Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a beautifully shot movie, with an aching story of love deferred to duty.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a beautifully shot movie, with an aching story of love deferred to duty.
Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy/mystery The Trouble With Harry. Harry didn’t seem to be a good man, but he did prove hard to keep down. Jennifer Rogers (Shirley MacLaine) : I’ve never been to a home-made funeral before. Capt. Wiles (Edmund Gwenn) : I have … it’s my third. All in one day…
Grace Kelly plays Lisa Carol Fremont (perhaps the archetypical Hitchcock blond) in Rear Window. There is an unaffected world-weariness in her dialogue as she and Jimmy Stewart’s L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jeffries observe firstly the lonely woman they have nicknamed ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’, and then a young aspiring dancer they have nick-named ‘Miss Torso’ entertain some gentlemen callers. …
Kiss Me Kate provides both homage to and playful subversion of William Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew by interpreting it by a Cole Porter musical. I love Howard Keel and Ann Miller, Kathryn Grayson is wonderful and a young Bob Fosse gives us a glimpse of what will come. The affectations of 3D staging …