Really? The calendar says The Conformist. Oh, I see, thanks.
― The Decline of British Cat Power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 December 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
cluny brown is fucking aces
― I spilled, saucer-eyed, into the Tonetta fanclub underground. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 December 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I was watching The Shop Around The Corner last night for maybe the eighty-eighth time. It just gets everything right, it all sticks. Those last ten minutes, especially with that sudden turn toward extreme intimacy at the last moments. are just the most amazing thing. Margaret Sullavan staring at the empty post box - wow.
― R Baez, Sunday, 19 December 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
which ernst lubitsch movie should i watch tonite
― flopson, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
2 b or not 2 b
― anime hitler, the futanari führer (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
yeah?
― flopson, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
You know that great, great Polish actor, Joseph Tura?
― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
He's world famous in Poland!
― Concatenated without abruption (Michael White), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Trouble In Paradise is playing tomorrow and Monday at the FF with a similarly themed and casted William Dieterle movie called Jewel Robbery.
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 August 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
just saw Design For Living and could not believe it. kept waiting for the morality play, the downer ending, the comeuppance and man Miriam just gets the happiest ending imaginable, this film is from the future
― Milton Parker, Monday, 2 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
would have voted for this over One Hour With You if I'd known
― Milton Parker, Monday, 2 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
i watched trouble in paradise with a girl over the holiday break and she squealed joyously through most of it.kind of a keeper, that one.
― do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
If any man I see looks at his watch during Trouble in Paradise I ask him to leave this apartment immediately.
(I've never done this but want to)
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
seattle peeps Trouble in Paradise is showing at the Grand Illusion this week
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Hoberman on the restored '22 Loves of Pharaoh:
http://blogs.artinfo.com/moviejournal/2012/10/17/live-from-the-kingdom-of-the-dead-lubitsch%E2%80%99s-lavish-1922-%E2%80%9Cloves-of-pharaoh%E2%80%9D/
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
damn, that looks fascinating
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Would love to see it, but don't think I can get there.
― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Morbs, are you going?
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Saturday, 20 October 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
I am in shitty condition today... But I think I saw it at Film Forum in 2003! Never big on Egypt epics, really.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
ok, i dont think i did see it.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
haha
@pareeneThere is really an unnecessarily large number of people working at Mr. Matuschek's store every day
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 January 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
fuckin' Cluny Brown still unavailable on DVD in America.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 January 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
(xp)B-b-b-but it was the Christmas rush!
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 January 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpfSP-EJXI8
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
also, you'll need a pal player but i have to assume you have onehttp://www.amazon.com/Cluny-Brown-NON-USA-FORMAT-Import/dp/B0041KXFDO
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
i got my copy from TCM on Tivo and goddamn, it's a winner
just rewatched Design for Living on Criterion... Milton is right, cept as the guy doing the commentary suggests that the ending is a bit dark; after all, they are going back to poverty to live 'outside society.'
March's take when Hopkins (who is just great) says "Something happened to me that usually only happens to a man" is a highlight.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe that bum EE Horton put the whole thing on YT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fha0SlGIpM0
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
I watched the Criterion edition last week too. The movie's too cute by half, I think.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
pish tosh
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
Needs the morning newspaper thrown at his head.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
watching those three marvelous actors on that train, going for laughs when no laugh track exists
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
there was an audience at some point you know in December '33
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
People laugh during the gaps in Laurel & Hardy films too -- honest!
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
when it ended I watched Cluny Brown for the 400th time.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Bogdanovich shares his notes file:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-lubitsch-file-part-3
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-lubitsch-file-part-2
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-lubitsch-file-part-1
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
rewatched Trouble In Paradise, forgot that fellow eunuch Charlie Ruggles is the bane of EE Horton's existence.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Armond on Bogdanovich & Lubitsch:
http://cityarts.info/2013/06/10/at-long-last-lubitsch/
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
of course he loves at long last love. here's cybill shepherd talking about it: http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/cybill-shepherd-on-at-long-last-love. pity i can't find a clip of madeline kahn doing 'down in the depths on the 90th floor', she really is the highlight of a dreary dreary movie.
― balls, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
on Lubitsch and the great Jack Benny:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2888-how-to-film-jack-benny
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 September 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
A new critical anthology:
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/in-times-like-these-lubitsch-cant-wait
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Saw Die Begkatze ('The Wildcat') at the Goethte Institut last night. It's a 'mountain comedy', i.e. slapstick in the snow starring Pola Negri and it was pretty funny.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 3:25 PM (5 years ago)
Yeah, the sets in that are amazing; also 1919's Die Puppe / The Doll:http://silentsplease.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/die_puppe_1919_advert.jpghttp://silentsplease.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/13-die-puppe-ossi-chew-2.gif
http://silentsplease.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/die-puppe/
― etc, Monday, 21 July 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
saw Shop again today (yesterday?), incredible. From "A little too much goose liver" to "Could you let me see your legs now?" Samson Raphaelson needs a shoutout as one of the great comedy writers.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
It stays in my mind as among the best written films I've ever seen.
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link
watched it for the first time over the holidays – stunning. I knew very little about it, thought it would be a jolly enough romantic classic – wasn't ready for the wit's sharpness, the waves of unhappiness, the perfect construction. Amazing.
― woof, Thursday, 1 January 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
closeup of Sullavan's hand failing to find Stewart's letter in mailbox.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Unusual that despite the Budapest Hollywood conceit, almost all the set signage is in Hungarian.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
To make sure his film was stripped of the glamor usually associated with him, Lubitsch went to such lengths as ordering that a dress Sullavan had purchased off the rack for $1.98 be left in the sun to bleach and altered to fit poorly.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
This is his only non-glamourous picture, no?
Remember remarking upon Hungarian signage years ago, then forgetting.
― Can We Be Shown Worldbuilders + Mike Harrison? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
love this movie. when i first saw it i knew it only as the nominal inspiration for You've Got Mail. It is, of course, infinitely better than that suggests.
― Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Friday, 2 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
it's a light watch
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
It’s worth seeing, ever if not top-tier Lubitsch as everyone acknowledges. And yeah, the fundamental triangle is flawed, there is more chemistry between Melvyn Douglas and Eve Arden than between him and Merle Oberon and her role in the end is unsympathetic, but her performance and presence are fine. Burgess Meredith character ultimately unlikable but still funny. There’s an amusing little bit by Sig Ruman as Mr. Kafka, the film could have used more of him. Despite all these caveats would watch again.
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 April 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
I think it’s easy to watch too since, if I read correctly, the copyright paperwork was damaged or lost at sea and, because the film was such a flop Lubitsch’s production partner didn’t want to bother to pay the $19.99 to refile so it is in the public domain.
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 April 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
$28.76. In England. Maybe it is actually copyrighted in the US.
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 April 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
I'd have voted for Cluny Brown today without hesitation. Its script, rhythm, Boyer, supporting cast -- perfect.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 November 2023 00:27 (five months ago) link
Watched TROUBLE IN PARADISE the other night. Amazing. I feel like so many facets of this film were light years ahead, the timing and the acting and the writing and quite frequently the camerawork. The theft, the meeting of Gaston and Lily, the bewildered recollection is the theft, Gaston and Lily realizing just who the other really is...that whole opening stretch is A++ (the rest of the film vacillates between A and A+ for me.)
Design For Living is next up.
― omar little, Sunday, 5 November 2023 23:59 (five months ago) link
I just watched both of those for the first time on Criterion. I am now completely smitten with Miriam Hopkins.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:12 (two months ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/73/72/477372e8d0a225cd436a903e65c060ad.gif
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:18 (two months ago) link
Expiring soon, no?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:19 (two months ago) link
Design for living with young hot fun cooper (instead of stoic, old, Captain America cooper) is pretty amazing
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:20 (two months ago) link
Yep, tomorrow is last day for those two. xp
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:39 (two months ago) link
I watched Design for Living last week for that reason. A delight!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link
both excellent movies but i preferred design for living, partially because it has significantly more miriam hopkins. surprised it got no votes in this poll though maybe it was less easily accessible at the time?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link
Probably. Pre-Criterion it was stuck in Universal's budget Gary Cooper Franchise Collection.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:11 (two months ago) link
If you wanna watch another Miriam Hopkins highlight, stream The Heiress, where she plays Olivia de Havilland's duplicitous aunt, herself in love with Montgomery Clift.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:37 (two months ago) link
Followed up my Lubitsch double feature with something completely different: Easy Rider, which I had somehow never seen. I still have a contact high.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:08 (two months ago) link
Uggggh, why won't they just put Design for Living out on Blu-ray already? These gaps in my Lubitsch collection are driving me nuts!
Just recently rewatched one of my favorite Outer Limits episodes and realized for the first time that it featured an unrecognizable Miriam Hopkins in full psychobiddy mode.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/__P1bz4ZkkRA/TUYinnlBZWI/AAAAAAAACp8/z_FJdjSUvUE/s1600/screen-capture-1.png
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:05 (two months ago) link
I'm still not as fond of Design for Living as I should be. I watched it last night and thought it needed to pick up the tempo. But! Daaaaamn, Coop is hot -- no wonder Fredric March can't stop ogling him.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:11 (two months ago) link
Design for Living is on Criterion blu ray
― rob, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:13 (two months ago) link
Sorry, I meant Trouble in Paradise.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:28 (two months ago) link