It’s called Dinner at Eight, not Leading Up to Dinner at Eight. I had this film taped from TCM and it was near the head of my movielens recommendations–and movielens has been frighteningly accurate–so I watched it….
There’s a lot of good acting in the film–I can’t decide which Barrymore is better or if Wallace Beery […]
Entries from September 2005
Dinner at Eight (1933, George Cukor)
September 11th, 2005 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe Lower Depths (1936, Jean Renoir)
September 11th, 2005 No Comments
So it was a play….
I know Renoir for Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game and I’m aware he had a Hollywood period, then went back to France. The Lower Depths is earlier.
Jean Gabin is fantastic, so is Louis Jouvet. Renoir juxtaposes royalty on its way down and a thief on his way out. […]
Tremors (1990, Ron Underwood)
September 4th, 2005 No Comments
When I first rediscovered Tremors, around 1995, it was on laserdisc. In the 1990s, Universal was one of the finest laserdisc companies, probably the finest. They put out a special edition of Tremors and, remembering that I liked it when I saw it on video (everyone saw Tremors on video), I bought it. Probably from […]
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005, Rebecca Miller)
September 3rd, 2005 No Comments
So… what happened?
Sometime in the first four months of this year, I proclaimed Rebecca Miller the best new filmmaker since… shit, I don’t know, Wes Anderson or somebody. Sure, Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson is the last great filmmaker. Or P.T. One of them, just not Paul W.S. Anyway, this conclusion about Miller was based on […]
