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Movie Quote of the Month

February 2012

“Woman’s picture!” said Jaffee.  They said to me, ‘Do you mind that you’re known for writing women’s books?’ I said, ‘Why because women write about stupid things like relationships, and men write about really important things like killing?’ You know, that was their attitude.”

“The Lipstick Jungle” by Laura Jacobs p 105-126 from Vanity Fair March 2004, in Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood edited by Graydon Carter:

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NEW: January 27:

La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) (1960) Written and directed by Federico Fellini.  Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimeé (174 min) New 35mm print. (3 stills).

NEW: January 20:

The Best of Everything (1958) Directed by Jean Negulesco. Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Joan Crawford (121 min). (5 stills).

NEW: January 13:

Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Directed by Alain Resnais. Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff (94 min).(5 stills)

NEW: January 6:

The Apartment (1960) Written and Directed by Billy Wilder.  Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray (125 min).

Reviews of 2011 Hindi films conclude with Don 2, + Desi Boyz, Rockstar, Ra.One, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, etc.

NEW: December 30:

Here is the schedule for the 2012 Winter Spring Film Series, "Mad About Mad Men."

NEW: November 18:

Spellbound (1945) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll (111 min).(10 stills)

NEW: November 11:

Moontide (1942) Directed by Archie Mayo and Fritz Lang.  Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell (94 min) (5 stills)

NEW: October 14:

Donkey Skin (Peau D’Ane) (1970) Written and Directed by Jacques Demy.  Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig (100 min). In French with English subtitles.

NEW: September 30:

L’Age D’Or (The Golden Age) (1930) Directed by Luis Buñuel.  Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst (60 min).

 

NEW: September 16:

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) Written and directed by Alfred Lewin.  Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick (122 min).

Here is the schedule of the Fall 2011 Film Series: Surrealism and Cinema

NEW: May 13:

Funny Face (1957) Directed by Stanley Donen. Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson (103 min).(6 stills).

NEW: May 7:

Rebecca (1940) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson. (130 min).(6 stills).

NEW: April 30:

You'll Find Out (1940) Directed by David Butler. Kay Kyser and his Orchestra, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre (97 min). (3 stills, one poster, 2 paper dolls).

(Untitled) (2009) Directed by Jonathan Parker. Adam Goldberg, Marley Shelton, Zac Orth, Lucy Punch (96 min).

Photo from Boeing Boeing added to Garam Masala review.

NEW: April 8:

Downtown 81 (2001) Directed by Edo Bertoglio. Jean Michel Basquiat, Fab Five Freddy, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, Deborah Harry (72 min).

NEW: March 31:

Scarlet Street (1945) Directed by Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea (103 min).

NEW: March 18:

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner (96 min). (3 fan magazine photos, 1 still).

NEW: March 11:

Sunny Side Up (1929) Directed by David Butler. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Sharon Lynn, Frank Richardson, Marjorie White, El Brendel (120 min) (6 stills).

NEW: March 4:

Mantrap (1926) Directed by Victor Fleming. Clara Bow, Ernest Torrence, Percy Marmot (86 min) (4 stills).

2011 Spring Film Series at the North Carolina Museum of Art