tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post649656549222533175..comments2024-01-25T07:08:17.130-05:00Comments on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Written on the Wind (1956) **Kimberly J.M. Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078951928157843937noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-73494742719848014272014-06-22T21:47:34.122-04:002014-06-22T21:47:34.122-04:00I often wonder why films like this, and even worse...I often wonder why films like this, and even worse ones, make it into the book while other more deserving films do not.Kimberly J.M. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078951928157843937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-45372324745849338892014-06-22T21:46:21.183-04:002014-06-22T21:46:21.183-04:00Well, I'm sorry to hear that, but I am glad to...Well, I'm sorry to hear that, but I am glad to learn that you are doing the capsule reviews.Kimberly J.M. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078951928157843937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-55717686592430178842014-06-22T16:53:27.733-04:002014-06-22T16:53:27.733-04:00I agree that this isn't that good a film. I a...I agree that this isn't that good a film. I also didn't much care what happened to anyone in the movie.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-83956990375588328772014-06-22T14:43:17.668-04:002014-06-22T14:43:17.668-04:00Kim, between maintaining my blog--a lot of work as...Kim, between maintaining my blog--a lot of work as I'm such a perfectionist--and participating meaningfully in the classic film blogging community, I found my life was being devoured by my avocation. I became a burnout dropout for the sake of my own sanity! Now that I've started to take Facebook more seriously (I know I'm rather late to this party), I will be posting capsule reviews of films from time to time on my FB page. Somehow the informality (and brevity) of Facebook posts doesn't seem so daunting as writing a real blog.R. D. Finchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045080274131718843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-806562821934660032014-06-22T12:02:59.213-04:002014-06-22T12:02:59.213-04:00Thanks for clarifying, RDF. I must have misread y...Thanks for clarifying, RDF. I must have misread your previous comment. Good point about Agnes Moorehead not having to play some crazy frumpy woman in the film--I didn't really mention that in my own review. <br />BTW, why don't you blog anymore? I miss your massive yearly blogathon that you always were kind enough to ask me to participate in.Kimberly J.M. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078951928157843937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-46260483441647895692014-06-21T16:00:49.794-04:002014-06-21T16:00:49.794-04:00Kim, we don't have to split over "All Tha...Kim, we don't have to split over "All That Heaven Allows." For me too it's Sirk's best and least over-the-top melodrama. That's why I called it his archetypal film--it has all that's good about his 50s melodramas and little that I don't like. It's helped by the restrained acting of Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson and Agnes Moorehead (my favorite of her many fine performances, probably because she doesn't have to play a woman who's neurotic or unattractive). I find its values a bit simplistically presented, but I can't disagree with them. And hey, the movie is nearly 60 years old, and people saw things more simply in those days, certainly in movies made for mass entertainment. I don't really consider "The Tarnished Angels" in the same class as his other 50s films, probably because it's based on a novel by William Faulkner (who's said to have found it the best film adaptation of any of his novels), and he certainly wasn't into soap! In its plot it actually has certain resemblances to "Written" both in its cast and in some elements of its plot.R. D. Finchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045080274131718843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-16108537776650694282014-06-21T14:46:50.149-04:002014-06-21T14:46:50.149-04:00Well, we agree about Bacall being wasted here and ...Well, we agree about Bacall being wasted here and that this isn't an overly impressive film, but we'll have to be split over All That Heaven Allows, as I think it's probably his best and least over-the-top melodrama. Good point about Fassbinder's Ali being inspired by All That Heaven Allows. Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven was also inspired by that film.Kimberly J.M. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078951928157843937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8672005424133365490.post-47087025409225074262014-06-21T13:51:57.852-04:002014-06-21T13:51:57.852-04:00Kim, I wasn't much impressed by this either. I...Kim, I wasn't much impressed by this either. I agree that the best thing in it is Dorothy Malone's Oscar-winning performance. The wonderful Bacall is pretty much wasted and, I find, miscast. She's best playing more forceful women. Generally, I find Sirk's over-the-top melodramas from the 50s overrated. "All That Heaven Allows" is the archetypal one of these & inspired Fassbinder to make "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul," which I think is the better movie. I did, however, recently watch "The Tarnished Angels" again (I wrote about it on my Facebook page) & was very impressed.R. D. Finchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045080274131718843noreply@blogger.com