SHE DOES LOOK GREAT IN "MARS ATTACKS!" THOUGH.

RE: THE NUTCRACKER and CONTROVERSY

THE COMMENTATOR starts talking about it at 4:00 in, but the watching the entire vid gives context.

GLENN CLOSE gave two performances in the mid-1990's within a brief span of one another- 1994's THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS and MARY REILLY (in 96?) that had me thinking she was getting into FAYE DUNAWAY territory (in terms of not being taken seriously) and then there was MARS ATTACKS! and the DALMATION...

1. This is going to be a post that will make me sound like a mild-mannered contrarian. I apologize in advance if I ruffle feathers. Didn't know too much of Arthur Godfrey other than the fact that he was in this film, and that he was a radio and television personality who was enormously successful i...

Granted it has been a very long time BUT, I once caught a large chunk of the JOHN BARRYMORE/ISH KABBIBBLE/KAY KAYSER comedy to which many of you have referred in less than fond terms and, SUE ME, I thought it was funny.

Have any of you ever had a "MOVIE BUDDY"/"FILM FRIEND"/and/or someone with whom you shared similar media-related tastes 99.99999999999% of the time [even about things that were super obscure or esoteric or could maybe possibly qualify as "nitpicking"]??? They hate the f...

WALLY also tried to get a job for THIS GUY as the desk clerk who discovers the dead woman with JUNE VINCENT’s husband, but something about his line read undercut the drama of the moment.

edit: now that I squint, I see THERE IS A STUFFED BLACK CAT with it's back ARCHED AND TAIL UP NEXT TO IT, maybe you mistake that for winged idol? Photoanalysis using gradient contrast enhancement of the delineated area reveals that it is a flying monkey. There have long been rumors of many of them ...

https://www.alamy.com/aggregator-api/download?url=https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HBJD18/black-angel-wallace-ford-standing-dan-duryea-at-piano-1946-HBJD18.jpg What a gorgeously composed shot. I keep finding wonderful details, like the angle of Duryea's face, the hard porcelain look of the blonde's face, ...

I recall being 99.9999% sure that the IMMEDIATE OPENING SHOT of BLACK ANGEL was ANIMATED, and it cuts to LIVE ACTION once we get to THE APARTMENT WINDOW.

Universal was kinda experimental with adding animation to live action film, usually with their horror genre

Dargo wrote: ↑December 4th, 2023, 2:55 pm
(...well, what's that thing they say about "great minds" again?!)

I DUNNO.
If I meet anybody who has one, I'll let you know.

PS- I JUST NOW REMEMBERED THAT I MIS-REMEMBERED THE ENDING OF THE BLUE DAHLIA AS HAVING THE ENDING IT SHOULD HAVE HAD AND NOT THE ENDING IT DID HAVE. THE ONE where BENDIX is the killer, but the HAYES OFFICE wouldn't allow an ex-GI to be a killer, so they made it the HOUSE DICK. I give the makers of ...

Did anyone notice the similarity of the opening shot of Duryea looking up at the "Wilshire House" apartment building (and which I believe was an alternate name used for the Gaylord Apartment building that sits along Wilshire Blvd, and which one sees as the film opens) and in which his est...

Lorna, I hadn't read your post before I wrote a similar one in the Noir Alley section. If you wanted to, you could see the Wallace Ford character as having a crush on Dan Duryea. I agree that it felt like some of Ford's scenes had been cut. warning, things get slightly spoilerish for BLACK ANGEL (1...