-
There's plenty of time to choose your spooky October username
Click here for more details
What was the last film you watched?
- Thread starter Mel O'Drama
- Start date
- Copy link Copy link
- Awards
- 22
ADAM'S RIB (1949).
Curiously, I had never seen anything more than clips from this movie. It's your standard Tracy-Hepburn battle-of-the-sexes scenario with the pair as married lawyers, and it even features Digger Barnes #1 singing the song "Farewell, Amanda" (by Cole Porter) who gets homophobic jokes tossed in his direction.
Tracy, by the way, is in the right at every point. Hepburn is an entitled cow. How little things have changed. Some see this film as a feministic document, while others feel Kate momentarily seeing the error of her viewpoint as an invalidating tip-of-the-hat to the patriarchy.
Judy Holliday plays the wife betrayed, although I thought for a moment she was Dorothy Comingore.
Cukor directs, and Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin script, so it's a good watch. I remember being disappointed by the 1973 TV series with Gwyneth Paltrow's mother and Garrett Boydston.
Curiously, I had never seen anything more than clips from this movie. It's your standard Tracy-Hepburn battle-of-the-sexes scenario with the pair as married lawyers, and it even features Digger Barnes #1 singing the song "Farewell, Amanda" (by Cole Porter) who gets homophobic jokes tossed in his direction.
Tracy, by the way, is in the right at every point. Hepburn is an entitled cow. How little things have changed. Some see this film as a feministic document, while others feel Kate momentarily seeing the error of her viewpoint as an invalidating tip-of-the-hat to the patriarchy.
Judy Holliday plays the wife betrayed, although I thought for a moment she was Dorothy Comingore.
Cukor directs, and Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin script, so it's a good watch. I remember being disappointed by the 1973 TV series with Gwyneth Paltrow's mother and Garrett Boydston.
Last edited by a moderator:
- Awards
- 53
Yesterday I watched The Music Lovers (1970), Ken Russell's film of part of Tchaikovsky's life. Wow, just wow! What a great film. I can't find the words that are adequate enough to say how much I loved it.
Richard Chamberlain played Tchaikovsky and I had no idea he was such a good actor. There's a scene near the beginning of the film when he plays Tchaikovsky's piano concerto No. 1, and the physicality and expression that Richard Chamberlain put into how he played the piece was incredible and I was gripped on the film from that moment.
It motivated to watch Ken Russell's documentary on Elgar (1962) today and that was very different, more serious and factual, but in its own way another brilliant piece of storytelling.
Richard Chamberlain played Tchaikovsky and I had no idea he was such a good actor. There's a scene near the beginning of the film when he plays Tchaikovsky's piano concerto No. 1, and the physicality and expression that Richard Chamberlain put into how he played the piece was incredible and I was gripped on the film from that moment.
It motivated to watch Ken Russell's documentary on Elgar (1962) today and that was very different, more serious and factual, but in its own way another brilliant piece of storytelling.
- Awards
- 21
I haven't seen this in years but, from memory, Tracy's character never disputes the general principle of the equality of the sexes, he just wants to celebrate what he calls "that little difference." Hepburn champions the view that there is no difference apart from the obvious, a view that was the orthodoxy for a while.
- Awards
- 21
Wonder Woman (2017)
I'm not really familiar with Wonder Woman beyond the Lynda Carter TV series so I don't know how faithful all the Greek god stuff is to the original comics but either way I think Xena has co-opted the concept, making this look like something of a knock-off.
I'm not really familiar with Wonder Woman beyond the Lynda Carter TV series so I don't know how faithful all the Greek god stuff is to the original comics but either way I think Xena has co-opted the concept, making this look like something of a knock-off.
- Awards
- 22
I just meant his view that shooters should go to prison -- that's he's for equality and she is not.
- Awards
- 21
Oh, that, right. Forgot that part. As I said, haven't seen it in years.
- Awards
- 21
The Sound of Music
To be honest, I've always preferred the Lerner & Loewe musicals - both for their generally more sophisticated choice of source material and for Alan Jay Lerner's witty lyrics - but Rodgers & Hammerstein's folksier offerings also have their appeal and this one seems to their most enduring.
To be honest, I've always preferred the Lerner & Loewe musicals - both for their generally more sophisticated choice of source material and for Alan Jay Lerner's witty lyrics - but Rodgers & Hammerstein's folksier offerings also have their appeal and this one seems to their most enduring.
- Awards
- 22
The original FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950) with Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor and a pre-DS Joan Bennett, directed by Vincent Minelli.
Well-remembered post-war comedy capitalizing on that idyllic domestic dynamic of the era. Tracy is the befuddled father whose gorgeous daughter wants to marry a wealthy heir, with all the expected complications. Bennet is the mom. Even a little Russ Tamblyn is on hand as one of Elizabeth's younger brothers.
Like so many comedies of the time, the humor comes from the situations, and not the jokes (because there are very few). Speaks more to the aspirations of the period, sweet and dishonest as those were, than anything else.
Remade in 1991 with Steve Martin.
Well-remembered post-war comedy capitalizing on that idyllic domestic dynamic of the era. Tracy is the befuddled father whose gorgeous daughter wants to marry a wealthy heir, with all the expected complications. Bennet is the mom. Even a little Russ Tamblyn is on hand as one of Elizabeth's younger brothers.
Like so many comedies of the time, the humor comes from the situations, and not the jokes (because there are very few). Speaks more to the aspirations of the period, sweet and dishonest as those were, than anything else.
Remade in 1991 with Steve Martin.
- Awards
- 27
Very good!
- Awards
- 44
Perhaps my fourth time and it still made me all tense and jumpy.
- Awards
- 5
Dark and disturbing, I haven't felt this uncomfortable watching a movie in a very long time. It brought back a lot of painful memories for me. Despite this (or maybe because of this) I strongly recommend it.
K
Karin Schill
Guest
"The Abduction" with Victoria Principal. I think it was the third time I saw it. 
- Awards
- 22
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) when Desi and Lucy were at the height of their I LOVE LUCY fame, directed by Vincent Minelli.
It's the most on-target-though-sanitized cinema '50s time capsule since REAR WINDOW, released the same year.
It's the most on-target-though-sanitized cinema '50s time capsule since REAR WINDOW, released the same year.