Count me in, Ken!!! I am a HUGE fan of Cyd!

What Mick LaSalle is describing in San Francisco certainly applies to London & Paris, alas. I have been a moviegoer since the mid 80s. In those days, all the Paris repertory cinemas were doing big business. I saw with packed audiences countless classics from Johnny Guitar to The Awful Truth . An...

The Night of The Hunter is a masterpiece. I must have watched it a hundred times. It's such a shame that Laughton didn't manage to make another film. :( He was preparing The Naked and The Dead at some point. In the end, it was made by Walsh. A good war picture. As for Mitchum, he is fabulous as the...

I think Kelly is better 'dramatic actor' in other pictures. I'll mention only one: Marjorie Morningstar (1958). It's a melodrama where he plays a failed song-and-dance man who only manages as a summer camp entertainer. In some of his heaviest scenes, he suggest a level of despair and abject failure ...

We have all seen the same print, Gagman, from Grapevine. Until, Paramount wakes up and produces a DVD! *Spoiler alert!!!* Yesterday I had the pleasure to discover a rare silent French film directed by Marie-Louise Iribe (the daughter of the famous art deco designer Paul Iribe who worked for De Mille...

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/bandefinal.jpg Chapter VII (end) At The Hotel Savoia Discovering the figure in the dim landing light, he moved backwards, slightly annoyed. - Oh! Said he, so it's you! I am damned if I expected you here tonight. He spoke this way to a wo...

I bought the DVD last year as I was curious to see Kelly playing a bad guy as well as a 'mummy's boy'. In the end, I was really disappointed by the film. I found Deanna Durbin pretty bland. The part looks like too much for her at the time. And among Siodmak's pictures, it's really one of his lesser ...

I suppose we have to consider availability of pictures when we look at such a list. In the 70s, there weren't any VHS or DVD around. To see westerns, we had to go to the cinema or watch what was on TV. So overall, these guys looked like they were really curious and looked for lesser known pictures. ...

My favourites: The American in Paris Ballet (Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron) Dancing in the Dark in The Bandwagon (Cyd Charisse & Fred Astaire) Girl Hunt Ballet in The Bandwagon (Cyd Charisse & Fred Astaire) Slaughter on 10th Avenue in Words and Music (Vera-Ellen & Gene Kelly) Why am I so...

You're right Dewey! Nicholas Ray has always been a favourite in France. Several books have been written about him by French authors. The best one by Bernard Eisenschitz has been translated in English: http://tinyurl.com/2cxqx3 Personaly, I really love Johnny Guitar . It's completely OTT like a flamb...

I thought you might be interested to see a list of favourite westerns made in the 70s by French film critics. They had to choose a list of 10 westerns. I counted all their votes and the top list reads this way (a lot of titles are joint winners): 1. Johnny Guitar - Rio Bravo (14 votes) 2. The Big Sk...

I didn't realise that on your side of pond, Westerns were still looked at this way.... :o In France, among movielovers, there are considered an extremely worthy movie genre like film noirs, drama or comedies. When I was a child, we used to have (Ah the good old days of French TV in the 70s! 8) ) a w...

As the following chapter is rather long, I'll split it in several parts. http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/bandefinal.jpg Chapter VII (part 1) At the Hotel Savoia Prince Carlo Cassatti finished checking meticulously his evening outfit. He looked at himself in the mirror a...

I suppose my favourite 'romantic' pictures are always about a couple separated by distance, time or death like in the Ghost and Mrs Muir , One Way Passage , Portrait of Jennie and Peter Ibbetson . I really don't mind unhappy endings. The more tragic, the better!!! 8) That's probably why I love opera...

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/cleteux/SilverScreen/bandefinal.jpg Chapter VI After the Feat They were coming back in the cart, Tito had left the horse go very slowly as there was no use to rush; the public would certainly wait for their return to let go their enthusiasm. Slowly, drawn by...