#delmer daves
Some Favorite Films Noir:
Nightfall (1957, Jacques Tourneur; Anne Bancroft and Aldo Ray pictured)
3:10 to Yuma (1957, Delmer Daves; Glenn Ford and Van Heflin pictured)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Billy Wilder; Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton pictured)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger; Lee Remick, Eve Arden, and James Stewart pictured)
The Crimson Kimono (1959, Samuel Fuller; Victoria Shaw and James Shigeta pictured)
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Mildred Dunnock-James Francisca “Una mujer espera” (Youngblood Hawke) 1964, de Delmer Daves.
Memorable Viewing from 2020
Betty Tells Her Story (Liane Brandon, 1972)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman, 2020)
Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode (Nick Abrahams & Jeremy Deller, 2008)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, 2019)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)
Love Is the Message, the Message is Death (Arthur Jafa, 2016)
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves, 1959)
In My Room (Mati Diop, 2020)
I didn’t see many movies in this weird year - not by my usual standards, anyway - but I still wanted to record some kind of snapshot of my viewing year. Obviously I didn’t catch much of anything theatrically. I saw Little Women at an MJR with my wife and daughter on January 1st, Uncut Gems a week later, and Varda by Agnès at the Detroit Film Theatre in late January. Just days before things started closing, I passed an hour in the cafe at the Maple Theater, where Portrait of a Lady on Fire was playing, and hoped I’d get back there to see the film before it left (I didn’t).
Also memorable, my siblings and I thoroughly debriefed Bill & Ted Face the Music over a Zoom call, having previously planned to see that together on a trip out west. Then there’s the Parasite Blu-ray that, due to the temporary closure of the public library, sat beside my television for something like four months, long enough that I’d stop noticing it. Movie-adjacent (what’s the difference?), I snuck in episodes of The History of the Seattle MarinersandLast Dance, sometimes in 15-minute chunks when I wouldn’t in the way / taxing the broadband. I loved both. And if I’m recapping 2020 accurately, I can’t overlook the three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender that my daughter and I watched (first time) Saturday mornings over roughly six months.
Anyway, we’ve all got such stories this year. These are mine…
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