October 13, 2024… #movieoftheday is Irma la Douce (full movie) (1963). “Irma la Douce (French: "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic, comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond , based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort. The film stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine .” – more at Wikipedia Paris...the red-light district. A rookie police officer, Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), falls for a beautiful prostitute, Irma la Douce (Shirley MacLaine). Before long, Nestor discovers that the only way to keep Irma is to become her new pimp and the only way to accomplish that is to knock the block off the present pimp. As a result, Nestor becomes number 1 pimp on the block. It is not long, though, before he becomes insanely jealous of Irma's customers. Despairing, Nestor devises a way to keep Irma all for himself yet allow her to continue in her profession. When the plan backfires, only one person can help… but will she believe him? Lemmon's comic performance, under Wilder’s direction, has been compared to some of the great visual comedy of the silent comedians.
October 9, 2024… #movieoftheday is Battleship Potemkin (full movie) (1925). “Battleship Potemkin , sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin , is a 1925 Soviet silent, epic film produced by Mosfilm . Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein , it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers. “In 1958, the film was voted on Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. Battleship Potemkin is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the most recent Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2022, it was voted the fifty-fourth-greatest film of all time and it had been placed in the top 10 in many previous editions. “The film is set in June 1905; the protagonists of the film are the members of the crew of the Potemkin , a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy 's Black Sea Fleet . Eisenstein divided the plot into five acts, each with its own title: Act I: Men and Maggots; Act II: Drama on the Deck; Act III: A Dead Man Calls Out; Act IV: The Odessa Steps; Act V: One Against All.” – more at Wikipedia
October 8, 2024… #movieoftheday is Christine (full movie) (1983). “Christine (titled onscreen as John Carpenter's Christine ) is a 1983 American supernatural, horror film co-scored and directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon , John Stockwell , Alexandra Paul , Robert Prosky and Harry Dean Stanton . The film also features supporting performances from Roberts Blossom and Kelly Preston . “Adapted by Bill Phillips (who has a cameo as the boombox-toting junkyard worker) from Stephen King 's 1983 novel of the same name , the movie follows the changes in the lives of Arnie Cunningham, his friends, his family and his teenage enemies after he buys a classic red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine, a car that seems to have a mind of its own and a jealous, possessive personality which has a bad influence on Arnie. “Released in the United States on December 9, 1983, Christine received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $21 million at the box office. The film has since become a cult classic .” – more at Wikipedia
October 6, 2024… #movieoftheday is Ladies in Retirement (full movie) (1941). “Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 American film noir directed by Charles Vidor and starring Ida Lupino , Louis Hayward and Evelyn Keyes . It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures . Lupino and Hayward were married at the time. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy that starred Flora Robson in the lead role. “Ellen Creed, a proud spinster fallen on hard times, has spent the past two years as housekeeper and companion to her old friend Leonora Fiske, a wealthy retiree who in her youth had been a chorus girl "of easy virtue." Ellen receives a letter threatening that unless she can tame her two peculiar sisters, the police will be called and the sisters will be evicted from their lodgings for outlandish behavior. Leonora allows Ellen to invite her sisters to visit…” – more at Wikipedia