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
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― 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.
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― 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