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I really enjoyed it. Edward G isn't great, though he has his moments. Hopkins is quite phenomenal in by far the best-written role

But yeah, its all about a yearning for hearth and home

Ah yes! That's a great role. Such a great triangle in that film

Yeah, disappointingly so when you look back on it. Cassavetes was an exception, I suppose, and maybe Cimino. In terms of westerns Heaven's Gate seems interested in community and domesticity in the way Ford was. But I can't think of much else. Certainly not Peckinpah!

I'd buy it!

A ★★★★ review of High Sierra (1941) There are few sounds better in the film world than Max Steiner's fanfare followed by an Adolph Deutsch score for a Bogart noir: Warners pulled off that stunt twice in 1941. With the fantastic HIGH SIE...

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Chester Morris wears a dark double-breasted suit with a lighter tie, white pocket handkerchief, a wedding ring and a very serious look on his face. He's up against a plain white background with a heavy spot on him, creating dramatic shadows. He's looking down and off-camera, his brows furrowed.

Chester Morris looking straight out of a still for Blind Alley (1939) or a Boston Blackie movie (1941-49) but it's just an unusually intense still for I Promise to Pay (1937), about an adorable Dad and average Joe being victimized by a loans racket.

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Rewatch: THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)

A teenage girl’s past—an accidental killing, a cover-up, a man’s wrongful hanging—comes back to haunt her now that she’s a successful business executive.

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Wonderful writing. I love Minnie's deadpan talk about her tomcat having an 'assignation' with his 'girlfriend'

A person's motives or lack thereof cannot be documented facts though. We can make suppositions at best

Nevertheless, he did appoint him, and the passage "'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true." certainly comments on his motive for doing so

Your post, the one I replied to, said "'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true". It's clearly about Starmer's motives

Well I'm puzzled. In what sense are Starmer's motives "documented fact"

Jimmy McCulloch was 21 when he recorded this, 26 when he died. He really understood feel and tone. It took me decades to understand how to play guitar, but people like Jimmy seem born knowing what it means

Crossroads (Remastered 2014) YouTube video by Paul McCartney - Topic

This is such lovely guitar playing. All the soul in the bends. Nothing fancy, no showing off, just pure soul. Not too slick like some other great bend merchants, doesn’t sound rehearsed. It's recorded great too, natural room reverb - close your eyes and you’re there
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A sign saying: NO VULGARITY ALLOWED AT THIS TABLE

Where can I get this sign

So I really like Barbary Coast for that. Another thing I like about it is that no one gets judged except preening bullies who rob from the poor and coerce the press. Whatever else your sin is, just don’t be one of those

Random example. My favourite western is Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and its worst scene is the one with Pat’s wife. I prefer the cut that doesn’t have it. She’s just a device in respect of Pat. There are no women at all in PGABTK though it is very much a story of the journey towards civil society

It’s a rare western that puts a woman in charge of the civilising story like this one does. It reminds you how the supposedly more liberal revisionist westerns of the 60s and 70s were far less interested in women than Hawks or Ford were

Ostensibly she has no power, but the future of the whole brave new West seems to depend on her choices. The force of her passion in certain scenes is amazing, and the fact that she's only there at all because she hates herself is forcefully felt. “I’m no good. Too much has happened to me”

Poster for Barbary Coast. Faces of the stars, Miriam Hopkins, Edward G Robinson, Joel McCrea, with a roughhouse gambling scene in the background

Barbary Coast (1935). Set in a funny, brutal, mudbound, fog-shrouded Gold Rush San Francisco, the story boils down to a corny old romance if you want it to, and it is certainly a standard western in that it’s about barbarism vs. civilisation, with Miriam Hopkins poised uncomfortably 'twixt the two

Yes, Cagney certainly had the range going on. Though I do understand why he was more successful as a dramatic actor than a song and dance man. It's interesting to compare them, but I'd draw back from ever ranking them. They are indeed both remarkable, and entirely on their own terms

I recognised Dundee, but 1883 is a new one on me. That good?

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Gloria Grahame by Ernest Bachrach (1947)

To me, Robinson's characters understand more clearly the hell they are in. He really excels at anguishing in his own moral rot. All purely subjective takes of course, partly based on decades-old impressions 3/3

I think now that Cagney has a glamour that is never quite shaken off, and that draws you to him, but stops him going to the darker places Robinson goes to. Cagney is also good at characters driven by a sort of wild animal cunning,whereas Robinson’s seem to possess a more familiar intelligence... 2/3