Showing posts with label golden age hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golden age hollywood. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Next Lobotomy Room Film Club ... Desire (1936) on 15 February 2024

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“Marlene Dietrich, with her pencil-line arched eyebrows, as the most elegantly amusing international jewel thief ever. She steals a pearl ne...
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Monday, 6 March 2023

Reflections on ... Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020)

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  / Mae West in 1928 when she was appearing in her play Diamond Lil (which she later adapted for the screen as She Done Him Wrong (1933)) ...
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Wednesday, 30 December 2020

Reflections on ... Cleopatra (1934)

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/ Henry Wilcoxon and Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934) / Recently watched: Cleopatra (1934). Apologies to Elizabeth Taylor, but Claude...
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Monday, 30 November 2020

Reflections on ... Paid in Full (1950)

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Recently watched: Paid in Full (1950). Tagline: “The story of a woman’s bitter victory.” I’m using this period of enforced social isolation...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Reflections on ... The Dark Mirror (1946)

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Recently watched: The Dark Mirror (1946). Tagline: “Twins! One who loves … and one who loves to kill!”  A nice way to remember the ...
Friday, 24 July 2020

Reflections on ... Lizabeth Scott in Dark City (1950)

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Recently watched: Dark City (1950). I will always drop everything to watch a movie starring smoky-eyed, husky-voiced Lizabeth Scott...
Monday, 16 July 2018

Reflections on ... Cindy Sherman Exhibit at Sprüth Magers

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“In the large-scale colour portraits, the artist imagines herself as a cast of 'grandes dames' from the Golden Age of 1920s Hol...
Thursday, 12 July 2018

Reflections on ... Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn (1950)

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Recently watched: Young Man with a Horn (1950).   Directed by Michael Curtiz ( Casablanca , Mildred Pierce ), it covers the rise and f...