(Livejournal friends, I am still obsessing, so feel free to skip over this.)


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NOTE: Long time, no blog, I know. But I needed a place to publish this, so old friends, don't feel you have to read or comment.

I recently fell head-over-heels in love. With a movie. If you know me, that won't shock you. What might shock you is that it's a relatively recent movie. From 2006, visionary director Tarsem Singh's labor of love, The ( Read more... )

Worried that your favorite won't win? Or upset they weren't nominated at all? Comfort yourself with the knowledge that historically, the Academy has been wrong before. Very VERY wrong. Witness:

1952

Perhaps the most egregious example of Academy blinking. Best Picture of 1952 according to the Academy? Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth. ( Read more... )

( May actually contain MOCKINGJAY SPOILERS. I know, weird, right? Don't click through if that scares you. )

Last night, I tried to watch Green Dolphin Street and was amazed I couldn't get through it. Cast was all right up my alley, starring first and foremost the dazzling, the divine Miss Lana Turner at the height of her beauty in an array of ridiculous gowns and outrageous period hairstyles. You'd think that alone would be enough to hold my attention, ( Read more... )

The movie: The Great Lie, 1941
Starring Bette Davis, Mary Astor and George Brent, co-starring Hattie McDaniel, Lucille Watson, Thurston Hall, score by Max Steiner

Look at that cast. All at the top of their form. Classic film making at its finest, right? Wrong. This was a horrible movie. The only reason I kept watching it was to see if it could ( Read more... )

Watched another interesting old movie yesterday. Undercurrent, starring Robert Taylor playing against his good looks, a young Robert Mitchum and a woefully miscast Katherine Hepburn. I'm sure I've seen this one before, but I have only the vaguest memories of it, so it was almost like seeing it for the first time.

( Whoa, another long one. Spoilers ensue! )

The other week, there were two Louis Jourdan films on TCM that I'd never seen, which is always exciting because I've seen so many classic films over and over, it's fun when something new-to-me comes along.

The first film was an earlier one, from 1948, called Letter From an Unknown Woman. As I think about it, it's a very difficult story to ( Read more... )

Oo, oo, oo! I love old movies but I reeely love old bad movies. Now, I don't mean cheaply produced soulless crap or campy stuff like PLAN 9. I'm talking about movies that originally were an earnest attempt to reach an audience but failed hopelessly or didn't wear well with time. My number four favorite bad movie of all time airs on TCM tonight at 6 ( Read more... )