Oh yes!! The funhouse sequence was a real treat. Surely that couldn’t have been the first film to utilize a hall of mirrors for such a scene, could it?
Edit- no. There was a mirror maze sequence in the 1928 Chaplin film Circus
The crowd was also quite amused at Welles and Hayworth just commandeering the horse and carriage, and then just sort of leaving it parked on a random street.
surely there must be antecedents? but not much is coming to mind. i believe Chaplin did something with it in The Circus. i’m surprised Hitchcock didn’t play around with the idea. there’s a great biography of Welles by Simon Callow that discusses the genesis of the movie at length. it’s been so long, i need to re-read it.
I found the same info just before you posted. 
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Shout TV has a bunch of channels dedicated to 90s shows, including one that shows MST3K all. day. long.
Yeah, I know. Awesome 
MARLOW MURDER CLUB on PBS (Masterpiece) is lovey in exactly the way you’d expect for the premise. A nice, light watch.
Yes! I’m watching seasons 1-5 of Great British Bake Off. Don’t sleep on Roku!
The very slow, very strange Austrian film Des Teufels Bad/The Devil’s Bath. Stunningly shot, but a little too weird for my taste.
Blitz on Appletv wasn’t the story I expected but enjoyable.
This has nothing to do with Noirvember, which is continuing this Sunday with Experiment in Terror.
November (2017) - dir. Rainer Sarnet
This is a strange film, and hard to classify in terms of genre. It nominally reads like an Estonian folk tale, with maybe a touch of horror thrown in, but it’s based on the novel Rehehpapp ekh November by Andrus Kivirähk . This means there’s more than a single thing going on here. There’s decidedly social/political themes at work, religious satire, and a particularly ’earthy’ and occasionally outright crude sense of humor.
The plot concerns a peasant girl who loves another boy from the village, but he is in love with the baron’s daughter. Meanwhile, the servants who work at the Baron’s residence are slowly robbing the estate of its valuables and the Baron’s daughter develops a sleepwalking habit. The villagers construct creatures of sticks and tools called kratts and bring them to life by buying souls from the devil at the crossroads.
Like I said, there’s a lot of ideas going on. All of them are interesting, but they don’t always sit well beside one another.
What DOES sit incredibly well is the gorgeous black and white cinematography. Scenes are lit for maximum mood with an eye for composition that’s unfailingly excellent. There are moments of really transcendent beauty, like during an All Souls Night when the villagers’ dead ancestors walk out of the mist to visit with their loved ones and have a meal.
This is an odd duck of a film, hard to categorize but with an undoubted appeal. It’s very much worth seeking out.
I approved of this. And I’m loving the Sopranos parallels. Also the Catwoman shout out, and the Batman shoutout.
I want to rewatch The Sopranos at some point. Still trying to get my PIC on board for that.
As for the shout-outs, I only caught the latter, which was rather obvious, even to someone like me who has almost zero knowledge of the batsphere and its characters.
In her last scene, Sophia gets a letter from her “half sister Selena Kyle.” Who is Catwoman’s alter ego.
Ah. Yeah, I would’ve never known that. As I said, comic books are not my thang, so — muchas for 'splaining.
Comic books are not my thing either. But this is. Origin stories all over the place!
First two epis of Bad Sisters are promising, although the main attraction for me was Claes Bang’s deliciously horrifying human POE JP in the first one.
Ve shall see how things continue.
Never watched that, either. I did like The Joker.
I bet you would like it. It’s very campy. And Paul Reubens plays the Penguin’s dad.
Oooh! Well if that ain’t a ringing endorsement! I shall check it oot.
Just binge-watched 8 episodes of the new Netflix series “A Man On The Inside”. Created by Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place), starring Ted Danson, and based on the documentary “The Mole Agent”. On the surface it’s about a retired professor trying to solve a case of a missing ruby necklace in a retirement home (set in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of SF), but to this recent retiree it feels to me to be a meditation on getting older and how to deal with losing loved ones to Alzheimer’s. Well done in the usual Schur touch of gentleness, warmth and kindness (Which I can use in these times). Not laugh out loud funny to me, but immensely enjoyable all the same. Also, great to see Sally Struthers in this.
I’m about halfway through. I don’t really care about the central mystery or case, it’s more of a ‘hang’ show; Danson and the whole cast are great. bonus for me is that it is filmed in San Francisco.
