Lauren's film journal

[Lauren]

all of the Marx Bros imitating Maurice Chevalier

This I have to see (if only on youtube )

[wigwam]

Cocoanuts is in a hotel.

wait i think i like that one then

[Lauren]

Coquette 1929, SAM TAYLOR 4/10



Hysterical, implausible and precious—if those strike you as neutral adjectives, know that I'm typing them with a sneer. Mary Pickford should have kept her yap shut. At 76 minutes it's maddeningly overlong, spending an hour establishing how cute and earnest Pickford is, and the balance of the runtime posing an incredibly uninteresting moral question. I understand the abject malaise critics felt at the time about the sudden dominance of the talkies. They were BAD, and at worst they were kind of GROSS. I've only seen one really good talkie from 1929 so far, and that was The Letter. But the stuff I really love is just around the corner... bring on the stock market crash! Bring on the Depression!

[Lauren]

High rating for Strawberry Blonde.
Admit it, you are in love with Rita Hayworth!!!!! (a redhead you're not in love with, impossible!!!!!)

Borderline 7.5, but it deserves the bump up
Rita might just be the only redhead I'm not in love with... in fact, the one time I really enjoyed her was as a blonde in Lady from Shanghai!

[Jake Aesthete]

I can't believe i watched all of Coquette just because i was geeking out on how amazingly beautiful Pickford was...

[Lauren]

The sort of thing is a bit easier to take when you're in the midst of a crush, but even so...

Have you seen My Best Girl with Pickford? One of her later silents, she's certainly lovely in it, and a limitlessly charming film I think.

[Jake Aesthete]

No i would probably never go out of my way to watch one of her movies which is the sad part, i only watched Coquette cause it was on TCM...

[Ally]

You're too generous, Lauren. I rated Coquette a 3/10.

[Lauren]

I thought about a 3. Below a 4 however says something in my system and in the end Coquette may be too innocuous to merit that. But the movie made me feel gross, and that feeling persists. It may be on its way to a 3. Yuck.

[Ally]

yeah.....the movie was grimy and slimy. Thinking that Mary Pickford was america's sweetheart makes me shiver a little bit.

[sidehacker]

No i would probably never go out of my way to watch one of her movies which is the sad part, i only watched Coquette cause it was on TCM...

You should watch good silent movies, you'd like them!

[Lauren]

Lady Chatterley 2006, PASCALE FERRAN 9.5/10



It's exquisite.

[Ally]

i walked out of it but the gardener WAS hot.yumyum!

[Jake Aesthete]

If i ever finish reading the book (which i really should because it's great but i'm lazy) i'll definitely watch this version. It sounds really good.

[Lauren]

@ Jake -- I'm trying to figure out which version of the book to read. Apparently there are three and the film is based on the second, which is impossible to find without spending a lot or getting a really beat-up used copy, it seems.

But if you are finding the third/usual version is great I think I can go with that.

Ohhh, Ally, he is SO hot, how did you not stick around if only to regard 3 hours of his immense, unfathomable sexiness? Oh my god, I need to get me a manly, sensitive gamekeeper.

[Ally]

i hated the bitch that fucked him. i found it kinda boring. i know, lame.

[Philosophe_rouge]

I really liked Lady Chatterley as wel.

[warthog]

i'm greedy for your love, justine

[Philosophe_rouge]

i'm greedy for your love, justine

You are the wind beneath my wings.

[Jos]

This is great news to me! I won this really beautifully packaged DVD of Lady Chatterly, but was never interested in the film; until now!

[Simon M.]

i'm greedy for your love, justine

You are the wind beneath my wings.

[Lauren]

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince 2009, DAVID YATES 6.5/10

Hips, Hips, Hooray! 1934, MARK SANDRICH 6/10

Gold Diggers of 1933 1933, MERVYN LEROY 8/10

You Belong to Me 1941, WESLEY RUGGLES 4/10

The Ghost & Mrs Muir 1947, JOSEPH L MANKIEWICZ 7.5/10 -- I wish they'd ratcheted the angst level way up so that rad-as-hell ending would have had more of an impact on my girlish notions.

(I understand, Rachel... Rex = sex)

[sardis]

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince 2009, DAVID YATES 6.5/10

Hips, Hips, Hooray! 1934, MARK SANDRICH 6/10

Gold Diggers of 1933 1933, MERVYN LEROY 8/10

You Belong to Me 1941, WESLEY RUGGLES 4/10

The Ghost & Mrs Muir 1947, JOSEPH L MANKIEWICZ 7.5/10 -- I wish they'd ratcheted the angst level way up so that rad-as-hell ending would have had more of an impact on my girlish notions.

(I understand, Rachel... Rex = sex)

I just watched this also. Yea it was kinda of bad although Barbara looked fine in it. Did you watch the following film The Mad Miss Manton ?

[Lauren]

Yes, she looked great! 1941 was totally her year. She & Hank were still good together, despite the material.

I was torn about Miss Manton, I've seen it before but was in a mood to see it again, but Muir was just starting on Fox Movie Channel. I'm not sorry I went with the latter after all, and I think I have Manton downloaded somewhere. It's a lot of fun!

[sardis]

I have Muir in my collection. Definitely a no brainer when it comes to choices but I hadn't seen the Stanwyck film before so I went for the first experience rather than the more than enjoyable repeat.