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- “My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it’s a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it’s a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.” — Lars von Trier
- “A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You’ve defined my entire life for me on the screen.” –Jill Clayburgh
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
- “I don’t cook and I don’t care.” — Ann-Margret
- “Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.” –Jessie Redmon Fauset
- “I’ve had my best times trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I’ve always loved high style in low company.” — Anita Loos
- Substack: An interview with screenwriter Bonnie Gross about her script Lady Parts
- “I would rather take a photograph than be one.” — Lee Miller
- When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, / Hath put a spirit of youth in everything …
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Tag Archives: Barbara Stanwyck
July 2023 Viewing Diary
July was busy. I bought a new car. My old one basically disintegrated around me, so much so that the mechanic didn;t even want me to drive it home from his shop. I found a new apartment, and the market … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Clifford Odets, comedy, documentary, drama, Fritz Lang, Italy, Marilyn Monroe, noir, Orson Welles, women directors
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For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love
These women inspire, entertain, challenge, comfort, provoke, or were “there” in my formative years as an inspiration. The list is huge. Below the jump.
Posted in Actors, Art/Photography, Directors, Personal, writers
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Abigail Adams, Agnes Varda, Aline MacMahon, Amy Heckerling, Ann Savage, Anna Karina, Anne Frank, Anne V. Coates, Annie Proulx, art, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bibi Andersson, Brazil, Britney Spears, Busby Berkeley, Camille Paglia, Canada, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Rampling, China, Croatia, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Dubravka Ugrešić, Ellen von Unwerth, England, Eve Babitz, France, Frances Farmer, Gena Rowlands, George Eliot, Georgia, Germany, Gloria Grahame, Golshifteh Farahani, Greta Garbo, Greta Gerwig, Harriet Andersson, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hong Kong, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Thulin, Iran, Ireland, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Jean Arthur, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Clayburgh, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Joanna Hogg, Josephine Decker, Judy Garland, Julie Christie, Kate Lyn Sheil, Keri Hulme, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Dern, Laurette Taylor, Leila Hatami, Lily Tomlin, Liv Ullmann, Madeleine L'Engle, Madeline Kahn, Maggie Cheung, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Maud Gonne, Mélanie Laurent, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nancy Savoca, Natalie Portman, Nina Hoss, Nina Simone, Olivia Laing, Olympia Dukakis, Patricia Highsmith, Pauline Kael, photography, Poland, Rebecca West, Romania, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shabnam Toloui, Shirley Jackson, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Spain, Supernatural, Sweden, Tana French, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Netherlands, Tiffany Haddish, Tina Turner, Tuesday Weld, Wanda Jackson, women directors
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February 2023 Viewing Diary
Reboot (2022) Allison and I watched it together when I was in New York for the first half of this month. I adore this series and am so bummed it wasn’t picked up for Season 2. We had a blast … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Aline MacMahon, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Barbara Stanwyck, biopic, Boris Karloff, Brad Pitt, Busby Berkeley, Charlotte Bronte, comedy, Douglas Sirk, drama, Emily Bronte, England, France, Fred MacMurray, Ginger Rogers, Gold Diggers of 1933, Greta Garbo, Hugh Grant, Hungary, Ireland, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Loretta Young, Madonna, Mervyn LeRoy, musical, noir, Pre-Code, Quentin Tarantino, reviews, William Powell, William Wellman, women directors
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Stunning shot from Douglas Sirk’s All I Desire
“Emotional problems”
From Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), a romantic drama, featuring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray as old lovers, reunited 20 years later. They are both successful in their careers. He has a wife (Joan Bennett) and three children (two … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Douglas Sirk, Fred MacMurray, romantic drama
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January 2022 Viewing Diary
Crossfire (1947; d. Edward Dmytryk) Went on a little Robert Mitchum kick, thanks to the Criterion Channel. Crossfire came out the same year as Gentleman’s Agreement, and both films deal with anti-Semitism, which was very much on American minds at … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, Asghar Farhadi, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, documentary, drama, Elvis Presley, Gloria Grahame, historical drama, Iranian film, Ireland, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Austen, Jean Arthur, Jean Harlow, Joachim Trier, Joan Fontaine, Johnny Flynn, literary adaptation, Mary Astor, Mildred Dunnock, musical, noir, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, romantic drama, Steven Spielberg, Sweden, thrillers, William Powell, women directors
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Podcast: Watch With Jen: a Pre-Code discussion!
Had so much fun appearing as a guest on Jen Johans’ podcast, Watch With Jen, for a discussion of Pre-Code films, the Wild West of Hollywood in between (roughly) the years 1930 and 1934. I pitched a couple of ideas, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Miriam Hopkins, podcast, Pre-Code, William Wellman
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June 2021 Viewing Diary
La Notte (1961; d. Michelangelo Antonioni) Pauline Kael included La Notte in her infamous essay titled “The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties”. Now you can debate her on this opinion – and I think she’s off (although I think it’s a hilarious title). … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alain Delon, Ann Dvorak, Barbara Stanwyck, Bill Murray, Bill Pullman, Billy Wilder, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Christian Petzold, comedy, coming of age, crime movies, documentary, drama, France, George Clooney, Germany, horror, Howard Hawks, Ireland, Italy, Jack Black, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Mexico, Pre-Code, short film, Sofia Coppola, Syria, Tom Cruise, true crime, William Wellman, women directors
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January/February/March 2021 Viewing Diary
Better late than never. I moved at the end of January – a big interstate move – so I’ve been a bit, how you say, busy. Not too busy to keep up my viewing schedule but too busy to put … Continue reading →
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Tagged animation, Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Reynolds, Cary Grant, children's movies, Cliff Bole, comedy, coming of age, David Mamet, documentary, drama, Eminem, England, France, Gary Cooper, Hong Kong, horror, Howard Hawks, Ireland, Irene Dunne, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, Jean Renoir, Joe Berlinger, Julianne Moore, Katharine Hepburn, Kim Manners, Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Leo McCarey, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maggie Cheung, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ralph Bellamy, Russia, sci-fi, short film, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Stanley Kubrick, Sweden, Thomas J. Wright, true crime, war movies, What Happened Was, women directors, WWII, X-Files
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September 2020 Viewing Diary
September was the longest month of my life. I started out putting my cat to sleep. I was in Rhode Island and had been so for a month. I came home, and everything had changed. And everything will keep changing. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Ladd, backting, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, comedy, documentary, drama, George Sanders, historical drama, Jim Jarmusch, Joan Blondell, Mervyn LeRoy, Mia Wasikowska, Natalie Portman, noir, Pre-Code, religious movies, Richard Linklater, sci-fi, Supernatural, Tilda Swinton, women directors
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