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March 2015: Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 2, Episode 14 “Born Under a Bad Sign” (2007; J. Miller Tobin). A re-watch for my re-cap. Tales of Hoffmann (1952; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger). Saw a screening of the lushly-colored new restoration print at the Film … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Albert Maysles, Alfred Hitchcock, Austria, Claude Chabrol, documentary, England, France, Ida Lupino, Italy, J. Miller Tobin, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Mexico, Michael Mann, Mildred Pierce, Pakistan, Spain, Supernatural, Thomas J. Wright
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Women’s Prison (1955); Dir. Lewis Seiler
Two female prison guards (one played by Mae Clarke, she of the grapefruit-in-face fame from Public Enemy over 20 years before), chat before going on break in 1955’s melodrama Women’s Prison: “I want to catch the last show at the … Continue reading