Director of the Month Project

It's cool if you don't want to join but seeing one from Von Sternberg is not a requirement. Sean had seen none from Rossellini and hasn't seen any from Von Sternberg either, this is for getting better acquainted with directors.

Thanks for the invite. I'm not familiar with Von Sternberg, but his name sounds familiar. I'll have to look him up, but I think he may have directed an early Cary Grant movie, (but that's just a guess).

I'll look him up when I get a chance and think about it after I get an idea about his type of movies.

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Cool, you've got plenty of time to decide it won't be until November.

Guess this is the Cary Grant film - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_Venus

It was his fifth film.

Yes, that's probably the movie. I'm not as familiar with Grant's very early movies as I am with his later movies, but I recently bought a DVD box set of his 1930s movies, so I can see all of them. (I've seen most of them on TCM, but I think I've missed a few.)

Damn the guy directed a Japanese film, that's so weird to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatahan_(film)

Waiting until November is a good plan, makes sense to me.

Thanks for the invite and anytime you do one of these and you need another person just give me a shout out, most likely I would be up for it. This should be fun

I haven't seen The Shanghai Gesture, though I've wanted to. Have you seen it?

Blonde Venus is a memorable movie and often comes up in topics of Pre-Code films. Have you seen Cary Grant in Thirty Day Princess (1934)? I've seen it a couple times, fun film and right up your alley. I think I might have even reviewed it, but too lazy to check

You actually expressed interest at the start of the thread and i asked if you had anyone in mind you'd like to do but i never heard back. In later ones you can recommend directors you'd like to do and we can decide together, that was the idea of this thing. As long as it's not like David Lynch or Martin Scorsese who i've seen most of their films i'm fine with anyone.

actually saw both of these a few years ago. Though Thirty Day Princes doesn't sound familiar. My room mate and I were in a serious pre-code/Dietrich kick and saw them and most of the Dietrich movies in this Director's list; which is why I'm pretty excited about doing this The ambience of the films were pretty incredible and I would love to revisit them and/or others.
The Shanghai Gesture centers around a gambling house owned by a "dragon lady" and Tierney's character is the daughter of someone looking to extend his realty control by snatching up the casino. IMdb The Shanghai Gesture should you like more detail. But, yeah, I'm pretty sure you'll like it a lot.

Cool, I'm sure I could think of a director. Actually I have a couple in mind. I'm not really a David Lynch fan and surprisingly I haven't seen many of Scorsese films.

Cool, I didn't know you were well watched in Pre-Code. I love those too, but it's been awhile since I delved into them. When I first got into movies, Pre-Code is what I watched. I've had a Pre-Code Hof schedule for a couple years now...well maybe as the 1930s countdown rolls around that would be a good time to do it

yeah, our library had a nice selection with about 3 or so movies to a dvd and we went through em like wildfire. One of them was seeing such a young Clark Gable. Migod, he must of been in his early twenties.

And I'd be curious to see what director you'd suggest, CR.

@Ms. M has expressed an interest in joining by the way. She may have a problem locating films so i said we could go with a few of the ones she can locate.

That's totally fine with me, I can be flexible in what movie I pick. We can help her find links too. @Ms. M glad to have ya

I know how that can be, so yeah, will definitely keep that in mind for when we do this.
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He was a closeted alcoholic... After knowing that, it was interesting to see the three guys (Husbands), and Ben saying how he drinks, and Peter a bit, but not John..

And an insomniac -- I read from Gazzarra, Falk, etc., that he could only sleep 1-2 hours a day, and that he spent a month in the editing room.

Something posted within the last year -- an hour documentary that I'm sure has clips of this..




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Damn, Matt you said you were going to join us haha. Would have been good to have you around since you are a big fan (which is why i mentioned you in this thread we decided to do Cassavetes) oh well. You should join in with later ones.

What do you think of Josef Von Sternberg? That's who we are most likely doing in November and Citizen said he'll most likely take part, ed is a strong maybe and gbg is a maybe. He's an Old Hollywood Director so i assume you'd be interested?

Really? I don't remember.. I finished his filmography a year ago.

I never saw anything by Josef Von Sternberg -- but I'd love to hear someone's recommendations on a talkie; I can't seem to get into silent films regardless of the attempts.

Thanks for the invite, but I just signed on for the 70s HOF, but I always check out the Newest Threads, and with the "Mentions" now, it should be easy to keep track..

I spent almost an hour reading all the reviews and comments and enjoyed them much.

@matt72582 I always am interested in the type of profile videos you post but when facing actually watching them or starting a movie I always choose the latter. Might try to watch the Cassavetes one though. What did you think of Shadows?

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Yeah, here's your post saying you were in haha - https://www.movieforums.com/communit...13#post1763713

I've only seen The Blue Angel which is largely in German. It's a really crazy film i'm not sure what anyone would think of it.

It's not until November.

Yeah thanks for reading and your posts.

In the last 3-4 years, I have seen "Shadows" three times. First time, I didn't like it. Second time, I liked it very much. Third time, somewhere in between.. There's a few awkward parts, but I under that was improvisational and wouldn't be aesthetically pleasing.

I'm sorry.. I probably assumed I'd read "Cassavetes" in the subject line threads, I missed out a good opportunity. I would recommend him to anyone, as his movies are universal. I would probably say if you aren't prepared to give a movie a second try, you might as well not see it, and focus on his Top 5...... I might have thought of participating, but I just can't get into silent movies. My favorite period would be the 30s-70s.

Besides a movie coming together with Cassavetes, the more of his movies I saw, the more I appreciated the others after watching those, as I rotated.