photos: peter o'toole from 1969's 'goodbye mr. chips'/'the scholar' watercolor by pal shazar
Sunday, November 8, 2009
the life of the mind
photos: peter o'toole from 1969's 'goodbye mr. chips'/'the scholar' watercolor by pal shazar
if my memory serves me well
some music sits within you like a memory that you feel but can't really see well enough to describe. even to yourself. 'round midnight' is a movie that i know i really enjoyed but it is a vague memory. however, i will attest to it's beauty and tenderness. in 1986 a prominent french filmmaker brought to the screen the story of a troubled american jazz musician who is brought to france and befriended by a very sincere soul. so many people love jazz music but it is the french who are going down in history as the ones who worship at its altar. viva la france!
the glowing musician dexter gordon, the protagonist/musician of the film.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
tom powers
this actor has over 130 film credits but i'm only familiar with his unpleasant role as 'mr. dietrichson' in billy wilder's 1944 classic 'double indemnity.' here is is going up to bed while his wife and lover plan his murder. moments before this sinsiter scene takes place, the three of them were all discussing the benefits of taking out an insurance policy:
mrs. dietrichson: (faking it!) if we bought all the insurance they could think of we'd stay broke paying for it, wouldn't we honey?
mr. dietrichson: (not faking it) what keeps us broke is you going out and buying five hats at a crack. who needs a hat in california?
maybe it's just me but i think that dialogue is hysterical.
tan and tender
elizabeth taylor and feathered friend on location for 'the sandpiper.' i really like this film. you just can't lose when richard burton and elizabeth share the screen.
trouble's her middle name
Phyllis: I think you're rotten.
Walter Neff: I think you're swell - so long as I'm not your husband.
Walter Neff: That was all there was to it. Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked.There was nothing to give us away. And yet, Keyes, as I was walking down the street to the drugstore, suddenly, it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy Keyes, but it's true, so help me, I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.
photo: 'double indemnity' starring barbara stanwyck as 'phyllis' and fred macmurray as 'walter.'
Friday, November 6, 2009
god bless the child
the film 'precious' may not be out yet but it is getting all kinds of attention. look at this happy face! the movie's star gabourey sidibe has lots of laugh about.
kids again
sometimes kids in movies are so cute. other times they seem wise beyond their years. i closed my eyes plenty while watching 'taxi driver' but it seems i was the only one. the film was praised to the skies and turned the darling de niro into a bona fide legend. as the teenager who became his mission, jodie foster was undoubtably stylish.
photos: jodie foster, playing age 12, from the film/tavi, age 13, today's fashion blogging sensation
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