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Movie Quote of the Month
September 2022
Margaret Talbot wrote in the December 13, 2021, The New Yorker, reviewing Robert Gottleib’s biography, Greta Garbo: “The movie role she liked best was the learned seventeenth-century monarch Christina; it allowed her to stride around in tunics, tight-fitting trousers, and tall boots, to kiss one of her ladies-in-waiting full on the lips, to declare that she intended to ‘die a bachelor!’ (as plenty of gender studies scholars will tell you, this is one queer movie.) She expressed a longing to play St. Francis of Assisi, complete with a beard, and Oscar Wilde’s vain hero, Dorian Gray. In today’s terms, Garbo might have occupied a spot along the nonbinary spectrum. Gottlieb doesn’t press the point, but remarks, ‘How ironic if The Most Beautiful Woman in the World really would rather have been a man” (Talbot 74).
NEW: September 7:
Edge of Darkness (1943) Directed by Lewis Milestone. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Houston (119 min) (4 Stills).
NEW: July 13:
Soapdish (1991) Directed by Michael Hoffman. Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg (97 min). (5 stills).
NEW: June 3:
The Gang’s All Here (1943) Directed by Busby Berkeley. Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (103 min) (9 stills).
NEW: May 7:
REVISED: Gambit (1966) Directed by Ronald Neame. Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Herbert Lom (109 min) (7 stills)
NEW: March 5:
Green for Danger (1946) Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard (91 minutes) (3 stills)
NEW: February 26:
Klute (1971) Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider (114 minutes) Rated R (7 stills)
REVISED: February 14: Sullivan’s Travels (1942) Written and Directed by Preston Sturges. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn (90 min).
NEW: November 1:
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Directed by Sidney Lumet. Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick. (125 min) (7 stills).
NEW: October 20:
Making Mr. Right (1987) Directed by Susan Seidelman. John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headley (98 min) PG-13 (6 stills)
NEW: September 25:
Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) Directed by Sidney Olcott. Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson (146 min). (13 stills).
NEW: August 25:
The Eagle (1926) Directed by Clarence Brown. Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser (76 minutes). (10 stills).
NEW: July 21:
Sam Katzman: The Sultan of Schlock. A preview of my introduction to an Arrow Films Blu-Ray box set of 4 Sam Katzman monster movies.
NEW: July 12:
Madeleine (1950) Directed by David Lean. Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks (114 min). (6 stills).
NEW: May 20:
The Wicked Lady (1945) Directed by Leslie Arliss. Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Michael Rennie (104 min). (7 stills)
NEW: February 5:
It All Came True (1940) Directed by Lewis Seiler. Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn. (97 min). (10 stills)
NEW: January 21:
Updated: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (1945) Gumnaam (1965) and Ten Little Indians (1965)
NEW: January 6:
A Book Review:
Film Noir Style: The Killer 1940s by Kimberly Truhler. Published by GoodNight Books 2020