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Re: Last Watched
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:42 am
by 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
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 12:28 pm
by Evelyn Library P.I.
rischka wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:42 am
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...
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 12:35 pm
by rischka
Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 12:28 pm
rischka wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:42 am
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
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:04 am
by 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
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 2:02 pm
by ofrene
is there decent copy of Sound in the Mist ???
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 2:29 pm
by 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
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 12:03 am
by rischka
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 1:09 am
by pabs
rischka wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 12:03 am
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
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 5:01 pm
by rischka
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2024 6:12 pm
by rischka
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 2:26 am
by 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.
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:28 am
by der kulterer
this year's TIFF is getting truly memorable.
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 5:45 am
by 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.
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:44 pm
by rischka
what's happening at TIFF?!
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 3:49 am
by Monsieur Arkadin
You mean the canceled Russians at War screening?
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:31 pm
by rischka
nah just in general
see anything good ?
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 7:48 pm
by 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.
Re: Last Watched
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:11 pm
by rischka