This one is quite different from Pillow Talk and Lover come back. It’s a film by Howard Hawks, and it’s obvious, he even plagiarises one of his most famous gags from Bringing Up Baby. Here, Rock Hudson is not a womanizer anymore, he’s quite duffer, like Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby or Gary Cooper in Ball of Fire. In fact, here is the girl, Paula Prentiss, who tries to bed him. Oh, and there’s rain. A film with rain is always better!
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Lover Come Back (1961)
I don’t know if I prefer this one or Pillow talk, but in this one there’s a scientist who invents a fabulous product which is a tasty candy that gets you drunk as a skunk. Curiously, in both films there’re gags about Hudson being gay, which is quite astonishing.
Pillow Talk (1959)
When I started watching Douglas Sirk’s melodramas last week, Rock Hudson made me think of those old romantic comedies with Doris Day. When I was a kid, in the Eighties, Spanish television repeated a lot that kind of films, and I loved them, but I haven’t watched any of them since then. I thought that maybe right now this kind of films could seem too innocent, or even reactionary, but the truth is that Pillow Talk is still funny, and not so naive as I remembered it.
Seconds (1966)
When a film starts like this, it must be good (Saul Bass, of course). A paranoia, a dystopian history about who we are and who we would like to be. And, like all good science fiction films, with a lot of reflections between the lines.
Written on the Wind (1956)
This one is much better, and much less innocent, than Magnificent Obsession. Besides, it plays a little bit with structure. Anyway, I think that All That Heaven Allows is more perfect and deals better with some modern subjects.
Magnificent Obsession
This one is not as good as All That Heaven Allows. At some points the plot is too melodramatic and obvious.
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Sometimes I forget how good are Douglas Sirk’s films. That golden era in which people in melodramas read Henry David Thoreau…
雨月物語 (Ugetsu monogatari, 1953)
Of Time and the City (2008)
This one reminded me of London by Patrick Keiller, but it’s about Liverpool and not so good.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Top Secret! (1984)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Scarface (1932)
Monkey Business (1931)
Applause (1929)
Prometheus (2012)
Hysteria (2011)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Watchings
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Alexander Mackendrick
• La fleur du mal (2003)
Claude Chabrol
• The Servant (1963)
Joseph Losey
• Vampyr (1932)
• Gertrud (1964)
• Vredens dag (1943)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
• House of Cards (2013)
• Magic Mike (2012)
Steven Soderbergh
• Side by Side (2012)
Christopher Kenneally
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Stephen Chbosky
• Street Angel (1928)
Frank Borzage