yeah it's terrific. i've never been big on pat o'brien but damn can he spit. dialogue so fast my brain had trouble keeping up. and sort of the ultimate cagney character. wow
i wanted to quote your review on twitter but dared not w/o permission...
Only Angels Have Wings is trapped inside, screaming to be let out.
twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:32 pm
still the grin-fest to beat, even if, as roscoe says, the ending lets it down (seriously she doesn't deserve him). not including lubitsch, this is probably the comedy i've rewatched the most, along with the lady eve
I like the description of Lombard's character "not deserving" Godfrey, yeah, that's a much better way of phrasing it, and it applies to that other Sturges film you mention. I do love Lombard here. Her question to Godfrey, "Do you buttle?" is just magic, and the whole "Godfrey loves me, he put me in the shower!" too. It's just, yeah, she's not worthy. Godfrey's better than any of that family.
These matters are best disposed of from a great height. Over water.
was tempted to do all the william powells of 36 but worried it might wear a bit thin lol. and the blissfully happy no consequences high functioning alcoholics are still strangely disturbing on all the right levels
anyway....moving from the innocently cynical to the earnestly patriotic...he is SO young! and still so hot
My 10 favorite films of 1936:
(Sad seen to little of that year)
1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)-My top hit
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Other films:
2. The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu)
3. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
4. Fury (Fritz Lang)
5. Swing Time (George Stevens)
6. They Were Five (Julien Duvivier)
7. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Michael Curtiz)
9. The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
10. The Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:56 pm
anyway....moving from the innocently cynical to the earnestly patriotic...he is SO young! and still so hot
The Mayerling incident is def a wiki rabbit hole, the other day I ended up reading everything from the history of the Habsburg dynasty to the root causes of WW1.
watched the devil-doll yesterday... so weird and cool. simply impossible to understand some of the characters' motivations. browning can do no wrong. won't quite make the list tho
Back when Postal Inspector was brought up, I neglected to mention that Cagney's Great Guy, also from '36, makes a good follow flick, as Great Guy is a thrilling drama about an investigator from the Bureau of Weights and Measures! Hollywood wasn't leaving any branch of the government out of the heroism department during the Roosevelt years.
The Petrified Forest - This might be the first time I've seen Leslie Howard in anything outside GWTW, such beautiful, curious eyes. Him and Bette Davis were quite the eyes matchup. Didn't like Bogie's performance in this one though, felt like the film took a little slump once he appeared.
Libeled Lady - Decent throughout without ever really kicking into high gear. Love Myrna Loy and William Powell but I still find it hard to warm to Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow.
Have you noticed the phrase"blank is just around the corner" popping up? At least twomovies now, I've heard riffs along the lines of
"Is that the same corner prosperity is supposed to be around?"
"No,that's a different corner."
twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:56 pm
anyway....moving from the innocently cynical to the earnestly patriotic...he is SO young! and still so hot
Come on! He leaves cavalry to join air force.
it's actually a wonderfully frank, morbid movie. man is in love with italy (sorry, a girl) her father is distraught and in peril so she, all pure noble virgin, marries rich austria (sorry, some bloke) to save the family, and amedeo is so sad he dedicates himself to serving his country and then just dies, still miserable. the end. it's great!
also tredowata is another pleasant miserable surprise
Arigatô-san (Mr. Thank You)
Ceiling Zero
Come and Get It
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California)
Fury
Human Cargo
La belle équipe (They Were Five)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Lloyds of London
Lo squadrone bianco (White Squadron)
Mayerling
Pan Twardowski
Rembrandt
Schlußakkord (Final Accord)
The Devil-Doll
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Tredowata (The Leper)
HMs (from here)
El bailarín y el trabajador
El gato montés
Morena Clara
Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Hitori musuko
Le crime de Monsieur Lange
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
Partie de campagne
U samogo sinego morya
To see before the deadline
Crown v. Stevens
Devdas
Jenny
Partiynyy bilet
Shindo: Zempen Akemi no maki / Shindo: Kohen Ryota no maki
Winterset
Xinjiu Shanghai
Wanted
A Son Comes Home
Avec le sourire
Crime Over London
Orphan of the Wilderness
Podrugi
Posledniy tabor
Prends la route
Razumov: Sous les yeux d'occident
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how great was gabriel figueroa? struggling to watch more as i can't find subs for allá en el rancho grande, or tbh any other mexican films apart from pancho villa - just seen a clip from cielito lindo and wow arturo de cordova looking as fresh-cheeked as amedeo over in italy. never realised they both started this early
does the molander ekman intermezzo pale in comparison with the leslie howard gregg toland version? i've not seen the latter but have a mad longish-standing crush on ekman and have liked every single molander that i've seen so wondering if the 1939 version being so much better is the reason the 1936 version isn't appearing on lists here
(aside from the soviets, where everyone suffers) 1936 really seems to be a year of 'what fucking choices do women have anyway?'
i thought that was just makeup! (one review somewhere said he seemed an almost intentional recall to the silent-era, so i'm like yeah, caligari) definitely something john barrymorish going on, but that just fit the aging 'artist' he was playing. he's a lovely wrecked human.
another year poll another surprise swedish film for me (i know everyone watches this for bergman but that's their problem) still gotta go some way to beat banketten for the wows but i've another 2 swedish films to go yet (comedies tho so not holding my breath)
The Ekman family is basically the Swedish equivalent of the Barrymore family now that you mention it. Doubt John ended up in court for getting coke prescribed through eye drops in order to keep up his workload though. Some sources say it was Emil Jannings who introduced him to the drug but that sounds almost too poetic...
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I also enjoyed Ceiling Zero, any special reason why it's so obscure or did it simply evaporate in the shockwaves of Only Angels Have Wings?
greennui wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:39 pm
I also enjoyed Ceiling Zero, any special reason why it's so obscure or did it simply evaporate in the shockwaves of Only Angels Have Wings?
I guess its undisguised stage origins (mostly one set, dialogue heavy) weigh it down a bit. Craig's Wife is another clear example. Even so there is talent behind the camera.
