lb review:
Low on subtlety and quality, high on atmosphere and feels. An adorable older Jimmy Stewart plays a lonely custodian who spends his Christmas Eve alone talking to his cat named George and spiraling into rapturous Christmas dreamscapes to the sound of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Heavy-handed but endearing as ever. Nothing but love from me.
Rec'd to any Jimmy Stewart or cat or Christmas fans. 25 minutes of comfort.
watched THE SECOND GAME by corneliu porumboiu (2014). fucking sick! if there are two things i enjoy in life they're sitting on my couch watching movies and sitting on my couch watching sports. watching the snow fall is up there too. well, this doozy gave me all 3
lb review:
Low on subtlety and quality, high on atmosphere and feels. An adorable older Jimmy Stewart plays a lonely custodian who spends his Christmas Eve alone talking to his cat named George and spiraling into rapturous Christmas dreamscapes to the sound of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Heavy-handed but endearing as ever. Nothing but love from me.
Rec'd to any Jimmy Stewart or cat or Christmas fans. 25 minutes of comfort.
John Ford's 1923 mountie western North of Hudson Bay makes very fine snow season viewing !!! Gorgeous wintry outdoor scenery and Ford's excellent use of lighting and staging make this a visual feast (I took 57 screenshots, whoops!), and Tom Mix is goofy hot in oversized cowboy gear and patterned cardigans.
All these films sound great. I’m going to have to try to watch North of Hudson Bay - a Tom Mix/John Ford western sounds like just what I need right now.
Might see about rewatching the The Gold Rush this year too, I think it was maybe one of the first Chaplin films I saw as a kid.
Watched Aspen (Wiseman, 1991). Lots of snow and lots of skiing. Lots of decadent filthy rich class enemies too, but it is not restricted to that. Fascinating time capsule from the Reagan-bush era.
There's a 1948 snowfest from Ealing called With Scott In Antarctica, but it's not available in any of my usual places. Maybe somewhere with restricted membership...
well i remembered pat liking it as well so thought i'd mention - i'll probably get to it, but through the bfi player version (once i figure out why i can't watch paid bfi or mubi or google play vids on my laptop anymore)
SAD_SCROOGE'S 2020 DOCKET: BOLD indicates PRIORITY MAIL
short scrooges:
The Christmas Angel (Georges Méliès, 1904)
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (Jean de Rovera, 1924) How to Build an Igloo (Douglas Wilkinson, 1949)
The Snowy Day (Mal Whittman, 1965) The Mitten (Roman Kachanov, 1967)
The Christmas Card (Terry Gilliam, 1968) Hockey (Bogdan Dziworski, 1977)
The Snowy Day (Jamie Badminton/Rufus Blacklock, 2016)
long scrooges:
The Conquest of the Pole (Georges Méliès, 1912) South (Frank Hurley, 1919)
Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928)
The Trail of '98 (Clarence Brown, 1928)
The Triumph of the Heart (Gustaf Molander, 1929)
Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1930)
The White Ecstasy (Arnold Fanck, 1931)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred "Albert" Hitchcock, 1938)
You Belong to Me (Wesley Ruggles, 1941)
Sun Valley Serenade (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941)
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, 1946) Snow Trail (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1947)
Arctic Fury (Jack Witikka, 1951) The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952)
Snow Country (Shirō Toyoda, 1957) White Nights (Luchino Visconti, 1957)
Time Stood Still (Ermanno Olmi, 1959)
The Savage Innocents (Nick Ray, 1960)
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (Abe Levitow, 1962) The Merry World of Léopold Z (Gilles Carle, 1965)
Doctor Zhivago (David "Big Dave" Lean, 1965)
Winter A-Go-Go (Richard Benedict, 1965)
Wild Wild Winter (Lennie Weinrib, 1966)
Affair in the Snow (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1968)
Scrooge (Ronald Neame, 1970)
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)
Snow Job (George Englund, 1972)
The Long Darkness (Kei Kumai, 1972)
Murder on the Orient and Express (Sidney Lumet, 1974)
Train in the Snow (Mate Relja, 1976) Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver, 1979)
Quintet (Robert Altman, 1979)
The Flight of the Eagle (Jan Troell, 1982)
Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985)
St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher, 1985)
Youngblood (Peter Markle, 1986)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987)
Dead of Winter (Arthur Penn, 1987) Four Days of Snow and Blood (Hideo Gosha, 1989)
Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)
White Fang (Randal Kleiser, 1991)
Picture of Light (Peter Mettler, 1994)
Sudden Death (Peter Hyams, 1995)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)
Mystery, Alaska (Jay Roach, 1999)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004)
The Perfect Holiday (Lance Rivera, 2007)
Pond Hockey (Tommy Haines, 2008)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
In Order of Disappearance (Hans Petter Moland, 2014)
Happiest Season (Clea DuVall, 2020)
BONUS SCROOGERY ::: i will watch this movie on the LAST day of winter and time it so it ends EXACTLY at midnight. JAJAJAJA
In Spring (Mikhail Kaufman, 1929)
RESCROOGEROUSNESS (revisiting some favourite scrooges from the past)
THE SNOWMAN (11th yr in a row!!) THE SWEATER
WOODCARVER STEINER
LOVE LETTER
SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL
DOWNHILL RACER
THE SWORD OF DOOM... + SAMURAI ASSASSIN (???! ahahah)
THE APARTMENT
TOKYO TWILIGHT
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
TITANIC (ahahahha)
THE ICE STORM
METROPOLITAN
BAD SANTA
THE SILENT PARTNER
INSOMNIA (rewatch da nolan, but perhapses i'll firstwatch the original too??)
NOT MY FAVS but i may revisit:
COOL RUNNINGS
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
ENEMY AT THE GATES
BLACK CHRISTMAS
GRUMPY OLD MEN
SNOW ANGELS
MEN WITH BROOMS
rewatching some crap just so i have it logged with a rating:*
DUMB AND DUMBER
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (ron "lebron" howard version)
THE POLAR EXPRESS
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
HOME ALONE
HOME ALONE 2
LOVE ACTUALLY
THE SANTA CLAUSE
THE HOLIDAY
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
JACK FROST
BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
ABOUT A BOY
THE GOOD SON
JOHNNY TSUNAMI
THE SAINT
IRON WILL
MIGHTY DUCKS, D2, D3
GROUNDHOG DAY
*i will pb ally-watch all these craps if i watch them at all!
I watched a really good snow film just the other day, Lubitsch's Eternal Love (1929). It was his last silent film and kinda feels like his attempt at doing a Borzage-esque melodrama in the Alps. It has got perhaps the most hardcore romantic snowy ending ever.
Dat silent film makeup kinda making J-Barr look 20 years younger.
Also watched The Triumph of the Heart quite recently (thanx tdm for making me aware of this). Could have used a little trimming but another fine snowy drama.
Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch, 1929)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch, 1944)
The Tall Men (Raoul Walsh, 1955)
Snow Country (Shiro Toyoda, 1957)
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960)
The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray, 1960)
Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
The Midnight Sky (George Clooney, 2020)
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cool! alright! cuh-cuh-cool! cold! brrrr. who is senkichi taniguchi? i have never heard of this man. apparently kurosawa wrote this script... why didn't he just direct it? he was established by 1947, and this was that taniguchi character's first movie... what gives, toho?? ANYWAY, the main thing about this movie is that it's the debut of toshiro mifune. takashi shimura is there as well. then one yr later kurosawa directs them TOGETHER in drunken angel and it's an amazing film? more evidence that kurosawa should've directed this... but anyway, some GORGEOUS snow in this. this ain't no "yeah some shots of snow" bullshit, this is 90 minutes of fucking snowy mountains. it's pretty beautiful and i felt cold just watching it. brrr! the acting is superb (duh), and i guess the story is cool but... it left me feeling kind of... cold, and not just because i was viscerally experiencing all the wonderful shots of snow! it just, according to moi, was not that emotionally affective. but don't let me dissuade you from checking it if you love snow. the outdoorsy snowiness alone was worth the price of admission. i just personally saw more potential than execution in this flick. anyway, apparently akira "shakira" kurosawa wrote three other movies for this taniguchi man? interesting! will i watch them? no. but it seems like he also wrote a samurai movie and it starred mifune and was directed by inagaki aka the only other person who knew how to get the most of mifune. i will watch that. you cannot stop me. you can try, but you would fail
25 minutes of comfort.
