...and A Month of VERTIGO is about to begin...
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Arriving with 2012 will be this blog’s first major event, A Month of VERTIGO. The month will feature 10 11 bloggers and one ‘vlogger' reflecting on facets of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958).Unpopular with critics and audiences when it was released, Vertigo has endured. Today it is generally considered the great...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Lady Eve offers a blogful of holiday cheer this year. Here's what's under the tree... ~ Two Icons Singing: Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sing "White Christmas" on a December 1957 TV special... ~ A Festive Romp From the 1970s: Kenneth More and Albert Finney sing "I Like Life" in the 1970 film Scrooge...~ From...
Sunday, December 18, 2011
The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful...which means it's a perfect time to snuggle down into a favorite chair, remote in hand, and decide: DVR or DVD?With Christmas just a week away I've picked a few long-time holiday favorites to watch along with one or two that have come into...
Monday, December 12, 2011
Not long ago I sat down with the 1956 British translation of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954). The book is now published under the title Vertigo (it was originally called 'The Living and the Dead') owing to the legend that is the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film based on Boileau/Narcejac's...
Monday, December 5, 2011
It is only occasionally that a film ages with extraordinary grace. Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 classic,The Shop Around the Corner, has mellowed in the manner of a rare and prized bottle of Hungarian Tokaji Aszú... Balta Street, BudapestDirector Lubitsch, revered for sophisticated films spun with his light-as-air...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Independent Lens, the Emmy-winning PBS series, airs Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows, a one-hour documentary, on Thursday, December 29, at 10:00pm (check local listings).These Amazing Shadows is an often kaleidoscopic swirl of film clips iconic and obscure, from Casablanca, Gone with the Wind...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Some Came RunningA sampling of a few posts and one event (my first!) on the near horizon for The Lady Eve's Reel Life:The Families of Vincent MinnelliA look at some of the director's most memorable family-themed films, including Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Father of the Bride (1950), Some Came Running (1958)...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I'm looking forward to spending some time with one of my favorite families this Thanksgiving weekend, Hannah and Her Sisters (as well as her other relatives and friends).Dianne Wiest, Oscar winnerHannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen's, by turns, clever and outright hilarious 1986 classic, has been judged by many...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
For a few years now, Turner Classic Movies has traditionally aired The Uninvited (1944) during Halloween season. A gothic mystery/romance with a lighter heart than Rebecca (1940), The Uninvited is another of my cold night favorites.Though lacking any gun or knife, let alone even a drop of blood or a hint of gore,...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Halloween has come and gone, a time change looms (“fall back”) and winter is just around the corner. Early twilight and cool evenings are here and it seems to me that when the weather starts getting nippy and night falls early, nothing satisfies like a crackling fire, something either steaming or iced to drink...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
The Uninvited, from Paramount Pictures in 1944, is an elegantly spooky Rebecca-esque romance with more than one haunting quality. Yes, Windward House, the sea cliff-situated home central to the story, is haunted by a malevolent woman’s ghost, but the film’s music is equally haunting (though not at all...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
