My Week in Movies: December 8 - 14
Dec. 15th, 2019 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jetpack_monkeyAnother light week for me. I've just not been in a super movie mood lately and those movies I do watch are frequently done with many pauses to check Twitter. I also spent some time finishing my second run through The Outer Worlds (good game, recommended).
Movies in italics I'd seen before.
The Killing (1956)
Jezebel (1938)
That's Entertainment (1974)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Top Secret (1984)
The Apple (1980) w/sol_se
As a Kubrick fan, it comes as no surprise to me that I really liked The Killing. Sterling Hayden can do hard-bitten like nobody's business.
I actually watched most of Jezebel two weeks ago, but Criterion Channel glitched out and I couldn't watch the last ten minutes until this past Monday. I had real trouble getting through it generally, though, seeing as it takes place in antebellum New Orleans and is uncritical about slavery.
I mostly watched That's Entertainment as background noise? It is fun to see all those different highlights of various musicals from MGM's history. Did you know that "Puttin' on the Ritz" is performed by Clark Gable in Idiot's Delight?
I was struggling through Terms of Endearment, so I switched over to Gold Diggers of 1933, because it is a known quantity with Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, and Ginger Rogers. Great Busby Berkeley numbers!
A planned game day fell through for Reasons, soairawyn and I ended up watching Top Secret instead. Great fun!
The Apple. What to say about The Apple. It is one of those bad films that is bad in its own unique and utterly fascinating way. It's a rock musical with some bizarre numbers and some Biblical overtones.
Movies in italics I'd seen before.
The Killing (1956)
Jezebel (1938)
That's Entertainment (1974)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Top Secret (1984)
The Apple (1980) w/
sol_se As a Kubrick fan, it comes as no surprise to me that I really liked The Killing. Sterling Hayden can do hard-bitten like nobody's business.
I actually watched most of Jezebel two weeks ago, but Criterion Channel glitched out and I couldn't watch the last ten minutes until this past Monday. I had real trouble getting through it generally, though, seeing as it takes place in antebellum New Orleans and is uncritical about slavery.
I mostly watched That's Entertainment as background noise? It is fun to see all those different highlights of various musicals from MGM's history. Did you know that "Puttin' on the Ritz" is performed by Clark Gable in Idiot's Delight?
I was struggling through Terms of Endearment, so I switched over to Gold Diggers of 1933, because it is a known quantity with Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, and Ginger Rogers. Great Busby Berkeley numbers!
A planned game day fell through for Reasons, so
airawyn and I ended up watching Top Secret instead. Great fun!The Apple. What to say about The Apple. It is one of those bad films that is bad in its own unique and utterly fascinating way. It's a rock musical with some bizarre numbers and some Biblical overtones.
