Marcia E. Letaw's Blog, page 10
November 1, 2015
250 Movies Better than Shawshank: In Time
I hope all of you out there survived falling back. Isn’t it nice to wake up to discover sitting on the bedside table a nicely wrapped up bundle of time: an entire hour to play around with! Yeah! And yet didn’t that hour belong to me in the first place? Wasn’t it stolen from me and now that the robber has seen fit to return it, I’m supposed to be thankful. Where was it for the past 8 months, I wonder? Shouldn’t it have been accruing interest? Assuming an interest rate of 1 percent for a period...
October 31, 2015
250 Movies Better than Shawshank: Les Diaboliques
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Les Diaboliques is the 1955 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. I’ve decided to let the screen shots speak for themselves in this psychological horror. Please click on the title of the post for the aforementioned screen shots.
October 30, 2015
The 250 Movies Better than Shawshank: Arsenic and Old Lace
Pixilated: that’s what the Brewster sisters are in this Halloween classic that really puts the cyanide into elderberry wine. Cary Grant plays the straight man, Mortimer, to this his aunts’ charitable donations to the basement corpse archives, graves dug by their brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt digging the panama canal. Add in Peter Lorre as the plastic surgeon, Einstein, and Raymond Massey as Mortimer’s sinister brother who looks like Frankenstein, and what do you get: Arsenic and Old...
