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"1944 Angela Lansbury - Gaslight "
"1944 Top10 1. Gaslight 2. Double Indemnity 3. This Happy Breed 4. Lifeboat 5. Hets 6. Laura 7. Marie-Louise 8. Ichiban utsukushiku 9. Between Two Worlds 10. I bambini ci guardano"
“Time to demonstrate my gay card as I speak positively over Gaslight’s two hours of diva in full martyrdom! George Cukor’s gothic melodrama about a naïve young wife being slowly driven insane by her gold-digging husband is a lot of fun. It’s as atmospherically cluttered and inky as a Universal Monsters film and as well-acted as any of his heralded “women’s pictures” from the era. Of course, having actors as great as Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in major roles doesn’t hurt, either. Sure, time has dulled some of the psychological terror that comes with watching Ingrid Bergman’s Victorian wife slowly losing grip on sanity, but there’s still plenty of studio-era visual poetry and lyrical acting gestures on display. The very artifice of a film like G” read more
" Notes: I haven't seen this one yet..."
" Notes: I haven't seen this one yet..."
"When: November 5th First-Time Viewing: Yes. How: DVD from the library. What'd I Think?: Clever, smart film, is chilling, well acted, and spine-tingling. My Rating: 9/10 Other Notes: NA."
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"The Ingrid Bergman starrer lent its name to what psychologists now consider a common type of abuse, where information is intentionally manipulated to make the victim doubt his or her own perception. In the film, Bergman's husband, Charles Boyer, lures her into marriage and deliberately creates circumstances to try and convince her that she is losing her sanity. He tells her that the things she sees are a figment of her imagination. His motive is to have her certified as crazy, and institutionali"