Bronxgirl48
-
Posts
14,533 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Posts posted by Bronxgirl48
-
-
So I unintentionally wake up from a sound sleep at 4:30 a.m (the t.v.is on) and I blearily see the beginning of WILD IS THE WIND. Not two seconds into it, Anthony Quinn is kneeling at a gravesite and already overacting. I can't believe George Cukor is directing this. Seems more like an Elia Kazan job to me.
Things get better, however, when the great Anna Magnani (what a great LAUGH she has) appears as Tony's new wife straight from Italy. She's welcomed into his family but you feel for her as she's overwhelmed in the farmhouse by their well-intentioned but overbearing ministrations, so she finally goes outside to compose herself and get some fresh air; she's a force of nature, and naturally bonds with dogs and horses. She's not meek like Quinn's dead first spouse to whom he's always comparing her.. Many times in exasperation she has to shout, "I AM NOT ROSEANNA, I AM GIOLA!" Quinn, doing probably the first of his Broad Ethnic Types, is loud and earthy and passionate, but unaware of how dominating and insensitive he can be, so of course Anna gravitates towards the gentle and understanding adoptive Basque son Tony Franciosa, whenever Quinn leaves her alone for stretches at a time to go on business trips.
I wanted to see this through to the end, but the sandman was getting the better of me. The last thing I remember was Anna doing a pre-Marilyn Monroe-ish THE MISFITS tirade at the taming of wild horses, the symbolism of which actually didn't make me feel too bad about missing the rest.
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
No fox fur? What about the little game puzzle that Dana plays?
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
So I saw the first Stewart Mann, WINCHESTER 73. The best scene was Indian trader McIntire playng poker with McNally. Second was Duryea bossing that weasel Charles Drake around with the coffee. What Shelley ever saw in him is beyond me. Loved the historical references; Stewart was scary, turning on a dime as he goes from mild to pounding Duryea's head on the bar counter. I always enjoy Jay C. Flippen. I didn't care for the ending; wouldn't it have played better dramatically to have us in on the Stewart-McNally relationship from the beginning, rather than having it "wrapped up" quickly by Jay to Shelley? Really dug Jimmy and Millard Mitchell together. I normally prefer westerns with scope, grandeur, those epic landscapes and a rousing or haunting score, so my favorite so far of this collaboration is BEND OF THE RIVER.
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
Duke looks very sexy in that clinch with Ella. Interesting that she's dropping her gun.
-
I know I've seen PHANTOM LADY, but I don't remember it too well.
-
Frank, watching it the other day, I think I'm s..l..o..w..l..y coming around to the fact that VERTIGO might indeed be a masterpiece. It's still crystalizing in my mind but it should come together soon for me. It's a very formal work, every frame is composed almost like a Japanese work of art, there's a lot of structure and harmony in the compositions. The subject matter is ostensibly about power and obsession, but also about identity. I'll have to get back to you with these thoughts.
I love Stewart's apartment. I don't like Midge's -- hers is a hodge-podge, while Scottie's is modern and neat as a pin.
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
Thanks for that info, kim!
-
There is a Welles-Nostradamus resemblance, and a connection.
'I think it would be fun to prognosticate!"
-
I think I got a little impatient with all the THE AFRICAN QUEEN airings.
-
Those beards do have rats in them. By the way, Happy Year of the Rat.
-
Lusty singing and dancing I can take only once a year.
-
Nostradamus probably has a quatrain about that.
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
Hope I don't have to wait that long.
-
Did Orson just narrate that, or did he play Nosty as well?
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
LOL LOL LOL
-
Thanks, Arkadin. I'll hope that they will.
I'm looking forward to FIVE STAR FINAL.
-
Beautiful photo!
-
Interestingly, both Day and Lane starred in Hitchcock films -- Doris was in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, and Priscilla in SABOTEUR. The Master knew how to exploit the two actresses's squeaky-clean personas, for suspense purposes.
-
Yes he was.
-
I'd love to see the white-picket fence world of Claude Rains's family intersecting with the existential, urban angst of Garfield.
Happily I'll be able to catch FIVE STAR FINAL early Wednesday. It does indeed sound relevant.
I rewatched NETWORK a few nights ago, and that was depressingly prescient.
-
I had to take an important phone call, and left the movie just as John Garfield was giving his the-fates-are-against-me speech to sunny Priscilla Lane. This was Julie's star making role, and I really want to see it.
Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48
-
She's definitely in that Lauren Bacall classy 40's noir-mystery mold, which is why it was interesting for me that she's in a western.
-
Thanks, Miss G. It certainly didn't seem like the standard shoot-em-up Western to me from that trailer.
-
Him and Chris Matthews.
CELEBRATE THE CHINESE YEAR OF THE RAT ON FEBRUARY 9th
in Hot Topics
Posted
And a Gung Hay Fat Choy to you too, FF!