Theme from Laura (1944) - David Raksin
In 1999, Laura was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The American Film Institute ranked the film #73 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, the score #7 in AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, and it was ranked the fourth best film in the mystery genre in AFI's 10 Top 10.
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I saw that film only once, but the venue was perfect: David Packard's Stanford Theatre, one of the best independent movie houses in the country.
I know I've seen the movie but don't recall details. I do remember that song.
Vincent Price in his early career (not horror or gay.)
What's your opinion of the film, Lem? You like?
Watching it via Amazon Video for the first time.
I have a month to watch it.
Saw Great Gatsby last night, the Baz Luhrmann one. The book doesn't adapt well to his directorial style.
(PS I thought TOP was going to do one Gatsby quote per day for other whole year. And one country a day)
Ah, that should be watching Birdsong on Amazon Prime. Pretty darn good.
Excellent film. Clifton Webb is the highlight, plus Gene Tierney never looked better.
"My dear, either you were born on a extremely rustic community, where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from a common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct."
Do any of you know about how long before the movie starts?
I never rented from Amazon before.
Do you have a smart TV Lem?
If you do you will watch it on Amazon Prime over the internet and it takes about two minutes for it to set up. Of course you have to have a good internet connection.
I watch all my movies on Netflics and Amazon Prime on the smart TV.
"I watch all my movies on Netflics and Amazon Prime on the smart TV."
Same here. We also rent from Vudu.
I got it Troop.
I had to put in a pin number for the parental settings.
It probably won't go into the Smithsonian, but Mousehunt if a very funny movie.
Nathan Lane, slapstick, clean, and of special note, Christopher Walken.
Some versions edit down his best scene. Unfortunate.
Dana is the guy and Gene is the woman.
And the music goes softly
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To show you are entering a mystical place where things are different from normal, a place where male and female names are subtly reversed.
Too good to pass up:
A nice lineup at Gateway over the weekend
We close 21 embassies because of Al Qaeda, Choom goes golfing.
ChoomCare bumps insurance premiums average of 122%.
NY county fair usesChoom's photo in dart game.
Phil 3:14 said...
Saw Great Gatsby last night, the Baz Luhrmann one. The book doesn't adapt well to his directorial style.
(PS I thought TOP was going to do one Gatsby quote per day for other whole year. And one country a day)
She got a little, uh..., sidetracked.
(I think if she'd kept to that instead of worrying about the "oppression" of homosexuals, we'd still be there)
(YMMV)
From what I could tell the Gatsby Project died because it opened Althouse to too much ridicule. She kept picking silly sentences apparently because they lent themselves to artistic riffing, while others said "Huh? That's a terrible sentence."
Unless commenters got with the riffing program, as betamax did, there wasn't much to say about a bad Fitzgerald sentence stripped of context.
I kept checking Gatsby to see that her sentence choices weren't typical, and they weren't, but even so I will never read Fitzgerald or Gatsby the same. I'm halfway back to the way I was the first time I read Gatsby and kept wondering to myself, "Why are these sentences so oddly written?"
You rang?
Dahlings, I've been lurking all along.
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