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Love Me or Leave Me
Doris Day, James Cagney

Warner Home Video, 2005

The things some do for love!

+ Do like to voodoos do!
+ What a difference a year makes....
+ Doris's Favorite
  
  











  



  
The Honeymoon Killers - Criterion Collection
Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

Criterion, 2003

STOP READING AND BUY THIS NOW!!!

+ Brilliant True Crime
+ No More Lonely Nights!
+ So much more than just an entertaining sleaze film
+ Really unexpected
  
  











  



  
Goddess, the
Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges

Columbia/Tri-Star, 1987

Please Put On DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ Kim Stanley - the GREATEST
+ "I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU ...."
+ The Goddess
  
  











  



  
Girl 6
Richard Belzer, Peter Berg

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2006

An Overlooked, Under Appreciated Film

+ '6' is for sex, fun, laughs, a few tears and a good time

This is one of my very favorite movies. It has an equal mix of humor and seriousness. Theresa Randle is an amazing actress, and she shows this in taking on her various incarnations during the movie. At the beginning we meet a very beautiful woman who is sure she is meant to be an actor but is ...
  
  











  



  
Sherrybaby
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins

IFC Films, 2007

a satisfying tale

+ Satisfying, but in a "let's discuss" kind of way
+ Excellent and understated movie with a powerful message
+ "Tell me you love me..."
+ Gyllenhaal is astounding
  
  











  



  
Applause (1929) (B&W)
Helen Morgan, Joan Peers

Kino Video, 2003

Applause is not exactly everything these gals are gonna get...

+ Great backstager and early talkie with inventive camera work
+ APPLAUSE
+ a standing ovation to kino
  
  











  



  
Stage Door
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers

Turner Home Ent, 2005

Brilliant Ensemble Showcases Young Actresses Pounding the Pavement in a Classic Dramedy

+ Ginger Rogers impressed me the most!
+ a benchmark for ensemble acting
+ a review
  
  











  



  
The Beguiled
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page

Universal Studios, 1998

A EVIL CLINT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ CREEPY CLASSIC!
+ a delicious film that defies classification

The Beguiled is a very strange movie! No not David Lynch or Alejandro Jodorowsky strange. I type strange for with the exception of UNFORGIVEN I have never seen THE MAN play such a dark character,I mean DARK! Drinking,wanting to perform RAPE??? CLINT what are you doing??? I think he was trying ...
  
  











  



  
The Bette Davis Collection (The Star / Mr. Skeffington / Dark Victory / Now, Voyager / The Letter)
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall

Warner Home Video, 2005

Changing my tune

+ The Essential Bette Davis
+ bette davis rules
+ Great collection of some of the Bette's best
+ five examples of Miss Bette's best
  
  











  



  
Dutchman
Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr.

Image Entertainment, 2000

Explosive Drama

+ 1 Hour of '60s Magic

With a running time of just under one hour, DUTCHMAN has enough dramatic explosiveness to rock a movie theatre to pieces. Based on the play by LeRoi Jones (before he changed his name to Amiri Baraka), DUTCHMAN tells the story of Clay (Daytime Emmy Award-winner Al Freeman, Jr.), a seemingly ...
  
  











  



  
The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift

Universal Studios, 2007

"You have found a tongue at last, Catherine!"

+ An Additional Wrinkle
+ empowerment, 1940s style
+ The Heiress
+ Best movie ever!
  
  











  



  
Far from Heaven
Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Haysbert

Universal Studios, 2003

Far from true but, a beautiful movie anyway

+ Far From Heaven
+ a fabulously filmed story
+ Easy to overlook
  
  











  



  
Alice Adams
Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray

Turner Home Ent, 2003

Classic Hepburn

+ Simply Darling!
+ Sweet and full of feeling
+ kate is great & so is most of the rest of the movie
  
  











  



  
Klute
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

Turner Home Ent, 2002

"JANE, I'M SHIPWRECKED 'ON GOLDEN POND'"

+ Excellent Thriller
+ Excellent Thriller
+ An American Movie Classic
  
  











  



  
Diary of a Lost Girl
Louise Brooks, André Roanne

Kino Video, 2001

Quite complex, well presented, you will be absorbed

+ Decadent and Loving It in Germany
+ An Eternal Beauty
+ Captivating
  
  











  



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