My Week in Movies: August 11 - 17
Aug. 18th, 2019 02:03 pmShort list this week, as I spent a good chunk of time playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Movies I'd seen before are in italics
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
True Stories (1986)
The Monster Club (1980) w/![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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The Three Musketeers (1973)
I'm sloooowly working my way through the Zatoichi series. I'm not attacking it like I did the Bergman box set, but whenever I'm in the mood for a little Japanese swordsman action, that's where I'm going. This film really was a continuation of the first, with several of its plot threads dependent on events in The Tale of Zatoichi.
Ladies They Talk About and The Miracle Woman are both part of Criterion Channel's salute to pre-Code* Barbara Stanwyck films. I love Barbara Stanwyck. She has a great way about her, no-nonsense with a touch of the salacious. There was a featurette that pointed out that she walks in a very specific way, which I couldn't stop looking for once I saw it. The Miracle Woman was a Frank Capra film and it was very him, about a fake evangelist who comes to regret her fakery.
I was enraptured by True Stories, a film by David Byrne featuring a lot of Talking Heads songs. I can't really describe it, except that it's a sort of look into a weird Texas community and their local festival. John Goodman features heavily as a resident who just wants to find matrimony. It's a bizarre film that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The Monster Club is a very silly horror-comedy anthology film with some interminable music numbers. Vincent Price is wonderful as always, but there's far too little of him.
I probably should have The Three Musketeers (1973) italicized. I own it on DVD and could have sworn I watched it at some point before my most recent viewing on Criterion Channel. However, I found that I had no recollection of any of it, beyond some story beats I recognized from the Gene Kelly 1940s adaptation. I'm going to assume my memory of having watched the film is faulty and that I'm remembering intent rather than action. This is a fun, funny film that I enjoyed.
* Pre-code being that misnomer that actually means pre-Code enforcement or pre-Joseph Breen. The code itself existed since the late 1920s.
Movies I'd seen before are in italics
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
True Stories (1986)
The Monster Club (1980) w/
sol_se The Three Musketeers (1973)
I'm sloooowly working my way through the Zatoichi series. I'm not attacking it like I did the Bergman box set, but whenever I'm in the mood for a little Japanese swordsman action, that's where I'm going. This film really was a continuation of the first, with several of its plot threads dependent on events in The Tale of Zatoichi.
Ladies They Talk About and The Miracle Woman are both part of Criterion Channel's salute to pre-Code* Barbara Stanwyck films. I love Barbara Stanwyck. She has a great way about her, no-nonsense with a touch of the salacious. There was a featurette that pointed out that she walks in a very specific way, which I couldn't stop looking for once I saw it. The Miracle Woman was a Frank Capra film and it was very him, about a fake evangelist who comes to regret her fakery.
I was enraptured by True Stories, a film by David Byrne featuring a lot of Talking Heads songs. I can't really describe it, except that it's a sort of look into a weird Texas community and their local festival. John Goodman features heavily as a resident who just wants to find matrimony. It's a bizarre film that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The Monster Club is a very silly horror-comedy anthology film with some interminable music numbers. Vincent Price is wonderful as always, but there's far too little of him.
I probably should have The Three Musketeers (1973) italicized. I own it on DVD and could have sworn I watched it at some point before my most recent viewing on Criterion Channel. However, I found that I had no recollection of any of it, beyond some story beats I recognized from the Gene Kelly 1940s adaptation. I'm going to assume my memory of having watched the film is faulty and that I'm remembering intent rather than action. This is a fun, funny film that I enjoyed.
* Pre-code being that misnomer that actually means pre-Code enforcement or pre-Joseph Breen. The code itself existed since the late 1920s.
