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[rischka]

cuteness overload vehicle for ginger rogers called 'professional sweetheart' (seiter 1933) it's not what you're thinking. ginger is followed everywhere by advertising men to protect her 'wholesome' image. by no means a great movie but a wonderful selection of character actors.



there's a big part for theresa harris as ginger's maid, teaching her all the latest dances from harlem. she gets to sing but no screen credit



and ginger's minders include franklin pangborn and frank mchugh



sterling holloway turns up in one scene



and zasu pitts is a delight as an intrepid journalist



anyway that was fun

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

cuteness overload vehicle for ginger rogers called 'professional sweetheart' (seiter 1938) it's not what you're thinking. ginger is followed everywhere by advertising men to protect her 'wholesome' image. by no means a great movie but a wonderful selection of character actors.

Oh, it's 1933 actually—best year in film history! I agree, this is supercute. I love the old-time radio vibe of it, and Ginger's very pre-code furious lust for experience Should watch again, I think I watched it too late and fell asleep last time...

[rischka]

cuteness overload vehicle for ginger rogers called 'professional sweetheart' (seiter 1938) it's not what you're thinking. ginger is followed everywhere by advertising men to protect her 'wholesome' image. by no means a great movie but a wonderful selection of character actors.

Oh, it's 1933 actually—best year in film history! I agree, this is supercute. I love the old-time radio vibe of it, and Ginger's very pre-code furious lust for experience Should watch again, I think I watched it too late and fell asleep last time...

d'oh how did i make that mistake. agree - best year in film history

i might have known with ginger dancing in her underwear lol

[rischka]

watched a couple of recently subbed shimizus その後の蜂の巣の子供たち/children of the beehive: what happened next (1951) ♥ further adventures of the beehive kids

霧の音/sound in the mist (1956)







some of the master's most impressive photography and long luxurious pans at an inn in the japanese alps. selfish men, self effacing women, tragedy ensues

[ofrene]

is there decent copy of Sound in the Mist ???

[rischka]

decent yes but it has hard portuguese subs. i can't upload it as it over 5gbs but i'm sure a better one will turn up soon

[rischka]

i had thought there was a documentary thread but i am damned if i can find it. anyways i enjoyed scorsese's film about powell & pressberger, 'Made in England' so much i've watched it twice already. what a sweet sweet story









marty talks about becoming obsessed with the tales of hoffmann ♥



on the million dollar movie playing every afternoon on his parents' tiny b&w tv

[pabs]

i had thought there was a documentary thread but i am damned if i can find it.

Here it is!! https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=967

[rischka]

padlocked (allan dwan 1926) - restored from a single print found in prague. an early work of james wong howe















a sort of diary of a lost girl (lois moran), driven away by her too strict father (noah beery), preyed upon by a jeffrey epstein character with his own giselle maxwell, sent to reform school and rescued from same, purity intact. lovely photography. guessing the epstein model was common in the last century

[rischka]

sea porn courtesy powell & pressberger's battle of the river plate (1956)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Currently at TIFF.
Only got to two films today.

Wael Shawkys Drama 1882 which is a 40 minute opera depicting the 1882 Urabi Revolt in Egypt. I'm just guessing, but I'd assume it takes a bit of inspiration from Med Hondo's West Indies
Spectacular production design.


Then I saw Sean Ellis' new Orlando Bloom boxing movie The Cut.
Had the worst opening boxing sequence I've ever seen, and was immediately disheartened. But the rest of it was alright. Trying really hard for a black swan/Whiplash sort of thing, and semi-succeeds.

Overall, not a bad start to the festival for me.

[der kulterer]

not a bad start to the festival

this year's TIFF is getting truly memorable.

[pabs]

A doco called THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE (2023).

About the lady who conducted a huge survey, handing out questionnaires to be filled out anonymously by women. She published the results in a book called The Hite Report.

It turns out most women are unhappy and miserable about their sex life and are bored with, or dislike, their spouses after only a few years together. Most men don't know how to give women orgasms and most women fake them to please their male partners and to get them off their bodies and leave them be.

Shere Hite did a survey on men next and published the results in another book. Most men in America felt isolated and terribly lonely and didn't have anyone to confide in. They had no meaningful relationships with their fathers and felt cut off from their fathers when they were growing up. Men's adult friendships with other men were superficial and shallow.

American men were furious about Hite publishing all these results. She was hated. She felt she had to leave America so she did. She never returned, living the rest of her life in Europe.

[rischka]

what's happening at TIFF?!

[Monsieur Arkadin]

You mean the canceled Russians at War screening?

[rischka]

nah just in general see anything good ?

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Lol. I was only up there for the first weekend. But Miguel Gomes' new film Grand Tour was my highlight.

Andrea Arnold's new one is my least favorite of hers thus far. But seemed to garner very strong and very negative reactions.

My students felt like Mother, Mother a Somali film was the highlight. I liked it, though it felt a bit more like general classic festival fare to me.

[rischka]

it's a zabriskie, zabriskie, zabriskie, zabriskie point (daniel kremer 2023) an essay film that tries to do for death valley what thom anderson did for los angeles. featuring some of my favorite films and some interesting thoughts about america and the desert on film. glad i recently saw zabriskie for the first time. i'll be visiting there next week!!

[greennui]

Watched a few of them Mission Impossible films, much more enjoyable than the smug, self serious and bland Bond franchise. Need to watch more films with Vanessa Kirby...

[pabs]

Past Lives (Song, 2023) 7.5/10
Priscilla (Coppola, 2023) 1
After Love (Khan, 2020) 9
Hamlet (Kozintsev, 1964) 9
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Jude, 2023) 8
Ophelia (McCarthy, 2018) 1
Biutiful (Inarritu, 2010) 8.5


Do Not Expect Too Much was excellent! So much fun in its scathing comment on the state of Romania.

Priscilla is the most pointless film I've seen in a very long time.

[rischka]

damn i wanted to love vanishing point. then a naked woman riding a motorbike showed up



and i realize i am not the intended audience

[pabs]

Marianne and Leonard - Words of Love (Broomfield, 2019). documentary

Very sad story of Leonard Cohen and his part-time girlfriend Marianne, living the hippie dream of free sex and free love and tons of drugs on the Greek island of Hydra. The parents' hedonism and their irresponsibility and lack of care and neglect for their kids led to many of these hippies' children, like Marianne's son, Axel, being institutionalized for life, or they killed themselves through drugs/alcohol.