That's the Shirley Jackson novel that was made into the movie The Haunting
Yes. I always forget that the movie had a different title.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Atropa - Feb 14, 2010 8:44:53 pm PST #6830 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
DavidS - Feb 14, 2010 8:55:19 pm PST #6831 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yes. I always forget that the movie had a different title.
Cool cast, and Robert Wise consciously going back to his RKO Val Lewton roots (Cat People, etc.).
Claire Bloom (Philip Roth's lover of many years), Julie Harris, Russ Tamblyn (Amber's dad, Twin Peaks, West Side Story, 7 Brides...)
DebetEsse - Feb 15, 2010 3:12:21 am PST #6832 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Jilli, I am mostly with you on Wolfman, although I could have done with a bit less "eeewwww" and "Startle!" during the wolfy sequences.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 15, 2010 4:03:38 am PST #6833 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I vote for the original version of The Haunting, though.
That and The Innocents top my list of old school creep-out movies.
Is that the Roddy McDowall one?
That's The Legend of Hell House. Which isn't a bad one either, though kids play compared to the book.
The Changeling
Also a truly frightening one. Scariest. Rubber ball. Ever.
tommyrot - Feb 15, 2010 7:25:38 am PST #6834 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, is The Crazies supposed to be good? The preview I saw was so-so, but check out this photo: [link]
Death by swather! Or maybe that's a combine. Still, as a farm boy I lament the lack of "death by farm machinery" in today's horror films, so this looks promising....
Juliebird - Feb 15, 2010 7:41:18 am PST #6835 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I hope so, because I only find Josh Duhamel appealing or interesting in film. Las Vegas leaves me cold, yet give me the horror that is Transformers or 28 Weeks Later and I'm all "That's the same guy?! Want!"
Aims - Feb 15, 2010 10:48:52 am PST #6836 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We're watching Anatomy of a Murder tonight in my law class. I've never seen it.
erikaj - Feb 15, 2010 10:52:04 am PST #6837 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I think it's really good.
Jesse - Feb 15, 2010 2:54:51 pm PST #6838 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sady Doyle goes into much more detail about Valentine's Day: [link]
DavidS - Feb 15, 2010 4:06:49 pm PST #6839 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
TCM alert:
The Killers - 2/25, Burt Lancaster & Ava Gardner. One of the most beautiful and an inner-circle defining Film Noir movie. Great cast, great cinematographer. Great bloodlines (from a Hemingway short story).
The Awful Truth/My Favorite Wife - 2/23. A double feature of two class acts. Irene Dunne & Cary Grant. Both movies are fantastic screwball comedies. But hell, just watch it for Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.
Sticking with Cary...
North by Northwest 2/21 followed by To Catch a Thief. Cary Grant, plus Hitchcock plus pure style.
Love Me Or Leave Me, 2/19. Doris Day & James Cagney in the Ruth Etting biopic. Absolutely Day's greatest performance, tough and sexy with a fantastic soundtrack.
The Bad and the Beautiful, 2/18. Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas. One of my favorite Hollywood noirs, with a side of gothic. Essential for any Donnie Darko fan as you'll see where the rabbit came from. (Which is also a nod to Val Lewton.) Pure glamour but a smart, cynical script.
Sunset Boulevard, 2/22. If you haven't seen it...What can I say?! It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Hollywood Gothic Supremo. Very darkly funny but also tragic, and deep deep in Hollywood lore.
Plus a shit ton of other obvious five star movies (The Dirty Dozen, The Third Man, Duel in the Sun, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Manchurian Candidate, From Here to Eternity, Philadelphia Story...)
TCM is the main reason I can't live without cable.