My Week in Movies: July 26 - August 1
Aug. 2nd, 2020 04:44 pmI played through Until Dawn again, unfortunately getting three characters killed (to be fair one of them is really hard to keep alive). I played Kingdom Hearts 3 up until a point, but there's a whole section that requires you to deftly maneuver your basically un-manueverable spaceship and I'm not doing that. Probably. We'll see where I am in a week.
We also finished Legend of Korra Season 4. What a good show.
Movies I've seen before are in italics.
Housebound (2014)
Dracula (1931)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
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sol_se found Housebound on Tubi and was really eager for me to see it, so we did. It's a neat New Zealand horror with comedic touches about a woman under house arrest, but the house might be haunted. There are multiple twists and it's very tightly edited and paced. I liked it a lot.
Then she wanted to see Dracula's Daughter, but we got about three minutes in before I remembered that it followed directly from Dracula (1931) which she had also never seen. So we watched that first. We watched the sequel the next day. Lugosi is excellent as the Count in Dracula, but you can see director Tod Browning basically giving up for large sections of the England-set portion of the film. Dracula's Daughter is dark and foreboding, but suffers from a lot of talking head scenes. It does have a couple scenes of (accidental, probably) lesbian desire.
I made a resolution to start using my Criterion Channel subscription more, as it's basically been on the wayside since sol_se moved in. So, Saturday morning before she woke up, I caught Blood on the Moon, part of their Western noir collection. I was mostly drawn to it because it's directed by Robert Wise. I don't know how noir it is, but it is a satisfying oater with a complex leading character (played by Robert Mitchum).
I Married a Witch was on sol_se's To Watch list, so we checked that out. I've seen it before, but I was happy to watch it again. Veronica Lake is great fun as the titular witch, weaving a spell on Fredric March (who is much too old for her). It's a delightful comedy.
Since we were already watching lesbian vampire movies, we absolutely had to go to Daughters of Darkness. Such a lush horror film, with some very weird death scenes. Delphine Seyrig is divine.
We also finished Legend of Korra Season 4. What a good show.
Movies I've seen before are in italics.
Housebound (2014)
Dracula (1931)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
sol_se found Housebound on Tubi and was really eager for me to see it, so we did. It's a neat New Zealand horror with comedic touches about a woman under house arrest, but the house might be haunted. There are multiple twists and it's very tightly edited and paced. I liked it a lot.Then she wanted to see Dracula's Daughter, but we got about three minutes in before I remembered that it followed directly from Dracula (1931) which she had also never seen. So we watched that first. We watched the sequel the next day. Lugosi is excellent as the Count in Dracula, but you can see director Tod Browning basically giving up for large sections of the England-set portion of the film. Dracula's Daughter is dark and foreboding, but suffers from a lot of talking head scenes. It does have a couple scenes of (accidental, probably) lesbian desire.
I made a resolution to start using my Criterion Channel subscription more, as it's basically been on the wayside since sol_se moved in. So, Saturday morning before she woke up, I caught Blood on the Moon, part of their Western noir collection. I was mostly drawn to it because it's directed by Robert Wise. I don't know how noir it is, but it is a satisfying oater with a complex leading character (played by Robert Mitchum).
I Married a Witch was on sol_se's To Watch list, so we checked that out. I've seen it before, but I was happy to watch it again. Veronica Lake is great fun as the titular witch, weaving a spell on Fredric March (who is much too old for her). It's a delightful comedy.
Since we were already watching lesbian vampire movies, we absolutely had to go to Daughters of Darkness. Such a lush horror film, with some very weird death scenes. Delphine Seyrig is divine.
