March Film Journal
The Marquise of O* (Eric Rohmer, 1976)
The Collector (William Wyler, 1965)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
These Three (William Wyler, 1936)
The Children's Hour (William Wyler, 1961)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
The Killers (Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon, and Andrei Tarkovsky, 1958)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961)
Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Badlands* (Terrence Malick, 1973)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
* repeat viewing
italics - theater viewing
Labels: film journal (2007)
posted by Diane @ 8:46 AM
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We must be on the same wavelength. We watched The Children's Hour very recently, too. Isn't that a fascinating film?
It is, Russ, and the way I got to see it was pretty special. I've mentioned this here (and maybe even at CV...?), so I'm sorry if you're having to hear it again, but I saw this film as part of a mini-fest celebrating Wyler and the playwright Lillian Hellmann. (Have you seen The Little Foxes, by the way?) Anyway, I saw The Children's Hour after watching Wyler's first adaptation of the play--the 1936 film These Three. Of course, the lesbian aspect of the story couldn't be touched back then, so it was turned into a traditional love triangle--with an ending that couldn't have been more different than the one in TCH.
Every opinion I've read talks about TT as being a much better movie; nobody seems really keen on TCH. Hmm. Wyler’s children were at the fest, and they said he always preferred the former film, too, though they admitted that might have only been because it was successful, where TCH pretty much flopped.
Anyway, the film: It was very interesting to see how Wyler handled the topic this time around (I believe MacLaine always complained that he didn't push the lesbian angle far enough). I was very impressed with MacLaine and Hepburn. It was kind of fun to see Miriam Hopkins as the aunt; she played the same role as MacLaine in the first film.
I owe you a comment at your blog, Russ. Hope to get to that soon.
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