Vivacious Lady has that incredible slap scene with Ginger Rogers.
I'm pretty sure that was on my radar because you suggested it when I did my series on screwballs way back when. At the time I couldn't get a hold of it, but the SFPL just got a copy.
I love The Black Cat and White Zombie! What's the problem here?
Crappy transfers is a big part of it. Also, I'm not a huge Legosi fan. But mostly I watched a lot of horror and they just ended up at the bottom. I rate everything I watch and always put the five lowest on that list. There's a pretty big distance between the three horror films and
Mac and Me.
And I've since listened to Karina Longworth's podcast series on Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, which gave me a new appreciation for Bela. Do you listen to
You Must Remember This?
If not, you would love it I think. Stories of old Hollywood. Mostly stars, but she also did a great series on Manson.
Crime of Passion (with a rare female noir scriptwriter, Jo Eisinger).
I think this is on my noir spreadsheet, if not, I'll add it. There are still so many noirs I haven't seen. BTW, I'm going to try to hit a few of the Noir City double bills at the Castro in a few weeks if you are interested.
Ride the Pink Horse is based on a novel by female crime writer, Dorothy Hughes.
Yes, I had noticed that. I liked her
In a Lonely Place
(which is quite different from the film) so I might give this one a go. I just finished
Bedelia
(which is not nearly as good as
Laura
sadly). There's a film adaptation but I don't know how accessible it is.
Finally saw Spider-verse. I really enjoyed it. Also, as an IT the whole
"hacking"
scene and it's aftermath was absolutely wonderful.
Also, as much as a lot of things in the Ultimate universe rubbed me the wrong way, I always loved that version of Aunt May, which seemed to inform this one.
I will say I really like the implications that Aunt May in this universe is
an accomplished scientist herself. She makes Miles' webshooters, seems very familiar with the various Spider-tech and calls Doc Ock "Liv" which makes me wonder if they were scientific colleagues/friends at one point.
Oh, I'm sure it goes beyond that, given the history of the two characters in 616.
I was aware of that history. I suppose her acid tone could imply
a bad breakup.
Some folks at IO9 were throwing out the theory that the reason the Peter Parker in Miles' universe was so successful and
had a Spider-cave full of toys
was he fessed up to Aunt May early in his career and she
took the Lucius Fox role in his super heroing.
My Oscar watch efforts are officially underway. Plan is to watch 3 identical strangers tonight, If Beale St Could Talk and Spider-Verse tomorrow. Roma one evening this week. Then see if any of the foreign language are showing in area on the weekend.
Three Identical Strangers
is so good.
The Math Greek was up this weekend and the Indie Spirit screeners are all online now so we were able to watch
Shoplifters, Minding the Gap,
and
Support the Girls,
which were all very good in different ways.
Shoplifters
was exceptional.
We usually watch more than that but due to my having to work we weren't able to get to
Beale Street
or
The Tale
unfortunately.
