The Apartment (1960)
Why do I watch The Apartment whenever it’s on, and why, after all these viewings, do I get a little bit excited every time it’s on the schedule? Same reason I watch a lot of movies the same way. I watch them the same way I listen to music I love, which is to say, not...
Bernard Herrmann: Citizen Kane’s Other Genius Outsider
NOTE: Dear reader, I know you've all been in tech hell once in a while. Unfortuately, I have been all week, and while I won't bore you with the dull, frustrating details, the upshot is, I got o photos for this post, so it is incredibly dreary to look at. But...
Disembodied: Waldo Lydecker, the Voice in the Dark in Laura (1944)
“McPherson, if you know anything about faces, look at mine. How singularly innocent I look this morning. Have you ever seen such candid eyes?” “Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she’d ever met. I was in complete accord with her on...
TCMFF 2016: Recap of Saturday, Day 3: Vitaphone, Reiner, Gould, Karina
From my comfortable perch back at my friend?s house in North Hollywood, ?the intensity, mad dashes, glorious experiences, and occasional frustrations of TCMFF 2016 seem rather remote, Gentle Reader, but at this time a little over one?week ago I was watching?Dead Men...
A Viewer?s Guide: How to Watch The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Martha Ivers in the shadows The Strange Love of Martha Ivers?is a total kinkfest, and if you?re new to it, you can use a little help learning the ropes. I?ll be happy to show you around. Time Out?s synopsis is as concise and elegant as could be, so here it is: ?Superb...
A Viewer?s Guide: How to Watch The Gang?s All Here (1943)
sten ?your seat belts.?The Gang?s All Here?is too much. It?s the thrill ride of Hollywood musicals. If you?ve not seen it but have seen other Busby Berkeley movies you?re thinking, Yeah, got it. But all the fabulous excesses of Berkeley in black-and-white pale in...
I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
Joan (Wendy Hiller) is so bent on getting to Kiloran she doesn't realize she's already there. Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), the laird of Kiloran, is as likely to be called Kiloran as Torquil. I Know Where I?m Going (1945) gets under people's skins. It?s not exactly...
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
??Where have you been all my life?? That?s how I feel when I see a movie for the first time and fall totally in love with it.?The Ghost and Mrs. Muir?was a movie I had certainly heard of, but I knew the title from the Hope Lange TV series of the same name in the...