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i loved that adolescent girl standing on the brink thinking and believing everything she desired was possible time was an unending runway like a cattle brand those first and early passions that rise past mere wants were imprinted in me and even now after the slow sometimes dreary sometimes wonderful blink of an eye that passes for life i can rub my figurative finger over my true self and still feel the faint impressions of that brand funny we seem to spend the first part of our life developing an armor against hurt and then the remainder peeling away that armor in search of our authentic emotional self this leaves a tender spot and as a consequence we cry a lot and not just over sad things which brings me to this little clip the closing credits of 1984 s all of me cute right yet every time i see it i start to sob real tears but all tears are not an expression of sorrow or hurt at this point in my life those emotions bring a frown and something in my chest that feels like heartbreak now it is joy and beauty that elicit those tears steve martin and lily tomlin are pure joy happiness unbridled silliness a great and beautiful thing i ve been writing about movies for quite some time now i m not much of a reviewer i like to explore the emotional experience of watching a particular film which brings me to ragtime cagney was 82 at the time that movie and his role was small yet the sight of him made me cry i cried not because he was so changed from the way he looked in his prime no i cried because in his face on the screen i saw all of the history and stories i had written on my heart tangled up with his cinematic history and how grand a ruin he appeared and how raw and real i felt in my seat in the dark deep in rapture crying and filled with joy posted by flickchick at 9 04 pm 20 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels crying james cagney lily tomlin steve martin sunday november 10 2024 the time of their lives bud and lou every night at my house this is my entry in the classic movie blog association s a haunting blogathon in the afterlife for more eerily delicious articles please visit here bud and lou on opposite sides of the revolution in 1946 s the time of their lives my father how many times can you watch the same film 9 year old me a lot if you grew up in the new york metropolitan area in the 1960s 1980s you probably remember million dollar movie twice nightly for an entire week channel 9 would run the same movie the opening theme was especially memorable upon seeing gone with the wind for the first time in its theatrical release in 1967 my friends and i and probably a bunch of others in the theatre exclaimed that s the theme from million dollar movie when we first heard tara s theme the same movie every night what joy during an era when there were no vcrs no dvds no dvrs and no cable or streaming tv i wonder how many little movie lovers followed that siren song that opened the door to classic movie mania and i write that without an ounce of shame my brothers happily watched mighty joe young every night but my favorite by far was abbott and costello s the time of their lives bud and lou were already well known in my house via reruns of their television show an afternoon ritual seeing them in a story and such a funny and rather scary story only made me love them more ghosts lou costello and marjorie reynolds realize they are ghosts condemned as traitors the time of their lives is an un unusual abbot and costello film because bud and lou are not a team here in fact bud is the target of lou s antics briefly lou plays a revolutionary war era tinker named horatio prim horatio was a patriot who wanted to earn enough money to buy his servant girl sweetheart out of her indentured servitude in the meantime a plot with benedict arnold was afoot in a case of mistaken identity what else he and patriot lady melody allen marjorie reynolds are taken for traitors shot their bodies thrown to the bottom of the well and bound by a spell that condemns them on the danbury property unless they are proven not to be traitors of course the real traitors were butler cuthbert abbott and melody s fiancé tom danbury a letter from general washington could clear the doomed duo and one did exist but it was hidden by the duplicitous tom fast forward to modern times and the old danbury estate has new tenants horatio and melody have been rambling around the property for centuries but this new crew moving in consists of a cuthbert look alike abbott again as cuthbert relation dr greenway and a few other non believers the ghosts are able to communicate their plight via psychic housekeeper emily gale sondergaard washington s letter is found thanks to a message sent by the repentant tom the cursed duo are united in heaven with their loved ones and cuthbert greenway finally gets punished what charmed me as a kid were the special effects the ghosts have some fun with cars and radios and the fact that they can walk through walls when melody spots the beautiful fashions of the day and dresses up in a modern evening gown and jewels only the clothing and jewelry are visible to mortal eyes setting the stage for only a pair of stockings running up the stairs past a terrified binnie barnes a special shout out to gale sondergaard as emily she is judith anderson s equal when it comes to creepy housekeepers making binnie barnes s line didn t i see you in rebecca even more amusing and i can still hear her spooky way of calling to melody as the long dead tom danbury during a séance mel o deee mel o deee didn t i see you in rebecca those ghosts are real i apologize for taking so long to get to the main topic here but truly the main topic is that every night viewing that prompted a question from my father that i have not yet been able to provide a quantitative answer posted by flickchick at 7 03 pm 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abbott and costello cmba blogathon the time of their lives sunday june 23 2024 why do we blog a funny thing happened recently i received a comment on a post written over 13 years ago from a fellow in of all places ireland the post was my little love letter to clara bow https flickchick1953 blogspot com 2010 10 clara bow i want to be happy html imagine my surprise to see this new comment many many thanks for your beautiful article over a decade late but still here in ireland we are having a special showing of it on june 15 and i have borrowed a paragraph from you for an accompanying piece with full credit to both you and the blog of course i am currently enjoying going through your archive and enjoying it very much it s always so great to come across genuine enthusiasts greetings and warm regards from charley brady silent cinema galway here is charley s great article https www silentcinema ie blog hot girl summer clara bow amp when you write something and push it out there into the black hole of the blogosphere you never know if it lands anywhere much less gets read receiving a communication like that from someone so far away about something written so long ago kind of validates why we blog how great it felt to share something with a kindred spirit how great to have your work appreciated how great to learn about someone doing something so wonderful so very far away how great to find a new site and learn and enjoy more about classic film and so every now and then as the spirit moves me i ll keep at this and if this just gets sucked into that black hole well so be it and in another 10 years ago it might just land please check out silent cinema galway it s a beautiful site https www silentcinema ie _blog _blog i m sure special screening of it was a success how could it not be posted by flickchick at 1 02 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging clara bow sunday may 19 2024 one two three seasoned cagney can still spice it up this is my entry in the classic movie blog association screen debuts and last hurrahs blogathon click here for more memorable firsts and lasts cagney and the grapefruit make one last joint appearance season is an interesting word it can mean to add flavor to something or it can define a period of time in the case of james cagney from day one he always seasoned the screen with some invigorating cinematic spice he was also a performer who in over 30 years presented himself to the audience in various seasons of his acting life from the summer of the public enemy to the winter of ragtime cagney not only physically matured but also matured in the depth and humanity he brought to his roles all before our eyes while those two winter roles the aforementioned ragtime and the final performance in the television movie terrible joe moran gave us a final glimpse of a cherished star it is the late autumn performance in billy wilder s one two three 1961 that offers us the final major performance of a great star at age 62 he was as dynamic as he was 30 years earlier not as well known as many of wilder s other great films one two three is a sharp sly and very funny look at the cold war and corporate moral flexibility to put it kindly a lot of the topical humor may be lost on those who didn t live through the cold war or are not familiar with it originally slated to be filmed in berlin the crew had to quickly relocate to munich because those pesky russians decided to build a wall the dialogue is filled with topical references do modern audiences know who khrushchev was or the significance of the shoe banging on the table fortunately i am old enough to remember wow that s the first time i ever had occasion to use that phrase proving the cold war could be fun thanks to wilder s script co written with i a l diamond and direction this all results in fast and furious fun the supporting cast of horst buchholz arlene francis pamela tiffin lilo pulver and especially hanns lothar as schlemmer is top notch cagney proves to be a good sport allowing several jokes at the expense of his long career the grapefruit the gangster quote from little caesar even though that was uttered by edward g robinson it still harkened back to those good old gangster days and a cagney impression by red buttons while those references made gentle fun of cagney s decades long public reputation in true double edged sword wilder fashion it also seems an homage to many well loved movie memories an acknowledgement that we are in the presence of a living cinematic legend i was getting those norma desmond gloria swanson conflicted vibes here though not in such a tragic framework an executive s work is never done the film is very early 1960s and i admit it s a bit arresting to see this particular star as a man of the modern world for some reason he always seemed to be a man who lived in a past era even when his character was current in the 1930s and 40s he seemed a man who lived by an earlier code cagney wears the 1960s suits and ties well and proves that he was a real actor playing something he never tried before a slimy married coca cola executive always conniving while canoodling with his mercenary secretary on the side still he manages to retain that special sympathetic star shine something that was his super power even when he was a gangster he was never slimy come on weren t we all rooting for rocky sullivan love and capitalism wins the day cagney s personal struggles during filming are well known while he could wear the clothes of the modern man he was privately uncomfortable besides butting heads with wilder a very strong willed director he came to actively dislike co star horst buchholz in his autobiography cagney who rarely had a harsh word for any co workers openly complained about the scene stealing ways of the younger actor add to that those wildly changing times and cagney decided he had had enough at the end of filming there seemed no place for him to go but to his beloved farm and let the world go by for a few decades cheers to you for some reason this topical and breathless movie reminds me of a line in checkhov s uncle vanya about autumn roses beautiful sorrowful roses i feel a twinge of sadness in between the laughter there would be those two graceful appearances much later but watching this now knowing this would be the last time we would see him in full power is truly like looking at the twilight of the gods posted by flickchick at 5 40 pm 21 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels billy wilder cmba blogathon james cagney one two three friday may 3 2024 new movies do not fill the landscape of my dreams why do i find going to the movies to see new films so unsatisfying i want to keep an open mind and heart and want to support the theatergoing experience but i rarely if ever find new films at the theaters truly madly deeply enjoyable they might be truly enjoyable they might be madly enjoyable and they might even be deeply enjoyable but rarely almost never are they meet the truly madly deeply threshold for me why the answer is in the title of this article and it came to me while watching peter o toole in goodbye mr chips objectively the film is not great although it has a lot going for it it s very long a little full of itself and the score is forgettable but it has the captivating mr o toole who always leaves nothing unfelt or unexpressed and i saw it when i was a teenager when the landscape of all that i would love forever and always was being painted on my psyche i ve read countless books about charlie chaplin and one of the things that touches me is how the trauma and longing associated with his childhood poverty and fractured family were embedded in all of his work what scarred him what inspired him what frightened him and where he found beauty was imprinted on his soul at a tender age and there was no changing that no matter what life held fame and wealth and celebrity could not change it nor could the reversal of professional fortune time revealed the public s changing tastes but chaplin could not change at his core and so i find it to be with me the films that drew me to them were the ones i discovered early on what is charming what is beautiful what is good and what is desirable all were found in the movies i saw in my youth films that moved me after i became an adult somehow were related to the same type of film i probably should have gotten some of that stuff from family life but clearly i needed to seek them elsewhere while not at all a horror of a childhood like chaplin s i admit there might have been a few things lacking or maybe i just had a dreamer s imagination mercifully there were movies and i am so very grateful that i can access so many of my favorites upon demand these days and not wait until 3 a m to watch the late late late show i did stay up until 3 once to watch a bing crosby film when i was about 12 they are like a comfortable 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