Directed by Charles Barton. Screenplay by Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, & John Grant. This probably sounds weird, but I’ve been waiting for literal years to watch this film. It holds a spot (#56) on AFI’s Top 100 Comedies list – but TCM never plays it (and y’all…you should know that I know – scanning […]
Directed by Clarence Brown. Screenplay by Norman Krasna, John Lee Mahin, & Alice Duer Miller, from the “Cosmopolitan” magazine story by Faith Baldwin. This is a re-watch. And – first thing’s first – I hate, hate, hate this movie’s title. It is a bad title, and the fact that it isn’t called something better A) […]
Written & directed by Mike Mills. (You may know Mills as the writer/director responsible for BEGINNERS (2010) – the film for which Christopher Plummer won his first & only Oscar, at the fun’n’fresh age of 82.) The opening shot of this film – a sky-high, straight-down aerial view of a calm(-ish) blue-green ocean, gracefully waving […]
Directed by Jean Renoir. Perhaps surprisingly, this was Renoir’s first & only Academy Award nomination (before, that is, he was awarded an Honorary one in 1975). Screenplay by Renoir, adaptation by Hugo Butler, from the novel “Hold Autumn in Your Hand” by George Sessions Perry (which, in 1941, had won the National Book Award). Zachary […]
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Screenplay by Rian James, based on a story by Raoul Whitfield. For starters, I would like to mention a key fact, as provided by IMDb: though, yes, this film includes the number 62 in its title…this is the only place this number is ever referenced. This is very weird – as […]
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay by Richard L. Breen (an Oscar winner – alongside Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder – for A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948)…no relation (that I can tell, anyway) to Code Villain Joseph), based on the stage play by Jean Kerr – which, it’s worth mentioning, was still running at the time of […]
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