Sorry to hear about the passing of one of my faves, I loved her drunken brawling in Guys and Dolls, and her wonderfully rich performance in Angel Face. She was one of the most strikingly and uniquely beautiful actresses I've ever seen, and wonderfully talented too.

Thanks for the reviews Alison, I ordered the new Borzage BFI DVDs over the holidays, and am hoping to watch them once I get back home to Montreal. I've been watching a ton of silents the last couple weeks, I managed to finish off the Buster Keaton shorts boxset, the last couple discs in the Harold L...

L'argent (1928) - Maurice L'Herbier's acclaimed adaptation of the Emile Zola novel. I had high expectations for this one, and was a bit disappointed, the film has grandiose aspirations, but never quite reaches them. The film is massive, with wonderfully lavish sets, distinctive camerawork and very ...

The Best Years of Our Lives is in a perennial battle with Holiday and Stage Door for my favorite film. It's marvelous with memorable performances and brilliant camerawork courtesy Gregg Toland. The first hour is probably my favorite hour in all of cinema. It just sucks you in and never really lets ...

I haven't watched Tess of the Storm Country , I'd like to watch the 1914 version first though (pm if you have a copy). I've watched quite a few silents the past couple of weeks, so here are some thoughts: Afgrunden (1910) - Very early Danish feature directed by Urban Gad, and starring Asta Nielsen. ...

Ironically I just watched Seven Footprints to Satan last night. I'm not really sure what to make of it. Interesting to be sure, it reminded me of Vampyr quite a bit, but I wasn't sure what to do with comedy aspects of it. It's my first introduction to the old dark house/comedy 'genre', so maybe that...

(She is the only reason to watch Airport 1975, where she plays herself and makes endless plugs about her new autobiography!) Hey no love for a soused up Myrna Loy?? As for Buster, well The Saphead isn't very good, but it's not a Buster film in the sense of him being it's creator and main artistic f...

I love the Miriam picture. Interestingly she adopted her son, and remained her only child.

I'd love to see it, if only because the sight of Marion in gym shorts deserves the best print possible. But seriously it's a fun film that holds up nicely against any of her non-Vidor silents.

I'm looking forward to Show of Shows, I've only seen the Myrna-yellowface sequence. I watched a couple silents yesterday...the little seen Madge Kennedy silent Dollars and Sense and the lovely Marion Davies silent The Fair Co-Ed. My thoughts are here . I normally wouldn't self-link, but darned if I ...

Well I adore HGF, but I definitely sympathize with the complaints...if you don't find it funny early on...there's no hope for ya. I'd compare it to Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three ...which despite my digging upon first viewing, I found abrasive and annoying on second viewing. It's all rapid fire joke...

Even if Susan (Kane) isn't meant to be Marion (Davies), the damage has been done. Marion has been associated with Welles' Susan Alexander, and as a result her reputation has been damaged severely. That to me is problematic. Obviously if Welles felt compelled to apologize for the damage done to Mario...

Wow, loving the Henry Fonda picture.

Ditto "The Misfits" pic...the saddest movie I've ever seen...I swear you can smell the death in the air as you watch it.

I don't see every single character in BUB as crazy. What about the psychiatrist and his wife? And David's fiancee? And Susan's aunt? And Lawyer Peabody (a/k/a "Boopie")? I don't see Cary Grant's character as inherently crazy, either. The psychiatriast is played as an over the top stereoty...

The film is a classic, and there's lots to love about it, but audiences and critics at the time didn't take to it at all. So in Hawks' case, as a director first and an artist a distant second, it was most important for him to make pictures that audiences liked. In his mind a bomb was a bomb regardle...