Well, I can say onething for certain – 1947 was a slow year in movies. My choices really boiled down between this noir crime drama and Miracle on 34th St. and considering it’s still four months til Christmas, it would’ve felt a bit weird to be watching a holiday movie in mid-September. The problem I … Continue reading
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100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 36 – Brief Encounter (1945)
Wow, what a boring movie. Don’t get me wrong, it’s well-directed but the story is just so pedestrian and every time the housewife (Celia Johnson) would drift off on her endless self-narration of her affair with the middle-aged horny toad doctor, I wanted to punch her in the mouth. Well, OK, not really. I don’t … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 34 – The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
This is one of those odd instances where both the book and the movie are equally good. I do however have to give the edge to the movie version simply from the silent fury of Henry Fonda’s piercing eyes. The Ox-Bow Incident is part-Western movie, part racial drama. The story focuses on two drifters who … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 33 – Casablanca (1942)
I was tempted to watch my grandfather’s favorite movie ever, Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney, but decided to go with the more mainstream classic, Casablanca. Watching this movie again, it’s funny how many great one-liners there are. There’s even a YouTube video for them. That been said, while it remains an American classic, it’s … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 32 – Citizen Kane (1941)
If there were ever a movie that was mandatory for film students to watch, it’s this one. Citizen Kane is the film student equivalent of having to read 1984 the Weekly Reader in grade school. Honestly though, I didn’t know what the big deal was about this movie. Even when I watched it the first time in … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 31 – His Girl Friday (1940)
I’m going to keep this entry short. I didn’t want to watch Pinocchio for a second time in three months so I switched over to His Girl Friday, for the simple reason that I had a copy of the movie sitting in my DVD library. I would have watched The Grapes of Wrath or Fantasia, … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 30 – The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I freakin’ love this movie. I love the sepia colored beginning and the switch to vibrant color part-way thru. Back when I first saw The Wizard of Oz, about a couple decades or so ago, I had a bit of a crush on Dorothy (Judy Garland) and the flying monkeys freaked the hell out of … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 29 – Bringing Up Baby (1938)
When I watched this movie for the first time a couple years ago, it was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. After today’s second viewing, I still like it, but it wasn’t as funny. Bringing Up Baby features a rat-ta-tat-tat machine gun dialogue exchange between Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn as they transport a … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 28 – The Awful Truth (1937)
The problem I had watching The Awful Truth was that I already knew how it was going to end. So immediately, I started looking for a subplot, but there really isn’t one that jumps out. Ultimately, what got me thru this movie was the easy-charm of Cary Grant, who I will be seeing again as … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 27 – Sabotage (1936)
To be honest with you, I have no idea what was going on in this movie. I do remember there is a Disney cartoon that suddenly appears and seems oddly fit into a Hitchcock movie. But back to the reasons why I didn’t know what the heck was going on… For one, every copy I … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – First 25 Days Video Review
Click the link below for a brief two-minute video review of the past 25 Days of this journey. First 25 Days Video Review Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 26 – Scrooge (1935)
Wow, talk about having to go into the vault. My original plan was to watch Mutiny on the Bounty but unable to find a copy of that movie, I ended going to my back-up – 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock. Unfortunately, every copy I viewed had really low volume and I couldn’t hear what was … Continue reading
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