Be safe, be happy. I'll be around for comments but as for posting, that won't happen until next week so here's to the holidays and the New Year together. The Invisible Edge (for the three of you that enjoy going there) will continue posting on its usual Monday, Wednesday and Friday schedule. This video is my Holiday Card for all of you, whatever you celebrate, or don't. Peace.
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Happy holidays to you and yours, Jonathan! I've been MIA lately but I enjoyed your video card (love that music). Someone needs to count the amount of drinks that were poured during that clip. 30? 50? I don't know, but that was a lot of spirits being enjoyed! Why don't my holiday parties ever have such lovely well-dressed guests?
p.s. If Charles Boyer ever came to my place, he wouldn't make it out alive without a brief stop under the mistletoe.
Merry Christmas, Jonathan!
Were those slightly hazy scenes from The Devil and Daniel Webster? If so, you should have let that play out. Then we would have all had a merry Christmas...in Hell!
"Happy New Year to you... in jail!"
God bless Old Man Potter. Those zingers used to fall out of his mouth like so many Werther's Originals.
Another winner, Lapnicki. Really, you have a wonderful eye and a sense of rhythm... to say nothing of your encyclopedia film memory for all those seamless match cuts. It's a lot harder than it looks.
Yes, that hazy waltzing was from The Devil and Daniel Webster, a wonderful movie.
I need a drink.
Thanks Kimberly and Happy Holidays to you too! I love the music of Oliver Nelson and even though the recognizable part of Greensleeves is only present at the beginning and end, this is my favorite version of it (maybe that's why). Add that to movie stars of the thirties and forties drinking lots of booze and you've got a party.
Merry Christmas Bill! That was indeed, as Arbo confirmed, The Devil and Daniel Webster. I'm thinking of inviting the restless condemned dead over to my mansion to party as well. I mean, after all, I spent all this Hessian gold on it, I want someone to enjoy it.
Arbo, thanks! I appreciate that greatly. My favorite parts are Charlie Kane's "butt bump", as I like to call it, and those two adorable scenes from Rules of the Game (the first laughing scene and the nose bite scene).
As for Old Man Potter, may I just say that great minds think alike. Not a New Years goes by where my wife and I don't say that about a hundred times. I've been saying it since I was a kid and as popular as that movie is you'd be amazed at how many people give me a blank stare when they hear it.
"What do you mean, 'in jail?'"
"You know, 'It's a Wonderful Life.'"
"Huh."
"Forget it."
People are stupid. But Lionel Barrymore, my God he's brilliant in that role. What a performance!
Oh and "garlic eaters." My wife and I say that a lot too.
Jonathan -
Your montages are the best! The fact that you got my two favorite Billy Wilder movies, plus Cary Grant in "The Awful Truth," in there is making grin from ear to ear. Happy holidays!
Thanks Pat! Glad I could oblige. Have a great holiday!
I'm grinning from ear to ear, too, except that my "grin" is actually a slit in my throat from a guy in a dirty Santa Claus costume.
I fall for that every year!
You are the King of Montages, Jonathan. As one of the 3 who like to go over to "The Invisible Edge," I wished you Merry Christmas over there, but it doesn't hurt to do it again.
Merry Christmas!
What a super greeting card. The best I've got all this season (I got two others...hee hee).
I personally like that quick cutaway from the Some Like It Hot tango and back again. That's the kind of rhythm that always gets me.
Lovely work as usual. Have a great holiday, everyone!
That's the kind of rhythm that always gets me.
Ooh.
Merry Christmas Rick and thank you. I hope you have a great day tomorrow!
Thanks Marilyn! The rhythms of a montage usually make themselves evident during the editing. Originally I had the Tango scene intact but it just didn't work. I broke it in two and voila, much better.
You have a great Holiday too Marilyn. And thanks again.
Arbo, control yourself.
Fear not. I've got myself well in hand.
Great video! Was I the only one secretly hoping for a "Lost Weekend" shot (pun intended) after that awesome Seagram's ad you posted earlier?
Some men shouldn't celebrate New Year's!
Thanks Adam. And celebrating the New Year with drinking clips just doesn't seem too joyous when it's from a movie about alcoholism so no Lost Weekend aka Some Men Shouldn't be Given Typewriters to Pawn!
Another cute montage. I hope I haven't sabotaged your New Year's resolution by posting a screengrab of smoking hot Hanna Schygulla.
Peter, thanks. And rest assured, if just looking at pictures of actors and actresses with smokes affected my ability to quit I'd be smoking forever. After all, I'm a classic movie blogger. 99 percent of all classic actors smoke in their movies.
Wow, Jonathan, that's an awesome ad for the first TOERIFC film. Thanks!
Marilyn, I'm glad you like it. I put it on the main site for anyone who wants to use it. Once your post is up I'll change the link to your post directly. And then, with each successive pick create a new sidebar button for the next movie.
I just got the DVD in the mail today but I shan't say a word about the film until our discussion.
I'll be getting mine on Sunday. I'm anxious to rewatch it; it brought up so many contradictory thoughts and feelings when I saw it for the first time. I want to see which of those thoughts and feelings stuck.
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