Favourite new-to-me films for February 2024: Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Dream Scenario, La Comtesse de Castiglone, Defending Your Life, The House on Telegraph Hill, When Strangers Marry, The Zone of Interest, The Fortune Cookie.
Continuing my March Around the World by watching the 1963 film The Cassandra Cat directed by Vojtěch Jasný from Czechoslovakia on The Criterion Channel. 🎥🌍
Watching Monia Chokri’s 2023 film The Nature of Love. 🎥
Watching Billy Wilder’s 1966 film The Fortune Cookie. 🎥
Watching Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 film The Zone of Interest. 🎥
Watching Gus Van Sant’s 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Listening to Europe by Allo Darlin’ as I cook some enchilada beans from a recipe by Michelle Albanes-Davis on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Watching the 1944 low-budget noir When Strangers Marry directed by William Castle and starring a young Kim Hunter and Robert Mitchum. 🎥
Watching the 1955 musical biography Love Me or Leave Me directed by Charles Vidor and starring Doris Day and James Cagney. 🎥
Trying stuff out with the updated and improved micro.blog and I love how well everything works with it and thinking of ways to do more things.