Rewatching The Sun Also Rises, which showcases three of the most beautiful people that ever lived: Power, Gardner and Flynn. The film is good too. (It's surprising how it manages to say without saying how indecently promiscuous Ava is).

One movie a day for 365 days. 115/365: Heaven Can Wait. Although not my ideal Don Juan, Ameche is nevertheless so good as to make us believe his main goal in life is to love every petticoat worth loving. Of course it helps that Tierney is his patient wife. C'est du Lubitsch.

Rewatching Lonelyhearts. The writing is quite heavy, at times almost inedible, but the acting is uniformly good. The golden palm goes to marvelous Myrna as Robert Ryan's unhappy wife.

One movie a day for 365 days. 114/365: Some Like It Hot. I was a kid in Florence when I first saw it fifty years ago, one of the many reruns. I couldn't believe my eyes. A never-ending beauty, although the surprise is long gone.

The sun is bright, a new day ahead, things can only get better. (I hope). Good morning my friends.

Home after two awful days. I need some light fun. Very light.

One movie a day for 365 days. 112/365: Rich and Famous. I was 15 when I first saw it and I loved the friendship/rivalry between Jackie and Candy, two writers, one serious, one trashy, who feud over the years about everything but stay faithful to each other. Cukor’s last film. 🍿

One movie a day for 365 days. 111/365: Bed of Roses. Connie Bennett and Pert Kelton are two girls about town, if you allow the euphemism, ready to commit mischief. But Connie falls for Joel McCrea and easily reforms. Charming, risqué pre-code directed by Gregory LaCava.

There are many reasons why I love Nicholson, one being the fact that he often took the risky route choosing difficult movies, which may have not been otherwise made. Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, The Postman, Cuckoo, Marvin Gardens. And Chinatown. Happy Birthday mister.

Rewatching Of Human Bondage after a long while, and it's surprisingly better than I remembered - very, very raw. Bette must have had a ball giving life to one of the most unpleasant characters any Hollywood primadonna ever played.

One movie a day for 365 days. 110/365: Mr Deeds Goes to Town. It's the first and the best Capra did on the little men, the John Does who try to change the world with their naivete, sense of justice, rustic charm and deep individuality. Coop is to die for. Arthur is pixilated too.

Rewatching Tomorrow Is Forever. If you've seen it, you know the story is preposterous (an understatement), but the handling is a class act. Both Colbert and Welles are at the top of their game. Bonus: Natalie Wood making her debut. What's your opinion?

Rewatching Hal Ashby's Bound for Glory. It starts slowly, then it grows, then it slows down again, and it grows again. Not in the same league with Shampoo, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail or Coming Home.

One movie a day for 365 days. 110/365: Frances. It's not without its flaws, but it's a compulsive, heartrending watch thanks to a towering performance by Jessica Lange. One of those instances where an actor, singlehandedly, makes up for other people's shortcomings. Beyond words.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate. Frankly, I couldn't care less, but here's Carole and a bunny.

My first movie crush: I was 10 when I first saw her, and fell head over heels for Jessica Lange. I loved her ever since, and still do. Happy birthday, wonderful lady.

Rewatching Summertime. What a perfect balance of humor, romance and observation. Also you can see why Kate Hepburn was such a big thing in the movies.

Rewatching Forbidden, Capra's pulp answer to Back Street. An illicit affair, a married man, an illegitimate child, some maneuvering, deceit and murder. That's what Barbara does, and she does it with a vengeance. Brilliantly filmed (shots, lighting, rhythm), superbly acted.

One movie a day for 365 days. 109/365: Roxie Hart. It seems Ginger stars in every other film I'm listing here. What can I do, if she had better taste? Roxie confesses to a murder she didn't commit (or did she?) to win some notoriety. Success has its sour notes. Unsentimental fun.

One movie a day for 365 days. 108/365: The Sea Hawk, a late entry in the Flynn-Curtiz collaborations, is everything an adventure film should be: smart, fun, suspenseful, long enough but not too much, rich and visually stunning. Queen Elizabeth is not Bette Davis, but who cares?

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Rewatching I Wanted Wings, a bizarre entry in Mitchell Leisen's filmography. More so in view of things to come in 1941. The main drama seems to take the shape of Veronica Lake, an impressive debut as the bad girl who tries to crash both Bill Holden and Ray Milland's lives. A good one.

One movie a day for 365 days. 107/365: I am crazy about Born Yesterday, mostly thanks to director Cukor's class and especially to that towering genius called Judy Holliday. The reforming of a 'dumb blonde' is not a favorite subject of mine. I like dumb blondes to stay dumb. Bill H. is a plus too.

While Audrey gets Bogart in Sabrina, I'm always willing to take care of Bill Holden. Happy birthday to this immortal beauty.

Rewatching Dragonwyck. How can you fail when you have Gene Tierney and Vincent Price as the heroine and her foe/husband?

No moustache?

One movie a day for 365 days. 106/365: Lubitsch keeps the best part of Lehar's The Merry Widow (the music) while chucking away the story. A musical comedy filled with funny lines and visual inventions. Favorite moment: when JMD writes in her diary "there's a limit to every widow".

C.L.

Rewatching Humoresque which is neither too trashy nor really serious. Moreover Crawford and Garfield are like water and oil - they just don't blend.

One movie a day for 365 days. 105/365: The Talk of the Town is an almost perfect film. It might have been perfect if Cary Grant and Ronald Colman would have ended up together, leaving Jean Arthur behind. Am I right or am I right?

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One movie a day for 365 days. 104/365: Citizen Kane. Is it too banal if I list this among the best 365 American films ever made? I don't think so.

Update. One movie a day for 365 days. 103/365: The Last Detail. Among the most influential titles of the '70s, it's about two sailors escorting a young prisoner guilty of a small theft to his destination. It cries freedom, and Nicholson is unforgettable as the guy assigned the dirty job.

Carole.

It's Julie Christie's birthday. And everybody should watch Shampoo at least once: an all-time masterpiece and an unforgettable performance.

One movie a day for 365 days. 102/365: Bachelor Mother. A shop assistant finds a baby on a doorstep and troubles follow. Ginger's first solo (Niven was not a star then) is a delight, it might have been mush, but it's the 30s and the baby just an excuse to feature some zany comedy.

Just to let you know that The Passionate Friends is a great movie.

What a wonderful comedy they could have made together.

One movie a day for 365 days. 101/365: Mrs. Miniver is like Madame Bovary in reverse. Gentle, sympathetic, enduring. Her only foible: her rose garden. What might have been saccharine propaganda in Wyler's hands is a masterpiece. The boats leaving for Dunkirk is a cinema lesson.

Earlier than ever today. What's new?

Rewatching Back to Bataan. Plenty of alpha male body odor here, but they forgot to write a script. That said, I'd watch John Wayne reading the phone book.

One movie a day for 365 days. 100/365: Rio Bravo. Among the many things I like about it, the fact that Hawks plants Angie Dickinson among the guys and she helps Wayne in defeating the villains. It's a western all right, but there's so much comedy in it that it's a joy from start to end.

Rewatching Carousel. It's like a sleeping pill.

One movie a day for 365 days. 99/365: Old Acquaintance. The story of two besties. When it comes to catfight nobody does it better than Davis and Hopkins; probably one reason why B.D. disliked working with Mims: she was unable to overshadow her like she did with most of them.

I want my friend @crisopera1.bsky.social back in my life.

Two people I love.

One movie a day for 365 days. 98/365: Design for Living. Miriam Hopkins lives most people's forbidden dream: having an affair with two men, until they all decide to make a gentleman's agreement: no sex. But then Miriam says she's no gentleman. Only Lubitsch could pull this off.

Marlene in The Untouchables. 😜

One movie a day for 365 days. 97/365: Arise My Love. Another M. Leisen comedy with Colbert as a war reporter trying hard not to fall in love with Milland. She locks her shoes in a trunk, calls for a hotel porter and has the trunk locked in a safe. You can't run away from love.

Happy anniversary to Teodora Film, a distribution company my husband and I started on this date 25 years ago. We released a lot of beautiful movies ("Amour", for one), but we were most proud when we revived To Be or Not To Be which sold over 100,000 tickets. Ciao amore mio.