Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)
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Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)
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📽️ OPERATION MAD BALL - Richard Quine -(1957) - ★★★⭑
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A fast-paced war comedy full of rhythm and extravagance. Sharp, witty dialogue and biting humor with great psychological finesse and plenty of unpredictability.
#film #americanfilm #JackLemmon #cinema #americanmovie #movie #movies #filmphotography #RichardQuine
LE BAL DES CINGLÉS - Richard Quine - 1957 - ★★★⭑
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Une comédie de guerre enlevée plein de rythme et d’extravagance. Des dialogues ciselés et piquants, un humour décapant d’une grande finesse psychologique qui ne manque pas d’imprévisibilité.
#film #microcritique #JackLemmon #cinema #lebaldescinglés #RichardQuine #cinemastodon #cine
– I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… “What would you say if I told you I was a witch?”
#OnThisDate, March 12, Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958) is the #FilmDuJour. #RichardQuine #USA #witches #witchcraft #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #1950s ★★½
Just watched "Drive a Crooked Road" and while I was skeptical about Mickey Rooney in a film noir written by Blake Edwards I have to say that I think it ended up being the best noir I've seen the last couple of years.
https://letterboxd.com/jannefantastic/film/drive-a-crooked-road/
#FilmNoir #cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #Noirvember #DriveACrookedRoad #MickeyRooney #DianneFoster #KevinMcCarthy #BlakeEdwards #RichardQuine
The thought of Mickey Rooney in a film noir written by Blake Edwards made me equally giggly as intrigued. I had no idea what I would get and that is always fun. And since I knew nothing about it I thought the film started with a visual gag: We get a closeup of Rooney in a helmet on some kind of race track and I, in my lonesome, blurted out: "OF COURSE he plays a jockey!"... and then we get to see he is driving a race car. I don't KNOW if it was intentional, I doubt it, but it
#HappyBirthday #Hollywood #actress #KimNovak
The star of #AlfredHitchcock's #VERTIGO & #JoshuaLogan's #Oscar-nominated #PICNIC is turning 90 today.
A couple more #movies:
She also did great work in the first half of #RichardQuine's #BellBookAndCandle, as a #NewYork witch seducing #JamesStewart.
And she's very funny in #MarkRobson's #PHFFFT, opposite #JackLemmon.
Some directors to “get” me:
#PeterBogdanovich
#RogerCorman
#AlfredHitchcock
#RichardQuine
#MartinScorsese
#BillyWilder
#JohnCassavetes
#MelBrooks
#ElaineMay