Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Oooh, I saw that mentioned somewhere weeks ago and meant to make a note, but didn't. So thank you for the reminder!
I rented most of the boxed set collection a while back, but I wouldn't mind recording copies of some of those. Plus I'm sure I missed bits and pieces since I was usually watching them late at night. I distinctly recall that I started drifting off during Isle of the Dead. Luckily I was awakened by one character's blood-curdling scream. Helpful! And not at all traumatic!
GF and I are impatiently awaiting the new Joan Crawford boxed set [link]
I think Joan might be my fave of all time. It alternates among her, Kate Hepburn, and Bette Davis. I just love Joan so so much!
I've seen both Cat People movies and bits of the others -- this will give me something to record for the long long writers strike rerun season.
More background about Chocolate: [link] (and the trailer again).
whether they actually had Straitharn smoking them for the sake of the movie
It was in an interview somewhere that they used cigar tobacco because it makes such thick swirly smoke. It photographs beautifully in B&W.
If Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was made 5 years ago, why does Gerard Butler look 15 years younger in it?
On another note: Dave White defends Uwe Boll
[T]he complaints usually follow along predictable lines: Boll’s movies are poorly written; based on video games; cheaply produced; full of well-known, sometimes Oscar-winning actors slumming to get a check paid out in Euros; make little narrative sense; and feature plots that include zombie massacres at raves on remote islands, scientific experiments performed on orphans, breast-implanted archeologists, floating eyeballs, Sapphic vampires and blood orgies.
I don’t know what kind of movies you like, but they had me at “zombie massacre.”
Of these, I've only watched I Walked With A Zombie, The Seventh Victim and Cat People. Colour me excited!
I am also excited on your behalf. Like Frank I own the box set as I've been a Lewton fan since forever.
The sleeper in there might be Body Snatcher, which has: (a) a fantastic performance by Karloff; (b) some fascinating grey moral dilemmas; (c) is genuinely scary and creepy in places.
I'm also a fan of the Seventh Victim for it's proto-goth protagonist and it's ending.
S and I just finished watching Waitress, Which was beautiful and sweet and heartbreaking as a movie, and also very sad-making and difficult to watch, because of poor Adrienne Shelley. There's a bunch of special features on the DVD that I want to watch, but I can't. I'm too broken.
So it turns out Juno actually beat I Am Legend at the box office this past weekend, despite being in a little over half as many theatres. It made $15.9 million, putting it at #2. Criminy. It sure is a hit.