89 minute running time … early Hitchcock talkie, no subtitles and the audio was so bad I couldn’t understand a word…old money new money conflict, it looked like, but couldn’t really tell.
Not in Nottingham
Theo Lawrence sings Not in Nottingham … I dig it:
I Wouldn't Dream Of It
Joyce Heath sings I Wouldn't Dream Of It … You Were Never Really Here was the best movie I saw in 2018 and it had an amazing soundtrack.
Movies Watched -- Laura (1944)
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.”
Movies Watched -- You Only Live Once (1937)
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…
All Kinds of Crazy
Never thought I’d be somebody’s fool… Kat Easton, I dig it:
Mysterious Girl
Mysterious Girl from Insecure Men … I dig it … reminds me of The Magnetic Fields or Jens Lekman:
Soldadi
Orchestra Baobab’s Soldadi… I don’t understand a word but I love it:
First Flower
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:
Sixteen Erotic Thrillers
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)