{"id":173,"date":"2000-06-11T02:42:53","date_gmt":"2000-06-11T02:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/06\/11\/film_buff\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:28:45","slug":"film_buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/06\/11\/film_buff\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Buff"},"content":{"rendered":"

For such a film nut,<\/strong> there are huge, gaping holes in my classic-films checklist. I blame it on my youthful fascination with trash culture. (Which I still love, but I temper with appreciation of the finer things.) I always pooh-poohed all the greats — the silent films, gorgeous black-and-white masterpieces, taught thrillers — as long as I could get a chance to see something more fun, like Valley Girl<\/a><\/i> or Class of Nuke ‘Em High.<\/a><\/i> Thankfully, I\u2019ve gotten over that kind of short sightedness. Now, whenever I see something generally regarded as a classic, it’s always such a revelation, and I could kick myself for not catching it sooner.<\/p>\n

It happened the first time I saw Buster Keaton,<\/a> who I now regard as one of my all-time favorites. It happened when I recently saw Sunset Blvd.<\/a><\/i> and suddenly realized how many other images I had seen on film over the years (not to mention that whole Carol Burnett<\/a> skit) had drawn from it. And it happened again tonight when I finally watched the DVD for Notorious<\/a><\/i> that I picked up a while back, thinking that I ought to watch it, if just because it was set in Rio and Duran Duran<\/a> did that song about it. What a gorgeous movie! Just beautifully done. (And it made me very nostalgic to see footage of places in Rio I had been to when I was there.)<\/p>\n

Wow! That Hitchcock<\/a> guy knocks my socks off every time. Do people know about him?<\/p>\n

And I don’t mean to get too faggy — and this is above and beyond, even for me — but did Edith Head<\/a> sell her soul to the devil or something for that kind of talent? We would have a totally different image of Hollywood glamour if it weren’t for that woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For such a film nut, there are huge, gaping holes in my classic-films checklist. I blame it on my youthful fascination with trash culture. (Which I still love, but I temper with appreciation of the finer things.) I always pooh-poohed all the greats — the silent films, gorgeous black-and-white masterpieces, taught thrillers — as long … Continue reading “Film Buff”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70883,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/70883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}