I love “It’s a Wonderful Life” and really like “A Christmas Story” and numerous versions of “A Christmas Carol,” but this the “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” sequence from “Meet Me in St. Louis” is so simple and so beautiful I just get all verlept every time I watch it. Talk amongst yourselves.
Author: Bob Westal (Page 23 of 265)
“No Country for Red Suited Old Men.” A scene you won’t seen in a Coen brothers Western or semi-Western: Gene Autry sings and Jay Silverheels (Tonto of “The Lone Ranger”) appreciates his generosity and tunefulness in “The Cowboy and the Indians.”
You can call this paternalistic, and I don’t suppose you’d be wrong, but there’s also something kind of sweet about it, too.
Fun facts I just learned (or had forgotten): The Lone Ranger himself, Clayton Moore, actually has a small role in “The Cowboy and the Indians” but was, ironically, already costarring with Silverheels in the masked-hero western TV series by the time this movie was released in 1949, which makes a much older television show than I quite realized. I guess that makes it one of the very earliest filmed television series back when the vast majority of TV was live and television itself was a fairly newfangled item.
This one’s for all you lonely folks out there, though please drink plenty of water and have cab fair ready should you attempt the 1960 behavior seen below as C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmons) waits out some not entirely welcome guests and briefly makes a new friend.
Katie Fineran won a Tony on Broadway for playing the equivalent role in the musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond screenplay for “The Apartment,” “Promises, Promises” and I understand through friends who’ve seen the show that it was well deserved. Even so, the evocatively named Hope Holiday does a pretty bang-up job here as well as Mrs. Margie MacDougal.
Just in time for all your Tronica festivities.
H/t Topless Robot.
Like every godfearing critic, I’ve been a bit ticked with Kevin Smith lately for reasons I don’t feel like going into right now but which I’ll refer to briefly as “silly, needless tantrums” — even though I actually enjoy his films more often than not. On the other hand, I’ve been curious about his upcoming “Red State,” a horror tale inspired by the genuinely evil Fred Phelps of the beyond extreme, hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church. Since this was Smith, I wondered if this would be more of a satirical horror comedy or something more serious and really different from past films. A very brief teaser trailer is out, and I think I might have my answer — just in time for the holidays!
I agree with Kevin Jagernauth. This really does look unlike anything we’ve seen from Mr. Smith. Definitely interesting.
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