First Impressions : Middle of the Night (1959)

I relish the moments when you stumble across a film you had never heard of and it ends up becoming a new favorite. Well that's just what happened to me recently. I found myself telling everyone after the credits ended that they needed to see this film called MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. I was basically …

First Impressions : Shampoo (1975)

  ( I always give the name of the each actress so it doesn't create confusion.)   Doesn’t everyone spend Thanksgiving night watching SHAMPOO (1975) ? It’s one of those films that I had seen advertisements and quick mentions of but had never taken the time to sit down and watch until 10pm on Thanksgiving …

First Impressions : An Unmarried Woman (1978)

Paul Mazursky is becoming a screenwriter at the very top of my list. Okay, I'm going to give him the title of my favorite. When I had finished just a quarter of his film, An Unmarried Woman, I instantly felt a surge of excitement that only great screenwriting can do to me. He writes in a way …

EYES WIDE OPEN : COMING HOME (1978)

COMING HOME (1978) – This is a film that I had heard about for years, and one that I wasn’t too interested in seeing. This year, I have been actively making a point to get out of my comfort zone and watch films from actors or directors that I initially wouldn’t turn to. COMING HOME …

Joanne Woodward’s second time around. SYBIL (1976)

I have been known to watch HEAVY dramas at a very young age and then come back to them a couple years later to rediscover new found glances, words, and camera movements that I had previously overlooked, or may have been too young to realize at the time. This past week the film, THE THREE …

William Holden in NETWORK (1976)

 My thoughts on William Holden in NETWORK (1976) It’s very special to be able to relieve a moment where an artist and in this case an actor and a piece of written material fuse together at the perfect moment in time to create a monumental moment on screen. This is what magically happened to William Holden …

First Impressions : Rafter Romance (1933)

I had been hearing about Rafter Romance from fellow old movie fans since they played it at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Tell me I'm going to see a pre-code film and I instantly get excited. One because the scripts were much fresher, spunkier, and honest at this time in the early 30s and …

First Impressions : Gaslight (1944)

"If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of …

First Impressions : Bisset & Bergen in Rich and Famous (1981)

" I have been thinking a lot about us. We are terrific. We have accomplished one hell of a lot in one lifetime. " - Rich & Famous  Sometimes it takes us years to finally see that film that we remember as a blurred image from years back. I have always been a fan of …