HAW!!! I'll ALWAYS remember acutely the Exxon Valdez sickening incident as I was literally just AT the stunningly-beautiful Valdez area/port in the summer of 1983 (for a month) visiting one of my sisters who lived in Alaska (the Kenai/Soldotna area) at the time, just prior to this raging alcoholic f-cking it up.
I do too. RIP Shelley Winters, young Marilyn's roomie and a woman who was taught the art of love by Ernest Borgnine. My nieces are visiting us soon and I'm planning to show them "Wild in the Streets," among other treats. 😁
Again my dear, you turn up a gem I'd never heard of (Wild In The Streets) - sounds/looks great - sounds a bit like Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (to me, anyway). I hope to get to one of your suggestions soon (Claude Chabrol) - have Le Boucher sitting here in my bulging queue - perhaps this weekend. Still one of my favorite Shelley-as-sadist appearances is either Lolita or A Patch of Blue.
With the recent loss of your mother-in-law, each gathering of The Tribe, however small, is to be treasured that much more (one of my sisters here in town had a small belated St Patty's corned beef meal Saturday - one of my Irish-descent mother's favorite events). We're also similar in that we do our best to show others what hidden beauties await in the world of cinema & music (to those who are OPEN to them!).
It was my FIL who passed. My MIL who I love dearly is still kicking. We're trying to get her to come visit too. At least in Florida we can get her out and about socializing and doing things. It's been rough taking care of my FIL the past few years, rougher still that she hasn't been able to get out for a few hours due to Cali wuflu restrictions. She could use a distraction and the mental stimulation of being with people outside of the family and his caregivers. And yes I love to play Auntie Mame to everyone who will let me. 😁
You are going to love "Wild in the Streets." I think of it, and especially the ending, every time someone proposes lowering the voting age. I'm thinking of putting it on a double bill with "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" or maybe "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" I keep telling the girls that everything they've been told about the past is a lie and that the past is actually a strange and beautiful place with things beyond their imagining. And those films will be a good start. Now to find a short or cartoon or newsreel that goes with those movies. I'm going to attempt to recreate the whole experience of going to the movies old school style. If we don't share all of these wonders with young people who will?
Short second note: films we've already shown the girls include "Barry Lyndon," "Ugetsu," "Diva," "Fellini 8 1/2," and "Wings of Desire." So far they've enjoyed everything. Bertolucci's "The Conformist" and Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" are also on my future list as well as a bunch of Hollywood golden age stuff like Sirk's "Imitation of Life" and some pre-code gems like Wheeler and Woolsey's "The Diplomaniacs."
BEAUTIFUL!!!! I use the term exceedingly rarely but in the case of Stanley Kubrick, Kurosawa, (most of) John Ford, et al, "genius" fits. Is this the 1981 "Diva"? Looks GREAT.
I just finally was able (sitting here for 6 years without proper subtitles) to watch (Wings of Desire) Wim Wenders' stunning 2014 documentary "The Salt of the Earth" (not to be confused with 1954's Salt of the Earth mexican miner revolt movie) re Brazilian brilliant photographer Sebastio Salgado. I LOVED Aguirre but my favorite still is a toss-up between Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (and the making of the film, Burden of Dreams, is quite brilliant) or Woyzeck - he does 'crazy' perfectly. One of his more intriguing documentaries (with a fantastic original soundtrack by Henry Kaiser and the mighty David Lindley) is Encounters at the End Of the World - the 'eccentric' professionals that tend to end up in Antarctica.
The 1934 Imitation of Life is worth a look as well (the one you mention was brilliant too). The Diplomaniacs looks FABULOUS my friend (just watched "Baby Face" with Barbara Stanwyck and The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Will add yours to the list!
I applaud your suggestions my friend - and incorporating Of Its Time 'newsreels' to give your nieces the Immersive Experience is nothing short of brilliant.
I have not seen those documentaries either but I love Herzog. "Woyzeck" and "Stroszek" are both favorites. In college I once stalked (fangirl Henry Orient style, not creepy killer style) Kinski around NYC. I had such a bad crush on him. His girlfriend was younger than I was. I'm also trying to figure out which Fassbinder to show them if we do a New German Cinema night. I'm leaning toward "Chinese Roulette" or "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," or maybe "Despair." Some of my choices will flow from their previous reactions and also whatever the mood feels like that day.
And I love both versions of "Imitation of Life." But I have a hidden agenda and I think the Sirk version is better for teaching about real racism and the issue of white passing, which seems to not be a thing anymore. Hmmm interdasting? Plus Lana Turner's wardrobe is just too fabulous. And it has that great nightclub number "Empty Pockets Make a Good Girl Bad."
And yes "Diva" from 1981. IT'S FABULOUS!!!!! FABULOUS I TELL YOU!!! You MUST see it. MUST! That and "The Conformist" are literally tied for my favorite movie ever. I saw both more than 20 times apiece in theaters, back when you had to wait for them to come around. They speak to my soul aesthetically in ways nothing else does. Although Tarkovsky comes close, as does Fellini.
WOW!!!! Did you ever see My Best FIEND re the love-hate Kinski-Herzog relationship? I LOVE Tarkovsky's stuff, I think his treatment of my favorite sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris" being a favorite (you being a stalker, his Stalker would be a close second!). Have been devouring some SOVIET stuff lately as well - The Cranes Are Flying from 1957, The Ascent from 1977, They Fought For the Motherland (1975) but 1985's Come And See must be one of the best things I've ever seen.
Fassbinder - start 'em out 'light' with Berlin Alexanderplatz....in ONE sitting and no bathroom breaks. (I'm trying to work up the courage for Satantango - EIGHT hours, from Hungary. Gotta go my FIEND!! Thanks for touching base with your as-always superb offerings.
Wheeler & Woolsey So This Is Africa. Thanks for turning me onto them - I'm a Marx Brothers and (early) WC Fields fanatic and these guys look GREAT. Diplomaniacs is turning out to be a RARE BEAST (unavailable except to purchase and even THAT is increasingly-difficult).
Another obsession of mine for quite some time has been the every 10 years (approximately) German series "Heimat" (aka Homeland) - 1984, 1993, 2005 and a 4-ish hour film to tie it all up in 2013. I've requested the help of the local library to inter-loan from elsewhere and even THEY state there are only three copies of the entire trilogy in EXISTENCE that are in NTSC dvd format WITH subtitles. With prices of $300 on up on ebay and elsewhere, this is Forbidden Fruit of the highest order.
Another really fun Wheeler and Woolsey, if you can find it, is "Hips! Hips! Hooray!" I love them so much and the Ritz Brothers too. And yipes those rarities are spendy. Forbidden fruit for sure. For the short with those I would probably do the Little Rascals "The Kid from Borneo," which is also increasingly difficult to find.
I wonder what Vice Grip Garage thinks about the Exxon, that was a captain and a drinker
HAW!!! I'll ALWAYS remember acutely the Exxon Valdez sickening incident as I was literally just AT the stunningly-beautiful Valdez area/port in the summer of 1983 (for a month) visiting one of my sisters who lived in Alaska (the Kenai/Soldotna area) at the time, just prior to this raging alcoholic f-cking it up.
https://youtu.be/FcTUM_lWG7M
BEAUTIFUL!!!! Burn it, burn it all to the ground!!.
I get a demented kick out of this one as well.
I do too. RIP Shelley Winters, young Marilyn's roomie and a woman who was taught the art of love by Ernest Borgnine. My nieces are visiting us soon and I'm planning to show them "Wild in the Streets," among other treats. 😁
Again my dear, you turn up a gem I'd never heard of (Wild In The Streets) - sounds/looks great - sounds a bit like Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (to me, anyway). I hope to get to one of your suggestions soon (Claude Chabrol) - have Le Boucher sitting here in my bulging queue - perhaps this weekend. Still one of my favorite Shelley-as-sadist appearances is either Lolita or A Patch of Blue.
With the recent loss of your mother-in-law, each gathering of The Tribe, however small, is to be treasured that much more (one of my sisters here in town had a small belated St Patty's corned beef meal Saturday - one of my Irish-descent mother's favorite events). We're also similar in that we do our best to show others what hidden beauties await in the world of cinema & music (to those who are OPEN to them!).
It was my FIL who passed. My MIL who I love dearly is still kicking. We're trying to get her to come visit too. At least in Florida we can get her out and about socializing and doing things. It's been rough taking care of my FIL the past few years, rougher still that she hasn't been able to get out for a few hours due to Cali wuflu restrictions. She could use a distraction and the mental stimulation of being with people outside of the family and his caregivers. And yes I love to play Auntie Mame to everyone who will let me. 😁
You are going to love "Wild in the Streets." I think of it, and especially the ending, every time someone proposes lowering the voting age. I'm thinking of putting it on a double bill with "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" or maybe "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" I keep telling the girls that everything they've been told about the past is a lie and that the past is actually a strange and beautiful place with things beyond their imagining. And those films will be a good start. Now to find a short or cartoon or newsreel that goes with those movies. I'm going to attempt to recreate the whole experience of going to the movies old school style. If we don't share all of these wonders with young people who will?
Short second note: films we've already shown the girls include "Barry Lyndon," "Ugetsu," "Diva," "Fellini 8 1/2," and "Wings of Desire." So far they've enjoyed everything. Bertolucci's "The Conformist" and Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" are also on my future list as well as a bunch of Hollywood golden age stuff like Sirk's "Imitation of Life" and some pre-code gems like Wheeler and Woolsey's "The Diplomaniacs."
BEAUTIFUL!!!! I use the term exceedingly rarely but in the case of Stanley Kubrick, Kurosawa, (most of) John Ford, et al, "genius" fits. Is this the 1981 "Diva"? Looks GREAT.
I just finally was able (sitting here for 6 years without proper subtitles) to watch (Wings of Desire) Wim Wenders' stunning 2014 documentary "The Salt of the Earth" (not to be confused with 1954's Salt of the Earth mexican miner revolt movie) re Brazilian brilliant photographer Sebastio Salgado. I LOVED Aguirre but my favorite still is a toss-up between Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (and the making of the film, Burden of Dreams, is quite brilliant) or Woyzeck - he does 'crazy' perfectly. One of his more intriguing documentaries (with a fantastic original soundtrack by Henry Kaiser and the mighty David Lindley) is Encounters at the End Of the World - the 'eccentric' professionals that tend to end up in Antarctica.
The 1934 Imitation of Life is worth a look as well (the one you mention was brilliant too). The Diplomaniacs looks FABULOUS my friend (just watched "Baby Face" with Barbara Stanwyck and The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Will add yours to the list!
I applaud your suggestions my friend - and incorporating Of Its Time 'newsreels' to give your nieces the Immersive Experience is nothing short of brilliant.
I have not seen those documentaries either but I love Herzog. "Woyzeck" and "Stroszek" are both favorites. In college I once stalked (fangirl Henry Orient style, not creepy killer style) Kinski around NYC. I had such a bad crush on him. His girlfriend was younger than I was. I'm also trying to figure out which Fassbinder to show them if we do a New German Cinema night. I'm leaning toward "Chinese Roulette" or "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," or maybe "Despair." Some of my choices will flow from their previous reactions and also whatever the mood feels like that day.
And I love both versions of "Imitation of Life." But I have a hidden agenda and I think the Sirk version is better for teaching about real racism and the issue of white passing, which seems to not be a thing anymore. Hmmm interdasting? Plus Lana Turner's wardrobe is just too fabulous. And it has that great nightclub number "Empty Pockets Make a Good Girl Bad."
And yes "Diva" from 1981. IT'S FABULOUS!!!!! FABULOUS I TELL YOU!!! You MUST see it. MUST! That and "The Conformist" are literally tied for my favorite movie ever. I saw both more than 20 times apiece in theaters, back when you had to wait for them to come around. They speak to my soul aesthetically in ways nothing else does. Although Tarkovsky comes close, as does Fellini.
WOW!!!! Did you ever see My Best FIEND re the love-hate Kinski-Herzog relationship? I LOVE Tarkovsky's stuff, I think his treatment of my favorite sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris" being a favorite (you being a stalker, his Stalker would be a close second!). Have been devouring some SOVIET stuff lately as well - The Cranes Are Flying from 1957, The Ascent from 1977, They Fought For the Motherland (1975) but 1985's Come And See must be one of the best things I've ever seen.
Fassbinder - start 'em out 'light' with Berlin Alexanderplatz....in ONE sitting and no bathroom breaks. (I'm trying to work up the courage for Satantango - EIGHT hours, from Hungary. Gotta go my FIEND!! Thanks for touching base with your as-always superb offerings.
Wheeler & Woolsey So This Is Africa. Thanks for turning me onto them - I'm a Marx Brothers and (early) WC Fields fanatic and these guys look GREAT. Diplomaniacs is turning out to be a RARE BEAST (unavailable except to purchase and even THAT is increasingly-difficult).
Another obsession of mine for quite some time has been the every 10 years (approximately) German series "Heimat" (aka Homeland) - 1984, 1993, 2005 and a 4-ish hour film to tie it all up in 2013. I've requested the help of the local library to inter-loan from elsewhere and even THEY state there are only three copies of the entire trilogy in EXISTENCE that are in NTSC dvd format WITH subtitles. With prices of $300 on up on ebay and elsewhere, this is Forbidden Fruit of the highest order.
Another really fun Wheeler and Woolsey, if you can find it, is "Hips! Hips! Hooray!" I love them so much and the Ritz Brothers too. And yipes those rarities are spendy. Forbidden fruit for sure. For the short with those I would probably do the Little Rascals "The Kid from Borneo," which is also increasingly difficult to find.
Hips....; several Ritz Brothers entries as well. Thank you, my friend!!!! I can safely say it's EXHILARATING parrying with you!