The Silver Screen Oasis

Because of my personal commitments and all ... I won't be going either. Can't afford it at all. I wished it was in September.

I've been told that I am on the "waiting" list. We'll see. Hope we can all be part of it again! (If not this year, then next!)

And awaaayyyyy we go! Have arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel and am about to start looking around....The hotel and the Chinese Theater and the Mann theaters and Hollywood Boulevard all around are swathed in signs and giant posters for the festival. :)

Ten minutes later... have already bumped into Cinemaven and Sue Sue Applegate. Robert Osborne is interviewing fans in front of an adoring crowd. ;)

Your introduction to Criss Cross sounds great. I thought it would look even better on the big screen than it did on the small ones I've seen it on. I particularly like the way that the betrayals throughout the movie go from being relatively small to large and back again with each character being trapped by their criminal, sexual, and emotional dependence on others.

I love your comment about the gas and the welding masks. But everyone is constantly hiding in this one, aren't they? The few times they express open emotions, they wind up hurt or dead.

Richard Long is a young, slim, and appealing kid brother, one of the nice and normal characters who show us the lives the noir guys and dames aren't going to lead.

He was so nice and normal that we even glimpse him about to slap his girl friend with the back of his hand in the dining room. That "playful smack her around--she loves it" mentality was so prevalent it probably was fairly normal in that context and period--though it sure makes Yvonne de Carlo's manipulative behavior a bit more understandable. You can see Criss Cross (1948) in its entirety here.


I don't know how anyone could decide what event to miss at the TCMFF. Way too many "once in a lifetime" chances to see movies and the people who made them in a few days. I wonder if they ever could stretch things out a bit over a longer period of time, like at least one more day to space things a little more?

Thanks again to every person who is making such an effort to post their impressions of the past week.

Haaaah!! Wow. Yowsa...lettin' it all hang out at the SSOhhhhh King Rat!! Ha.

Last Saturday evening during the 18th Birthday Salute, Ben M not only told the audience how joining TCM was a life changing event for him, but as the party wound down and festival goers had mostly left to get in line for the evening line-up of movies, those of us who were hanging around were lucky enough to hear Ben M talking about his dog.

Kudos to all those sharp-eyed TCM viewers who noticed the puppy's water bowl on Ben M's new set.

The fact he has a dog and talks about it raises him much higher in my estimation, not that he was ever low. What kind of doggie does he have?

Sorry, King. No photos of Barbara Tfank. But...

Here is one of Jean Seberg and It is definitely contemporary, like you said....

Pvitari,

I wish I had spent more time with you. I really enjoyed your posts.
Next year, I will send you my cell number! Hope you are doing well!