R.I.P. - Mr. Les Paul.
What more can we say?
Words fail….
The glorious Gloria Grahame gets her due on the indispensable Turner Classic Movies this Thursday, August 13th. As part of the channel’s “Summer Under The Stars” series - which highlights the films of a particular movie star each day this month - TCM will screen 24 hours of films featuring the gorgeous Gloria. While we here at MR HQ are a tad stung that our personal favorite GG flick - the blackly sublime, film noir “Sudden Fear” - isn’t on the menu, there are more than enough masterpieces for the viewer to savor including Gloria’s Oscar winning turn in Vincent Minnelli’s “The Bad and The Beautiful”, Nicholas Ray’s “In A Lonely Place” and Fritz Lang’s “The Big Heat”. Watch and see why Gloria was the ultimate bad blonde - and why she inspired the song “Gloria Grahame” as featured on our new LP, Villainess. (And make sure to check out some of the other entries in the Summer Under The Stars series - it has been exquisitely curated, bypassing some more obvious screen icons in favor of some lessor known but no less deserving of attention actors like Dirk Bogarde, Ida Lupino, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman and Claire Bloom. Click the photo of the lady for more details.)
How incredible is Frances Faye… It’s hard to really get across how fabulous she was but if you’re in any doubt, check out ‘In Frenzy’ or ‘Caught in the Act’ - fantastic albums. Read more here.
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Last night I saw Nicholas Ray’s masterpiece of film noir IN A LONELY PLACE - in a 35mm print on a real movie screen @ The Film Forum in NYC.
If this reissue rumbles through your neck of the woods, make sure you see it!
It may be Bogart’s greatest/most disturbing role, and Gloria Grahame will break your heart into tiny little pieces.
(This film was likewise the primary inspiration for our song “Gloria Grahame” on our new LP.)
a moment of glamour - part of a series….
the glorious Romy Schneider
How fabulous is the new Criterion edition of L’année dernière à Marienbad?
Pretty darn fabulous!!!
The new transfer is outstanding!
The extras are fascinating!
This is glamour - in the truest, most occult sense.
The film is a spell consisting of equal parts luxury and dread.
(Cosmic dread…after my latest viewing I found the movie is almost Lovecraftian in its sense of dislocation and other worldliness.)
And the talisman for this magic is the divine Delphine Seyrig….
Can’t wait for the Criterion’s edition of Repulsion later this month!
The Walker Brothers box set has got me on another Scott Walker jag. I find myself obsessively listening to the Scott Walker tracks on Niteflights - particularly the title track and ‘The Electrician’. Always coming back to you!
