what can i say that mondo hasn't said this is campy but fun its a Halloween must if you are anything like me...and if you don't know about the one actually scary bit....give it a watch and i bet you will know what it is
Undeniably camp and corny, a complete product of its time, but also fun and atmospheric while keeping a bit of spookiness
STARING VINCENT PRICE AND AGNES MOORHEAD this whodunit centers around a mansion and loan money that never makes it to its intended destination....and a mysterious masked murderer who goes by the bat. Moorheads character and her friend are renting the mansion as things start to go awry for the owner and other people connected with the owner. without spoiling it its worth a watch
An exploration of losing one’s life in order to find it. In its quiet, intentional pacing, it seemed to want to mimic the effect of the rituals and Grand Silence that bring meaning to a nun’s daily...
Hollywood icon Pat Boone and Movieguide®'s founder Dr. Ted Baehr recently sat down to discuss the modern box office and movies' vital role in society.
Boone, a previous Movieguide® Award winner,...
Watched on Saturday May 28, 2022.
This mix of characters, brought together out of necessity but all expecting to get different things out of the relationship, make this incredibly strong.
That hanging tree was like a nightmare—a...
(ronniechua/Getty Images) Disaster Mon Amour, by David Thomson (Yale University Press, 224 pp., $25)
In his 2008 compendium “Have You Seen . . . ?”:...
Thoughts cloud my mind about one of Audrey Hepburn’s personal favorite films regarding the willingness to sacrifice for the faith and the failures of human discernment… or could the latter just...
From The Edinburgh Film Guild 2013-14 Programme:
‘For sustained and distinctive achievement in B-movie filmmaking, these collaborations between director Budd Boetticher and actor Randolph Scott –...
Rick McGinnis continues his journey through the work of director Douglas Sirk, this time looking at his 1959 drama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner and John Gavin
This movie passed 3 of 3 tests. It was entered by Mercedes on 2020-12-14 14:17:57. Mercedes said:
In a short scene, one of the few named women in the movie, Frau Bernhard speaks to Frau Mutz about difficulty...
"Whimsical Classic Fairytale"Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
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All the 1959 films I've seen, from best to worst.
I count SHADOWS as a 1959 film, despite what TMDb says, because what I saw was the canonical film, the “second version” after the first version...
Imperfect in life, he played imperfect men who are nonetheless worth looking up to, even today.
SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, USA, 1959) 10
Years ago, I semi-unintentionally conducted an experiment that proved I objectively like this movie more than CITIZEN KANE. During the day of the Super...
THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray, India, 1959) 9
Compared the whole trilogy on Twitter to Harry Chapin's CAT'S IN THE CRADLE -- my body was just like me, yeah. But the most impressive thing about THE...
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Joseph Mankiewicz, USA, 1959) 8
Strictly for Tennessee Williams fanboys, but as the 8-grade tells you ...
The flaws are obvious: The avoidance of "rough trade" or similar at...
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. CORDELIER (Jean Renoir, France, 1959) 3
Who in the world thought setting DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE in 1959 France was a good idea? And who thought Jean Renoir was the man to do that?...
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, France, 1959) 3
I thought this movie was terrible — the sort of po-faced (but hollow) self-important twaddle that gives art movies a bad name — when...