Directed by Dorothy Arzner. Screenplay by Tess Slesinger & Bradbury Foote, from a play by Ferenc Molnár. One evening, while out drunkenly slumming in the “lowest, most decrepit” bar/club he can find, Count Armalia (George Zucco) meets singer Anni Pavlovitch (Joan Crawford), who is employed there. The Count is, by nature, very interested in luck, […]
Directed by Penny Marshall. Written by Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg. Music by Howard Shore? What! The man who wrote the scores for THE LORD OF THE RINGS films was also in charge of the music for BIG? Ha! Amazing. The film does an impressively good job establishing Josh (David Moscow)’s personality before he “grows […]
Directed by Jack Conway. Adapted by Laird Doyle & Raymond L. Shrock, from the book “Pigboats” by Commander Edward Ellsberg. Dialogue by John Lee Mahin and John Meehan. (John Mahin & John Meehan? Ha! I wonder if that ever got confusing at the studio.) “Produced with the cooperation of the Navy Department” an opening title card […]
Alright – as promised in my re-watch post from a little while ago on DESIGNING WOMAN (1957)…it’s another re-watch post, this time about WOMAN OF THE YEAR! Woooooo! Directed by George Stevens. Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr. & Michael Kanin. Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) is an accomplished reporter for the New York Chronicle, and – […]
Directed by Nisha Ganatra. Screenplay by Mindy Kaling. Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a British comedienne who for the last 30 (-ish) years has anchored an American late night talk show called “Tonight” (“with Katherine Newbury”). Katherine is allegedly a champion of women (she does routinely feature people like Dianne Feinstein on her show in prime […]
Directed by Sydney Franklin. Screenplay by Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, & Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by Rudolph Besier. I’m excited for this movie, because it gives us the romantic re-pairing of SMILIN’ THROUGH (1932) power couple Fredric March & Norma Shearer. Plus, this was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award (which it […]
Directed by Charles Walters. Story by Sy Gomberg, screenplay by Gomberg & George Wells (who, a few years later, would of course go on to win a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for DESIGNING WOMAN (1957)). Jane Falbury (Judy Garland) is a single woman who’s trying to run her inherited family farm by herself. (To begin […]
Directed by Shane Black. Screenplay by Shane Black, based on the novel “Bodies Are Where You Find Them” by Brett Halliday. The black, white, & red graphic-illustration style of the opening credits is totally awesome & totally badass. Coupled with the jazzy, spy-ish music that’s playing – it does a fabulous job at setting the movie’s […]
Directed by George Cukor. Screenplay by Jane Murfin & Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. To begin our story, “hardware heiress” Pearl (Constance Bennett), an American, moves to London to marry Lord George Grayston (Alan Mowbray). Much to Pearl’s dismay, she discovers almost immediately that Lord-Husband George did not marry […]
Written & directed by Spike Lee. “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. That […]
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