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Follow the Fleet (1936)
Perfection on screen.
Let's Face the Music and Dance is probably the greatest performance of the greatest pair of dancers in screen history! It is perfect! It has story, it has style, it has grace and beauty. The black and white contrast, the flowing lines, the movement of the costumes, can't be improved. After all these years, it just gets better, a true work of art! An experience!
Far from Heaven (2002)
Thought-provoking film on many levels
This film opens the door to some very interesting observations about our society and how much it has changed in a relatively short period of time - less than fifty years. Although it is clear that the film-makers are suggesting that the "good old days" weren't so good (prejudice, narrow-mindedness, duplicity, artificiality, etc.), there is also the irony here that propriety and civility never had it better, even though the shadow of insincerity hovered always in the background and sometimes closer. These contrasting themes are underscored by the sheer beauty of the settings, the clothes, and the prinicple characters in the film as juxtaposed with the unhappy progress in the unfolding events of the story. Julianne Moore's character is definitely the focus of the story, even though the main victims of society's attitudes are the two male characters. Of course, though not directly affected as they are, she is obviously very much a victim, as well, and perhaps that is the point: When some of us suffer unfairly, we all suffer! (We're in this thing together.)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
a film for film-lovers
This movie is full of surprises, not the least is the casting. (Was that "Toto" as "one of the boys"?) So many of the cast are in our movie memory banks. It's a well-acted, well-scripted film that can be enjoyed by the whole family.