Very nicely said, Sugarpuss. I wasn't particularly lonely as a kid, but I was blessed (cursed?) with an overly active imagination. I was always acting out things I read in books, either by doing a little play or using Barbie dolls or just pretending. In the 70's they used to play old movies at parti...

Is there something wrong with mt? I found "Rosemary's Baby" extremely funny when I watched it a few years back. Ruth Gordon and Patsy Kelly were a hoot. I loved the way the next door neighbors kept bursting in everytime the couple tried to get intimate--saving Rosemary for the Master, no d...

Hi TraceyK - Those beautifully moody French films of the late 1930s were definitely precursors to the American noir style. After all, it was the French who identified the 1940s American films as "film noir" (despite the fact that there were equal measures of German Expressionism influenci...

Katharine Hepburn for "Summertime"
Marlene Dietrich for "Witness for the Prosecution"

Haven't paid enough attention to recent ones, though I agree about Haley Joel Osmet. He was amazing in "The 6th Sense."

Tracey

Still, you never know how such things may turn out. I saw another play, this one off-Broadway, about Katharine Hepburn, starring Kate Mulgrew. I wasn't sure how that would be, but Mulgrew pulled it off very well, despite the fact that she was rather short and plumpish. She captured Hepburn's speech...

A few years back, I was both excited and appalled to see it announced that Gwenyth Paltrow was going to play Marlene Dietrich in a new movie. Excited, because I think, if done well, a Dietrich bio could be fantastic and appalled because of, well, the actress signed to play her. I google this combo e...

I know what you mean about "Summertime." Her whole life (such as it is) is a tragedy. So vulnerable, especially the scene you've pictured. The way she immediately withdraws into her shell the minute anyone seems to be rejecting her. And then to think she's found true love and the guy is ma...

As to Frankenstein vs. Dracula in general, for me, the horror of Frankenstein lies in the fact that he can't help be what he is...and he knows it. Doomed to spend a lifetime inside a body made of rotting corpses. If he was ignorant of his fate, it wouldn't be as chilling. Dracula's more straight-up ...

For me, and it's a very personal choice, the ultimate Dracula was Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu . He was, as a vampire should be, genuinely alien. Yep, me too. Have you ever seen the movie "Shadow of the Vampire?" It's about the making of "Nosferatu. A little hard to believe, bu...

The psychology of the possibility of that happening is too real. All the others are imagination working overtime during the movie, but certain things come to you in the dark, and these cicadas this year are not helping the situation any. Anne I'm from SW Ohio and we had the cicadas 3 years ago. Man...

I'm with you all on the animals in jeopardy theme. Geez. Can't watch anything where the animals die, especially dogs for some reason. Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, even that ridiculous slobbery dog in Turner and Hooch just kill me. First time I ever cried at a movie was E.T.--not the scene w...

I just got this film in the mail yesterday and plan to watch it this weekend.

RE: the japanese "Scarlett"

OK, is it just me or does the whole concept of a Japanese cast playing denizens of tthe American South seem, well, totally and irretrievably wrong??

(Although I suppose its no worse than a red-haired, blue-eyed American playing a Chinese peasant...)

I know a lot of local censorship boards cut the "naked Moon" dance (which my 13-year-old daughter thought was hilarious) when this movie was first released--were other scenes cut and maybe destroyed? One of the books I read about the production code (can't remember which one off the top of...

How about these? "Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul." ~~Marilyn Monroe "The happy ending of many films is the fact that the picture has ended." ~~Henny Youngman "The length of a film should be directly related ...