November 26 - December 2:
Where did this week go? We were so busy crafting and getting ready for our party that we didn't have a chance to watch much of anything. I'm pleased to say I don't think this week will be quite so crazed!
November 19 - November 25:
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
This is among my top one or two holiday favorites. Elizabeth Lane (Stanwyck) is a '40s version of Martha Stewart, writing about her perfect home life, perfect housekeeping and cooking skills, perfect husband and perfect baby for Smart Housekeeping magazine. In her case, however, it's all fiction. She's a single gal, living in a city apartment, and can't even boil an egg. This would all be fine if her publisher (who doesn't know it's all BS) hadn't decided to send a wounded sailor to spend Christmas in her bucolic paradise. Zany mayhem and much scrambling ensues.
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid
It's just not Christmastime until we've watched this goofy movie, in which Clark Griswold tries to give his family a "fun, old-fashioned family Christmas." By now we all know how well THAT turns out!
We also managed to squeeze in viewings of perennial Lounge favorites The Silencers and Glass-Bottom Boat on Thanksgiving Day!
November 12 - November 18:
North by Northwest (1959)
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Fabulous Hitchcock tale about an ad man who's mistaken for a government agent and kidnapped by some very determined and thick-headed baddies. There is nothing I don't love about this film: the stars, the locations, Eva Marie Saint's clothes, the NYC in the late-'50s locations, the chase across the faces of Mt. Rushmore. That's why they call them classics, I guess!
IT! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson
A different sort of classic. An astronaut is accused of killing his entire crew when a rescue ship finds he's the only survivor of their ill-fated mission to Mars. The rescuers learn the hard way that he's telling the truth when they discover that the monster that killed the first ship's crew is on their ship and hungry.
November 5 - November 11:
The Apple (1980)
Catherine Mary Stewart, George Gilmour
A so-utterly-awful-it's-fabulous disco musical in which young Bibi unwittingly sells her soul to the devil (known in this film as Mr. Boogalow, a top music agent and producer) to become a rock star. It's set far in the future (1994), where people dress in sparkly club attire, wear glittery eye shadow and drive cars that look like Homer Simpson's sedan with fins. Bibi finally manages to escape the evil Boogalow and rejoins her boyfriend, who now lives among hippies under a bridge. All is well until Boogalow comes to collect on her contract, but God (Mr. Topps, as he's known here) arrives in His celestial pimpmobile just in the nick of time and all the hippies ascend to heaven. It's astoundingly bad and I deeply thank MOTO Mike for the fabulous addition to our collection!
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