http://www.flickr.com/photos/34818373@N05/sets/72157613052820077/
― Pashmina, Thursday, 29 January 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
just saw a Borzage @Republic film on TCM, Moonrise; what an odd, fevered little picture.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, I see it's one of Kevin's 20 favorite '40s films. The opening and the Ferris wheel are somethin'.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
beautiful film, kinda stops making sense towards the end? (it's been a while)the lead actress is so gorgeous
― velko, Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it tries to have as upbeat an ending as possible for a mad killer. kind of astonishing for the period, really.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Bad Girl goes by in a breeze
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 November 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Strange Cargo tonight.
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw FB's Liliom yesterday, which gets awfully talky and "Mr Jordany" when HB Warner shows up in the afterlife, but has some marvelously abstract sets and a great streetscum part for Lee Tracy. (also maybe Rose Hobart's best role til she was recut by Joseph Cornell)
The climactic moral gets to "he hit me (and it felt like a kiss)" 30 years before Goffin-King.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
UCLA Borzage retro:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/07/10/7th-heaven-films-frank-borzage
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 July 2015 05:29 (eight years ago) link
saw a Borzage Universal film Little Man, What Now? (title of novel/film later pinched by Morrissey), a 1934 marital romance of poor folk in Weimar Germany. Goddamn, Margaret Sullavan was great in everyuthing, huh?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
As far as I know.
― Hang On To Your Evol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
sexiest voice in the history of film.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
also the lead actor in LMWN, Douglass Montgomery, is sorta pretty and awkward, but given that his character is rather "emo" it works well.
http://150597036.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mc7.jpg
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Man's Castle sure is somethin'.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
so fabuloso
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
solid print on YouTube btw, and most Borzage too -- even Three Comrades, which I used to own on VHS.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Working my way through the Murnau, Borzage and Fox set. (Daedalus Books has it for $50.) A verrry bad idea, given my current emotional fragility and longing.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 9 February 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link
out on CC
https://www.criterion.com/films/28550-moonrise
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
holy moly Sunrise is pretty good huh?
― closed beta (NotEnough), Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
Moonrise might be better
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 June 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link
TCM aired The Mortal Storm on Friday: one of the few American studio films to call out Nazis for being anti-Semitic and illiterate. Stewart and Sullavan don't have much to do beside serve the mechanics of the plot, but the plot has enough pathos.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2023 00:29 (one year ago) link
Havent’t seen that one in ages, but remember it being similar to what you describe.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
Oh wait. It is on TCM for a bit, maybe I can rewatch.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 January 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link