September Films at the Iron Rail
Tuesday, September 23, 8:00PM
CACHE (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/
In Paris, Georges Laurent is a famous host of a literary talk show on TV, who lives in a comfortable house with his wife Anne and their teenaged son Pierrot. When Georges and Anne receive videotapes of surveillance of their private life and weird and gory childlike drawings, they go to the police, but they do not get any protection since there is not a clear menace to the Laurent family. When Georges follows a clue in one of the tapes that shows his childhood home, he meets his former adopted brother, the Algerian Majid and accuses him of sending the tapes. Meanwhile, through glimpses of Georges' nightmares, his lies due to his jealous relationship with his foster brother are disclosed.
Tuesday, September 30, 8:00PM
BABY DOLL (1956)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048973/
Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll tells the story of Baby Doll Meighan (Carol Baker), a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 19 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. Married for two years to the middle aged, ineffectual and impossibly bigoted Archie Lee (Karl Malden), the couple have not yet consummated their marriage because Archie Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter until she said she was "ready for marriage." He is frustrated by this strain and obliged to peek at his squirmy half-dressed child-bride through a hole in her bedroom wall, among other things. Archie Lee is further humiliated ind incensed by a flashy Sicilian business rival (Eli Wallach) who has recently managed to force Archie Lee's decrepit cotton gin out of business. One night in a fit of desperation and frustration, Archie Lee burns down his rival's cotton gin. The rest of the story describes the Sicilian's revenge as he blatantly pursues and seduces a distraught but sensually aroused Baby Doll, and attempts to terrorize her into revealing Archie Lee's crime. Amazing performances from Carol Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach in this sordid tale of a decrepit and decaying South in a film adaptation from Elia Kazan.
CACHE (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/
In Paris, Georges Laurent is a famous host of a literary talk show on TV, who lives in a comfortable house with his wife Anne and their teenaged son Pierrot. When Georges and Anne receive videotapes of surveillance of their private life and weird and gory childlike drawings, they go to the police, but they do not get any protection since there is not a clear menace to the Laurent family. When Georges follows a clue in one of the tapes that shows his childhood home, he meets his former adopted brother, the Algerian Majid and accuses him of sending the tapes. Meanwhile, through glimpses of Georges' nightmares, his lies due to his jealous relationship with his foster brother are disclosed.
Tuesday, September 30, 8:00PM
BABY DOLL (1956)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048973/
Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll tells the story of Baby Doll Meighan (Carol Baker), a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 19 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. Married for two years to the middle aged, ineffectual and impossibly bigoted Archie Lee (Karl Malden), the couple have not yet consummated their marriage because Archie Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter until she said she was "ready for marriage." He is frustrated by this strain and obliged to peek at his squirmy half-dressed child-bride through a hole in her bedroom wall, among other things. Archie Lee is further humiliated ind incensed by a flashy Sicilian business rival (Eli Wallach) who has recently managed to force Archie Lee's decrepit cotton gin out of business. One night in a fit of desperation and frustration, Archie Lee burns down his rival's cotton gin. The rest of the story describes the Sicilian's revenge as he blatantly pursues and seduces a distraught but sensually aroused Baby Doll, and attempts to terrorize her into revealing Archie Lee's crime. Amazing performances from Carol Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach in this sordid tale of a decrepit and decaying South in a film adaptation from Elia Kazan.
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posted by Tim at
12:29 PM
4 Comments:
i fucked up the movie listings in the iron rail email. these are the correct listings. ooops.
don't fuck up again - EVER. or else!!!!!!!!
these sound like really good movies, maybe I can think about them and picture them in my mind while I'm at work Tuesday night.
Proust teaches us that our image of that which we love is not only superior to the actual characteristics of what (or who) we love but also veils the actual version from us entirely.
So I will make believe I am watching these very good movies and thus have a superior experience to those of you actually watching, so fuck y'all!!! In fact I'm watching them both at the same time, RIGHT NOW, in the boundless realm of my own imagination.
And they're superb.
I am also currently watching the RNC reportback and drinking free beer right now, inside my head.
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