poehler-bear

I will, it was amazing! Film geek moment, I saw one of the Gone of the Wind technicolor cameras and Chaplin's Golden Rush camera

I know She was such a marvelous comedian! I haven't seen enough of her dramas yet, but so far thumbs up. tbh I didn't know much about her until a few months ago, I had only seen the very classics (To Be or Not to Be and My Man Godfrey). I also don't get it. I've been trying really hard not to watch a movie with her every day. Maybe it is because she died in the early 40s.
I was thinking about screwball and Lombard these days, and I found it interesting that screwball became a thing the year Lombard became a big star (1934) and it began to fade away in the early 40s. I know it has a lot to do with the Great Depression and WWII but she was also called the screwball queen, so I was just wondering (horrible thing to do under these circumstances) what kind of movies she would have done if she had not died. Anyway...
I found a quote by Stanwyck about Lombard and I screamed a bit inside, favorite people!! “She was so alive, modern, frank, and natural that she stands out like a beacon on a lightship in this odd place called Hollywood.”
I also can't get enough of Garbo's witchcraft

Wow! That's great! Thank you for the list! I'll hopefully check them out soon

Gelfling

I'm so jealous! I need to make that trip at some point in the not-so-distant future. Looks like you had a blast! It's awesome

that's my only theory but it seems kinda silly

it takes a certain kind of star to make it work and I think Lombard was definitely of that kind. And honestly in times of crisis, people need to laugh even more than usual so it was just the studios backing out.

I think she definitely could have easily moved on to more dramatic roles. She did a few before and she had what it took to play both comedy and drama, which is not everyone.

so well said! Stanwyck had a way with words (on top of beauty and talent, that almost seems like an excess of gifts but oh well )

You'll probably have a better chance than me of seeing them in theatres.
I'll have more to add to the list as I read more reviews (I hear a lot of good things about Love is Strange but these are the ones that tickle my interest right off the bat.

poehler-bear

And I had discarded that museum for lack of time! It's very small, it's where DeMille shot the first feature-length film in California. And I visited on the day of the anniversary of the first day of shooting! My point is, when you visit make sure you go there because it's small and not very well known (a few blocks from Hollywood Boulevard). And I got out of there with Katharine Hepburn's autobiography and a beautiful book with Garbo photos
On the other side, the Hollywood Museum was horribly lit and organized. It had great stuff but it was an awful place. They had the signing in book from Grand Hotel premiere though Sorry, I didn't mean to write paragraphs


I really liked Made For Each Other (maybe because of two weakness, Lombard and Jimmy Stewart + domestic life), have you seen it? But yeah, towards the end she was making

ikr?

I don't know about that. I'm back home and nothing comes to this damn town.

How I wish that every studio had one of these!

Gelfling

doubly jealous!

Aaaaaargh! I have been looking for that book in English for ages!
Finally saw Philadelphia Story btw

please! Having been there is awesome and well, experiencing it second hand from someone who had a blast there is the next best thing

not yet but Lombard and Stewart... you're making me drool!
oh damn! I thought you were going back to Canada! Well yeah then you're even more ****ed than me

Holy bloopers!!!
awesome!!! (seeing Mr Cool Cucumber Claude Rains get so upset is just priceless ) and wow Carole Lombard is beautiful in this! (and Bette Davis saying Son of a Bitch oh boy!)

poehler-bear

Wait, you hadn't seen it yet???

I wouldn't picture them working well together, especially in a drama, but they were so adorable as a couple! The plot could be better, but I really enjoyed them.

yes!

This year I'm trying to watch all Oscar nominees for Best Picture, Animation, Foreign Language, Actor and Actress. It's maybe too ambitious of my part but at least I've been watching some movies I enjoy. Ernest et Célestine was visually striking. I don't watch a lot of animation outside the really mainstream, so it was a delight to watch something different.
I really really enjoy La grande bellezza. Really well directed and acted. Parties never looked so tempting in a movie! And I don't even like parties. Has anyone seen any besides the Best Picture ones?

ETA:
AHHHHHHHHHHHH I didn't know these existed!

Gelfling

no. I'm ashamed really but I think I was confusing it with something else and thought I had seen it.

Well, even when the plot were flawed, at least they were telling stories back then. Now story-telling and characters seem to be superfluous in most movies.

and it's never too ambitious. Unless you're trying to see them all before the Oscars. Then yeah you're nuts

I liked Chico & Rita a lot so I'm looking forward to this one.

i don't either.

I haven't even seen all the Best Picture ones yet? Not that I'm really excited about them or anything. I plan on doing like you but I'll probably watch the shorts and documentaries too. Not trying to be competitive or anything but I love shorts and documentaries. And I've also seen the very sadly snubbed Inside Llewyn Davis so I guess I'm also seeing the... cinematography nominees?

The Foreign nominees look good to me, especially Omar and Jagten (Mads Mikkelsen FTW!) and I'm kinda glad the Blue is the Warmest Color wasn't nominated because seriously...

How do you find those things??? How does anyone???

poehler-bear

Isn't it kind of great though? Finding out you hadn't seen such a great movie? How I wish I could watch some movies for the first time again!


The only thing on my way is the availability of these movies :/

Oh cinematography! That sounds like a good one, even if accidental. I should definitely do shorts. I completely forgot

I know! I thought they threw all these things out. I mean, they used to (okay before this but not long before it) to recycle film to make shoes after they screened them so it's amazing that somehow bloopers lived on. I think just Warner's though. I found a video on youtube of Ginger Rogers, Carole Lombard, Cecil B. Demille and some other people wishing a merry Christmas to the viewers and the uploader said he or she transferred it from super 8, imagine!

Aga_darkside

It was actually the very first 'old' movie I ever saw

Jagten is amazing But I guess La Grande Belezza is going to win now after the Globes, I need to watch it.

I watched American Hustle and Her. American Hustle has a great cast and acting but it really lacks in the storytelling department, I felt rather bored at times

Her was great. At last something original And I can't believe that Joaquin Phoenix was snubbed, that guy is so talented!

Also, Fluff, we watched The Phantom of the Opera yesterday and it was exactly as you said, what a piece of crap! It is actually hilarious how The Phantom in the movie is the exact opposite of what he's supposed to be! Not a disfigured and terrifying genius who seduces with his beautiful voice, nah, he's just a pretty boy who can't sing. Uhm, what? And it's not even like he's the biggest flaw of the movie, it was all in all a mess.

poehler-bear

I just watched Jagten and you're right, such a powerful movie! Thankfully I don't have to decide between the two. They both deeply affected me in completely different ways, so I would be happy with either of them winning.

Gelfling

It's totally awesome! Especially since I sometimes feel I'm running out!

Right? And I'd be more than happy to pay for it! But nobody is offering!

They're often easier to find and well, I love shorts but it's hard to sort through the many many many shorts out there because 80% are pretty bad so it's always nice to get pointed to the "best" this year.

and really I'm just amazed that people are willing to share when I'm sure they could be making money off ebay selling them.

The "scam" part was too predictable for me but I enjoyed the character development.

I'm kinda surprised he was especially with DiCaprio in the running.

right?? it's like a parody!

poehler-bear

Exactly. They are showing Blue Jasmine now in my city. It's been what? A month since it came out on blu-ray in the US? And now it gets here. I had given up on it.

Today I realized that Buster Keaton might be my favorite silent comedian. Though I haven't seen a silent Chaplin in a while.

Gelfling

Well it took a while to get here and it stayed like two weeks in theaters! But yeah you are worse off for sure

you too? We were having that discussion with Joana a while back. She's in the Keaton camp too. I like them both for different reasons I think.
What made you come to that realization?

poehler-bear

really?
I've been slowly falling in love with silent films. Mostly what I have seen lately has been either a Keaton film or one with Garbo. I was watching Seven Chances yesterday and having so much fun with him! Maybe it's just because it took me so long to start watching his films and it's the novelty now.

I watched Pather Panchali today, has anyone seen it? I highly recommend it!
And if you're into Ginger Rogers you should watch Roxie Hart because she was great in it. Chicago would have been a better movie if they had built a time machine to replace Renee Zellweger with Ginger

ETA:
GUYS
look at how many awesome women are here

Gelfling

I think Garbo is the one who kept much of her aura of mystery intact after going the talkies.

nah he's pretty good but I agree he's vastly underrated and doesn't get as much "exposure" as Chaplin does. And he was such an outstanding director as well! So much of what he created is still in use today!

Added to my neverending watchlist

Now, that one, I've seen!! And it's a part that is so different from the ones she's known for! I think a lot of people would be surprised.

well I'm in the group that thinks that the movie would have been better if they had replaced Zellweger with a well trained cat or a potted plant so I'm not going to be objective on that but I can say that Ginger did a wonderful job in the part, even though the format was ofc different.

Seconded! what is that? where?? when??? why????
I mean just getting Dietrich, Crawford, Stanwyck and Bergman in the same picture must have been a pretty rare feat already but when you add Russell and Irene Dunne! Is that Loretta Young in the pic?

Speaking of which, that picture of Loretta Young on imdb made me spill my water am I crazy or does she look just like Allison Janney in that picture???



I mean....

poehler-bear

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Yes! Always go back to the witchcraft

Yes, it is her! I know it's at the Hollywood Bowl in the 40s. Maybe at this event.

Yesss! I've seen that photo before and I knew it reminded me of someone! Crazy but awesome

Because I've spent the last few weeks crying about dead actors, I've been finding a lot of cool (often irrelevant stuff). I stumbled across this this. Pretty cool that the top three moneymakers were women (I had no idea Mae West was making that much money in 1938).

On the matter of awesome screen ladies, the other day I found these two unfortunately still relevant quotes and I thought I'd share (it's a bit about the movie business so I think it counts?)
First one by Ginger: “You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you. You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It`s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.”
and one by Carole: "A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it. Take business-that’s supposed to be a man’s province. Yet I can name you the most outstanding success in the business life of the movies and that person is a woman: Mary Pickford. You can’t match her. She’s supreme in every department. As a matter of fact, women have an advantage in business. Men are so secure in their belief that they are supreme in business that they are often caught napping by alert women. Man thinks he’s dealing with an inferior brain when it comes to woman, and that makes him a sucker. Furthermore, women have a highly developed sense of intuition that’s just as valuable as hardheaded logic."