A few I've re-visited in the past few weeks: *Stella Dallas (1937) - wonderful melodrama. All the actresses involved delivered wonderful performances. *High Sierra (1941) - yet another highly entertaining Warners classic. I have a feeling if I'd lived during the classic era, I'd have been a frequent...

Nice to see you a picture of you both. If I'm ever brave enough, I'll either upload or link to a pic of myself. (The South Park image I made is a fairly good representation.) I'm now beginning online classes in Human Resource Development with Clemson University. A little overwhelming but I hope once...

By the way, adding these titles listed above, my own personal tally is at roughly 540. Some others I know I've seen, but I've refrained from crossing them off the list because (1) I simply can't remember anything about them and (2) I know I didn't see them in their OAR (how much more evidence of my ...

*Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) - dazzlingly well-photographed, though a bit tiresome I really like this movie. Especially the sequences where Vertov shows the mechanics of making the film itself. I thought it might've worked better as a shorter film. About 40 minutes in, I was beginn...

Judge Priest infurirated me too. For melville try Le Silence De la Mer . The Realm of the Senses was too much for me, my husband thought I'd rented an adult movie by mistake. Is The Colour of Pomegranates available to buy? I'm planning to see more Melville. I've liked what I've seen of his stylish ...

Will Godard accept? Somehow I had the impression he wasn't much for film awards, especially the Academy Awards.

As I mentioned before, here are a few first-time viewings I've seen on my own in the past month or so. *Within Our Gates (1920) - Micheaux's better-than-you'd-expect rebuttal to Birth of a Nation. *Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) - dazzlingly well-photographed, though a bit tiresome *Ta...

Night 7: Just Say No From Ed Wood we turn our attention to three from one of the key figures of the exploitation racket of the early 1930s, Dwain Esper, whose bizarre yet god-awful films all possess a certain train-wreck quality. All of these films, of course, professed to expose real-life stories,...

LOL, nothing like insulting one of the most beloved and good-natured actresses ever. Why didn't she just go ahead and trash Betty White while she was on a roll? While I'm not really a big fan of Hepburn's films, I think more diplomacy would've been called for. I honestly can't believe how this has b...

Night 6: The Pangs of Conscience During the restrictive years of the Production Code, "social conscience" dramas claiming to educate the public about controversial matters proved to be a gold mine for several low-budget independent producers. By dealing with issues such as gang violence, ...

You could always wait and revel in Ishtar when it comes on this evening.

Night 5: Matriarchies of the Milky Way This time, we have two very similar films, each dealing with otherworldly civilizations ruled by women. In the ludicrously daft Cat-Women of the Moon (1953- score by Elmer Bernstein!), a group of astronauts led by Captain Laird Grainger (the very tall and very...

Night 4: Fireworks Just as traditional summer camp wouldn't be the same without the bad food, bullies, and bug bites, a marathon of camp cinema that didn't feature Joseph Losey's infamous classic Boom! (1968) would likewise be lacking - so I once again enjoyed the verbal fireworks in this adaptatio...

Will be adding a lengthy list of recent viewings to this thread soon. I've been watching a bunch on my own now that Rebekah's been quite busy with other entanglements, and I thought some might enjoy discussing a few of those titles.

And what's the first thing to catch my eye? TCM Underground's sensational Joseph Losey double feature on Nov. 5: Liz Taylor in Secret Ceremony, followed by Boom! (both 1968)

The only thing that could make that perfect is if John Waters will be hosting both films.