is Mrs. Miniver really that bad? i watched The Little Foxes tonight and it was a boring mess, i have Mrs. Miniver because i'm trying to watch everything teresa wright was in.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:38 (five years ago) link
hard to say, i liked TLF more; i mean Davis is more compelling than bleedin' Greer Garson
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 April 2018 06:42 (five years ago) link
I'm not a huge fan of the film, by the way. Some affecting moments--almost all of them courtesy of Harold Russell--but for a piece of socially concerned art of whatever affiliation, making light of March's alcoholism always struck me as quite powerfully dickish.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko
eek, not otm. I agree with this: https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2017/07/the-best-years-of-our-lives/
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Wuthering Heights playing in town tmrw, any good?Saw Toland shot it
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 January 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link
as long as you don't expect... the entire story
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
The Westerner is among the best, best-looking (dp Gregg Toland) and funniest of the classic Gary Cooper westerns. His bromance with Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) starts off with them waking up entangled in bed the morning after, and ends with a gunfight in an empty auditorium meant for a Lily Langtry touring show. Cooper has a S/M fistfight with Forrest Tucker that anticipates The Big Country.
Fun that it was made the same year as The Letter.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
Think that’s about to expire from Criterion
― Two Spocks Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
must be better than The Big Country, two and a half hour bore from the mid-50s with nothing going on, as if he has no idea what to do in the west
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
The Westerner is a crisp 100m
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
Watched and loved that one right after it showed on the channel.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
The Heiress on Criterion Channel, and, boy, is it as masterful as ever. Use of deep focus, the unerring interior design, de Havilland's never coming across as gauche -- wow. And I still can't believe a Hollywood film from the late '40s allowed the park bench scene ("Too late, Mariah...").
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 September 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
one of his best
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 September 2020 04:11 (three years ago) link
We watched The Little Foxes on TCM last night and thought it was pretty good. Always funny seeing such an evil, old movie.
The shot of Davis illuminated by the lamp in front of the window near the beginning was awesome. Apparently the cinematographer was the same as Citizen Kane.
The scene where (SPOILERS) Davis attempts to cause her husband's death by not helping him get his medication as he struggles up the stairs is really good.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Monday, 18 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link