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Joan Crawford - Movie I've Viewed
Favorite Movies of All Time (2021 Edition) (1002 movies items)" 2020: 970 2019: 960 2018: 954 2017: 935 2016: 932 "
My trips to the cinema 2023 (410 movies items)"SCREENING: 35mm, BFI Film on Film Festival | 35mm nitrate, Film on Film DATE: June 8th | September 8th CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank SHORTS: A Dog Called Discord (★★★★) (Film on Film screening only) NOTE: The first screening was supposed to screen from an original release nitrate print, but when it turned out that dream was too good to be true and the nitrate projector’s fire suppression system had already broken, so they settled for hosting the world premiere of a new print from th"
Favorite Movies of All Time (2020 Edition) (1001 movies items)" 2019: 960 2018: 954 2017: 935 2016: 932 "
Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (512 movies items)"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★★ NOTES: Screened as part of the BFI Film on Film Festival, in which all prints this week were presented, with the world premiere of Mark Jenkin’s A Dog Called Discord. They were preparing to open this festival on an original release nitrate print dating back 78 years, but the nitrate projector had already encountered a fault with the fire suppression system which could have put the entire auditorium at risk and the print had to wait another while. Thankfu"
Loss of Son/Daughter - Movies
Favorite Movies of All Time (2017 Edition)
TCM’s Essentials Vol 2: Another 52 Must See Movies (52 movies items)"“This is probably the most compelling I’ve ever seen Joan Crawford in a film…. Ann Blyth was a very interesting actress to me because she was so doll-like. She had a very ethereal, almost otherworldly kind of facial mask. You don’t know what is going to happen to her or come out of her. And she’s just this monster – your worst night as a kid.” - Alec Baldwin “I love Mildred Pierce. Besides it being a big comeback for Joan Crawford, I think it’s about as definitive a Warner Bro"
1001 Movies ... my own version (1940's) (90 movies items)" Notes: Even though it was indeed pretty good, to be honest, it didn't completely blow me away. First of all, even though Joan Crawford delivered a solid performance and won at the time the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, in my opinion, her character should have been more complex. Indeed, even though Mildred Pierce was first presented as a possible murderer, Crawford slowly removed any evidence that this woman was anything else than perfect and it backfired as it made this wom"
1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)" Notes: Even though it was indeed pretty good, to be honest, it didn't completely blow me away. First of all, even though Joan Crawford delivered a solid performance and won at the time the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, in my opinion, her character should have been more complex. Indeed, even though Mildred Pierce was first presented as a possible murderer, Crawford slowly removed any evidence that this woman was anything else than perfect and it backfired as it made this wom"
Eve Arden’s Movies I Have Viewed
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1940's) (86 movies items)" Notes: Well, even though it was indeed pretty good, to be honest, it didn't completely blow me away. First of all, even though Joan Crawford delivered a solid performance and won at the time the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, in my opinion, her character should have been more complex. Indeed, even though Mildred Pierce was first presented as a possible murderer, Crawford slowly removed any evidence that this woman was anything else than perfect and it backfired as it made th"
Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)"American crime films and pulp writing aren’t normally considered as paragons of feminism, as they often see women as figures of asexualized competency or as femme fatales, those murderous succubae who use sex to socially empower themselves (though the potential necessity of that gambit in a world rigged against women is often under-considered). Distinguishing Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce from many noirs, then, is its disarmingly and modernly casual sense of the reliable humiliation of lif"