#NowWatching The Naked Island (1960, Japan) with Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka. A "man vs Nature" story: a family of 4 are the only inhabitants of a desert island in the Japan archipelago. They have to row to another island to get water.
#NowWatching 5 Fingers (1952) with James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie. During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
#NowWatching Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974, Japan) with Meiko Kaji, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki. To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents.
I just turned my clocks forward. and now it's time for bed.
#BanDaylightSavings
#NowWatching Lady Snowblood (1973, Japan) with Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon. A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family. Rampant with inventive violence; a major influence for Kill Bill.
It was 65F yesterday afternoon, and it's snowing this morning. #MarchMadness
Not much going on in the summer of '69: Moon landing, Manson murders, Stonewall, Chappaquiddick, Woodstock, and the continuing Vietnam mess. Other than that, pretty dull time. #TCMParty
#NowWatching The Clairvoyant (1935, aka The Evil Mind) with Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Mary Clare. A fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...
#NowWatching Heartbeat (1946) with Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou. In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.
#NowWatching Too Late For Tears (1949) with Lizabeth Scott. Don DeFore, Dan Duryea. Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
It had its moments! Worth watching (once)
#NowWatching Carnival Story (1954) with Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran. An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex and melodrama.
You're trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you?
#NowWatching A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Taiwan) with Chang Chen, Lisa Yang. A 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of a gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax. At 4 hrs long, may have to finish this one tomorrow!
The price of a dozen eggs is really getting high
Subject of the film Woman In Gold (2015) with Helen Mirren.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#NowWatching Paris Belongs To Us (1961, France) with Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost. The indiscreet Terry, mistress of an American journalist, revealed to her lovers, Juan and Gérard, something they should never have known.
I grew up in OR, and it is always fun to hear it referenced in films
#NowWatching I Cover the Waterfront (1933) with Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence. An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
#DarkShandows ep 886, airing November 17, 1969. Well, this is an odd one. Barnabas, who had previously time-travelled to 1897 help save David Collins in 1969, has now gone from 1897 back to 1795 (again) in order to save Josette. This fails, as he runs into the Leviathans in the woods.
For Sale: 58 acres in Florida, zoned for nudism. (Actually, this story might make a good movie)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
#NowWatching Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) with Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert.A successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
#NowWatching The Joyless Street (1925, Germany) with Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Werner Krauss. Yes, I watched this a week ago, but it was a public domain copy slashed to 1 hour long. I found the most complete copy (2.5 hours) through my library system. (still missing 20 min).
I like when you give your cat a scritch to show them you care, and they just sort of look at you, and then proceed to clean off the fur that you just touched.
#NowWatching Dishonored Lady (1947) with Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, Natalie Schafer. An editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to work pressures and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start afresh with a different name/job.
I took the bait in today's Connections
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Puzzle #989
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#NowWatching Hell's House (1932) with Pat O'Brien, Bette Davis, Charlie Grapewin. Jimmy refuses to implicate a bootlegger friend, and is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
Found lunch money in the parking lot of my grocery store. Hope they didn't need it.
#NowWatching The Bigamist (1953) with Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund O'Brien, Edmund Gwenn. O'Brien is sleeping with Fontaine AND Lupino, and somehow that is a bad thing. Ida Lupino directed.
