Harry Powell, Terry Malloy, Lonesome Rhodes, Chuck Tatum...
Posted: July 6th, 2012, 3:41 am
What a night of compelling characters, all chosen by Director/Writer/Professor Spike Lee.
Thorougly enjoyed Lee's comments and his conversations with Robert Osborne. I felt it so endearing that Lee discussed how his films gave homage to some of these characters, and their photographers, and revealed at the end of the evening his passion for collecting lobby cards. He brought one of his framed favorites from A Face In The Crowd.
Lee was close to Schulberg, and hoped that the script that he and Schulberg co-wrote would one day be produced. Lee and Osborne both discussed how different film development is today, and how difficult it is to organize financing, prompting Lee to state that Woody Allen often goes outisde of the U.S. to seek financing.
Everytime I see the uneven codepency in the relationship between Lonesome and Marsha, it opens up all kind of wounds and lacerations from the past, and how people who have a desperate need for fulfillment often are victims of one another's deep emotional desires embedded in the psyche of the past.
SPOILER ALERT!
Lee's reverence for the powerful filmmaking of Charles Laughton, sorrowfully his only directorial effort, prompted Osborne to thank Lee for helping encourage others to enjoy and experience such a powerful film like Night of the Hunter. Evidently, one of the most powerful moments for Osborne was the underwater sequence revealing Willa as her hair is flowing as she sits upright in the car. Lee enjoyed discussing how beautiful the black and white photography of Stanley Cortez made Night of the Hunter a mesmerizing film. (Cortez once claimed he had worked with only two directors who truly understood the magic of lighting techniques, Orson Welles, and...Charles Laughton!)
I thought it was adorable when Lee was introducing Night of the Hunter and he mimicked Mitchum as he said, "Chiiiiillllldren!"
At the end of A Face in the Crowd, Osborne discussed Lee's upcoming film entitled Red Hook Summer, about a middle class young man from Atlanta who visits his grandfather for the first time in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
A lovely TCM REMEMBERS following the last screening highlighted some of Andy Griffith's most memorable moments on film.
Thorougly enjoyed Lee's comments and his conversations with Robert Osborne. I felt it so endearing that Lee discussed how his films gave homage to some of these characters, and their photographers, and revealed at the end of the evening his passion for collecting lobby cards. He brought one of his framed favorites from A Face In The Crowd.
Lee was close to Schulberg, and hoped that the script that he and Schulberg co-wrote would one day be produced. Lee and Osborne both discussed how different film development is today, and how difficult it is to organize financing, prompting Lee to state that Woody Allen often goes outisde of the U.S. to seek financing.
Everytime I see the uneven codepency in the relationship between Lonesome and Marsha, it opens up all kind of wounds and lacerations from the past, and how people who have a desperate need for fulfillment often are victims of one another's deep emotional desires embedded in the psyche of the past.
SPOILER ALERT!
Lee's reverence for the powerful filmmaking of Charles Laughton, sorrowfully his only directorial effort, prompted Osborne to thank Lee for helping encourage others to enjoy and experience such a powerful film like Night of the Hunter. Evidently, one of the most powerful moments for Osborne was the underwater sequence revealing Willa as her hair is flowing as she sits upright in the car. Lee enjoyed discussing how beautiful the black and white photography of Stanley Cortez made Night of the Hunter a mesmerizing film. (Cortez once claimed he had worked with only two directors who truly understood the magic of lighting techniques, Orson Welles, and...Charles Laughton!)
I thought it was adorable when Lee was introducing Night of the Hunter and he mimicked Mitchum as he said, "Chiiiiillllldren!"
At the end of A Face in the Crowd, Osborne discussed Lee's upcoming film entitled Red Hook Summer, about a middle class young man from Atlanta who visits his grandfather for the first time in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
A lovely TCM REMEMBERS following the last screening highlighted some of Andy Griffith's most memorable moments on film.