furluxor
snake with a claw
Really hope to be able to go to this tomorrow! I loved Fish Bowl (I think it was Arnold's film).
Films you have seen at the cinema 2024
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Really hope to be able to go to this tomorrow! I loved Fish Bowl (I think it was Arnold's film).
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Indeed. I need to be reminded.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Yesterday was the last day of the film noir festival.
First up was the 4k restoration of Gilda. I had watched this before but hadn’t really liked it for some reason (possibly finding the gambling scenes boring). Got more from it this time round but I was certainly getting fed up with Glenn Ford. Rita Hayworth is dangerous with a capital D though as the love triangle shifts, resets and then closes in again.
Next was the second Mexican offering I took in this weekend - Take Me In Your Arms. This was the story of the daughter of a fisherman who has to leave her village and her lover (a Union leader at a sugar plant) to work for a wealthy man in order to pay off debts. From there a political candidate enters the fray and the former lover reacquaints. Not as good as yesterday’s one but some superb pouting from the lead actress and this one had something to show from a social perspective.
After lunch was Blackmail - the silent version. The sound version had been on yesterday, this was with a piano accompaniment. Apparently it’s shorter than the sound version according to someone who saw both. I’m afraid I was flagging at this point and nodded off briefly.
There was an exclusive preview of a forthcoming Bogart documentary which I passed on as I preferred to see Double Indemnity. Simply a masterpiece, the Raymond Chandler script really shows, and the direction is top notch.
Finally it was The Last Seduction. Linda Fiorentino plays an ice cold femme fatale who dupes both her husband and the hayseed small towner she hooks up with when she’s on the lam. Hadn’t seen this or even heard of it before and loved it.
I passed on the early Sunday evening choice of either Key Largo or Scarlet Street as I wanted a few hours to relax at my digs. I had seen both and would have happily seen Key Largo again, didn’t really rate Scarlet Street much. But in all I managed 13/14 films.
The theme next year is “heist” so perhaps we will see The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing among others.
First up was the 4k restoration of Gilda. I had watched this before but hadn’t really liked it for some reason (possibly finding the gambling scenes boring). Got more from it this time round but I was certainly getting fed up with Glenn Ford. Rita Hayworth is dangerous with a capital D though as the love triangle shifts, resets and then closes in again.
Next was the second Mexican offering I took in this weekend - Take Me In Your Arms. This was the story of the daughter of a fisherman who has to leave her village and her lover (a Union leader at a sugar plant) to work for a wealthy man in order to pay off debts. From there a political candidate enters the fray and the former lover reacquaints. Not as good as yesterday’s one but some superb pouting from the lead actress and this one had something to show from a social perspective.
After lunch was Blackmail - the silent version. The sound version had been on yesterday, this was with a piano accompaniment. Apparently it’s shorter than the sound version according to someone who saw both. I’m afraid I was flagging at this point and nodded off briefly.
There was an exclusive preview of a forthcoming Bogart documentary which I passed on as I preferred to see Double Indemnity. Simply a masterpiece, the Raymond Chandler script really shows, and the direction is top notch.
Finally it was The Last Seduction. Linda Fiorentino plays an ice cold femme fatale who dupes both her husband and the hayseed small towner she hooks up with when she’s on the lam. Hadn’t seen this or even heard of it before and loved it.
I passed on the early Sunday evening choice of either Key Largo or Scarlet Street as I wanted a few hours to relax at my digs. I had seen both and would have happily seen Key Largo again, didn’t really rate Scarlet Street much. But in all I managed 13/14 films.
The theme next year is “heist” so perhaps we will see The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing among others.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Yes, and as a line Mitchum delivers at a key moment would have been idealKnown as Build My Gallows High in the UK. US does like its literal, non-poetic titles.Great film whatever its title.
