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Non Sequitur Movies and Post

Posted on July 10, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

I was going to call this a Throwback Thursday Post to when I decided to watch old movies on my day off. The only question is whether I will have sufficient pictures to make it interesting.

She is SO fabulous!

The first picture I see is of our second feature, Being Julia starring the wonderful Annette Bening.

Here is a revolting development: I cannot find illustrations for Rear Window, which we watched before, or Gosford Park, which we are watching now.

Point that portable keyhole!

I’ve loved Rear Window for years and often remember the first time I saw it, on a small black and white television in a crappy apartment in Potsdam, NY. Yes, the good old days, when we were neither good nor old nor were they days, they were nights.

Love the 1920’s styles!

That took me a long time, to find appropriate illustrations. The above is from Gosford Park, a rather delightful murder mystery set in the 1920’s, one of my favorite eras. I have written a couple of murder mysteries that take place in the 1920’s. I do not rule out writing a few more. People love the 1920’s. Is it the beads? Is it the booze? Is it the fringey dresses? Or is it the jazz music? So much to love!

It is also very enjoyable to write a blog post about watching movies on a hot and sticky night. Some people love summer. I do not. To each his own, as the old lady said when she kissed the cow.

Hitchcock to Betty White to Agatha Christie: It’s Wrist to Forehead Sunday

Posted on July 2, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I pause in our movie watching (actually I have not paused the movie, I add in the interest of strict accuracy) to make my Wrist to Forehead Sunday post. I am indeed about to swoon, from the head and humidity today. I don’t care for extreme heat, especially wet, sticky heat, but never mind that. I shall instead talk about the movies we have been watching, because I think I have pictures of all of them in my Media Library.

One of our all time favorites!

We began with Rear Window, an excellent movie to watch in the hot weather, because it takes place during a heat wave, in the days before air conditioning. At least, before lots of people had air conditioning; I’m too hot and tired to look up when it was actually invented.

I think today was even too warm to enjoy riding around in a convertible, but these two seem to be having a fine time.

We continued the Alfred Hitchcock theme with It Takes a Thief, which also stars Grace Kelly, so it was kind of a Grace Kelly theme as well. However, we did not continue with a theme, because we could not decide where to go next. Finally Steven suggested Lake Placid, as a fun, entertaining movie, and I agreed. We enjoyed it.

This is a shot of all the major characters. While still monster movie, I feel it is a character driven device.

Lake Placid is a silly movie with did not get a lot of critic love, but I think it has good characters and an involving plot. I will say I think it is a cheap laugh to have Betty White saying vulgar cuss words, but that is really a small part of the flick.

I perhaps should have looked for a picture with more of the actors, but I do like this shot.

The last one we have watched so far was Evil Under the Sun, a star-studded Agatha Christie romp. I do love my star-studded Agatha Christie movies. Perhaps we will watch another one next.

If this has been a dull blog post, I apologize. However, it is really, really warm in here and I need to get this laptop off my lap. Happy Sunday, everyone.

To Catch a Blog Post

Posted on March 2, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

Non-Sequitur Thursday on a Wednesday, Lame Post Friday on a Thursday, that’s how I roll on a four day week! All day at work today I kept singing, “It’s my Friday and I’ll cry if I want to!” a la Leslie Gore. I have a terrible singing voice, but I do not care at all. I like to sing.

And so my husband Steven’s fabulous birthday weekend begins.

We do not have great plans for our four-day weekend. For one reason, dire weather is predicted starting at some point tonight. Some area schools and non-profits are already closed for tomorrow. Things were still fairly nice when I got home from work shortly after 3 p.m. I went for a walk. Yes, I could make a Pedestrian Post and bag Lame Post Friday, but I feel quite disinclined to do so.

When the blog post seems to be going nowhere, I like to add a picture.

How does their hair stay that nice in a convertible?

Ooh, here is something we probably will not get to do on the Fabulous Birthday Weekend. Rome Capitol Theatre is showing To Catch a Thief. The Capitol is a marvelous old style theatre: enormous and ornate. It was where I saw my first movie years and years ago (never mind how many!). I feel certain I have written a blog post about it. We saw Rear Window there a few years ago. What a thrill! One of our favorite movies on the big screen in a beautiful setting! But if the weather is going to be bad, we will probably just hunker down.

However, if any of my readers are in the vicinity of Rome, NY, this weekend, the movie is being shown Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, 7 p.m. both nights plus a matinee at 2:30 p.n. on Saturday. For more information you can visit the Facebook Event.

Wrist to Hitchcock

Posted on August 14, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

It is Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday, August 13. Steven and I had hoped to watch an Alfred Hitchcock movie when we got home tonight, but it seems that will not work out. Is it a Wrist to Forehead Sunday? I fear so. Never mind why; explanations are tiresome. We won’t worry about that but concentrate on the famous director’s birthday.

I’m thinking this is only true in a sense.

I picked this picture of him to share, because I liked the saying on it. This is not a rule I follow when I am directing or acting on a stage, by the way.

Nevermore, you say?

The Birds is one of our go-to movies, especially on a Sunday night.

Love the poster art.

Rear Window, however, is arguably our favorite Hitchcock movie. The casting, the acting, the script, everything combines to make an entertaining whole. I say “arguably,” because there is also my beloved Rope. However, I cannot find any photos of Rope, so we won’t talk about that movie right now.

We won’t talk about anything much, as it turns out. It is SO Wrist to Forehead Sunday. Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock. Blog readers, please bear with me. I will try to come up with something better on Middle-aged Musings Monday.

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The Heat Is Already Wet

Posted on August 20, 2015 by mohawkvalleygirl

Well, this is embarrassing, although I suppose I should be used to it by now. I ended yesterday’s post with a silly prediction that I would be explaining once again why I could not write a decent post. I was kidding! I meant to write a good post! I really did!

However, it is a well-known fact that shit happens. And sometimes doesn’t happen. In this case what did not happen was my brain functioning. I’m going to blame it on the continuing heat and humidity, which I had not expected. At least, I had not expected it to be so bad. I thought yesterday was supposed to be the worst day. I thought we were supposed to get thunderstorms at some point which would cool things off. Another cruel hoax by the weather people!

I really can’t spend another post complaining about being uncomfortable, so I will share one of Steven’s and my movie memories. One of our favorite hot weather movies is Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. In this movie, it is very important to the plot that the city is in the middle of a terrible heat wave. In the middle of one night it rains. The next day, the wonderful Thelma Ritter (one of our all-time MOST favorite actresses) says, “You’d think the rain would have cooled things off. All it did was make the heat wet.”

Steven and I often use that line, or variations of it, when it rains. Unfortunately, it has not rained yet, and the heat is already wet.

In the meantime, it is, indeed Wuss-out Wednesday, and I have rehearsal for Roxy is less than an hour (I did mention the play I’m in, didn’t I? I’ll no doubt write even more about it as time goes on). What will I come up with for Non-Sequitur Thursday? Time will tell. As always, I hope you’ll stay tuned.

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