Leaving FilmStruck
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Movie watcher, novice crocheter. Don't high hat me!
I'm way off. This is the scene I was thinking of and that's not the dancer in this.
Criterion October releases. I'm glad the Eclipse box sets continue. I think it was rumored at some point that they were disappearing.
Watched ESPION, LÈVE-TOI (1982) aka Spy, Stand Up or Rise Up, Spy. For Lino Ventura #BOTD, with Michel Piccoli and Bruno Cremer. The kind of French spy thriller that as soon it starts I'm glad I chose it. Good, not great, more talk than action, but I liked it. With a recognizably-Morricone score.
It's Lino's birthday! In his first film, TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954) Lino Ventura with his great pal Jean Gabin.
Has anyone bought and/or read this yet? I'll be near a bookstore today and am curious about it.
#BOTD Jacques Perrin had an interesting career, made interesting films, and is in some of my favorite films, including three directed by Valerio Zurlini.
Gérard Philipe and Anouk Aimée in Jacques Becker's Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958) aka The Lovers of Montparnasse.
If Netflix or Paramount or anyone ruins this I'm gonna be mad.
I love John Gilbert #BOTD, he helped give me an appreciation of silent film. THE BIG PARADE (1925), directed by King Vidor and starring Gilbert and Renée Adorée, is a great war film, an anti-war film about WWI.
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Eventually I'll run out of Cillian Murphy films.
This the most I’ve ever bought from Kino Lorber sale and at least one I don’t remember but it’s set in Sicily so all is good!
Watched INCEPTION (2010). They could have been talking about milk shakes and grilled cheese for all I understood, but it was entertaining and thrilling. (I do like the idea of altering memories to mitigate your sense of guilt. Sign me up.) Much more fun than Batman.
Watched CASS TIMBERLANE (1947). Small town judge Spencer Tracy falls in love with Lana Turner, all good until Turner grows bored and Zachary Scott offers to help. Solid drama about real, flawed adults with real problems and no villains. Not terribly exciting but well-acted & directed.
Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, and Federico Fellini on the set of GENERAL DELLA ROVERE, directed by Rossellini and starring De Sica #BOTD.
Finished it! Took a morning waiting for my car to do it. Difficult read for several reasons. A man sent to Wales as a child on kindertransport tries to piece together his past, Europe’s past. I love the photo on the cover.
Two favorite films directed by Vittorio De Sica #BOTD. ❤️ THE ROOF (1956) THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US (1943)
Mary Astor, photographed by Charles Albin in 1924, I think. The best I can do to counterbalance the buffoon who ruins everything.
Watched THE LITTLE GIANT (1933). Short and sweet. Prohibition is repealed and gangster EGR moves to Santa Barbara to get into high society. He falls for Helen Vinson who is a bigger con than he is, but Mary Astor saves him. EGR's character is too familiar and there aren't many laughs but it works.
Watched SUNSHINE (2007). Directed by Danny Boyle. crew in space to jumpstart the dying sun. Things go wrong. I enjoyed it more when stuck with sci-fi and human error for tension, don't think it needed to turn into a slasher movie but that was the choice and it worked, I guess. Tense, great looking.
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Four and a half stars for Beautiful Thing may be excessive but I don't care, I loved it. And I'd never heard of it.