Lemme aks you a hyperthermical question.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Gimme a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg and four houseflies.
― Pentatonic's Rendezvous Band (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
OK its a clear top 3 with eve and it happened one night.
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 07:22 (nine years ago) link
ya I know I've watched a gang of talkies lately gimme a break
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 07:29 (nine years ago) link
i watched it happened one night again last summer, not having seen it since i was a teenaged capra fanatic (and not really getting it then, because it wasn't, y'know, idealistic and soppy), and it was just gangbusters.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
is that a good thing?!
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I watched It Happened One Night a couple of times in the last two years and it was still good, but I tried rewatching Mr. Deeds Goes to Town a few months ago and its politics made me retch.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:23 (nine years ago) link
gangbusters def a good thing!
reluctant to watch deeds again for the same reason, though i caught the last 90 mins of Its A Wonderful Life at xmas and was still destroyed by it.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:34 (nine years ago) link
The Lady Eve under discussion at The Dissolve:
http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/746-the-scorching-sensuality-and-style-of-the-lady-eve/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.criterion.com/films/28103-the-palm-beach-story
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.criterionforum.org/caps/palmbeachblu00011.jpg
American...Sniper
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Saw If I Were King (1938) as my only visit to the latest NYC Sturges series -- probably the most 'major' of his pre-directing writing jobs I'd never seen. It's real good! More high comedy than swashbuckler, Ronald Colman never wittier than as Francois Villon in an already oft-filmed story. (A Parisian peasant girl asks him as they share time in a dungeon, "An epitaph? What's that?" "Oh, usually something good about someone bad.") Pro direction by Frank (Mutiny on the Bounty) Lloyd. Basil Rathbone, cackling as Louis XI, reminded me weirdly of SCTV's Joe Flaherty.
It's a little like McGinty in 15th-century France, tho libertine virtue dominates corruption. Blotchy rendering on YT, don't watch that; otherwise hard to see cept on TCM i guess.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
jealous
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
x2 :/
― bamcquern, Friday, 24 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Missed the whole festival myself. Guess I will be handing in my Preston Sturges Fan Club Membership ID Card to Bruce G this Sunday at the FF Brunch.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 April 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
ask him when they'll show The French They Are a Funny Race aka Carnets du Major Thompson.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Will do.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
I have your answer
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
He showed it 1990, it is hard to get a hold of, it isn't very good.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 April 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
well i did know 2/3 of that
but thx
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
There's a little more, sort of: Yesterday he showed a restored film of a vaudeville act featuring one of Sturges' stock company. I think he showed more such stuff at TCMfest about a month ago. He also told the crowd that the first film ever shown at current FF location was Sullivan's Travels
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 April 2015 10:54 (nine years ago) link
Finally saw Hail the Conquering Hero and good grief did I ever connect with it. Certainly would have given it a vote here. I guess I just assumed it was another schlocky WWII comedy, but train arrival scene is certainly next-level chaos choreography.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 11:22 (nine years ago) link
There Is Nothing Outside the Real: Preston Sturges on André Bazin (video)
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2015/07/29/there-nothing-outside-real-preston-sturges-andr-bazin
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
http://moviemorlocks.com/2015/09/26/preston-sturges-origin-story/#more-86954
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 October 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
Last night my wife and I watched a DVD of The Good Fairy, a film Sturges wrote, but it was directed by William Wyler so it didn't appear in this poll. Nevertheless, the script was pure Sturges, the pacing and acting was impeccable, and it had us both laughing aloud constantly. A real gem.
― Aimless, Sunday, 15 November 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Margaret Sullavan was wonderfu.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 November 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
wonderful too
Was pretty disappointed by The Palm Beach Story. McCrea and Colbert not onscreen together nearly enough, and the whole train sequence is both unfunny and unpleasant. I realize that lots of people love it, but I really don't find it to be anywhere near the equal of The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels or Unfaithfully Yours (I still need to see the others).
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
^^Banned from The Ale & Quail Club--4 Life!
― Jesus Krist of Novoselic (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Lol
― (Don't Go Blecch To) Reddville (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
McCrea plays peevish well (I still say "Convulse me" to students who insist a joke is hilarious).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Home movie footage shot by El Brendel on the set of Preston Sturges's BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND (1949). Also seen are Sterling Holloway, Snub Pollard, Sturges (at 1'06" and 1'33" (on horseback)), Betty Grable, Hank Mann, Rudy Vallee, among others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB_ld-Eh4JU&feature=youtu.be
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 January 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Thanks!
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Ray (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 January 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
not sure i was at that one tbh
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 January 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
Sure you were. You invited donna rouge then we had five people, too many for one team, so you two were one team and In Orbit, dmr and I were Mr. Atoz's Bookmobile - "A Star Trek reference," as the host said.
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Ray (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 January 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
c'est vrai! i don't remember what bar that was (magnetic field?) but i remember correctly answering a question about coin collecting
― donna rouge, Monday, 18 January 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
Wasn't Magnetic Field, but I did that one once with JBR/L and In Orbit and we came in second. It was in the Slope more or less, near Grand Army Plaza, place was called Shelley's maybe, something starting with an S.
― Blackstar Linus Must Comp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 January 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Sharlene's
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 January 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
That's it I tell you! The Big S!
― Blackstar Linus Must Comp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 January 2016 04:31 (eight years ago) link
Finally saw Miracle Of Morgan's Creek this week. I enjoyed it so much - it literally never stopped being funny.
― Todd Palin in snowmobile crash (I know it's serious) (stevie), Thursday, 7 April 2016 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Good morning, darling! You look like the last grave over near the willow. Are you worried about something?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
There's as fine a specimen of the sucker sapiens as I have ever seen.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
Positively the same thread!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
Remember The Night (Capra written) is quite good, certainly atypically romantic for Sturges, features probably the best Barbara Stanwyck performance of them all? Getting more and more into her, if I can handle John Wayne and Mitchum being shitty republicans I can handle her being so, too. Sturges got very angry at the changes to his script and demanded to direct - the extras in the Indicator release make a good case for director Mitchell Leisen as an interesting auteur unfairly forgotten due to Sturges' and Wilder's sour grapes, punctuated by more than a bit of homophobia.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
All good, but Capra?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
I don't know if it's her best, but whenever I watch a Stanwyck performance I often think THIS is the best one.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
Even Christmas in Connecticut?
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
Sturges, sorry, James
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
No worries. Actually she is good in Christmas in Connecticut. I can’t make up my mind about that one, can’t even ever remember the director’s name.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
Agree about Mitchell Leisen and Remember the Night. Another Sturges/Leisen film is playing as well at the Film Forum this month, Easy Living with Jean Arthur, can’t remember having seen it.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:12 (one year ago) link