Libby Morse
@libbyr
“Pragmatic and somewhat buzzy”— The New York Times
There should be a Great Cabbies of Classic Cinema series so we can include Ned Glass.
The Jean Louis clothes would have been enough to hook me but I ended up loving all of Portrait in Black (1960), now on Criterion Channel’s Murderous Melodramas series. And were Anthony Quinn’s last words “Oh shit!”??? (No.)
Was it worth waiting two years (I first heard about it in 2024) to see Ninón Sevilla in Bracho’s Take Me in Your Arms (1954) on Criterion? Was Figueroa’s cinematography amazing? 💯 on both counts.
Folks in Saratoga Springs kept telling us there was a fabulous bakery on the outskirts of town “next door to the X-Files Museum” and they were absolutely right.
My iPhone photo search will find this one whether you search for “cat” or “James Joyce.”
Last night’s watch: Sugawa’s Beast Must Die (Yaju Shisubeshi, 1959). There are several movies with this name—this is the one in which Tatsuya Nakadai is a sociopathic grad student in literature who is hellbent on getting a fellowship to Harvard. Higher Ed is one tough town.
Been trying to see Take Me in Your Arms for 2+ years. And now it’s going to be on Criterion in July???? Plus one I’ve never heard of????#NinónSevilla
Watched Visconti’s Ossessione (1943). I had seen In the Name of the Law a few days earlier, but that hardly prepared me for Massimo Girotti in that exquisitely torn and filthy undershirt.
I have vivid memories of the art room at my elementary school: sunlit, huge, and presided over by Hilda Stuhlmiller, who made sure we could recognize the great artists by sight. I thought of that room and Ms. Stuhlmiller a lot when I visited the Paul Klee show at the Jewish Museum.
Ladies and Gentlemen, direct from the Farmers Market: The Dancing Strawberry!!!
Finished my rereading of Moby Dick in total awe and with a big fat crush on Ishmael.
So much great Ozu on #TCMParty tonight, including one of my favorites, Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice.
Loved seeing another John Wesley, who I first discovered in the Brand X show at @philamuseum.bsky.social
@dzgallery.bsky.social in Chelsea has a terrific show, The Great Unseen Collection, from Chicago-based collectors Joel and Carole Bernstein.
Last night’s watch: Bresson’s L’Argent. How does he get us to pay attention like that???? Is he a brain wizard?
The sequence that includes Ursula Andress disposing of a body, showing off her Lord Nelson statue, and seducing Peter Sellers to The Look of Love has never been equaled.
Started rewatching Daisy Kenyon and so impressed with Dana Andrews’ performance. It’s got layers and self-awareness I don’t think he shows anywhere else.
Oooh—here’s a gorgeous one in the fabulous A Nation of Artists show at @philamuseum.bsky.social