Fancy Movie Time #1: Arsenic and Old Lace
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For our premiere episode, just in time for Halloween, we're covering Frank Capra's bloodthirsty romp: Arsenic and Old Lace. It's got murder, intrigue, and the greatest performance Carey Grant ever hated.
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Comments
When I was in this play in high school, our set designer was too lazy to build a light switch, so we had characters adjust the lights with a 'clapper'
Bruce
2022-11-04 06:19:27 +0000 UTCYou had us at "Carey Grant's ass".
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2022-11-02 02:51:34 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Carey Grant's ass, North By Northwest would be an excellent film for the series
By Tove!
2022-11-02 02:44:40 +0000 UTCYou can watch it here! https://youtu.be/pceCWrRj0fw It was a really fun day that might also be the scariest thing I've ever done.
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2022-10-31 01:36:10 +0000 UTCWe promised they would be fancier, not better.
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2022-10-31 01:31:50 +0000 UTCWhen my college did this play someone’s phone went off in the middle and the girl playing Abby looks straight up and said “Jesus, is that you?“ The audience went nuts! Thank you for reminding me of one of my favorite things. My grandparents went to Niagara Falls when they got married in the 1950s, so this tracks. I want to hear more about you playing Abraham Lincoln for the history channel (or was that a joke?) What is that like for those actors that reenact parts as historians explain it?
Elizabeth Power
2022-10-31 01:06:19 +0000 UTCRegarding Niagara Falls, I think it’s kind of the equivalent of those British seaside towns that used to be much more happening before the airlines made it easier for the working class to go to Spain instead. (Niagara Falls is also like Atlantic City in this regard.) So for the West Coast, equivalents might include… Santa Barbara? Or, more recently, those weird palatial seaside hotels in Huntington Beach? Pasadena also used to be a vacation town in the prewar era, too.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-30 15:18:40 +0000 UTCAnother movie that should be in the Criterion Collection but isn’t (probably because the studios rightly wish it had never been made) is “Myra Breckinridge” (1970), a movie so transphobic Gore Vidal disowned it lol. Every second of the movie is “wtf am I watching”, and gloriously so. AFAIK it isn’t available for streaming legally anywhere online. It used to be on YouTube but seems to have taken down (though there’s still a Spanish dub available), and now it seems to be on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/myra-breckinridge-1970 (Alternatively I can send you a sharing link for the copy I downloaded myself from YouTube a year or so ago.) What made me think of “Myra Breckinridge” is that the main character is an insufferable film snob, except it’s 1970, and she’s talking about how movies were so much better thirty years prior (when the actress herself is only thirty years old). Also the pre-transition version of the character is played by notorious piece of shit real-life film critic Rex Reed, who despite to modern eyes coming across as homophobic and gay is apparently asexual. Anyway you simply must watch “Myra Breckinridge”.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-30 14:54:59 +0000 UTCTo be clear, the only way a prospector gets fancy is if he drinks your milkshake.
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-30 14:12:44 +0000 UTC“Last Year at Marienbad” is the sort of fancy movie I didn’t get when I was younger but now get far too well…
Elsie Hupp
2022-10-30 00:58:09 +0000 UTCI find Fancy Brian and Fancy AJ only marginally better than their Worst of all Possible counterparts
Jimmy McMillan
2022-10-29 23:54:05 +0000 UTCI would love to hear Brian and A.J.’s take on a very similar Criterion film, All About Eve, and maybe the polar opposite in terms of Criterion films, Stalker. Both exceptionally fancy movies
Elah
2022-10-29 16:31:14 +0000 UTCWe're still working out profit sharing with A.J.'s mom for what will certainly be our best-selling shirt.
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2022-10-29 15:58:26 +0000 UTCThe next guest on FMT will be H.A. Futterman to explain all the footage of fishtanks and soothing music in our childhood viewings of "Spartacus."
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2022-10-29 15:54:57 +0000 UTCThe fact that both Brian and A.J.’s moms literally did the “Relax-O-Vision” bit from freakazoid
Elah
2022-10-29 15:27:01 +0000 UTCI wonder if, for a bit, enough people unsubcribed but the number both dipped and then bounced back to 300, if the boys would honor a 300 sub special two
Kinsey M
2022-10-29 09:22:10 +0000 UTC😡
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2022-10-29 08:05:09 +0000 UTC"Who cares, he's a horse" shirts when?
Nathan Woods
2022-10-29 02:39:32 +0000 UTCUnsubscribed
Silverbear909
2022-10-29 02:32:44 +0000 UTC
