Category Archives: Movies

“Baby Face”

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Barbara Stanwyck and her legs star in this engaging Warner Bros. pre-Code Hollywood work from a story by Daryl Zanuck writing under a pseudonym. A sort of femme fatale Horatio Alger story, Stanwyck plays a teenage tramp pimped … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Sex, Women men and fashion | Tagged art deco, Barbara Stanwyck, Feminism, Pre-Code | 6 Comments

“The Ghoul”

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Starring Boris Karloff and featuring a plot derived from “The Cat and the Canary,” this British Gaumont production seems like an attempt to mimic the success of Universal’s monster series. It’s only half-way successful. Karloff’s ghoul, … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Boris Karloff, Film, Gunther Krampf, horror, movies, Ralph Richardson, T. Hayes Hunter, The Ghoul | Leave a comment

Linkage

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Shouting Thomas is having bear troubles. Have you noticed how many scientific and/or academic studies are done on toys? In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that some college is offering a degree in Barbie Studies. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Architecture, Books Publishing and Writing, Linkathons, Movies, Music | Tagged Addison Mizner, Anita Loos, Armond White, Cormac McCarthy, Ernst Lubitsch, Film, Foseti, George Orwell, Lonnie Johnson, Matt Forney, movies, Wilson Mizner | 6 Comments

“Survival Island”

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Enjoyably cheesy, made-for-Showtime flick from 2005 that crosses a shipwrecked-on-a-Caribbean-island adventure story with a lot of heavy-breathing sexual suspense. For most of the movie, Billy Zane, Kelly Brook and Juan Pablo Di Pace (a fiery young Latin … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Sex | Tagged Billy Zane, cheesecake, Kelly Brook, movies, Piranha 3-D | 7 Comments

“Going Places” (Les Valseuses)

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Not that we’d ever have such a thing, but if we were to have a UR Litmus Test, this movie would be as good as any. Like it? Great! You’ve found the right place. Don’t like it? … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Bernard Blier, Bertrand Blier, French movies, Gérard Depardieu, sex comedy | 11 Comments

“Carmen Comes Home”

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This sprightly, sweet-spirited comedy from 1951 was the first full-length Japanese film made in color. It features Hideko Takamine and Toshiko Kobayashi as Kin and Maya; they’re a couple of big-city strippers who cause a scandal when they pay a visit to Kin’s hometown, … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Carmen Comes Home, Film, Hideko Takamine, Hulu+, Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita, movies, Shochiku | 4 Comments

“Black Rainbow”

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I semi-enjoyed this late ’80s film from writer-director Mike Hodges. It’s a thriller with supernatural trappings that’s perhaps most notable for its setting: the fetid, chipped-paint American South of Flannery O’Connor. (It was filmed in Charlotte, … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged American South, Black Rainbow, Film, Mike Hodges, movies, Rosanna Arquette, thrillers | 7 Comments

A Bit More on “Midnight”

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: By popular demand, a few more words on Linklater’s Before Midnight. The rules of drama typically involve things like a protagonist and a structure leading to tension and resolution. Of course the rules are meant to be toyed with, … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Before Midnight, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Knots, R.D. Laing, Richard Linklater | 1 Comment

Linkage

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Lesbians react to lesbian porn. Dennis Mangan discovers a group of traditionalist French women. Gucci Little Piggy spotlights some amusing (and somewhat phony looking) images of working mothers. Swooshiness! Reflectiveness! Transparency! Please save me from all … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Linkathons, Movies, Politics and Economics, Sex, Technology | Tagged chris marker, Film, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, lesbians, Mauritz Stiller, movies, Penn Station, Satyajit Ray | 3 Comments

“Before Midnight”

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Fenster

(Welcome Marginal Revolution readers. Feel free to browse. This is an eclectic blog and you might find something to catch your interest.) Fenster writes: Film may be better at war-war than jaw-jaw, but if you love words as I do you are … Continue reading →