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A Night at the Opera (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 2, 2013
A Night at the Opera Directed by Sam Wood 1935/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Repeat viewing #90 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Let’s see, is there a plot? Well, Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) has hired Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) to get her into high society, an unlikely pro read more
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 2, 2013
Mutiny on the Bounty Directed by Frank Lloyd 1935/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Repeat viewing #89 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die In 1787, the HMS Bounty departs Portsmouth for Tahiti, carrying a crew largely composed of impressed sailors. The ship is helmed by Captain William Bl read more
The Bank Dick (1940)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 1, 2013
The Bank Dick Directed by Edward F. Cline 1940/USA Universal Pictures Repeat viewing #140 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousé: Shall I bounce a rock off his head? Agatha Sousé: Respect your father, darling. What kind of a rock? Well, it’s time for ano read more
Carnival in Flanders (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 1, 2013
Carnival in Flanders (“La Kermesse héroïque”) Directed by Jacques Feyder 1935/France/Germany Films Sonores Tobis First viewing A village in 17th Century Flanders in preparing for a carnival. Into the midst of this comes a contingent of occupying Spanish troops, who want to be hous read more
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (2)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 1, 2013
The Bride of Frankenstein Directed by James Whale 1934/USA Universal Pictures Repeated viewing #92 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Neither Frankenstein nor his Monster were killed at the end of Frankenstein. The Monster is only looking for a friend but meets with terror everywhere read more
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 30, 2013
Battleship Potemkin (“Bronenosets Potyomkin”)
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
1925/USSR
Goskino
Repeat viewing
#27 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die The sailors of the Battleship Potemkin are fed up with their diet of rotten, maggoty meat and refuse to eat their borscht. read more
Blow-Up (1966)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 30, 2013
Blow-Up (AKA Blow Up) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 1966/UK/USA Bridge Films/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Repeat viewing #448 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die IMDB users say 7.6/10; I say 9/10 When I was first exposed to the films of Antonioni, I thought he made boring films about boredom. No read more
La mujer del puerto (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 29, 2013
La Mujer del Puerto (“The Woman of the Port”) (1934) Directed by Arcady Boytler and Raphael J. Sevilla 1934/Mexico Eurindia Films First viewing You just never know when you are going to find that special film! I had never heard of this one until I was gathering films for read more
She (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 29, 2013
She Directed by Lancing C. Holden and Irving Pichel 1935/USA RKO Radio Pictures Repeat viewing Leo Vincey’s dieing uncle tells him of the family legend that a 15th century ancestor, John Vincey, found the flame of immortality. Leo bears a remarkable likeness to his ancestor. He sets read more
Baby Take a Bow (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 28, 2013
Baby Take a Bow Directed by Harry Lachman 1934/USA Fox Film Corporation Second viewing? Shirley Ellison: I’m not a kid, I’m a girl, and today is my birthday. Kay (Claire Trevor) is waiting for her sweetheart Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) to be released from Sing Sing. Eddie goes str read more
Judge Priest (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 28, 2013
Judge Priest Directed by John Ford 1934/USA Fox Film Corporation First viewing #85 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die This is essentially a love letter to a simpler time – in this case 1890′s Kentucky, where folks still remember the glories of the antebellum South vividly read more
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 27, 2013
The Scarlet Letter Directed by Robert G. Vignola 1934/USA Larry Darmour Productions First Viewing “It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, read more
We Live Again (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 27, 2013
We Live Again (AKA “Resurrection”) Directed by Rouben Mamoulian 1934/USA The Samuel Goldwyn Company First viewing The story is based on the novel Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. A noble household is quite attached to its servant girl Katusha (Anna Sten); the son, Prince Dmitri (Fredric read more
Jane Eyre (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 27, 2013
Jane Eyre Directed by Christy Cabanne 1934/USA Monogram Pictures First viewing The first sound adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel. After a lonely and difficult childhood, the independent-minded Jane Eyre (Virginia Bruce) becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love read more
Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 26, 2013
Transatlantic Tunnel (AKA “The Tunnel”) Directed by Maurice Elvey 1935/UK Gaumont British Picture Corporation First viewing Airways Magnate: We don’t deal in ‘em. It is the near future (as of 1935). The Channel Tunnel was completed in 1940 and a Bahamas-Miami read more
Zouzou (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 26, 2013
Zouzou Directed by Marc Allégret 1934/France Les Films H. Roussillon/Productions Arys First viewing Zouzou (Josephine Baker) and Jean (Jean Gabin) performed in the circus as “twins” as children and grew up as brother and sister. Zouzou is in love with Jean. When he is falsely read more
Turn of the Tide (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 25, 2013
Turn of the Tide Directed by Norman Walker 1935/UK British National Films First viewing Turn of the Tide is a sort of Romeo and Juliet story told in a fishing village on the coast of Yorkshire. It was based on a real feud. The Fosdycks have fished the area for 400 years when the Lunds arri read more
The Band Concert (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 25, 2013
The Band Concert
Directed by Wilfred Jackson
1935/USA
Walt Disney Productions
Repeat viewing Mickey Mouse conducts an old-fashioned band composed of his animal buddies in a rendition of “The William Tell Overture” but Donald Duck keeps distracting the musicians by playing “T read more
The Clairvoyant (1935)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 24, 2013
The Clairvoyant Directed by Maurice Elvey 1935/UK Gaumont British Picture Corporation First viewing I am moving into 1935 for the moment in order to catch a couple of films that are disappearing from Netflix Instant on May 1. This is the story of Maximus, a fake music hall mind-reader (Claud read more
Les Misérables (1934)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 23, 2013
Les Misérables Directed by Raymond Bernard 1934/France Pathé-Natan First viewing Jean Valjean This excellent four-and-a-half hour adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel, noted as being the most complete rendering of the story, was released as three films. I watched one film a day over three days read more