Love and how it alters our subjective perception from rupture to rapture in THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945). The lady “monster”…
…metamorphoses into the lovely woman whose clothes fit, whose hair is coiffed, and whose lips are rouged.
Watching this film with my sweetie made me wonder…should I be wearing more lipstick?
The tell-tale buzz of a motor boat; cuckolded Claude Rains using a damning playbill as a coaster; the sweat on Ann Todd’s brow as she contemplates going under the Underground. David Lean flushes us down the flashback in THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS (1948).
Why doesn’t the head of the MPAA affix his signature to the bogus ratings they give American films?
NOW, VOYAGER (1942) lap dissolves. Bette Davis confirms what we women have always suspected: a groomed eyebrow changes everything.