LizzieMaine
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-- at least in contrast to today's films and their love of gloomy, muted colors and dim lighting.
Somewhere, Natalie Kalmus is weeping.
-- at least in contrast to today's films and their love of gloomy, muted colors and dim lighting.
Watched "Gone With the Wind" on my local PBS station this weekend -- no interruptions for pledge breaks. I was struck once again at how vibrant the color was, how much everything looked like the real world -- at least in contrast to today's films and their love of gloomy, muted colors and dim lighting.
And the escape from fiery Atlanta is still a great action scene.
Woman in Gold. Enjoyed it immensely..... but I'm a sucker for films about young, idealistic lawyers.
Maleficent. Almost didn't watch it, the beginning was pretty sappy. Glad I did! [video=youtube;ep7afV5wI_E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7afV5wI_E[/video]
"Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935). With Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zazu Pitts and Roland Young. Set in 1908, a newly rich American couple win a British gentleman's gentleman in a poker game. Then bring Marmaduke Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Needless to say the gentleman's gentleman is in for quite a culture shock.
Great film... saw it last month, haven't laughed so hard in years!!!!! Laughton could play ANYTHING!!!! Comedy, drama you name it, he could do it except maybe song and dance.
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Laughton was a great actor, and could "pull it off" in any venue. I watched "Jamaica Inn"(1939) awhile back. His character was sinister and conniving. Unfortuately the copy wasn't very good, however on the upside was a young Maureen O'Hara in one of her very early films.
Interstellar (2014). I'm sure a lot of people would dismiss this as a "mumbo-jumbo sci-fi movie", but I thought it was one of the best and most thought-provoking modern movies I've seen in quite some time.
Currently watching A Lady Takes a Chance with John Wayne and Jean Arthur.