Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by patrickU (A) on November 16, 2008 at 02:43:47

In Reply to: RE: I adore Preston Sturges, and how odd... posted by Harmonia on November 15, 2008 at 22:25:54

No so sure! I men that his ghost be deranged by the nearness of Sado..He was raised in France ( Sturgess )and there must have been something more un-puritan as the one who has always stayed in the America´s... Maybe.
But you see at his wit then you see he would have support the view of Salo..

The Lady´s Eve is cumulative. And its only weak point his the last third, where it goes for too long.
But how polished and sophisticated and witty his dialogs are, sharp and quick!
Sullivan´s Travel is more a political film, touched with the grace of a " good " communism, one of the few film that are in my first circle ( ! )...

But the best of ll is of course Lubitsch. He is the master, all the rest are just students and imitator with more or less luck ( now I go too far....)

Capra, McCarey, Ruggles, Cukor, Capra and so on with Chaplin as the emperator of his own repertoir.
One day we should make a list of our best film in all genres, without limit/
Just saw yesterday an old one I bought in France, last seen an eternity ago " Ruggles of red Cap " With a dancing Laughton ( he was so homosexual when he walk, later his ways were over looked from the camera, but there it did fit in his butler role.

No there are only traces of this past genius in modern time directors.
I refuse to look for more. I retreat in the past, the kids have no culture, no clue and a good memory is not enough for replacing genius.

No you are wrong. They speak an universal language, and don´t forget we have been raised on American and Italian films, 90 US and the rest to the macaroni...
Unfaithfully Yours I tried it again lately but I don´t like it.
Was not- Les carnets du Major Thompson- his last? Sturgess, I mean.

Anyway hours and hours of fun, wit and love.
Movies and books for ever thank you!

I am in the midst or re- seeing all this old Italian films of my youth. Uneven -



" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."