The Silver Screen Oasis

kingrat wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 11:27 am

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 12:36 am


Happy Day After Valentine's Day to all the dear people on this thread.

It's less depressing the Day After, lol.

Yesterday I ate some self-bought Belgian chocolate which I paired with my beloved Lays Dill Pickle potato chips. These were washed down with Sprite.

I passed up the 112th airing of DR. ZHIVAGO but stuck around for BRIEF ENCOUNTER (no sex please, we're British) and always weep buckets at the end of 1939's WUTHERING HEIGHTS. And it was a real treat seeing REBECCA after so many years!

And a belated Happy Valentine's Day to you! That day can be a tough one: I know someone who calls it "Singles Awareness Day." Years ago I decided to try a nice restaurant I'd never been to. On Valentine's Day. Where I was the only person there alone. I never made that mistake again. Chocolate, potato chips, and great movies are a wonderful way to spend any day!

Hibi wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 12:25 pm

kingrat wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 11:27 am

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 12:36 am


Happy Day After Valentine's Day to all the dear people on this thread.

It's less depressing the Day After, lol.

Yesterday I ate some self-bought Belgian chocolate which I paired with my beloved Lays Dill Pickle potato chips. These were washed down with Sprite.

I passed up the 112th airing of DR. ZHIVAGO but stuck around for BRIEF ENCOUNTER (no sex please, we're British) and always weep buckets at the end of 1939's WUTHERING HEIGHTS. And it was a real treat seeing REBECCA after so many years!

And a belated Happy Valentine's Day to you! That day can be a tough one: I know someone who calls it "Singles Awareness Day." Years ago I decided to try a nice restaurant I'd never been to. On Valentine's Day. Where I was the only person there alone. I never made that mistake again. Chocolate, potato chips, and great movies are a wonderful way to spend any day!

LOL. I hate eating alone in restaurants. Since covid I haven't been in any. I as see it, it's just another day to get people to spend money. I don't need a special day to do that!

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 19th, 2024, 11:07 pm

Hibi wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 12:25 pm

kingrat wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 11:27 am

And a belated Happy Valentine's Day to you! That day can be a tough one: I know someone who calls it "Singles Awareness Day." Years ago I decided to try a nice restaurant I'd never been to. On Valentine's Day. Where I was the only person there alone. I never made that mistake again. Chocolate, potato chips, and great movies are a wonderful way to spend any day!

LOL. I hate eating alone in restaurants. Since covid I haven't been in any. I as see it, it's just another day to get people to spend money. I don't need a special day to do that!
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We have lousy restaurants here in South Florida so it's no hardship any day of the week or holiday to avoid them. If I want to celebrate I just have pizza or Asian food delivered.

It's a good way for me to save money so I can spend it on other things!

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 19th, 2024, 10:52 pm

Hibi wrote: ↑February 16th, 2024, 9:30 am DAMN! I forgot Rebecca was on!

I don't regularly check their schedule but was glad I did this time. So sorry you missed it. Did you at least catch NOTORIOUS? These two Hitch classics, two of his best, very rarely pop up.

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 20th, 2024, 6:35 pm Hibi, guess what?? I just checked the schedule and SPELLBOUND is coming up later this evening (Eastern Standard Time) at 10:30 p.m.!!! Man oh man, TCM is knocking it out of the park with these little-seen Hitchcocks!!! First they surprised us with NOTORIOUS, followed that up with REBECCA for Valentine's Day (ha!), and now SPELLBOUND, which I haven't seen in decades. So excited!!

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 20th, 2024, 7:49 pm Yep, CI!

I know I'm asking a lot but would also love to see them air UNDER CAPRICORN and THE PARADINE CASE. Those are two of my favorite (for lack of a better word) "underground" Hitch's, lol.

Hibi wrote: ↑February 21st, 2024, 10:15 am

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 20th, 2024, 6:35 pm Hibi, guess what?? I just checked the schedule and SPELLBOUND is coming up later this evening (Eastern Standard Time) at 10:30 p.m.!!! Man oh man, TCM is knocking it out of the park with these little-seen Hitchcocks!!! First they surprised us with NOTORIOUS, followed that up with REBECCA for Valentine's Day (ha!), and now SPELLBOUND, which I haven't seen in decades. So excited!!

I watched part of it but couldn't stay up to finish it. Wish I'd recorded it. Hopefully these seldom seen Hitch films will turn up again and aren't one offs. The psychology angle is pretty laughable today, but the film's 2 leads and that wonderful score-Spellbinding!

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑February 21st, 2024, 12:32 pm

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 20th, 2024, 7:49 pm Yep, CI!

I know I'm asking a lot but would also love to see them air UNDER CAPRICORN and THE PARADINE CASE. Those are two of my favorite (for lack of a better word) "underground" Hitch's, lol.

Paradine should be turning up before long because it is under the same ownership as the ones that just aired but I’m not sure on Capricorn since it has some sort of ownership issue since it lapsed its copyright

Andree wrote: ↑February 21st, 2024, 5:43 pm I hadn't seen either Notorious or Spellbound in a while. The first one is pretty entertaining,
though Nazis in Brazil with Uranium doesn't have the same impact as it likely did back in 1946. I know
the MacGuffin isn't that important, but what were the Nazis going to do? Build an atomic bomb and
sell it to the Ruskies. Never mind, it's only a movie. The Peck-Bergman romance in the second one is
pretty corny, so I was more into the murder mystery aspect of the movie, which is moderately interesting.
The funniest part was the head shrinkers trying to pass of their psychoanalysis as science. I wonder
if five psychoanalysts were told he same dream they'd all come up with the same answer. The mid 1940s
clothes, hair, glasses, etc. look was enjoyable.

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2024, 6:46 pm

Andree wrote: ↑February 21st, 2024, 5:43 pm I hadn't seen either Notorious or Spellbound in a while. The first one is pretty entertaining,
though Nazis in Brazil with Uranium doesn't have the same impact as it likely did back in 1946. I know
the MacGuffin isn't that important, but what were the Nazis going to do? Build an atomic bomb and
sell it to the Ruskies. Never mind, it's only a movie. The Peck-Bergman romance in the second one is
pretty corny, so I was more into the murder mystery aspect of the movie, which is moderately interesting.
The funniest part was the head shrinkers trying to pass of their psychoanalysis as science. I wonder
if five psychoanalysts were told he same dream they'd all come up with the same answer. The mid 1940s
clothes, hair, glasses, etc. look was enjoyable.

I always got the feeling Hitch encouraged/pressured the writers to pruriently hammer home the fact in NOTORIOUS that Alicia had to sleep with Rains, or at least physically arouse his already lustful desires, before they got married, and then, when they did, to make real sure the audience knew it was basically distasteful to her even though she's supposed to be this international playgirl. The script beefs all this up with Grant's dialogue: "You just chalked up another boyfriend" "Your husband is very romantic, I'm sure he'll want to take an extended honeymoon", etc.

txfilmfan wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2024, 6:52 pm

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2024, 6:46 pm

Andree wrote: ↑February 21st, 2024, 5:43 pm I hadn't seen either Notorious or Spellbound in a while. The first one is pretty entertaining,
though Nazis in Brazil with Uranium doesn't have the same impact as it likely did back in 1946. I know
the MacGuffin isn't that important, but what were the Nazis going to do? Build an atomic bomb and
sell it to the Ruskies. Never mind, it's only a movie. The Peck-Bergman romance in the second one is
pretty corny, so I was more into the murder mystery aspect of the movie, which is moderately interesting.
The funniest part was the head shrinkers trying to pass of their psychoanalysis as science. I wonder
if five psychoanalysts were told he same dream they'd all come up with the same answer. The mid 1940s
clothes, hair, glasses, etc. look was enjoyable.

I always got the feeling Hitch encouraged/pressured the writers to pruriently hammer home the fact in NOTORIOUS that Alicia had to sleep with Rains, or at least physically arouse his already lustful desires, before they got married, and then, when they did, to make real sure the audience knew it was basically distasteful to her even though she's supposed to be this international playgirl. The script beefs all this up with Grant's dialogue: "You just chalked up another boyfriend" "Your husband is very romantic, I'm sure he'll want to take an extended honeymoon", etc.

There's also the dialogue just before the "boyfriend" line at the racetrack, where Alicia Huberman tells Devlin "Nothing important. Just a minor item that you may want for the record... You can add Sebastian's name to my list of playmates." Devlin replies with "Pretty fast work." to which Alicia takes exception with "That's what you wanted, isn't it?"

I'm a bit surprised this frank (for 1940s Hollywood films) discussion of sexual liaisons was allowed by production code.