40 by Fall: 2021 New Year’s Resolution: Film 5
"I gave him beer, and then I taught him how to verbally seduce women. Then we drove drunk, but I stopped that, and then he kissed Trish, and then we walked home."
It's possible I was expecting something else, but I enjoyed the first half, and kind of fell away in the second. It has its moments, but it also has some very pat moments and strange choices.
40 by Fall: 2021 New Year’s Resolution: Film 4
"I'm so glad you speak English now. It must help to fit in."
Ackerman paints both a beautiful picture of New York and a bittersweet portrait of growing apart.
How is this not mentioned in the same breath as Vertigo and Suspicion? It is the predessessor of both works, and it surpasses the latter. Rebecca brings Gothic romance to the screen with all the grandeur, mystery, and melodrama of the genre. A lesser actor would have made Olivier's character unlikable. Joan Fontaine brings both shy vulnerability and haunted seriousness in a role that could easily be stupid or weak. Judith Anderson delivers pure insanity. Definitely one of Hitchcock's best.
"I'm cold, bored."
"You're bored?"
Okay, I'm going to admit that I may have been a little more disappointed than I might have been because I was hoping for a Psycho 2. This is not Psycho 2. From the first use of the Jaws theme in the first scene as a scare to herald a shark attack, it just kind of felt like this one trades on the first one, not helped by the next attack being…
