@tiamat271 I have so much love for this movie. I don't understand why it's less popular than "Mary Poppins", because truly it's so much cooler.
I mean- how badass is Eglantine? Here she is, a woman living on her own in the WW2 era like.... taking witchcraft lessons and totally excelling at them, riding around on a motorcycle that runs on some kind of experimental fuel she mixes up herself, growing her own food, using her magic skills to defeat Nazis. She is GOALS.
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I have a lot of thoughts about "Theatre of Blood". I'll stick to noting two major elements most critics missed because they were looking through a dismissive framing.
The class warfare elements went *whoosh* over most of their heads.
There are layers on layers. Edward Lionheart performing for an appreciative audience of derelicts and misfits in an abandoned theater is a poignant, poetic example that got missed by most critics too.
July 2nd- Someone flying
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Apprentice witch Eglantine (Angela Lansbury) on her way to help defend Britain from a Nazi invasion.
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July 1- Someone tells a joke
Fargo (1996)
Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
"Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?"
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June 29- Handshake
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Stanley
"The Cocoanuts", an adaptation of the George S. Kaufman musical, was the Marx Brothers' first sound film and is usually referred to as the first Marx Brothers movie (there was also an unreleased 1921 short, "Humor Risk", that is considered lost).
It's stagey/creaky in the way early sound films tend to be but it's still very funny.
