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My three favorite actresses of all time are... 1.) Sheryl Lee 2.) Llyubov Orlova 3.) Elizabeth Taylor

David Lynch movies. The bizarre and unnerving atmosphere from the movie brought to mind David Lynch.

I also saw this recently and I thought more positively of it though. Yes, it's really disjointed and bizarre and all over the place but it is that exactly that reminded me of what I like in Lynch movies. It has a kitschy, bizarre charm to it in my opinion. I also have a higher opinion of Liz Taylor so that may be part of it. I've read that they edited this movie quite a bit so that could be an explanation for some of the plot holes.

The only foreign film from 1941 I have seen is.... 1.) They Met in Moscow, Ivan Pyryev, Russia In this operetta comedy, a swineherd from Vologda in northern Russia (Marina Ladynina) and a shepherd from Dagestan (Vladimir Zeldin) meet at a Moscow exhibition and fall in love. They promise to meet again in one year. The shepherd writes her letters but a jealous suitor in the village intentionally mistranslates them from the Dagestan language to trick her. When the shepherd gets no replies he travels to her village where the suitor is about to marry her. He stops the wedding and explains the trickery and every one has a happy ending. There is a little propaganda bit at the end where the villagers all sing about how happy there life is now and that the invading Nazis will be stopped. Overall, it was a pretty good film with light operetta style music. I recommend it.

I caught it too. Elizabeth Taylor was beautiful in it as usual. I think it should have ended with Warren's character losing and destitute. It would have left more of an impact.

Taming of the Shrew and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf really capture her quintessential "style" the best of all her films.

Friday 12:30- The Only Game in Town TCM debut of this Elizabeth Taylor movie.

Father Sergius Chess Fever Shinel (Overcoat)

Very true!

Harold Lloyd's An Eastern Westerner Circus (1936) for a rare foreign movie example

Martin Roumagnac looks like a premier. Good schedule.

According to Moviecollector's database, no. http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm

I like the ones where she wears her hair long. I can't stand it when she had that short hair style in the 60s movies. What a terrible style.

Wajda's Danton will be premiering. It looks interesting.

I see Chris Markers' Letter From Siberia is scheduled. Really cool and rare. I hope they show Description d'un Combat some day too. The schedule does that for me sometimes too. It'll probably be fixed in a little bit.

Soviet cartoons are pretty good. My parents were born in the Soviet Union. These are the kind of cartoons they grew up watching back in the day.

From Ingmar Bergman's Magic Flute Next: a song that is intentionally sung off-key

His movies may move at a slow pace but from a psychological standpoint there really is a lot happening. His Six Moral Tales are pretty good.

Dobry Vojak Svejk (classic Czech comedy )

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

2:15 tonight - Love in the Afternoon (AKA L'amour l'apres-midi) I've never seen this entry of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales but it looks very interesting.

Yakov Sverdlov - Biopic of the famous activist and political leader. The movie shows his rise through the ranks and his activism and ending with his illness and hope for the future of his country. This one is stiff and boring and you can imagine how propagandistic it is. I didn't care for it much. The Foundling - This is a famous family movie in Russia about a young girl who gets lost from her home and meets many funny characters along the way. Some funny scenes with a piano but overall I didn't care for it much.

The Bright Path - Another Socialist realist musical comedy from Grigori Aleksandrov and Llyubov Orlova. This is essentially a Soviet version of the Cinderella story. Orlova plays a peasant woman who dreams of becoming a famous Stakhanovite worker and being awarded at Moscow. After being kicked out by an angry roommate she becomes a weaver at a factory. She denounces a reactionary and eventually gets the coveted prize she so dreams of. This movie is somewhat similar to the Great Depression era musicals by Busby Berkeley where hope is found on those hit the hardest. The fairytale symbolism in this movie helps encapsulate the allure of industrialization that people were looking for at the time. Very good film with nice music and great cinematography. Musical number with English subtitles available on YouTube.

My list for 1940- 1.) The Bright Path (AKA Tanya), Grigori Aleksandrov, Russia 2.) Yakov Sverdlov, Sergei Yutkevich, Russia 3.) The Foundling, Tatyana Lukashevich, Russia