98 minute running time … Otto Preminger … Gene Tierney, I always liked her cheekbones and angular face… I wasn’t super thrilled with this though I know many consider it a classic. Preminger’s great movie is Angel Face, in my humble opinion.
“With you, a lean strong body is the measure of a man.”
86 minute running time … Fritz Lang movie with handsome young Henry Fonda…SPOILERS: Lang does a bit of a switcheroo on you as you think Fonda IS guilty, but in fact he isn’t. I resented that and didn’t enjoy the movie, too tense for me, a “social drama,” and felt very very long. 1930’s Bonnie & Clyde pre-cursor.
The gates are open…
Never thought I’d be somebody’s fool… Kat Easton, I dig it:
Mysterious Girl from Insecure Men … I dig it … reminds me of The Magnetic Fields or Jens Lekman:
Orchestra Baobab’s Soldadi… I don’t understand a word but I love it:
I love Molly Burch … here she is singing First Flower … unfortunate backing vocals by the band, she needs some pros backing her 20 feet from stardom:
List via Criterion, where I found this blurb:
Sleekly stylish, deliriously plotted, and unabashedly steamy, the erotic thrillers of the 1980s and ’90s are both the ultimate guilty pleasure and an illuminating reflection of an era’s changing attitudes toward sex on-screen. As the ’70s came to a close, with studio filmmaking in decline, home video and cable on the rise, and new X-rated movies ushering in an era of “porno chic,” Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers began pushing boundaries to cash in and create popular films that could never have been made before. Often dismissed as disreputable byproducts of the video-store era, these carnal classics can now be seen as rich cultural texts, laden with tantalizing ideas about gender, the relationship between sex and violence, and the cinematic gaze.
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Body Heat (1981)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Body Double (1984)
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Fatal Attraction (1987) [added later]
Sister, Sister (1987)
Call Me (1988)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Basic Instinct (1992) [added later]
Single White Female (1992)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Dream Lover (1993)
Color of Night (1994)
Criminal Passion (1994)
Fleshtone (1994)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Jade (1995)
93 minute running time … this movie was not terrible and actually not half bad … it stars some bug-eyed girl who badly feigns a tough-girl New Joisey accent … she is doing DoorDash and is up to her neck in student loans, so why not engage in a little credit card fraud? The the stakes get raised and things get more dangerous.
This felt low budget but it really wasn’t super terrible, which is quite an accomplishment. It’s not good enough to recommend, but if it comes on cable or something you might want to give it a watch.
Sleeveless, braless
97 minute running time .. another early-ish Hitchcock … large portions of it take place on a train .. the story isn’t bad and it’s filled with the usual Hitchockian humor, including a lot of British class humor, which seems a little unusual … I don’t think it’s one of his best, but he never made a bad film. I’m not going to give it a green-go rating, reserving it only for his very best, like The 39 Steps and North By Northwest.
107 minute running time so it could have lost ten minutes or so … this is an example of a movie that I enjoyed, it’s skillfully made (Otto Heller on camera) and the story isn’t terrible, but it wasn’t good enough to recommend (getting my coveted green-go rating) … lots of exposition which always spoils things for me. Harry Saltzman liked Michael Caine for some reason, maybe the Cockney accent helped. My favorite Michael Caine movie is Hannah and Her Sisters: “I have my answer!”
You have seen everything? (at groin height after tucking gun in waistband). “I’m not hungry.”
