Sunset Blvd w/ Gloria Swanson and William Holden - one of my all time favorite movies. Just watched it for (what?) the 500th time.
Got so interested in that house, I looked it up ......
And "Norma Desmond's" Issota-Fraschini !!!
Dave's Journal, Sep.2022
Sunset Blvd w/ Gloria Swanson and William Holden - one of my all time favorite movies. Just watched it for (what?) the 500th time.
Got so interested in that house, I looked it up ......
And "Norma Desmond's" Issota-Fraschini !!!
(Click each for larger version)
This was my goal for exporting a video clip from a web browser to its own personal window:
Not the achievement of a lifetime, but it made my day to get this to work .
Clip from 1931 movie "King of Jazz"
Note: the video clip is silent.
The magic words are .....
and I added a button to my HTML editor to get this to happen easily.
Works fine on a computer web browser, but sadly, on an Andoid device it simply opens the video in a separate web browser tab, not its own window.
The sci-fi movies of the 1950's were quite sedate, by today's standards. They were (generally) not intended to visually shock you (as today's movies are), but they mostly had a message to deliver to the "people of Earth". The best example of this mindset was "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951?). One of the B-movie examples was "It Came From Outer Space". (I was 8 when this movie was released !!)
I watched it last night on the "Svengoolie" TV program (silly host and gimmicks but very well informed commentary - he knows his background stories).
(This trailer is silent.)
It's worth watching at least for 30 minutes or so, if not the whole movie. I watch these types to take me back to earlier times and remember what the audiences thrilled at and how they felt about things at the time. In general, today's movies are much more intense in their delivery.
A good (but too much storyline explaining) commentary video of the movie is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inj05C2wuzg
Back in the 1957-64 time frame, there were the "British New Wave" movies that were among the "artsy, punchy" films of the day (along with the French and Italian "New Waves" !!).
I was in early-teens and wanted very much to be an intellectual, and of course I loved all things European and offbeat Amercan. At that time, I saw some, but not all, of the new wave movies. So this week I plan to rectify this by watching a series of them on the Criterion Channel.
Just watched, for the first time, Room At The Top.
The movie was outstanding. As always, when watching stuff from another time and culture, you have to go with flow - allow yourself to get in with the mindset of that time and place - stop thinking that the movie was meant to entertain the American audience of 2022 (it was not).
Lesson's learned from the story:
# Take care what you wish for.
# Not all that glitters is gold.
# Everything has its price.
Time for Italian elections, and Italy sends out ballots and instructions to all it's citizens, wherever we may be (you can't hide from these guys). I appreciate this, but honestly I don't know a thing about these politicians, so I will not vote. I wish them well. Hope they are doing better over there than we are over here !!
Another "British New Wave" Movie. This film is brutal. Expertly acted with an excellent script and scene staging. But it is not "entertainment" - it's a serious study of a troubled man who intensely loves and intensely berates his wife and everyone else.
I made it through 50 minutes and put the end off for another day.
It may be a good example of why the BNW movies were a short-lived genre. Too intense, not a moment of emotional relief for the audience.
Actually it's on its way now. Vintage Minolta 58mm from Ebay. Got it yesterday. Makes lovely pictures, but the focus ring is wicked stiff and jumpy. Would cost $100 to get it cleaned and lubed. Back it went. Too bad.
Seller paid for return shipping. Smart to check for this when buying stuff.
We've been "this close" to finishing for 3 weeks now.
(Things are so boring here, these days.)
