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Them! (1954)
Great black and white 50s horror!
A little girl lost in the desert in shock, obviously she's seen something terrible. Love the look of the film and the high caliber cast. Warner Bros took advantage of the fear about the consequences of the atomic bomb & testing nuclear weapons in the desert in 1954. #TCM
Warner didn't want to invest in this B-horror film & shot it in b/w instead of colour, but by the end of 1954, Them! had earned $2 million making it the year's biggest earner and Warner Bros discovered a new money making genre of films.
The sounds the giant ants emit in the film were the calls of bird-voiced tree frogs mixed in with the calls of a wood thrush, hooded warbler, and red-bellied woodpecker. It was recorded at Indian Island, Georgia, on April 11, 1947 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The Odd Couple (1968)
Laughter infallible remedy
The Odd Couple, 1968 American Technicolor buddy comedy film in Panavision, written by Neil Simon, based on his 1965 play of the same name, produced by Howard W. Koch and directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It is the story of two divorced men-neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar and fun-loving slob Oscar Madison-who decide to live together, even though their personalities clash.
I always heard "La risa remedio infalible" (laughter infallible remedy) when I was a kid, and then I discovered a whole gender of movies dedicated to it, I couldn't believe it! Definitely comedies are my kind of movies, I love comedies. The Odd Couple is a great film. The comedy is off the chart funny even though when is sad! These two together have great chemistry and 1968 New York as the setting is just phenomenal. I was impressed with the eight rooms Manhattan apartment! What a luxury for this slob, and I mean Oscar Madison.
The Assistant (2019)
Excellent quiet portrait of young naive girl trying to do the right thing.
"The Assistant" was very effective on showing what a person on the very bottom of the corporate structure (or the film culture) faces, the risks involved, the potential to harm to their own career, and how overwhelmingly difficult is to achieve any success to have anybody do anything about harm being done to another person, or point out that the person is being exploited. The idea of being a whistle blower when you're on the bottom of the food chain. It did a great job of identifying and exposing those very real risks and intimidation tactics that these kind of people have to deal with.
This movie represents the "Me too" movement specifically. "The Assistant" wasn't blowing the whistle on corruption or someone embellishing money in the company, she was drawing attention to the fact that inocente young women were being pressured and influenced and promised things if the cooperate sexually with powerful people.
That's how the "Me too" happens, you have women that are promised (or implied promised) that their careers are going go get busted if they go along with of being sexually available to these powerful people.
And the flip side of this -and how it continues on this culture- is, that everybody around that, sees that, knows that it is happening but, because their overall concern is on their own careers and how speaking up would affect it, forces them to comply to silence.
There are two things happening: there's the act of exploiting and sexually abusing inocente young naive women, extorting them, saying either "I'll help your career if you do this" or "I'm going to destroy your career if you don't do this", and the biggest reason that allows this to keep happening is because the enabling culture of everybody else in various positions from the bottom to the top that sees what's happening, know what's happening, but choose not to get involved or say anything because they are protecting their own careers.
Great film. Absolutely recommend it.
Excellent performances and on point direction!
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Superb entertainment
This film was shot 1944, a year of war and dislocation, when home, and the permanence and security associated with it, were all millions of people thought about.
A new kind of musical.
A Secret Love (2020)
Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel, kept their lesbian relationship a secret from their families for almost seven decades
August 2nd/2020
NETFLIX
'A Secret Love': This tender film explores the partnership between two women who lived, in public and to kin, as dear friends for six decades. (From the NY Times).
A Secret Love is an 2020 American documentary film, directed by Chris Bolan. Ryan Murphy serves as a producer on the film, while Jason Blum serves as an executive producer under his Blumhouse Productions banner. It stars Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel.
Chris Bolan, the director of the film, took a trip to visit his two great aunts, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel. They told Bolan about their life together and after hearing it Bolan decided to tell their story via a documentary film.
The film was scheduled to have its world premiere at South by Southwest in March 2020; however, the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released on April 29, 2020.
Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty (2020)
Absolutely hilarious
Loved this show. Completely recommend it to anybody who wants to be super entertained. Lots of laughs and heart felt stories.
Bravo Fortune!