Wednesday, October 9, 2024
"The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway." Ingmar Bergman
Monday, October 7, 2024
SOMETHING DANCING ABOUT HER
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Today is the 'official' JAMES BOND DAY......
Today is the 'official' JAMES BOND DAY.......Daniel Craig is my favorite Bond, since Sean Connery........I wonder who the 'next' James will be.....Tom Hiddleston? Michael Fassbender? Henry Cavill? Or.....breaking the over half century tradition.....will 'it' be a black man? how about a woman? Idris Elba or Cate Blanchett, perhaps? Should I sell my Omegas yet? Will the newest Bond be sporting a machine-turned platinum dialed gold Breguet with guilloche.....oh...that would mean Ben Whishaw had been promoted from "Q", cut his teeth on London Spy, and beefed up for the role, wouldn't it? THAT ain't gonna happen!... My vote is for Aaron Taylor-Johnson...or....Tom Hardy....
A MENTION OF THE JOHN WATER'S FILM, "PECKER" THAT MY MENTION OF IT WAS CENSORED BY FACEBOOK POLICE FOR BEING 'INAPPROPRIATE'......
Friday, October 4, 2024
"MAD LOVE" (1935) AKA "THE HANDS OF ORLAC"
The 1935 MGM Karl Freund film adaptation of Maurice Renard's novel, "Les Mains D'Orlac"....featuring Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Frances Drake and Peter Lorre; produced by John Considine Jr. ...adapted by Guy Endore...with costumes by Dolly Tree, Musical Score by Dimitri Tiomkin, and Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons....clicked all my buttons this morning at 3:45, when it was shown on TCM.....We get Keye Luke in his 'Mister/Dr. Wong' persona and seemingly ever-present Ian Wolfe in yet another of his dark roles.....remember "Bedlam", or his many character actor performances? ......The Film opens with a fist breaking a frosty glass window on a snowy, frigid evening, to reveal a man, hung by his neck in a painted set room of Le Theatre Des Horreurs.....the viewer is diverted to 'the real world' as a courting couple exits what was a Wax Museum-ish exhibit of Terror and Torture......the young woman, squabbling with her boyfriend over not having gone 'someplace' to 'have some fun'.......They pass by a Theater Sign advertising "Yvonne"....at Le Theatre....then the camera, abandoning the couple that disappear with other fashionable couples...all wearing the then obligatory hats and couture essentials, as we are now engaged by Yvonne, primping her 'look' for a performance, as "Torturee", reading her fan mail and wondering if Dr. Gogol is rich enough for her attention..........All of these observations are from the first couple of minutes of the Film, incidentally....