God damn, I hate not being able to watch my new 4 disc Gone with the Wind DVD right now...

I never did watch the second disc of the "Fight Club" set.

Aside from the last scene, the final hour of GWTW isn't very good, even as a racist trashy soap.

Stagecoach, Only Angels Have Wings, Destry Rides Again, The Roaring Twenties, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Midnight, Young Mr Lincoln, The Great Man Votes, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums ...

Vivien Leigh and Menzies' production design are what's great about GWTW.

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And if you've never seen Ted Turner being digitally inserted, you're not missing something.

My gf is a massive GWTW fanatic, can quote the film (and the book) at length, but even she will admit that her love for the film is entirely the residue of her childhood. We joked when she got the restored version on CD that the print was so good you could see the Strom Thurmond for Senate posters in the background.

What do we think of 'Goodbye Mr. Chips'?

bwuh?? the missus and i watched this the night after the election, was in need of some fantasy to numb the pain.

I've always steered clear of Goodbye Mr Chips. Brit schoolteacher nostalgia + Greer Garson sounds toxic.

Molly Haskell to the booklength rescue:

http://www.ifc.com/blogs/thedaily/2009/02/frankly-my-dear.php

ugh, fuck the capra/stewart hate around here.

gwtw is risible confederate apologist dreck, slightly redeemed by clark gable being hilarious as usual.

Anyone intend to watch the new edition? More sepia than ever, sez G Kenny.

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/11/return-of-the-sepia.html

i may do that today!

i've never seen it!

you sir, are no gentleman!

will i be if i watch the bluray?

i saw this over the weekend after not having seen it since i was 10 or something. this movie is fucked up!

The Iranian-born filmmaker Ramin Bahrani:

“Gone With the Wind” – I only saw it recently. I always thought of it as a romantic movie that I wouldn’t be interested in. I thought it was good [Laughter]. That Scarlett O’Hara – I thought it was one of the greatest female characters I’d ever seen in a movie. She was so cynical and passionate and vicious and generous and everything. She was all things. Plus it has this killer Ben Hecht line in the end. “I don’t give a damn.” You can’t make a movie like that in Hollywood anymore. [Laughter] Imagine if you wanted to make this big studio production and Ben Hecht says, “I’m gonna end the film with this line: ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.’” Can you imagine them saying, “Yeah, I’d give them $20 million to make that film.” [Laughter] That’s pretty cynical but it’s truthful in a way. Is it racist? Yeah, of course. “The Searchers” has racism in it, and I think it’s one of the best films ever made.

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/28/the_politics_of_zd30_house_of_cards/

On Hattie McDaniel's life and career

http://chiseler.org/post/69187773260/hattie-mcdaniel-fitting-and-unfitting

“Gone with the Wind actress Alicia Rhett, the oldest surviving credited cast member of the 1939 Oscar-winning blockbuster, died on January 3, 2014,” reports Andre Soares at the Alt Film Guide. “Rhett played India Wilkes, the embittered sister of Ashley Wilkes, whom Scarlett O’Hara loves—even though Ashley eventually marries Melanie Hamilton (Rhett had auditioned for the role), while Scarlett ends up with Rhett Butler.”

i'm curious if NYC MoMA will have a 'special introduction' by an African American academic for their July 4 screening of Gone with the Wind, given current events...

to be clear, we've had several centennial showings of The Birth of a Nation in NY this year w/ such intros.

http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/28/movies/last-remaining-cast-member-from-gone-with-the-wind-turns-100/1541.html

one of her worst performances btw

Partygoers plan to dress as characters from her films, and tape a message to be presented to her.

I wonder who called dibs on The Snake Pit?

really nice essay with copious stills of William Cameron Menzies' work... he was GWTW's production designer, and either directed or had a huge hand in the visuals of many films from the silents through the '50s: Things to Come, Invaders from Mars, Thief of Bagdad ('24 and '40), Spellbound....

http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/menzies.php

well, back in the news

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6977-hattie-mcdaniel-and-gone-with-the-wind

It's actually so fucking funny to me that we're never going to do anything to materially improve vulnerable people's lives but will signify progress by putting warnings on old-timey movieshows that I'm now insane!

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