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litlover12Get ready for romance! And comedy, and heartbreak, and some of the best drunk scenes of all time.
6. The Philadelphia Story (1940; dir. George Cukor; starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart)
Go back and read that again: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Has there ever been a more stellar cast? I think not! The script is a little stilted at times, and some of its messages uncomfortably dated -- whenever Hepburn's father starts going on about how a good daughter's love can keep a father from philandering, honestly, I just want to knock him cold. And yet, watching these brilliant actors play off each other -- and while they were all still pretty young! -- is such a delight that I never get tired of watching it, jackass fathers notwithstanding.
I wanted to post the scene where a very drunk Stewart shows up on Grant's doorstep. It's one of the funniest scenes ever. (There's a reason Stewart won the Oscar for this role, and it's not just because they were trying to make up for not giving him the Oscar for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Although he should have won that one too.) But you wouldn't get to see anything of Kate that way. So here are the three of them, plus Hepburn's character's fiance, in a hilariously awkward situation. The way Jimmy says his last line here never fails to crack me up.
Alas, it won't embed, so here's a link. Make sure you go and watch it.
5. Casablanca (1942; dir. Michael Curtiz; starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid)
There's a reason this film keeps showing on best-of lists: because it's fantastic. It's got everything: tragic love, noble self-sacrifice, good triumphing over evil, suspense, wit, heartache, wonderful performances, Claude Rains. (There was a time, as I think I've remarked before, when it was nearly impossible to make a great film without Claude Rains.) And all those wonderful lines -- so many wonderful lines. There's an old joke about how Hamlet is made up entirely of quotations; well, you could say the same of Casablanca. (Even if many of them are misquotations. As you'll notice in the clip, Bergman does NOT say, "Play it again, Sam.") Truly, if you see no other film on this list, you should see this one. It's just one of those films that everyone should see.
And another clip that won't embed. Just plain mean, I call it. (Again, this is not my favorite scene -- my favorite scene is Rains proclaiming, "I'm shocked, SHOCKED!" which I tend to quote in real life until everyone around me is sick and tired of it. But this scene is more famous, and I think it gives you a better idea of the film.)
Tomorrow: Notorious and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
6. The Philadelphia Story (1940; dir. George Cukor; starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart)
Go back and read that again: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Has there ever been a more stellar cast? I think not! The script is a little stilted at times, and some of its messages uncomfortably dated -- whenever Hepburn's father starts going on about how a good daughter's love can keep a father from philandering, honestly, I just want to knock him cold. And yet, watching these brilliant actors play off each other -- and while they were all still pretty young! -- is such a delight that I never get tired of watching it, jackass fathers notwithstanding.
I wanted to post the scene where a very drunk Stewart shows up on Grant's doorstep. It's one of the funniest scenes ever. (There's a reason Stewart won the Oscar for this role, and it's not just because they were trying to make up for not giving him the Oscar for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Although he should have won that one too.) But you wouldn't get to see anything of Kate that way. So here are the three of them, plus Hepburn's character's fiance, in a hilariously awkward situation. The way Jimmy says his last line here never fails to crack me up.
Alas, it won't embed, so here's a link. Make sure you go and watch it.
5. Casablanca (1942; dir. Michael Curtiz; starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid)
There's a reason this film keeps showing on best-of lists: because it's fantastic. It's got everything: tragic love, noble self-sacrifice, good triumphing over evil, suspense, wit, heartache, wonderful performances, Claude Rains. (There was a time, as I think I've remarked before, when it was nearly impossible to make a great film without Claude Rains.) And all those wonderful lines -- so many wonderful lines. There's an old joke about how Hamlet is made up entirely of quotations; well, you could say the same of Casablanca. (Even if many of them are misquotations. As you'll notice in the clip, Bergman does NOT say, "Play it again, Sam.") Truly, if you see no other film on this list, you should see this one. It's just one of those films that everyone should see.
And another clip that won't embed. Just plain mean, I call it. (Again, this is not my favorite scene -- my favorite scene is Rains proclaiming, "I'm shocked, SHOCKED!" which I tend to quote in real life until everyone around me is sick and tired of it. But this scene is more famous, and I think it gives you a better idea of the film.)
Tomorrow: Notorious and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Date: 2011-04-01 03:33 am (UTC)