "richest" performance -- she's certainly the best reason to watch it, given the longing frustrations and the sparring with sheep-driving husband Mitchum, but the whole thing is at the midpoint between Hawks and a Disney family movie. With many many sheep, and Glynis Johns having a (mercifully offscreen) affair with Peter Ustinov.

I always liked it despite being about 20 mins too long; it was a PBS standard in the '80s. Mitchum is certainly the best onscreen partner she ever had, and she's rather lusty.

Possibly more sexual chemistry with Bob when she was a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr Allison.

Watched Colonel Blimp. What a great film. Like, really

The Archers (Powell & Pressburger): S/D

POLL: Best Powell and Pressburger Film.

these be the threads you need

My favorite movie, probably

it's probably the P&P movie I've watched the most times so yeah "fave" as well on those terms. Despite Canterbury Tale probably being a more complex and interesting one.