Queerty pointed out that there’s never really been a good film version of the play. I watched the 1958 movie last year, and… I mean, I get their point: The script doesn’t make a lick of sense. Because they had to cut out all the bits about Paul Newman’s character being gay.

But if you overlook that little detail, it’s pretty spiffy.

So I’m watching the 1984 version they recommend.

This is with Jessica Lange (yay) and Tommy Lee Jones (uhm) from a made-for-TV production (er).

Hm… Oh, it’s from Showtime. Well that’s hardly TV at all.

Lange is fabulous.

This is really good! Thank you Queerty. It really leans into the theatrical qualities — not trying to go for a “tv realism” thing at all, but is filmed theatre, as it should be.

The casting of the no-neck monsters is pretty odd — why didn’t they get fat kids?

I’m surprised by how good Jones is. He totally avoids all the showboating and plays Brick way toned down. It’s a great contrast to all the other actors who are taking the suthen thing to 11.

This isn’t perfect, but it’s thrilling to watch.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Jack Hofsiss. 1984. ⚅

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I’m streaming these movies in this blog series because… I want to experience the pain people experience when trying to watch movies.

So this is from Youtube… from a VHS tape, apparently?

I’ve never seen any of Paul Morrissey’s movies for Andy Warhol… but I thought it was gonna be a lot weirder than this?

This (so far) looks like a totally normal mid-70s horror movie? A sort of mid-Europe kind of thing? There used to be a lot of them around.

OK… now it’s… not… so typical.

This is quite amusing.

Eek.

Oh yeah, this was part of the 70s gore thing? I’ve seen virtually none of those movies, because… Well, I used to love horror movies, but none of the 70s gore movies were available at the time… and then I lost interest in horror, so it never happened.

Did I kvetch about Youtube Premium yet? I signed up because I wanted to be able to buy movies and stuff… but… there’s no way to actually search for movies to buy! If you search for “avengers” you get this:

I.e., a hodge podge of normal youtube content and movies. And in that search one of the movies actually landed first, which is unusual…

It’s like Google hates their customers.

This is the weirdest sex scene ever. She’s giving the area close to his arm pits a blow job?

Heh heh.

Flesh for Frankenstein. Paul Morrissey. 1973. ☐ ⚀ ⚁ ⚂ ⚃ ⚄ ⚅

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Hm:

At Selznick’s insistence, the film faithfully adapts the plot of du Maurier’s novel Rebecca.

I just googled because I was wondering why it’s oddly slow-paced (for a Hitch movie).

*Hssszzz*

It’s picking up now.

Ah:

Selznick relished the post-production process; he personally edited the footage, laid in Franz Waxman’s score

I thought the music was really overbearing for a Hitchcock movie.

There’s a bunch of striking scenes here, but it’s like… at least… half an hour too long — scenes where nothing of interest is happening.

Are those the scenes that Selznick re-shot?

Hitchcock edited the film “in camera” (shooting only what he wanted to see in the final film) to restrict the producer’s power to re-edit the picture.[3] But Selznick relished the post-production process; he personally edited the footage, laid in Franz Waxman’s score, and supervised retakes and extensive re-recording of the dialogue of Sanders, Bates and Fontaine. Rewrites and reshooting were called for after a rough cut was previewed on December 26, 1939.

Such beach cottage.

So much moustache.

Rebecca. Alfred Hitchcock. 1940. ⚂

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