Sunday, July 26, 2009
TIME MACHINE
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was George Cukor's
the film version of the Claire Booth (Luce) play that was a broadway hit.
This is a time capsule. The ideas and culture of this film are totally foreign if you were born after a certain time. 1950?
They tried to remake this movie and it fell with a thud.
Most remakes do, actually.
This film is like watching a cobra and a mongoose. Only there are 6 or 7 of them. No men in the film at all.
There are a lot of stars and near stars. Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Marjorie Main!
The women are at each other from the beginning.
It is more interesting to see as a museum piece actually. The direction is superb. The camera work impeccable. There is even a color interval for a fashion show in the middle.
This is social comment coupled with escapist art.
It was OK. I never saw it before and I will never see it again.
I will give it a 2 out of Netflix5 because I didn't FF at all but I didn't like it much.
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