I've got GREAT fondness for Stanwych...



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I watched Lady from Shanghai last night, and while Wells got a LOT OF FLACK for the cutting off and dying of Rita Hayworth's gorgeous hair... I think she is absolutely dreamy as a short haired Blonde.

I never found Stanwych particularly attractive, but I still love her

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I never thought so either, but . . .


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My introduction to Stanwyck was as Ma Barkley on the Big Valley so I thought of her as an old lady. Then I as I got older I started seeing the old movies and seeing what a good actress she was in her prime.

Stanwyck always did it for me. It's the way she carries herself. She must have started out as a dancer. The only actress currently working that carries herself that way is Michelle Yeoh. They enter a scene and I can't take my eyes off of them.

Currently working... Jennifer Connelly can make me tear up at the mere sight of her on the big screen.

This thread just got really Awkward...

I'm blaming it on you and Dom. I'm absolving myself.

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This is the best movie I’ve seen this year. A throwback to the character movies that are rarely made these days.

I got this LP the other day...

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Friedkin's Cruising is just brutal...
I had never seen it before, this controversial film amazes me what a great film maker can accomplish when unencumbered by societal restraints.
Everything is so real with Friedkin.
Pacino is very young in this piece.

Huge protests from the gay community when this film was released. I saw it a couple years ago, but I couldn't see what the fuss was about. But apparently those in the gay community thought it an unfair portrayal of that subset in the film.

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Saw The Holdovers last night. Nice performances by all the leads, and the story is well told. It's a small film (and I mean that in the best possible way) that gently invokes both family and loss at the time of year when so many of us enjoy friends and family and remember those we have lost.

Tonight I watched Happy as Lazzaro. It is a fairytale and a parable that is hard to describe although the plot is not difficult to recount. Sharecroppers work for a Marquise at a crumbling estate somewhere in Italy probably around the beginning of the 2000s. The workers are basically servants since they earn nothing (this is based on a true story). The son of the Marquise fakes his own kidnapping and orders Lazzaro to help him with his plan. Nothing works as planned, police arrive, discover the sharecroppers, take them away, and the Marquise is prosecuted. While this is taking place, Lazzaro falls off a cliff to his death or so it seems. Think time travel and Lazarus. Once he reappears years later, unchanged, he meets former workers and children who have aged.

If this sounds like two different films, it almost is, yet it's also of one piece. I don't know how I've missed this movie for a few years now. I think it's a small masterpiece.

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AG's next project



Great poster design here...

Midsommar Oh my.

A group of college kids travel to Sweden to spend some time with one of their friends' family. Hilarity ensues.

I knew nothing about this going in.

My wife made it until the and refused to watch another minute. I finished it.

It seemed a little slow, until it wasn't, and totally predictable but I guess I enjoyed it. Not sure if I would recommend, though.

is that the same director as Nope?

Nope

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We've sort of run out of things to watch that look interesting, so we decided to watch some Christmas movies that neither of us had seen.

The Santa Clause Watchable
The Santa Clause 2 Best of the series
The Santa Clause - Escape Clause Not my favorite. Don't care too much for Martin Short.

All are predictable and syrupy but I have to say I enjoyed the second one quite a bit.

Candy Cane Lane Eddie Murphy stars in a very weird Xmas movie. Gets really bizarre in spots. But, there's some good lines in it and it is fairly entertaining.

All worth a first watch if you don't hate Xmas movies. I doubt I'd rewatch any of them any time soon.

^ The Fat Man...

Pretty pumped for the Christmas releases:

Iron Claw
American Fiction
Ferrari
Boys in the Boat

Violent Night and Rare Exports are my go-to Xmas movies these days.

Violent night was sort of meh for me.

I remember watching Rare Exports quite a few years ago, and loving it. Glad you mentioned it. Time for a rewatch.

Godzilla: Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki, 2023

Fantastic Godzilla movie! It's more adult and dark and moving than other iterations. IT's basically a metaphor for Japan and it's failed military after its defeat in WWII, being able to rise up and defeat another potential catastrophe.

It takes place just after WWII, and we see a lot of disgraced soldiers returning home, including a young kamikaze pilot who refused to kill himself for a lost cause - and now he is ashamed.

This movie was great...and on a $15M budget, the SFX were amazing. This just might be the best Godzilla monster yet. He looks dangerous and wild and like a monster - not like some of the past versions, where he is almost cuddly.

And as good as the SFX are, sometimes you get the feeling that Godzilla is still just a guy in a rubber suit - and that's awesome.

Loved this.