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wonderful wonderful cast. jane fonda is so beautiful.

bit of a middling noir but it’s got some interesting parts that don’t make it completely boring + jean peters and jeanne crain are there

“darling, we’re bigamists, do you mind?”
”i love it!”

”if it ain’t asking too much, what did you do with the body?”
”he’s in your office on the couch.”
”what are you trying to do, haunt my couch?!”

fawkkkkk 😭😭😭 influence from silent film german expressionism will always get five stars from me…the things this film does with colors in the last act is something i will think about Constantly. magical magical movie.

this has so many isolated parts that make me want to LOVE this movie, but something about how it was all put together, and maybe the pacing, just fell short for me. AND there were multiple aspects of this movie that i wish were given more time to develop, like doll’s greed in vying for dix’s love and attention or angela’s entire character. but the cinematography, direction, and overall atmosphere was perfect. jean hagen and sterling hayden were amazing and worked perfectly together, i just wish their characters could’ve been transplanted into a movie that worked better in my eyes.

extremely fun ben gazzara performance in this really stupid movie. he plays a teenager in the first few scenes of this and it’s great.

ohhh okay. one of the most amazing movies ever that also makes you feel completely awful afterwards.

loved loved loved linda darnell’s flashback scene even though paul douglas’ character is kinda evil. and celeste holm narrating a movie is something that can be so magical. obviously, linda, ann, jeanne, and thelma were all amazinggg and i liked this a lot more than i thought i would. so glad i finally got watching this i love me a good mid-century woman‘s film ❤️ this has such a fun script too

i love this movie now

okayyyy they’re cute…they’re really cute. enjoyed this much much more on my second watch and now spencer tracy’s character inspires a little bit less anger in me ❤️ katharine is everything

FINALLY found a higher quality version of this

jesus okay. one of the most homoerotic movies i’ve ever seen. they weren’t even subtle. you could have been locked in a cave with no human for 50 years and if you were shown this movie you’d know that ben gazzara is playing a evil homosexual sadist. awesome movie.

okay well i really liked this. suprisingly!! also ben kingsley looks a little bit like ben gazzara here.

are you serious……most gorgeous movie ever and one of my favorite stany characters ever. her all black outfit is the stuff of dreams. also barbara doing her own stunts is something i’m gonna think a lot about now. loved the super dramatic score and editing and direction. i’ve Got to watch more samuel fuller movies. watching this was magical this feels like the most influential western ever okay…

mhm just as expected this movie was not very good. i guess the amazing cast had to be balanced out with a lackluster plot and almost no chemistry between any of the characters. at least lauren bacall was beautiful. also she was in this movie for a criminally short amount of time i feel lied to. happy birthday gary cooper i probably should’ve watched a better movie to celebrate.

okay beginning to realize that the main thing i like about this movie is how gay matt and cherry are. i still love this movie but it has to be said. anyway it’s so unfortunate that joanne dru’s character is so shoehorned in and shallow because she’s so beautiful.

“charmed, i’m sure.”
”i’m charming too.”

okay so nanette fabray is the cutest actress ever

yes this is basically just minnelli does singin’ in the rain, but he does it well!!! he does it so well!!!!! the best fred astaire has been in one of his movies and imo this is far, far better than an american in paris. most perfect cast ever everyone

such a sweet movie with such an ill-fitting poster. i wish harry and dorothy made a million more movies together.

yeah this movie’s gender politics are messy and outdated and the notion around a woman’s virginity is more than iffy, but i liked this a lot more than i thought i would. the silliness and jane fonda being adorable got me. cutest most perfect girl ever set along the backdrop of probably the most beautiful new york has ever looked.

“he’s mad about me!”
”they’re all mad, about you.”

okay my first successful attempt at finishing a movie with red skelton and this was cute!! lucille ball and gene kelly are great together, and i loveee virginia o’brien. red skelton could NOT stop annoying for the entirety of the movie but luckily he didn’t ruin it completely. no idea what mgm and audiences saw in him to make him such a star but at least he didn’t end up with lucille at the end. beautiful, beautiful colors and the calender girls part of i love an esquire girl was amazing. fun movie!

watching things like fills me with awe like not to sound nerdy but it’s crazy that people were able to capture moving pictures on film do you know how crazy that is

okay jean peters as candy might actually be one of my favorite female noir characters ever. obsessed with every single facet of her character. thelma ritter gets (rightfully) cited as the heart of the movie but jean just blows me away every time. she radiates real warmth and love underneath the typical femme fatale exterior of candy. and this isn’t even saying that most femme fatales aren’t complex because obviously they usually are, but it’s so great seeing how jean goes leaps and bounds beyond what a lesser actress could have achieved in the role. also she has a really adorable voice that i can’t stop thinking about.

yeah sure the only remarkable thing about this is that it’s joseph cotten’s film debut, but i found this charming! sue me!

okay the gift of the magi got me. for every other prior segment all i could think was “i mean it’s alright” but jeanne crain and farley granger got me. they got me good. there are other highlights (jean peters and anne baxter’s segment together, marilyn monroe’s short, but sweet, appearance, richard widmark reprising his role in kiss of death in everything but name), but 100% the best and most redeeming part of this movie is the gift of the magi. also i don’t totally get why howard hawks’ segment was so poorly-received when it came out. like it wasn’t the best thing ever but i wouldn’t say it was That bad. like i laughed during some parts of it and it sometimes even reminded me of paper moon a bit. no idea why audiences in 1952 hated a pretty tame howard hawks comedy short. anyways if you want a really, really adorable christmasy watch with jeanne crain and farley granger i’d definitely suggest this movie. or at least the last 20ish minutes of it.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

okay well i loved this so much. jean simmons my heart belongs to you. frank sinatra and vivian blaine are perfect and adorable. marlon brando is also there and cannot sing but he doesn’t ruin this for me! everything in this film is bursting with life and joy and musical theater and i love it so so so dearly.

oh my god the imagery in this movie is insane. i seriously think that no other film has done this much and created something so majestic using color and setting. kinda one of the best movies about isolation and obsession. also such an interesting look at exoticism and attempts at assimilation (unfortunately using brownface).

ohhh the score and cinematography…i need to rewatch so bad

kinda wish the entire movie was about bette davis and geraldine fitzgerald because sorry but george brent is boringgg. anyways bette should’ve won an oscar for this. genuinely i felt like crying during the time for tenderness scene and at the very end.

wish there was a little bit more substance to this movie but it’s still quintessentially pre-code (in the drama way, not the fun way, even though it does get to be fun near the beginning + during parts with joan or humphrey) and it’s at its best when it’s most melodramatic. also while i was watching this with my mom she made a really loud sound of disgust/shock when rudy vallée’s face popped up in the beginning which i think is really funny.

not as entertaining of a minnelli melodrama as the cobweb and it’s very, Very mean to shirley maclaine’s character, but oh my god, shirley is able to give such a wonderful, heartbreaking performance. she is so amazing at playing these beautiful characters filled with a deep melancholy that fill Me with suicidal ideation. frank sinatra is Not likeable in this and dean martin is given nothing to do, so really the main saving graces for this movie are shirley and the cinematography. can’t say i didn’t enjoy parts of this though. happy birthday shirley!!

this felt a bit messy and overstuffed with (albeit amazing) performances, but i loved how earnest, stark, and funny everything felt. joan baez is an angel.

kinda boring but cute!

okay well ethel waters and lena horne deserve the absolute world

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

i LOVEEEE joan blondell and james cagney in this and the waterfall dance is breathtaking. pre-code movies would be nothing without joan she’s genuinely made for them. or maybe they’re made for her. it’s so unfortunate that the shanghai lil number is so racist because musically it’s probably my favorite song in this and the staging with the ensemble during the first half of it is actually soooo good, but no!! no we had to have white people in yellowface!!

i Do Not like this poster and this kinda has basic themes/plotlines when compared to other 2020 horror trends but hey! good soundtrack and sophie thatcher is great

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

“how ‘bout men that’s destructive? ain’t they got some plan to round up destructive men and shoot em?”

“what is he? queer for hats?”

oh okay so i was fully expecting just a simple fun 60s beach movie, but this ended up being much more dramatic near the end than i was prepared for. all the girls were really well-written and it turns out i liked this movie i lot more than i thought i would !

“there’s your gun.”
“i was gonna hand you yours.”
“well, you like me a lot better than i like you.”

even more gay than i was expecting. the cinematography is beautiful and richard widmark gets to act resentful and gay the entire time (he even gets an entire scene where he tells robert taylor and robert’s girlfriend how hurt he was at being abandoned by him), but i just have to add that i really didn’t care for robert taylor here. maybe it’s just my feelings ranging from apathy to dislike towards the guy but he’s just not charismatic enough for me to root for him when richard is right there!! anyways this was a very gay, very visually appealing movie that i should probably rewatch eventually. the best parts of this are the scenes where clint lounges around tormenting jake for breaking up with him. give me more westerns where the protagonist and villain are bitter exes!!!

it’s really funny watching a richard widmark movie that’s basically fbi propaganda (that opens with a j. edgar hoover quote!!) right after watching pickup on south street, a movie that hoover notoriously did Not like. but despite the fact that this has obnoxious documentary-style narration and an even more obnoxious love for the police and fbi, the cast work really well together and the violence in this movie is a lot more brutal than i was expecting. richard plays yet another kiss of death-esque role, where he’s sadistically violent, extremely misogynistic, and suprisingly queer-coded (just like his first role!). like there’s a scene where richard widmark’s character invites the protagonist to a party in order to recruit him for his gang, and it begins with richard berating his wife for no reason and ends with him laying on a bed adjacent to the main character’s while staring at him lustfully. i seriously don’t think i’ve seen richard widmark play an antagonist that wasn’t, at least, a little gay. that honestly contributed to most of my enjoyment of this movie. but also the shadowy cinematography is suprisingly amazing, and mark stevens’ performance as the main character gene cordell/george manly has a sufficient amount of charisma behind it. it kinda shocked me how much i liked this movie. because again. it is a blatant love letter to the fbi.

love love love the score so much

okayyy yeah this is not a perfect movie but i was entertained!! very interesting seeing joseph and teresa reunite where the weird subtext of shadow of a doubt just becomes text and i wishhh teresa was given a bit more character to work with, but this was fun! there’s a cool little scene where joseph is now lonely and grappling with the fact that he’s a criminal, and he sees a montage of his happy family memories projected onto a flower a street vendor is selling. this has a super unique premise for a noir and it actually worked for me! it’s funny how becoming a thief immediately turned joseph cotten into a jerk too.

personally i don’t think this is as good as the lady eve or the miracle of morgan’s creek but i loveeee veronica lake and joel mccrea and this has a lot of really great parts !!

“either i’m narcissistic or i’m frigid, pussy. i can’t be both.”

best lauren bacall quote ever. this is actually such a fun movie and the cast is awesome. i love lauren bacall. i love shelley winters. i love paul newman. i love janet leigh. and this is superrrr 60s. the noir influences are also great. if you want to see lauren play a hot evil stepmother you need to tune in.

visually, this movie is stunninggggg. at its best moments, the shots are beautiful, stark, shadowy, and high-contrast. anne baxter is amazing in this. however, all the men in this deserved to die. ESPECIALLY gregory peck. there is absolutely nothing that explains anne randomly falling in love with him after he forced himself on her during one of their first meetings. every single man in this completely objectifies her, except (somehow??) the villain richard widmark. and big surprise but obviously he was the only male character i didn’t completely hate. the only thing he does for 75% of the movie is lurk in the shadows and look evil. like he does almost nothing until the very end of the movie. he does have a really cool outfit though. so yeah a very visually appealing movie that unfortunately only has two characters i can stand. anne baxter’s grandfather is also there and he’s Okay but i really don’t care about him that much TBH !!

old hollywood movies containing some absolutely insane sexual tension. unfortunately pre-code movies aren’t included here (see: hays code reference in title)

a lot of these are recommendations that i haven’t seen, so i apologize if some of them don’t completely apply to the theme!

• Out of the Past
• The Lady Eve
• Double Indemnity
• Red River
• Gun Crazy
• Gilda
• North by Northwest
• The More the Merrier
• Now, Voyager
• Psycho

...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i’m the worst (not ranked!! i organized this by color)

• The Last Picture Show
• The Misfits
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Hardcore
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Band Wagon
• Bells Are Ringing
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• M*A*S*H
• Fargo

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Women
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Holiday
4. It Should Happen to You
5. Born Yesterday
6. Adam's Rib
7. Gaslight
8. I Met My Love Again

1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. Night Nurse
3. Wings
4. Yellow Sky
5. Lady of Burlesque
6. A Star Is Born
7. The Purchase Price

• Romeo + Juliet
• The Batman
• Moulin Rouge!
• Inglourious Basterds
• Fargo

1. The Band Wagon
2. Bells Are Ringing
3. Cabin in the Sky
4. An American in Paris
5. The Cobweb
6. The Courtship of Eddie's Father
7. Deg Woman
8. Some Came Running

• Nacho Libre
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• Stop Making Sense
• The Prince of Egypt
• The Batman
• The Iron Claw
• Poltergeist

1. Shall We Dance
2. Swing Time
3. Carefree
4. Top Hat

• Inglourious Basterds
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Reservoir Dogs
• Rent
• Juno
• Mean Streets

  x2

• The Last Picture Show
• Raging Bull
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• The Lady Eve

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Companion

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Stranger
3. The Magnificent Ambersons

1. A Face in the Crowd
2. Baby Doll
3. Panic in the Streets
4. Gentleman's Agreement
5. The Last Tycoon

1. Notorious
2. Psycho
3. Strangers on a Train
4. Shadow of a Doubt
5. Rope
6. Foreign Correspondent
7. North by Northwest
8. The Trouble with Harry

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. Red River
3. Ball of Fire
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
5. Scarface
6. The Big Sleep
7. To Have and Have Not
8. His Girl Friday

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Asteroid City
6. Isle of Dogs
7. The French Dispatch

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Malcolm X
3. BlacKkKlansman
4. Summer of Sam

1. The Apartment
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Double Indemnity
4. Love in the Afternoon
5. A Foreign Affair
6. Witness for the Prosecution
7. Some Like It Hot
8. The Fortune Cookie
9. Irma la Douce

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Wolf Song

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Shining
3. Barry Lyndon
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey

1. Ninotchka
2. To Be or Not to Be
3. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
4. Cluny Brown
5. The Shop Around the Corner
6. Design for Living

1. Down by Law
2. Mystery Train
3. Coffee and Cigarettes
4. Stranger Than Paradise

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. Charade
3. Anchors Aweigh
4. On the Town
5. Damn Yankees

1. West Side Story
2. I Want to Live!
3. This Could Be the Night
4. Blood on the Moon
5. Two for the Seesaw

1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2. The Young Girls of Rochefort
3. Bay of Angels
4. Lola

1. A Woman Under the Influence
2. Opening Night
3. Husbands
4. Gloria
5. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. GoodFellas
3. Mean Streets
4. The Color of Money
5. The King of Comedy
6. After Hours
7. Taxi Driver
8. Cape Fear
9. Shutter Island
10. Italianamerican

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Fargo
2. Raising Arizona
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Blood Simple
5. The Hudsucker Proxy
6. Burn After Reading
7. No Country for Old Men
8. To Each His Own Cinema
9. Paris Je T'aime

1. What's Up, Doc?
2. Paper Moon
3. The Last Picture Show
4. At Long Last Love
5. They All Laughed
6. Daisy Miller

1. Nashville
2. M*A*S*H
3. California Split
4. The Long Goodbye
5. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Hateful Eight
5. Django Unchained
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
2. It Happened One Night
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
5. You Can't Take It with You
6. The Miracle Woman
7. Ladies of Leisure
8. Meet John Doe
9. Forbidden
10. Platinum Blonde

1. The Brutalist
2. Conclave
3. Challengers
4. Lisa Frankenstein
5. Trap
6. A Real Pain
7. Longlegs
8. Saturday Night
9. Nosferatu
10. The Substance

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Summer of Sam

  adrian brody explicitly has gay sex and works at a gay strip club in this but his sexuality is ambiguous and i think he has something going on with john leguizamo so i’m counting it

• Ravenous
• The Art of Self-Defense

american politics watchlist

• Nixon
• JFK
• Mitt
• The Reagans
• Vice
• W.
• Secret Honor
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
• Jackie
• Chappaquiddick

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies that are watched, mentioned, or shown in posters/marquees in mean streets

• The Searchers

  charlie, tony, and michael watch it in a movie theater.

• The Tomb of Ligeia

  charlie and johnny boy watch it in a movie theater, and the poster is shown. 

• The Big Heat

  giovanni is watching it near the end of the movie. 

• Back to Bataan

  charlie and johnny boy reference it when they’re on the roof.

• Point Blank

  the poster is shown. 

• Husbands

  the poster is shown.

• X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

  the poster is shown.

• Pride of the Marines

  charlie references it at the party for harry northup’s character.

• Borsalino

  it’s on a movie theater marquee. 

• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

  it’s on a movie theater marquee. 

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

this time i’ll do it!!
original list: boxd.it/BazyQ

1. 8½
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3. 3 Women
4. The Girl Can't Help It
5. Funny Girl
6. Brute Force
7. The Docks of New York
8. Winchester '73
9. Scarface
10. Original Cast Album: Company

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Flame of New Orleans
• The Country Girl
• The Talk of the Town
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• Now, Voyager
• PlayTime
• Waterloo Bridge
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Rear Window
• Withnail & I

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Moonlight
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Last of Sheila
• Smiley Face
• The Cranes Are Flying
• Rope
• Suburbia
• Summer of Sam
• Daisies
• Midnight Cowboy

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

original challenge: boxd.it/o60uu
finished at 42% :/

1. La Haine
2. Rosetta
3. The Red Shoes
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. The Daytrippers
6. Short Cuts
7. Uncut Gems
8. Redes
9. History Is Made at Night
10. Paris, Texas

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

december watchlist of sorts

• the Night
• Christmas in Connecticut
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Holiday Affair
• Eyes Wide Shut
• I'll Be Seeing You
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Bishop's Wife
• The Thin Man
• White Christmas

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

going on a buscemibinge (this list also includes cameo roles so you might not really see steve. sorry)

• The Way It Is
• Sleepwalk
• Parting Glances
• No Picnic
• Film House Fever
• Kiss Daddy Goodnight
• Heart
• Call Me
• Heart of Midnight
• Vibes

...plus 104 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. This Gun for Hire
2. The Glass Key
3. Saigon
4. The Blue Dahlia

• Sorry, Wrong Number
• The Killers
• High Sierra
• They Drive by Night
• They Live by Night
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
• Temptation
• Notorious
• The Big Combo
• The Glass Key

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Key Largo
2. Dark age
3. The Big Sleep
4. To Have and Have Not

• After Hours
• Mean Streets
• Reservoir Dogs
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Last Picture Show
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Godfather
• Romeo + Juliet
• Nope
• Fargo

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

one of these cries was negative

• Coco
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Soft & Quiet

  bad cry i hated this movie sooooo much

• Train to Busan
• The Iron Claw
• La Bamba

• Vivacious Lady
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Lady Eve
• I Married a Witch
• Ball of Fire
• The Prince and the Showgirl
• My Man Godfrey
• Theodora Goes Wild
• The Mad Miss Manton
• Topper

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Great Gatsby
3. The Great Gatsby

• Nope
• The Iron Claw
• 12 Angry Men
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Fail Safe
• Do the Right Thing
• In a Lonely Place

• The Lady Eve
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Moulin Rouge!
• Bringing Up Baby
• Holiday
• Fargo
• Vibes
• Moonstruck
• Raising Arizona
• A New Leaf

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.