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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Posted on December 7, 2010 by Edward Boe
The Night of the Hunter – 1955
Director – Charles Laughton
Starring – Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Peter Graves, Lillian Gish, and Billy Chapin
There are not many other films that carry the respect and weight of expectation to the extent that The Night of the Hunter does. In most cases this works as a benefit for most other films. This way the film doesn't have the possibility of letting you down if it fails to live up to those lofty expectations. Despite, or perhaps because of this, The Night of the Hunter succeeds where a slightly lesser film, with lesser actors, might fail.
First and foremost, the film is remembered for the iconic performance of Robert Mitchum as the Reverend Harry Powell, a performance that oozes with anger and menace. Mitchum plays Powell to the woman-hating, selfish, and sadistic nines, enjoying every minute of his own performance (which usually doesn't work, but here, I'm having just as much fun as he is). Powell roams the country-side of a beleaguered depression era America killing widows and stealing their money. Even though he claims to be instructed to do it by God, I'm of the opinion his religious bent is simply his sheep's clothing and the killing is actually his wolf's nature.
The plot kicks in when Powell learns of hidden bank-robbery loot stolen by a soon to be executed inmate. Seeing this as a sign from God to continue his "work", he devises a plan to pay a visit to the inmate's family and claim it, no matter the cost.
Powell descends upon the Harper family figuratively, and (visually) literally like a nightmare, wooing the widow, and charming the young daughter. The inmate's young boy, John Harper, played adequately by Billy Chapin, is left to stand up to this impending threat by himself with no help from anyone.
Now, this is a basic enough set-up, and if it were to continue to play out this way, it would have turned out to be a basic enough movie. Good, but not great. What makes this film truly shine is the fantastic American Gothic visuals provided by the cinematographer, Stanley Cortez, who also worked on Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons", which, if you've read my review of that film, also had stunning visuals.
Each frame in the film could be viewed on its own and considered a piece of art strong enough to contend with any other frame. The use of silhouettes in this film provides a menacing atmosphere that acting just wouldn't be able to portray. Combined with the charismatic performance of Mitchum, the cinematography goes great lengths to illustrate the surreal horror the characters are living. Set pieces change dramatically from day to night, from home to prison. Sanctuary to purgatory. One of the most impacting images in the film, a scene that takes place underwater, could have been accomplished completely through suggestion, and very well could have removed the suspense that the film had worked so hard to build up by that point, but instead served to heighten the impending danger and further tilt our perception about what Powell was capable of.
Another scene that stood out visually (there were MANY), was a scene where the children are hiding in the cellar. We break through the actual limits of what we could have seen by pushing past the fourth wall. Powell, standing at the top of the cellar stairs, blocks the escape of the children in the cellar. The children are all the way down at the other end of the screen from Mitchum, further illustrating the conflict between the characters, and what obstacles there are yet to overcome.
Charles Laughton, the actor famous for his roles in films like Spartacus, Captain Kidd, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, takes the directing reins in this film. So disappointed by the reaction to the film after it's release, Laughton afterwards vowed to never direct again. It's unfortunate that this turned out to be the case, because despite a few mediocre performances from the children, The Night of the Hunter was a very well constructed piece of art, worthy of its place on this list of 1001 greatest films of all time, and certainly the product of someone with vision and voice.
"Okay we get it, he's a bad guy. Put down the fucking horns!" (on the musical score). – Ashley
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Posted on May 24, 2010 by Edward Boe
Body Heat – 1981
Director – Lawrence Kasdan
Starring – Willaim Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson, and Richard Crenna
My apologies for the lengthy delay in-between my last review and this one. I've been doing quite a bit of travel for work to places such as the Ukraine, New York, Washington DC, and appropriately for this film Florida. I'm back safe and sound, and am ready to jump back into writing about movies.
Body Heat, a steamy, dastardly, pot-boiler thriller, set during an oppressive heat wave in southern Florida, is actually a re-make of another film on the 1001 Best Movies List, Double Indemnity. Being a re-make is something that I would normally frown upon, but in this case I had no idea going in that it was based on anything else, much less something so highly regarded in my opinion as the Billy Wilder classic about murder for profit. If I had known about its origin before starting it, I very well could have given it negative marks right off the bat, which would be totally unfair and completely undeserved. Body Heat, to the credit of its director, Lawrence Kasdan, doesn't really try to re-invent Double Indemnity, but instead pays homage to it with smart writing, acting, and the inclusion of the element that would never have been able to be in the original…the raw sensuality.
William Hurt plays Ned Racine, a smarmy lawyer who is only just good enough at his job. One day, in a particularly hot summer in his little town in Florida, he meets Kathleen Turner's sultry Matty Walker. Drawn instantly to the beautiful young woman, Racine finds himself getting drawn further and further into a shadowy path leading to the murder of her husband, played by Rambo's Richard Crenna. The deeper he gets, the more he loses control of the situation until finally it's just a matter of time before the cops catch up with them or a bullet does.
William Hurt provides the structure for this film, without him the story wouldn't have any form or direction. The real magic, however, lies in Kathleen Turner's performance as the wounded, conniving, insidious, sexual, and confident Matty Walker. Turner keeps the audience guessing till the end as to which side of the conflict she'll land on. She truly is a wounded animal who's scared, and trying to survive. If there were only one reason to see this film, it would be Turner's spot on performance, but I would have no problem recommending this film with any number of examples.
Building on the impressive reputation of the original film presented the challenge of allowing it to become its own entity without straying too much from what made it good in the first place. The two elements present in this one not in the original are the oppressive heat, and the sensuality of the main characters. The thrill for the Fred MacMurray character in the original was to see whether or not he could actually get away with it, not so much the allure of Barbara Stanwyck, or the draw of the money. Racine is completely under the spell of Matty from the moment he meets her, a fact he learns a little too late. Matty on the other hand isn't simply lashing out at an unhappy marriage, or an unhappy life, instead she has her sights set on a goal for the entire duration of the film.
This film is completely worth a viewing, whether you've seen Double Indemnity or not (for that matter the same is true of Double Indemnity). Lawrence Kasdan populates a completely believable world full of characters we simultaneously recognize and marvel at. Body Heat is how re-makes should be done.
"You know how sometimes you wanna fuck someone so bad, that you gotta throw a muthafucking chair, through their muthafucking window? Yeah, that's this movie." – Ashley
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Lost Weekend – 1945
Director – Billy Wilder
Starring – Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, and Phillip Terry
With the The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder has successfully created and commit to celluloid, a fully realized nightmare. In particular, we are watching a man's life disintegrate right before our very eyes. Where in other films, we would get only hints and suggestions of the depths of this nightmare, Billy Wilder shows it all with a tone that is so matter of fact it is lots of times awkward to watch.
For the uninitiated, Milland stars as Don Birnum, a writer who's going through a bit of a rough patch. Don is an alcoholic, a fact that he's been unsuccessfully trying to hide from his girlfriend Helen (played by Wyman). The story is fractured into three segments told out-of-order, the first is when he meets Helen at the opera. Consumed by the thought of getting a drink, he runs to the coat check to get his flask only to find that he has the wrong claim ticket. After waiting for the show to let out, he meets Helen, who unintentionally claimed his coat. The second segment is slightly further down the line when their relationship is in full swing, Don is waiting to meet Helen's parents and suddenly gets cold feet. He retreats into drink, destroying the brief period of sobriety that he had enjoyed throughout his relationship thus far. And finally, the third section deals with his alcoholism while it's in full swing. Delusions, hallucinations, incarceration, and a cold hard look at what his life has become, provided me with some of the most squirm worthy moments in the movie.
Visually, The Lost Weekend starts off just like a typical movie from this era, straight forward camera positioning, a standard assortment of cuts and fades to get from scene to scene, but it slowly morphs into a much more fluid surreal monster. The camera follows Don on his decline, giving us shots from a worms eye view, harsh shadows, tricks of light, and unnerving close-ups or our main character sweating and suffering. The change is subtle, but effective, and the difference between these scenes and when the couple first meets is like night and day. Wilder is never afraid to show the flaws of his characters actions, but in the Lost Weekend, we see it represented visually in how Don is constantly sweating, the dark circles under his eyes, and the stumble in his step.
In terms of acting, the real standout of the performances is delivered (no surprise) by Ray Milland. And while the supporting performances are decent enough, they never amount to the impact of the Millands. To be fair though, they were never written or intended to be center stage like the character of Don Birnum was. The depths that Birnum visits make the possibility that he may never get better, and be continually relapsing a very real possibility, and causes us to doubt any sort of outcome that the film presents for us. The acting and subject matter was so effective that both sides of the liquor industry (those in the industry afraid it would hurt sales as well as numerous temperance groups afraid it would glamorize drinking) attacked the movie, in an attempt to prevent it's release. Reluctantly the studio gave the film a limited release at Wilder's insistence and immediately had critics falling all over themselves in praise of the film, Wilder and their lead actor Milland. Ultimately, this movie that was to be the "career killer" for Ray Milland, turned out to bring him an Oscar win.
Billy Wilder's unique vision paints America in both a loving, and disgusted light. He sees this place, bourne of freedoms and rights, as a prison, purgatory, shelter, and safe house. It is both safe and dangerous, cancer and cure. In many ways Wilder's film is the same, it is both frightening and captivating, great and awful, and regardless of which side you come down on, it is completely worth seeing.
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…there's more…
Posted on June 1, 2009 by Edward Boe
So it's time again for a batch of the movies that I HAVE seen. We are starting to get more into the time frames from which I'm more familiar with, although there are still a ton of movies from this roughly ten year span that I haven't seen. Either way I have some work ahead of me, so without further ado…
The Stranger (1946)
This was one my more recent Orson Welles views. As one of his less talked about films, I didn't know whether it was something that I should expect to really enjoy like The Third Man, or Mr. Arkadin, or if it was more of a "I was young and needed money" type of movie. I was pleasantly suprised to find that it was the former rather than the latter. Welles plays a former member of the Nazi party hiding out in plain sight in small town America. He is being pursued by the ever vigilant Edward G. Robinson, who isn't quite sure whether this is the man he is hunting, or if he is simply a small town school teacher. The Stranger is a fantastically underrated film, Welles as a director, and both Welles and Robinson as actors are top of their game!
"The Stranger asks the age old question: What's worse, accidentally marrying a Nazi, or purposely grooming your eyebrows to look like semi-circles?" – Ashley
La Belle Et La Bete AKA Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Of the two versions of this film and one version in Television format (that I've seen anyway), I much prefer this black and white, french one from the mid 40s. The magical whimsy that Cocteau naturally imbues this film with, through the special effects costumes, and the poetic nature of the story, far surpasses the Disneyfied and televised versions. Jean Marais seems natural, alien, and feral all at the same time, as the beast.
Fantastic for so many reasons, not the least of which that this story serves as the inspiration for as well as the loose structure of The Big Lebowski, one of my favorite movies of all time. Bogart and Bacall are never better together than they were in this, each at the top of their games, and each with their roles fitting like gloves.
"Wait…now who's that guy again?" – Ashley
The Killers (1946)
I have to admit, I like the second version of The Killers, directed by Don Siegel of Dirty Harry fame, better than this 1946 version by Robert Siodmak. Despite liking source material, Siodmak, the actors Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, there is just something about seeing Ronald Reagan and John Cassavettes playing opposite each other (Reagan in the villan role) that captured my attention and cheered me up.
"Ava Gardner, you so pretty!" – Ashley
The rare, short David Lean film, Great Expectations was suprisingly to me, not as daunting as it could have been. Great performances by Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket, and Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham.
I like this movie, although I do not necessarily love it as I feel I'm supposed to. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are great actors, but I feel that too much is made of this film. Worth the watch, but ultimately films like Casablanca, Charade, and Rear Window are much much better.
"B.I.G!" – Ashley
Out of the Past (1947)
This is a fantastic film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas, about the owner of a small town gas station, whose mysterious past catches up with him when a big time criminal boss lures him into a world of crime. Awesome cast! Kirk Douglas makes a great villain.
Ladri Di Biciclette AKA The Bicycle Thief (1948)
It has been such a long time since I've seen this movie, and since that time I've seen so much more in the way of foreign and art films. And while I thought some of those films were strictly better, The Bicycle Theif still remains a benchmark against which I weigh other movies. This film more than any other introduced me to and maintained my interest in Italian Neo Realist film. From here I moved through the years to Fellini, Pontecorvo, Germi, Bertolucci, Pasolini, and of course Antonioni. Still, The Bicycle Theif remains in my head, as clear as when I first saw it.
"Italian Neo-Realism…boooooring!" – Ashley
Rope (1948)
Not one of his best films, but certainly, Rope stands as an interesting experiment. Comprised of 5 or 6 different long camera takes, Rope is effectively a filmed stage play. The transitions inbetween scenes are fairly clever as they are meant to be invisible, making it seem as if it were filmed entirely in one take. The action, suspense, and plot twists depend entirely upon the acting, as the camera cannot do any elaborate or special movements. The plot centers around some young men who, as an experiment to see if they can get away with it, have murdered their fellow classmate. As a means of proving how perfectly constructed this crime is, they host a dinner party while the body of the victim is still in the room. It is up to Jimmy Stewart, a guest at the party, to reconstruct how it happened and expose the two murderers.
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
Orson Welles. Murder. A beguiling lady. With those ingredients you have the recipe for an awesome movie. To tell you facts about the plot, would almost give away too much. Needless to say, check it out, it's awesome.
The Red Shoes (1948)
This tragic fairytale utilizes saturated comicbook-esque color to highlight the passions in the life of the young ballerina, Victoria Page. The color red, specifically, stands out as a sort of totem color standing for passion, drive, and even obsession. While beautiful to look at, the story is not as engaging as some others of this era, the film's main plot is mostly love story and for a self professed action buff, I felt it was lacking something.
All you need to know about this movie: AWESOME FUCKING MOVIE! SEE THE SHIT OUT OF IT!!!!
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Alec Guinness is a master of disguise in this dark comedy about inheritance, and family relations. It is a good film, a real good film actually, but I didn't think it needed any further hype than that. It certainly gave was the grandfather to a lot of grade B or lower films that have come out of Hollywood, Eddie Murphy pretty much has copied the premise of Kind Hearts and Coronets in all of his more recent flicks from the Nutty Professor to the present (and by this I don't mean the failed humor, I mean the fact that Alec Guinness plays so many different characters.)
An absolute classic! Orson Welles plays Harry Lime to the nines, pairling each of his moments onscreen with his dialogue, utilizing each to the fullest. Joseph Cotten plays Lime's jilted best friend, hunting for the elusive truth about his pal. He is torn between his attraction to Lime's girl, and the loyalty he feels toward his friend. Pitch perfect in every way, right down to the bombed out rubble of the post-war Vienna setting (The film was actually in and around post-war Vienna).
Orphee AKA Orpheus (1949)
Just like "La Belle et la Bete", another film by Jean Cocteau, Orpheus is a beautiful piece of lyrical, visual poetry. It is filled with similar themes of death, life, love, mirror images, and redemption. Highly visual, and despite being fairly sussinct for all of it's ambition, it accomplishes it's goal.
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A film noir through and through, from the "one last heist" type plot down through the starkly bleak urban setting.
The film that introduced the rest of the world to Akira Kurosawa, and Toshiro Mifune (Through the Venice film festival). That alone warrants it's inclusion on this or any other list of influential films, but Rashomon has so much else going for it. It is the story of an assault, and murder, told after the fact from each of the points of view of the parties involved, the witness, the bandit, the wife, and even the victim. Completely blew me away when I first saw it!
"If you don't like this movie, I'll punch you in the face." – Ashley
Quite possibly the best film noir movie out there. An ingenious story toying utilizing elements of Hollywood's past (Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton, and Cecil B. DeMille, all play integral parts in the story, some, like DeMille and Keaton, play themselves), and it's future combining them together artfully and cohesively. Billy Wilder's fascination with cynicism finds a comfortable home in this tale of stars who are not ready to be forgotten.
"Don't move to Hollywood." – Ashley
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Hitchcock's story about a chance meeting on a train that ends in murder. One of his more atmospheric films, Strangers on a Train is a potboiler right down until the end, despite the stakes being revealed from the onset.
"Murder-swap!" – Ashley
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Yet another Alec Guinness film that serves to highlight his subtle yet potent presence. Here, as a seemingly mild mannered bank clerk, he masterminds a heist to smuggle a shipment of gold out of the country. Filled with spot-on comedic moments and timing, this movie along with the original version of the Ladykillers is tied as my favorite Alec Guinness film (not including the original Star Wars Trilogy).
A hallmark of science fiction, The Day the Earth Stood Still, seems a little dated and the premise is a little thin. I enjoyed watching it, but I have to say for a genre of movies that depends highly on the visuals and special effects, it didn't have the affect on me that it would have if I'd grown up with it. That being said, it is still a fun story, and is certainly responsible for inspiring a huge number of films and directors that are inspiring me today. Klaatu…barada…nikto.
Ikiru AKA To Live (1952)
This film asks the question, "Can one person make a difference?", and answers with a resounding yes! After years upon years as his bureaucratic, mundane job accomplishing nothing, Kanji Watanabe learns he has cancer and strives to do something worthwhile with the rest of his life. Something that will make a difference to someone. This is one of Kurosawa's best films, illustrating the perils and dilemmas of the everyday person and demonstrating each person's responsibility for their legacy. Warm, humanistic, and bold, this film should be required viewing for everyone.
Le Salaire De La Peur AKA Wages of Fear (1953)
An excellent adventure film, the Wages of Fear strives to break out and be more than the definition of it's genre. The good news is that it succeeds. Utilizing tension and pacing, Henri George Clouzot, keeps the audience on the edge of their seats as our (anti)heros accend the trecherous mountain pass in trucks carrying nitroglycerine, in order to stop a fire at an oilwell. The people sent on this mission are completely disposible, each doing it for the high pay that comes with the completion of this dangerous job. Re-made as Wizards, a film by William Friedkin, and starring Roy Schieder, The Wages of Fear stands out as one of the best action movies that I've ever seen.
Mired in controversy due to Director, Elia Kazan's anti-communist and anti-union sentiments, (Kazan named names during the blacklisting period of the fifties in Hollywood) the good qualities of the film can sometimes be overshadowed. Marlon Brando, and Rod Stiger turn in Oscar worthy performances, deserving recognition outside of this argument. The film itself still stands as an alegory to the cancerous nature of communism and the power of the individual worker against the greedy union and mob influences. Not as powerful a film as it is often hyped up to be, but certainly important to the history of Hollywood, and definitely worth a watch.
"Method = No enunciation. " – Ashley
One of the best films ever made, and certainly Hitchcock's best film, Rear Window does so much with so little. It serves as a meditation on the voyeuristic nature of movies, and in society, all the while telling a cracking good yarn. Hitchcock combines visual and storytelling elements of Jacques Tati, Orson Welles, and Billy Wilder, while adding in his own gift for mystery and suspense. This is the best of all worlds, a nearly perfect film. Not to mention it has the beautiful Grace Kelly in it too!
"Your creepy neighbor may save your life." – Ashley
Well, that's it for now. Hopefully you've enjoyed another installment of the short but sweet reviews of these films that I've already seen.
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Posted on April 8, 2009 by Edward Boe
I thought of how much fun the idea of seeing all of these movies was to me, and equally of how much fun it would be to write about them all too. It was at this point that a few things dawned on me. I realized just how large this undertaking was, and how equally large the time commitment will be too.
I was daunted by the sheer volume of my endeavor. I immediately started to formulate a way to lighten the load. I've already seen a lot of movies, I thought, why shouldn't I just write about the ones that I've already seen? Yes! That's it! I'd write about the movies in this book that I had already seen. That way, I'd save a lot of time, and I wouldn't be tempted to dwell on my own in-activity, and unsocial behavior.
This got me thinking yet again. As I said before, I was looking forward to seeing all those movies…That's IT! I would go ahead with my initial plan of watching each of the movies that I haven't seen and writing about each one individually, AND I would write about the ones I have seen (although these will be done in groupings so as not to accelerate my already rather sedentary behavior tendancies too much.)
Here is the first installment of the movies that I have seen. They are not quite as in depth as the reviews that I have done and plan to continue doing for the new material, but they provide a good summary of what I liked and/or what I didn't like.
I hope you enjoy this bunch. It covers the first movie in the book that I had seen, up through the end of WWII. So…get reading already
I was lucky enough to catch this projected from a remastered 70mm print with lost footage re-integrated into the story. It featured a live piano accompaniment, and featured written descriptions of scenes that were still "lost". At the same time, I was unlucky enough to see it while I was super, super tired. There are some slow moments, and I was drooping at times. Still, it was probably the best possible way to see Metropolis for the first time.
"Fuckin' love it!" – Ashley
The Criterion Collection has introduced me to a wide variety of movies, including quite a few of the selections on this list. M introduced me to foreign film in general, not to mention the fantastic Peter Lorre.
Scarface : The Shame of a Nation (1932)
I saw this with a couple of other fantastic American noir and crime films in a little theater on the left bank in Paris, the Action Christine for those who are in the know. It was part of a week long mini-film-festival concerned with classic and overlooked American noir films. I was able to catch a number of other great flicks including, Kiss Me Deadly, Key Largo, the version of The Killers from the sixties (with Ronald Regan, Lee Marvin, and John Cassavetes), and the topper, Charade. I was surprised how much of this story of Scarface is recognizable later on in the Brian De Palma version.
I was introduced to this movie through a friend who was absolutely in love with it. I was, at first a little skeptical, but came to appreciate it quite a bit. I'm not sure why everyone makes a big deal about Clarke Gable in Gone With the Wind, but not in this one (I suppose I'll find out later, when I watch it).
(**Warning Spoilers**)
"If a man nicks names you brat, it's because he loves you." – Ashley
As this was a recommendation from numerous trusted sources, I may have gone into this one with elevated expectations, which as you may or may not know can be death on first impressions. While I didn't love it as unilaterally as I was led to believe that I would, I didn't dislike it at all. It was solid, but not discernible from a lot of other movies that I have seen from this period.
"Alcoholism is hilarious!" – Ashley
One of two of Hitchcock's British movies that I'd seen after I'd tooled through almost all of his American stuff, (The Lady Vanishes being the other…), and while I liked The Lady Vanishes better, this was not without it's charms. By and large this seems like a stepping stone through which you can get to Hitchcock's great works, although it is not great in and of itself.
"Genius begins…" – Ashley
La Grande Illusion AKA Grand Illusion (1937)
This is another of these movies that I was introduced to through the Criterion Collection. When I saw this movie, it was the first time that I had either heard of or seen Eric von Stroheim, Jean Gabin, or Jean Renoir. Von Stroheim in particular interested me, and I have since been looking for his epic, studio bankrupting movie, Greed.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)
Snow White was the second movie that I ever saw in a movie theater (E.T. being the first), and since then, thanks in part to having a good number of girl cousins, friends, and going to a daycare where a good amount of the kids were girls, I was quickly overdosed on this movie (along with The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins). That being said, upon my first viewing, I was enraptured. I wanted to be the 8th dwarf, and I was terrified of the old witch with the apple. Fucking scary! This is how childrens stories can be. They don't have to be these antiseptic, polished, glittering trash-heaps that they came to be, straight to video sequels with crappy 3D animation. Snow White set the standard, even IF I don't really wanna watch it anymore.
"Teaching all pale, black-haired girls around the world that they are the most beautiful." – Ashley
I partially wrote this longer post of movies that I had already seen because of this movie. I didn't want anyone to think that just because I had seen it, to think that this might mean that I liked it. I saw this in film school, as an example of the studio system of the 30's and 40's, and more specifically because it was THE classic screwball comedy. I liked movies from this period, and more importantly I was a pretty big fan of Cary Grant, so it seemed like a natural fit. Then along came Katherine Hepburn and ruined everything. She plays the most annoying, murder-inducing, terrible fucking annoyance EVER! I could not wait until it was over. From 5 minutes in or so I was checking my watch, sending text messages to friends, trying vein to sleep, anything to avoid that shrill voice, and that irksome demeanor. What made it worse was, that Cary Grant, put up with it to the point where his character started to exhibit affection for Hepburn's. This bastion of charm, class, and smooth masculinity was was so utterly ineffectual, that not only could he not save me from hearing this woman speak, but he stole two hours from me in the process.
"Holy shit, there's a leopard in it!" – Ashley
Who doesn't like the Wizard of Oz? It's a little heavy on the songs, and musical routines which I don't really go in for (making a lot of movies musicals in this book a little daunting), but the story and the fabulous imagery were far more than enough to outweigh them.
"Technicolor orgasm!" – Ashley
Rebecca (1940)
I liked Rebecca (come to think of it, I'm not sure that I didn't like any Hitchcock movies), but I liked Notorious better.
This, like with a lot of different musicals, was pretty lost on me. I've fallen asleep or gotten board and wandered off each time I've tried to watch this (3 separate times now). The animation was great, but not quite enough I guess.
"Elephants in tutus." – Ashley
I enjoyed Pinocchio back when I saw it initially, but it was never quite as good, in my opinion, as The Jungle Book, The Sword in the Stone, or Robin Hood. Maybe it was just the time period that I grew up in, maybe it was the animation style.
"So many sexual euphemisms, so little time…" – Ashley
The Bank Dick (1940)
W.C. Fields is a smarter, more adult, and more aware version of The Three Stooges. He pokes fun at himself rather than poking fun at others or having them poke fun at him. Don't get me wrong, I love The Three Stooges, but every now and again it's nice to see you don't have to hit something with a hammer in order for it to be funny.
Citizen Kane (1941)
The enigma that is Citizen Kane…it is both vastly over and under-rated. The idea that you can pick one movie in the scope of all that has come out to date and claim that it is the greatest movie ever made is a ridiculous one. Equally ridiculous is the idea that that same movie is of no or little value simply because every other movie since then has co-opted the same bag of tricks. Citizen Kane and Orson Welles set the standard, and now people get mad that in a sea of copy-cats, it no longer stands out to them.
"Oh, yeah. It is real good." – Ashley
Fantastic, fantastic movie. For one reason or another, before I had ever seen a Humphrey Bogart movie, I was under the impression that I didn't like him as an actor. This movie, The Big Sleep and Casablanca proved me wrong three times in a row. Each was fantastic in it's own way, but the addition of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre make this a contender for my favorite of the bunch.
This is my least favorite of the early Disney movies. I didn't quite know what to make of the bizarre pink elephant sequence, and I took the shame and teasing that were inflicted upon the titular character to heart. I haven't seen this one for a long time, but I'm not sure that I want to.
"Go hug your mom." – Ashley
Check out my review of The Maltese Falcon two entries above this one, and you'll know how I feel about this one. With a rousing story, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains you can't help but love this movie.
(***Warning Spoilers***)
"Don't get on the fucking plane!" – Ashley
I like Shadow of a Doubt, but just before seeing it, I had seen The Third Man, and I was completely prepared to fall in love with it. Joseph Cotton was the key. He and the movie didn't really stand out to me…correction, they weren't able to blow me away the same way The Third Man had. Despite this, I still enjoy watching it when I want to throw something on while I doing something else.
Gaslight (1944)
It was on my Grandpa's insistence that I sat down and watched this one with him. A well made movie, with the beautiful Ingrid Bergman, but I have to say, this spot could have easily gone to at least 2 dozen other movies (Charade, Miller's Crossing, American History X, Leon The Professional, Bottle Rocket, El Mariachi, True Romance, Shallow Grave, Hard Boiled, Hearts and Minds, Le Cercle Rouge, and Ghost Dog to name just a few.)
I fell in love with Double Indemnity when I first laid eyes on it. I seemed to ooze a certain coldness, and efficiency that I had never seen up until that point in movies. I've heard other reviews of this movie citing Fred MacMurray as being the weak link in the chain, to not committing to the role enough (the reviewer was saying that he did this in most all of his roles), I disagree whole heartedly! He may not have achieved the short lived notoriety of someone like James Dean or Clarke Gable (note: my definition of short lived may not match yours), but he was the right man for the job in each of the movies that I've seen him in.
"How not to commit a murder." – Ashley
Murder, My Sweet AKA Farewell My Lovely (1944)
Murder, My Sweet was a good movie, but this is another slot given to a lesser contender.
Spellbound (1945)
When traveling in London I visited the Salvador Dali museum, expecting to see a host of what I thought were the artists more well known works. Instead, I saw a bunch of his work that I had never seen before, including a number of artifacts from the movie Spellbound! Ultimately, I think fairly well of my visit to the Dali museum, but that is mostly because of the items from the movie. Spellbound, like the museum, has left a generally favorable impression on my mind, but it doesn't go much farther than that.
"I wish I dreamed in Dali" – Ashley
Les Enfants Du Paradis AKA The Children of Paradise (1945)
This is a fabulous movie that you should go see. Now. Go ahead, I'll wait….Wasn't that awesome. Well dig this…This whole movie was filmed during the Nazi occupation of France. Film stock, supplies and artisans were in short supply, cast and crew were being routinely investigated by the puppet Vichy (read Nazi) government, and still they managed to pull off a staggeringly beautiful movie with beautifully thought out and constructed sets, top notch acting, and a story packed with anti-fascist allegory. On top of this, the majority of the actors and crew were utilizing the "cover" of the movie in order to stay hidden, as many were French Resistance underground fighters. Now go watch it again!
That is all for this first chapter…go watch all of these movies and write back to tell me what you think.
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Chesters and Talley win Elite events in Europe and America
England's Ashley Chesters made a late bid for the Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team with an impressive victory in the European Amateur Championship. The 23-year-old from Shropshire becomes the first Englishman to win the prestigious title since Matthew Richardson nine years ago.
Chesters returned rounds of 73, 65, 70 and 76 for a four-round total of 284, 4-under-par, to win by two shots over Spain's David Morago. Chesters took the lead after his second round 65, and held that lead going into the final round. He was four shots ahead entering the last 18. He faltered slightly by bogeying the ninth and making a double bogey at the 10th. Further bogeys at the 16th and 17th meant he stood on the last tee with just a one-shot lead. However, he birdied the par-5 for the fourth straight day to win.
An improvement of 228 places takes Chesters to world number 57. Morago advances to world number 451 from last week's position of 936th.
Eli Cole of the United States is the new Canadian Amateur champion after winning the 109th Canadian Men's Amateur Championship at Royal Colwood Golf Club in Victoria, British Columbia.
The 23-year-old from Beverly Hills, California entered the final round tied for the lead with Ricardo Celia of Colombia and Canada's Corey Conners. However, the Texas Christian University graduate closed with a final round of 70 to win by a shot over Conners and Taylor Pendrith of Canada.
Cole improves 95 places on this week's ranking to 154th. Conners becomes the world's 39th best amateur after a move of two places. Pendrith jumps from 42nd last week to 36th this week. .
Emma Talley earned the biggest win of her life when she emerged as last women standing from the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at the Country Club in Charleston, South Carolina. The University of Alabama player defeated China's Yueer Cindy Feng 2&1 in the 36-hole final.
Talley turned up in Charleston after completing a pretty good first season at Alabama. The Princeton, Kentucky native won the PING-ASU invitational in her rookie year in the college ranks. That win paled in comparison to what the 19-year-old achieved in America's national championship.
Talley qualified for the match play rounds as joint second leading qualifier. With her dad Dan caddying for her, she then fought her way through another five rounds of match play to reach the 36-hole final.
One up after 18 holes, Talley moved to three up after four holes of the afternoon 18. Feng, who is based in Orlando, Florida, then fought back to square the match after seven holes. However, Talley putted better over the remaining holes to take the title.
"To win the biggest tournament in the world, this is a dream come true," Talley said.
Talley and 17-year-old Feng earn exemptions into next year's U.S. Women's Open Championship.
Talley jumps to 15th on this week's World Amateur Golf Ranking from last week's position of 65. Feng moves 32 places to 65th.
Curtis Cup player Amy Boulden climbs up this week's WAGR table after winning the English Women's Stroke Play Championship at Mannings Heath Golf Club in Sussex. The Welsh amateur survived a playoff against Charlotte Thomas to take the title after they had tied on 72-hole totals of 285, 3-under-par.
Boulden birdied the first extra for the victory. She advances 69 places on this week's table to 94th. Thomas improves 20 rankings to become world number 61.

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Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals
William W. Au, Jonathan B. Ward, V. M. Sadagopa Ramanujam, Barbara L. Harper, Mary Treinen Moslen, Marvin S. Legator
Preventive Medicine & Community Health
A study was conducted using a combined testing protocol (CTP), to determine whether short-term biological end-points, singly or in combination, are sufficiently sensitive to identify damage induced by exposure to ambient levels of industrial chemicals. A small-scale inhalation set-up which is both economical and easy to assemble was designed. Mice were exposed to 4 concentrations of a custom-blend mixture of benzene, chloroprene, epichlorohydrin and xylene in a ratio of 2:2:1:2, respectively. The concentrations for benzene, chloroprene and xylene were 0,0.1, 1.0 and 10 ppm each. Concentrations for epichlorohydrin were half those for the other components. Groups of 22 male and 22 female mice were exposed to each concentration of the mixture for 3 and 6 weeks. Selected biological end-points including urine mutagenesis, bone marrow cell aberrations and micronuclei, spleen lymphocyte abberations and liver enzyme induction were monitored. The spleen lymphocyte aberrations and liver enzyme induction were the most sensitive end-points. The lymphocytes showed a significant induction of chromosome aberrations from exposure for 3 weeks to all 3 concentrations of the mixtures. After 6 weeks of exposure, significant induction of aberrations was observed after exposure to low and medium concentrations but not to the high concentration. This lack of response at the high concentration after 6 weeks exposure, appeared to correlate with a significant induction of glutathione S-transferase in the liver. Since this enzyme is known to detoxify 3 of the 4 chemicals in our mixture, it may indicate a detoxification mechanism after enzyme induction. The present study indicates that the CTP is sufficiently sensitive to identify toxicological effects after exposure to ambient levels of a gas mixture.
Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects
Enzyme induction
Micronuclei
Urine mutagenesis
Dive into the research topics of 'Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Chloroprene Medicine & Life Sciences 94%
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Epichlorohydrin Medicine & Life Sciences 86%
Carcinogenic Chemical Compounds 78%
Xylenes Medicine & Life Sciences 71%
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Au, W. W., Ward, J. B., Sadagopa Ramanujam, V. M., Harper, B. L., Moslen, M. T., & Legator, M. S. (1988). Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals. Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects, 203(2), 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1161(88)90025-8
Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals. / Au, William W.; Ward, Jonathan B.; Sadagopa Ramanujam, V. M.; Harper, Barbara L.; Moslen, Mary Treinen; Legator, Marvin S.
In: Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects, Vol. 203, No. 2, 04.1988, p. 103-115.
Au, WW, Ward, JB, Sadagopa Ramanujam, VM, Harper, BL, Moslen, MT & Legator, MS 1988, 'Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals', Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects, vol. 203, no. 2, pp. 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1161(88)90025-8
Au WW, Ward JB, Sadagopa Ramanujam VM, Harper BL, Moslen MT, Legator MS. Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals. Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects. 1988 Apr;203(2):103-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1161(88)90025-8
Au, William W. ; Ward, Jonathan B. ; Sadagopa Ramanujam, V. M. ; Harper, Barbara L. ; Moslen, Mary Treinen ; Legator, Marvin S. / Genotoxic effects of a sub-acute low-level inhalation exposure to a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals. In: Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects. 1988 ; Vol. 203, No. 2. pp. 103-115.
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Facing Facts: The War on Drugs Can Be Won
Brandy Laukaitis
Waging War on the American People
As of the first quarter of 2016, roughly twenty-four million Americans were struggling with addiction. Every single person in the United States has been affected by addiction in one way or another. Addiction is not a disease with prejudice; it can strike anyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, level of education and/or income bracket (Kentucky). In the United States, this debilitating disease has been regarded as a moral lacking on the part of the addicted individual and has been criminalized, rather than being treated as the medical condition that it is. This has been due to the "War on Drugs," which was started by President Richard Nixon in 1971, and then doubly enforced by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980's. The prison population in 1971 was roughly 200,000 inmates. Today, the prison population is well over 2,000,000 inmates; nearly half are for drug-related offenses. In 2014, there were 1.4 million drug arrests in the United States; 80% of which were for simple possession charges, and of those, approximately 50% were for marijuana (Combs).
In states across the country, the "War on Drugs" and the negative affects it has on the prison system, the lives of those charged and on the communities' theses offenders come from and return to are finally being looked at through the lens the medical crisis it truly is rather than as the criminality it has been regarded as for the last forty years.
The Price of Losing the War; The Savings of Treating the Disease
One of the biggest concerns for taxpayers is the safety in the community in which they live. Many believe that by imprisoning the criminally-inclined drug abusers that they are making their communities safer – which, in the short-term maybe true – while a drug addict is incarcerated any given community is that much "safer" from that abuser. However, the costs of incarceration are quite expensive, and the time spent imprisoned is relatively short – on average less than 24 months – then the untreated addict returns to the community, disease unchecked, ready to make that community "unsafe" again. By providing medical treatment to the disease of addiction, not only are communities safer in the short term, but the recovering addict can become a contributing member of society and improve the standard of living for everyone. For example, in the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) program in Brooklyn, New York, addicted defendants can plead guilty to their charges, and then enter an inpatient community treatment program, lasting no more than 2 years as a substitute to accepting a traditional prison sentence. As seen in a 2004 evaluation of DTAP by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (NCASA) at Columbia University, the program achieved substantial success in lowering recidivism rates and drug usage, increasing employment potential for participants, and facilitating significant savings when compared to the cost of incarceration. In addition, the evaluation found that the average annual costs of participating in DTAP, including residential treatment, job and skills training, and support services was $32,974 – which, when compared to the cost of incarceration – approximately $64,338 if the participant had been sent to serve the average term of imprisonment for 25 months – provides a fifty percent savings to taxpayers (McVay, Schiraldi, and Ziedenberg).
The cost of incarceration versus the cost of providing addiction treatment is only the very pinnacle of cost-effectiveness that this method of dealing with drug-related crimes offers taxpayers throughout the nation. There are "unseen" savings such as employment, tax revenues, public health, and crime reduction, and benefits to utilizing drug treatment programs over incarceration for drug-related offenders. In a ground-breaking cost benefits analysis, back in the 1990's, the RAND Corporation compared the efficacy and costs of enforcing the "War on Drugs" versus treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Their research revealed that for every dollar spent on drug treatment, a savings of seven and a half dollars was seen in regained productivity and reduced crime. "An additional cocaine-control dollar generates societal cost savings of 15 cents if used for source-country control, 32 cents if used for interdiction, and 52 cents if used for domestic enforcement. In contrast, the savings from treatment programs are larger than control costs: an additional cocaine control dollar generates societal cost savings of $7.48 if used for treatment," as stated in Controlling Cocaine, a 1994 study by the RAND Corporation (Rydell and Everingham). In another decisive RAND Corporation study (1997) comparing the advantages provided to different law enforcement approaches to treatment for serious cocaine users discovered that treatment is three times more effective than mandatory minimum prison sentences (Caulkins et al.). In short, The RAND Corporation proved that drug treatment is the most cost-effective way to put an end to the failed "War on Drugs," and to finally get the upper hand on the epidemic of addiction, and all the negative impacts it has on society.
Getting It Done Right
There are many existing programs throughout the United States that treat the issue of addiction as an illness and not as a crime. The benefits to these programs are vast and varied. Any one of these programs, or a combination of several, would improve and could correct many problems that we face as a nation each year; crime, prison overcrowding, the sluggish economy, etc.… Here are just a few examples, which have already been successful, that could be implemented on a nation level:
The California Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (SAPCA) allows people convicted of low-level, non-violent drug crimes to go to community-based treatment, training and/or education while on probation, as an alternative to prison. An evaluation of this program has shown that for every $1 spent on funding SAPCA, there was a fiscal savings of 250% - resulting in a net savings of $173.3 million annually to state and local governments (Alliance).
In the oldest drug court in all the nation, a Portland, Oregon study found that over the span of a decade, the program had save nearly $9 million for taxpayers. Additional cost savings of $79 million were seen from several beneficial social outcomes, including a 31% decrease in rearrests (Alliance).
South Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Program requires participants, people convicted of their second or subsequent DUI offense, to abstain from using alcohol and/or illegal substances, and are vigorously monitored using state-of-the-art technology, including the SCRAM transdermal alcohol monitoring bracelet and the "drug patch." This program has been herald as a "tremendous success" in keeping participants sober and in reducing DUI recidivism (Leidholt).
Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) Program provides swift, certain, consistent, and immediate jail time for violations of probation agreements for drug offenders. The punishment fits the crime that violates the probation. For example, if a participant has a positive drug test at their scheduled meeting with their Probation Officer and admits to the drug use, they are immediately sent to jail for two days. If, instead, that same participant, had a positive drug test at their scheduled meeting, but denied their drug use, they would be arrested and sentenced to fifteen days. Finally, if that same offender failed to show for their scheduled meeting with their Probation Officer, and it was necessary to issue a warrant for their arrest and then have Law Enforcement Officers go and track down the offender, the punishment would be immediate arrest and thirty days in prison. This program has been considered successful because participants in the HOPE probations were using drugs less often and getting arrested for new crimes less often. HOPE probationers were also going to state prison less often and for shorter periods of time (Almt).
Any one of these programs, or any combination of some or all of them, would have a positive impact on the population of the nation. Taxpayer money saved, improved living situations for many communities across the country, improved productivity in the workforce are just of few on the monumental positive impacts treating drug addiction as a disease rather than a moral failing would have on the United States. It is time to admit we have lost the "War on Drugs," and time to start caring for these ill individuals as we would have they had any other disease. Addiction affects every American life. The status quo does not work. It is beyond time to do something that does.
Alliance, Drug Policy. "Cost Review: Drug Abuse, Treatment, Incarceration." www.drugpolicy.org. 2006. Web. 19 Sept. 2016.
Almt, Steven S. "HOPE Probation and The New Drug Court: A Powerful Combination." Minnesota Law Review 99.5 (2015): 1665-1696. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Oct. 2016.
Caulkins, Jonathan P., et al. Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money. Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation, 1997. Web. 22 Oct. 2016.
Combs, Sean. "The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail." NY Times, 15 Sept. 2016. Video.
"Kentucky: The Facts About Addiction Disorders." US Official News. (April 4, 2016 Monday): 543 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2016/10/23.
Leidholt, Mike, Marty J. Jackley, and Stephen K. Talpins. "Justice Solutions: The South Dakota 24/7 Sobriety Program." Sheriff 63.4 (2011): 10-11. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 20 Oct. 2016.
McVay, Dough, Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg. Treatment or Incarceration? National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment. Washington, DC: Justice Policy Institute, Jan. 2004. PDF File. 23 Oct. 2016.
Rydell, C. P., and S. S. Everingham. Controlling Cocaine. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1994. Web. 23 Oct. 2016. Prepared for the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the United States Army 1994.
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