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5 PREVIOUS WATCHES: Below are five films that I have already watched on my own, over the course of time, prior to undertaking my #ForMyMom film watch challenge, which all too helped me decide on carrying on our Saturday Nite Movie Night tradition for myself (and my Mom), that were films we were eagerly waiting to see or talked of seeing when they were to be released. With the exception of ALLIED, which I don't remember us really talking about, but knew when I saw the trailer for it, it would have been a film on the list, without a doubt. These other films included were must watch films I knew I had to watch for the both of us. We were longtime Bond Fan Girls, and hadn't missed one yet; POTC fans, every release at theater, we were always one of the first in line (bar 4 ... my Mom couldn't deal with 4). And "Alice" was to be a new branch on our series film watches, as we enjoyed the colors more than anything on the screen in the theater. And as for Mission Impossible ... we came up quick on that one. Binged watched in one weekend to have it fresh in our minds before "Ghost Protocol" was to hit theaters that week. Front row. *Championship* ... So, in my own time, I completed these five films this past year: WEEK 2:
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WEEK 7:In running behind by weeks on my updates, below are some watches I've caught up on before and during my update hiatus:
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For my next set of five, stay tuned and I'll post an update soon. Be sure to follow me on Twitter (@DominiqueRevue), Letterboxd (@DominiqueRevue), or check back here for the update.
Although this is something I have only shared with someone once, I felt I had to share this publicly ... just because. #ForMyMom "You know, every Saturday my Mom and I would have Saturday Movie of the Week. EVERY SATURDAY. This became an unexpected tradition starting over 12 years ago. And since that time, we rarely, if ever missed Saturday Nite Movie nights, even when she was in the hospital, we'd try our best to keep up movie nights. Always at 8PM. And during a huge chunk of that time, a lot of the films we would watch would either be one the Essentials on TCM, a Classic Film we already had on hand, or whatever was showing on TCM after whatever movie we picked to watch for the week was over. Thusly we were introduced to a lot of films we had never seen before and instantly liked, “Dead Ringer," “The Search," “Murder By Death," “Red Headed Woman," “The Gazebo" and so on. Then there were the films we had seen since I was young that never got old, so we'd watch again and again, “Arsenic and Old Lace," “The Letter," “On The Waterfront," “The Women," “Shadow of a Doubt," etc. Then there are those that have a “Mom and I" backstory to them, such as “Gilda," “Fanny," “Gaslight," “Night Must Fall," “The Picture of Dorian Gray," “Three on a Match," “Guys and Dolls," “Notorious," and “A Streetcar Named Desire," which although has a huge backstory to it, it is eventually what lead to our nicknames being Stella and Blanche ... literally. And though the list of movies seem to be indefinite “Camille," “The King and I," “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," “Golddiggers of 1933," there are these in which I've named, and some that I haven't, that stand out as “Mom and I" movies, that when I see them now, it is the only way I can address them ... Movies are what identifies my Mom and I ... strongly. We'd even walk around in public going through a scene from a classic film if the situation called for it: "I don't want to lick the bowl! I want to know what we're going to do!" (Arsenic and Old Lace - Cary Grant) "Help Me Johnny. It's too heavy for me." (Arsenic and Old Lace - Peter Lorre) "My head is swimmin'." (A Streetcar Named Desire - Kim Hunter) "What's goin' on up there that you don't want me to see?!" (Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Agnes Moorehead) "Are they Charlie? Are they?" (Shadow of A Doubt - Joseph Cotten) "I like it! Do it again!" (Red Headed Woman - Jean Harlow) "I always used to wipe my mouth! WIPE MY MOUTH!" (Of Human Bondage - Bette Davis) It was who we were ... who we are. Always will be." |