tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9504041788106106582024-03-01T00:39:48.686-05:00Sweet Sunday Morningssunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-9429945190110189942016-11-15T14:26:00.000-05:002016-11-15T17:05:48.658-05:00How To Steal A Million (1966)
This time last year, I was living in Paris, just a few blocks from where the attacks occurred. The city was suddenly in turmoil, soldiers flooded the streets, and everyone was in a state of silent shock. The following few weeks, however, were not characterized by fear, but by courage and celebration. I saw a determination to go about life as per usual - people out and about, at the markets, theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-4663846473262403472016-09-10T13:37:00.002-04:002016-09-10T13:57:12.079-04:00The Dressmaker (2015)Sometimes being abroad has its perks, such as getting to see certain movies before they premiere in the US. One such standout was The Dressmaker (2015), a lovely, quirky Australian film starring Kate Winslet as a couturie who returns to her hometown in Australia to settle some questions regarding her dark and hazy past.
Winslet plays “Tilly,” who was sent away to Europe as a young girl ssmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17172061920586264867noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-65625633493105233242014-01-11T19:24:00.000-05:002014-01-11T19:53:46.891-05:00Lady Felicia's outfits in BBC's Father Brown (2012-13)
Having not read the books on which the television show is based, I had no expectations of BBC's adaptation of Father Brown and chose to dismiss the negative reviews before I had a chance to judge it for myself. And I'm glad I did because after ploughing through fifteen episodes in the course of an equally long flight, I've decided that it's not nearly as inane or poorly produced as some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-82338921330702497442013-07-06T14:10:00.000-04:002013-07-06T18:47:06.207-04:00Miss Marple: A Carribbean Mystery (2013)
There are fewer things more comforting than settling down to a good Agatha Christie mystery at the end of a long day so it was to my great delight when ITV finally started doling out new episodes of both Miss Marple and Poirot last month. And since I just bought a fancy new TV, it has been an even greater treat to see the wonderful costumes and interior sets in their full hi-def glory. So Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-64021631517896101132013-06-16T14:33:00.001-04:002013-06-25T11:21:36.564-04:00A New Kind of Love (1963)
A New Kind of Love is a silly but endearing film starring two of my favorite on-screen/off-screen couples, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, where Newman takes on the role of a womanizing, playboy journalist while Woodward dons on the trousers of a tomboy fashion designer. Both are sent to Paris by their employers for work-related reasons and wind up meeting each other under falsified pretensesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-89141376397430333312012-12-19T18:47:00.000-05:002013-06-25T11:31:09.839-04:00Downton Abbey (Costumes & Sets from Series 1 & 2)
Much like the rest of the western television watching world, I was quickly gripped by Downton Abbey fever after the series premiered two years ago in 2010 (has it really been so long since?!). The lovely
Mrs. Michelle Obama made headlines recently for requesting ITV to provide her with DVDs of the new Series 3 a couple months ahead of the scheduled January 2013 U.S. release and I can Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-14534225539059597322012-08-21T09:47:00.000-04:002012-08-21T09:47:48.657-04:00Rosemary & Thyme: Full-time gardeners, part-time sleuthsWhile I prepare my next massive post on Poirot, I just wanted to quickly drop in and say "Hello!" and briefly mention this lovely little British TV series that I stumbled upon on Netflix. Having consumed all there is to watch when it comes to screen adaptations of Agatha Christie's detective novels, I needed something else to scratch my itch for crime mysteries and Rosemary & Thyme did just Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-81472040733741506612012-07-12T17:08:00.002-04:002013-06-25T11:46:49.042-04:00Ms. Lemon: Secretary Chic (Agatha Christie's Poirot)
What does one do when cooped up in the apartment due to incessant rain and insufferable humidity? Pay the bills? Tackle mountains of belated paperwork? Catch up on unread books? Commit to studying the local language? No, one watches endless hours of Poirot episodes.
In the last couple of weeks, I have managed to plough through the first six seasons of the endearing British crime series Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-55324593366181489152012-03-05T19:29:00.005-05:002013-06-25T11:35:42.673-04:00The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
The great and incomparable Vivien Leigh, star of some of the most iconic characters in cinema history - Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - married for twenty years to the equally legendary Laurence Olivier and to whom my dearest Maman dedicated one of my middle names, has been on my mind a lot lately, in part due to the the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-15621839506313653622011-12-07T17:52:00.003-05:002013-06-25T11:39:19.660-04:00Do Not Disturb (1965)
America's sweetheart and '60s silver screen darling Doris Day, now 87, just came out with a new album entitled My Heart, her first in 17 years. The album is dedicated to her late son in his memory.[1] "These are the tunes that reflect my love of animals, my love for my son. They're the dearest things to my heart," she explains.[2]
I adore Doris Day and her films never fail to lift my sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-41254317322137541262011-11-30T13:48:00.001-05:002013-06-25T11:37:41.508-04:00The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
As I may have mentioned in the previous entry, I spent the latter half of this year begrudingly sequestered in Beijing, inhaling pollutants, dodging lawless bicyclists, and consuming foods of questionable safety. But what I neglected to admit was that even though I complained endlessly while there, two weeks back on this side of civility, I started to miss China. Like, a lot. Washbasins, barrelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-33234245658518545312011-09-16T13:46:00.005-04:002013-06-25T11:53:30.350-04:00The Long Hot Summer (1958)
The Long Hot Summer was inspired by the short stories of William Faulkner, namely The Hamlet. Paul Newman stars as down-and-out wanderer Ben Quick with a contentious reputation as a fire-starter who chances upon two lovely young women, Clara Varner (Joanne Woodward) and her sister-in-law Eula (Lee Remick), and hitches a ride with them into the next town where he was hoping to find some work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-9047009911375751552011-01-13T15:40:00.001-05:002013-06-25T11:36:58.517-04:00Royal Wedding (1951)
This is a bit late in coming but in honor of the recent engagement of Prince William and his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton, I thought I'd post about the film that immediately popped in my mind when I saw that #royalwedding became one of the top 10 trending tags on Twitter. The film is Royal Wedding, a sweet lil' picture made in 1951 starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell as a brother-sisterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-15811964832814402062010-12-16T14:03:00.005-05:002010-12-16T15:55:30.304-05:00Bungalow RestorationsUpdates:
I. I have just upgraded to a pro account on flickr, which means 1) you now have access to all the screencap archives and 2) you are able to view and download those images in their largest size (just click on "view all sizes").
II. I also realize that my labels are pretty disorganized and I really do apologize for that. One of these days I'm going to have to go through eachUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-11305436400449978252010-11-16T12:33:00.006-05:002013-06-25T11:56:28.736-04:00Gilda (1946)
Now those of you who have been following this little blog know that I rarely post any screencaps from black & white films and I made that decision a long time ago because I thought the monochromaticism would render the details [in both the costumes and set pieces] difficult to see and thus, would not be very useful to you all. Well, I'm not sure why I stuck to the notion that b+w wouldn'tUnknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-7970992394295039832010-11-11T13:22:00.005-05:002013-06-25T11:54:02.177-04:00Cracks (2009)
I'm going to make a confession: I have a major girl crush on Eva Green. What is it about French women that makes you just stop in your tracks, turn your head and just stare? and Marion Cotillard! Mélanie Laurent! I am loving the current crop of French actresses gracing our screens these days! And to be honest, I would've never even heard of the movie Cracks had I not have been watching an sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-37552729334261849262010-09-12T01:02:00.003-04:002013-06-25T11:54:21.229-04:00Easy Virtue (2008)
The recent film Easy Virtue is an screen adaptation of Noel Coward's play by the same name. He wrote it in 1924 when he was only 25 years old! Alfred Hitchcock also made it into a silent film in 1928. This 2008 version, 80 years later, stars Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kirstin Scott Thomas and fresh face Ben Barnes.
Production design was helmed by John Beard and costume design by Charlotte sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-84864719926081913632010-08-10T07:50:00.006-04:002010-11-16T20:38:21.204-05:00Miss Marple - Why didn't they ask Evans (2009)Hello everyone! I'm sorry for being absent - it turns out my flickr pro account expired so I wasn't able to upload any more photos last month. I know that $24.95/year isn't that much to shell out but I already have two other personal accounts that I do pay for so I'm a bit reluctant to continue paying for this one....ugh, is that horribly stingy of me? :( Well, what does this mean for you? It sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-2167306049817609322010-07-16T01:21:00.005-04:002010-11-16T20:38:21.284-05:00Poirot - After the Funeral (2006)Hello! Salutations! My goodness, was my last post really in April?! Yikes! I hope you're all doing well. I see my little blog has picked up a few more followers in the meantime - how lovely! Spread the word, folks!Last night I had a Poirot marathon and watched three episodes in one sitting. At 1hr 30min each, that's quite a lot of sitting! I thought I'd share a few screencaps with you while I sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-88605961161260840742010-04-05T03:18:00.010-04:002010-11-16T20:40:30.758-05:00Leave Her to Heaven (1945)You know, there are a lot of films with the world "heaven" in the title and I would always get Leave Her to Heaven (1945) and Heaven Can Wait (1943) mixed up because they both star Gene Tierney, although as very different characters. Gene Tierney takes the honour of being my first "female crush" - I vividly remember seeing her in Laura (1944) when I was six years old and thinking, "oh my god! howsunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-8664107393019027222010-01-18T20:11:00.002-05:002010-11-16T20:38:21.168-05:00Far from Heaven (2002)My Ratings:Production Design (wardrobe/hair+makeup & set design & milieu) = 10Performances/Direction = 8.5As we trudge through the gray dreariness of winter, I thought it would be a nice idea to infuse a bit of life back to this blog with a film that is brimming with rich, vibrant colors. Behold, the award-winning Far from Heaven starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, and Dennis Haysbertsunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-78265900991875391292009-12-14T00:42:00.001-05:002010-11-16T20:38:21.252-05:00A Child's Christmas In Wales (1987)The temperatures in the city have taken a steep dive and it looks like winter is finally here. As I sit typing, the wind is tearing away at the window panes and it's nights like these that I feel the need to snuggle up to a good movie that "warms me from the inside." And since the holiday season is officially upon us, I can think of no more appropriate one than A Child's Christmas in Wales, sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-19405238456757777512009-12-05T16:15:00.008-05:002012-04-23T14:57:42.938-04:00Practical Magic (1998)
My Ratings:
Production Design (wardrobe/hair+makeup & set design & milieu) = 10
Performances/Direction = 5.5
The film is Practical Magic (1998) and stars Hollywood heavy weights Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as sister witches under the care of two eccentric aunts (Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing). It is based on the book by Alice Hoffman.
Where this movie fails in plot, it makes sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-25153144668690419192009-11-22T15:15:00.002-05:002010-11-16T20:41:25.114-05:00Bell Book and Candle (1958)I HAVE RETURNED, MY LOVELIES!I know, I have been a bad blogger. I have neglected you for way too long. And I apologize profoundly for my absence. Things have been rather chaotic over here on my end and I had planned two wonderful entries for Halloween but never got around to posting them. And so even though Halloween is over, I thought - well, why not put these up anyway? They're probably going sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950404178810610658.post-24217813744454917822009-09-19T00:45:00.002-04:002012-04-23T15:30:34.628-04:00Head in the Clouds (2004)
My Ratings:
Production Design (wardrobe/hair+makeup & set design & milieu) = 8
Performances/Direction = 5.5Last week I sat down to watch, with high hopes, the sweeping [war] epic Head in the Clouds (2004) and after two agonizing hours, am sad to have to report back to you that it was....not good. I am sad because this story had such extraordinary potential - compelling characters sunday morningshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188258943011104808noreply@blogger.com9