The Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All twenty JLM films rated to coincide with a retrospective at the Criterion Collection. This includes his masterpiece “All About Eve”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 30, 2022 | Criterion Collection, Hitchcock and other great movie directors, TV / Streaming |
All twenty JLM films rated to coincide with a retrospective at the Criterion Collection. This includes his masterpiece “All About Eve”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 8, 2023 | Hitchcock and other great movie directors |
For almost sixty years he was the ONLY director whose film WON Best Picture (Grand Hotel 1932) but he was NOT nominated for Best Director.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 16, 2021 | Classic Film Noir, Film Noir, Genres (Action - Music Scene) |
The amazing gift of “Mildred Pierce” is that, like “Baby Jane”, it plays as drama and camp simultaneously with no dichotomy involved.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 21, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, B+, Comedy, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Hitchcock and other great movie directors, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated, Western |
Hume Cronyn and John Randolph are our happy and well-adjusted gay couple. Yes, they fight and bicker all the time. However, they are clearly madly in love with each other.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Comedy, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Both of Hollywood’s grande dames Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are in top form with Davis getting the showier role as faded child star Baby Jane Hudson.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Hitchcock and other great movie directors, Masterpieces, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Bette Davis in her greatest role with some of the best lines ever written. Both Addison and Eve are gay and he blackmails her.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Comedy, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming |
Monty Wooley delights as the impossibly pompous Sheridan Whiteside in William Keighley’s wonderful adaptation of the Kauffman/Hart play.
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