So many movies

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, David wrote:

> stacia RemoveThis @xmission.com (Glitter Ninja) wrote:
>
> >... so little time!
> >
> >I'm at a point right now where I can't keep up with all the movies I want
> >to see. Are you all in a perpetual state of anxiety, that you'll die with
> >some great movie unwatched? I am. But it may be the wine.
>
> I'm in the middle of the Edgar G. Ulmer Collection on DVD. I just saw
> "Strange Woman."

Wasn't that one good? Hedy....

I mean, it's not a *great* film, but it works on a lot of levels in terms
of its cast, setting and moments of sensuality. All-Day Entertainment
deserve some sort of medal for putting that one out on DVD.

swac
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Stephen Cooke wrote:

>Wasn't that one good? Hedy....
>
>I mean, it's not a *great* film, but it works on a lot of levels in terms
>of its cast, setting and moments of sensuality. All-Day Entertainment
>deserve some sort of medal for putting that one out on DVD.

It's tremendously entertaining, mostly because of the sadism that runs
through it (I love it when the little girl pushes her sissy boyfriend
off the bridge to drown, all the while having a crush on him). This is
one instance in which an actress's incompetence in her craft is
actually an advantage. When those superficially conflicting emotions
careen across that gorgeous woman's face with no rhyme or reason
(sometimes in mid-sentence), it gives the sadism that mercurial,
dingaling quality it should have more often in movies. I'm sick of
Nazis! Alongside the incomprehensible Hedy, George Sanders as a
lumberjack (which otherwise might have been one of the great howling
examples of miscasting) is as nothing.
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