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UNITED STATES Are you celebrating, now that Southern California emerges from the quarantine woods, by setting out to do something special you long ago promised yourself would do? I’d love to hear about it. Meanwhile I continue the intellectual and nostalgic journey I promised
myself in the depths of COVID: a defense of the 1963 madcap comedy epic,
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
About 30 minutes, into the story of eight travelers brought together on a desert roadside by the dying words of a paroled thief who crashes and before kicking the bucket,
literally, shares the secret of “350 Gs under a Big W in Santa Rosita” and thus sets off a greed-fueled race for the loot. Here is a stunning cut to activities at the Santa Rosita Police Station (on a par with the revelation that Roger Thornhill in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” is not a real person, but a meticulously created non-existent Cold-War agent, established through elaborately staged behavi
These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
On 5/9/21 at 9:00 AM EDT
For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912.
Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respective arenas have developed what some might call a symbiotic relationship. Movies often, but not always, depend on solid reviews to succeed, and movie critics rely on the emergence of new films to keep their jobs.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.Cary Grant still outclasses everyone.
MGM/Lucasfilm/Fabrice Mathieu
Welcome to
The Queue your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a mashup that merges Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest with the Star Wars universe.
Few have been so bold as to ask the question “what would happen if
Cary Grant was in a big-budget space epic?” Thankfully, we now have an answer.
Or at the very least, we have a vision, an imaginative hypothetical, about what it would look like if the suavest man to grace the silver screen suddenly found himself dodging laser beams and partaking in high-speed, hyperdrive chases (while sipping whiskey, of course).
Katharine Hepburn. All of their collaborations are impressive, but none so much as
The Philadelphia Story. The leading lady plays Tracy Lord, a role quite literally written with her in mind. Tracy is on the eve of her second marriage when her ex-husband, Dexter (played by Grant), shows up to complicate things. Rounding out the cast is a reporter expertly played by
Jimmy Stewart, who especially shines when delivering the character’s drunk ramblings.
The film is invigorating personally, I have yet to watch it without spending the runtime grinning ear to ear but it also seems to have the risk of a highwire act. There’s never a dull moment, a statement that is at once a compliment and a recognition of how easily character development could have been sacrificed for the sake of the mile-a-minute, hijinks-heavy plot. But this doesn’t happen. The characters and performers are richly brought to life on screen, with perhaps Grant’s character demanding the most nuance of all.