And by Cate Blanchett, who I think is a highly underrated actress.
Highly underrated? LOL
And by Cate Blanchett, who I think is a highly underrated actress.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Saturday night it was Arsenic and Old Lace with the visiting sister-in-law.
Still a great movie.Frankenstein (1931). On the big screen, at the same theater where we saw Casablanca two weeks ago. Some scenes still drew gasps from audience members; not bad for a horror movie that's been around for 82 years.
I concur. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and certainly my favorite of the classic Universal horror movies. The Universal "Legacy Collection" DVD sets were/are a great way to collect these movies simply because they included the relevant sequels (in addition to some nice mini-documentaries); I wish they had taken as much care with the Blu-Ray releases.Still a great movie...
Frankenstein (1931). On the big screen, at the same theater where we saw Casablanca two weeks ago. Some scenes still drew gasps from audience members; not bad for a horror movie that's been around for 82 years.
My wife and I caught a screening of Frankenstein in 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY introduced by Sara Karloff. Sara spoke about her father and her effort to keep his cinema legacy alive. Everyone had a great time.
It's one of the few movies I can think of that is so engrossing and atmospheric that it really doesn't need a *musical score. What I find amusing is that Universal spent so much money on the score for The Bride of Frankenstein that they re-used it (in various forms) in as many subsequent movies as they could get away with.Saw this for the first time some time last year. I'm surprised it took me as long as it did to notice that there was no music in the film.
It's one of the few movies I can think of that is so engrossing and atmospheric that it really doesn't need a *musical score. What I find amusing is that Universal spent so much money on the score for The Bride of Frankenstein that they re-used it (in various forms) in as many subsequent movies as they could get away with.
*By the way, there is a relatively brief scene in Frankenstein with music--the people in the village celebrating the pending marriage of Henry and Elizabeth, just prior to the introduction of "little Maria" and her father.
In my opinion, in some cases a musical score can make a movie less enjoyable. The Universal "Legacy Collection" DVD release of Dracula (1931) included a musical score by Phillip Glass. Dracula is a movie with little dialogue by comparison to other movies of the era. So, while Glass' score was well done, it's so invasive that it tends to overwhelm the movie and make the viewing experience similar to that of watching a silent movie. Now, I love silent movies, but Glass' score gives Dracula a very different "atmosphere"; not a change for the better as far as I'm concerned, and I don't even consider myself a fan of the movie....Funny how we're all so used to hearing a musical score with a film that it's noticed when it's gone.