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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:OT: Joan Bennett Movie This Wednesday
« on: April 15, 2003, 02:47:47 AM »Oh, and for those of you in the NYC area, I just heard on a listserv that The Reckless Moment (James Mason, Joan Bennett and directed by Max Ophuls) is playing at The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York this Sunday.
The Reckless Moment is possibly of Bennett's best performances, and it's sadly little screened. Never been released on video (although a bootleg floats around eBay now and then). Also a noir, but Bennett doesn't play a tramp in this one. Kind of an interesting look at noir via the American family. They remade this as The Deep End, but I think the original version has more resonance.
I had that taped and didn't know the value of it -- didn't know it was directed by Ophuls. I started watching it and it didn't seem of much interest so handed it over to my parents. I think they felt the same and didn't get around to finishing it. I don't know what happened to the tape.
Maybe the movie got better? I've just seen a couple of older movies where that was the case -- slow beginning, not much interest, but building to a tense climax. (One was the Barretts of Wimpole Street, and I'm forgetting what the other one was at the moment.)
It's so quiet on the board -- maybe everyone is doing their taxes. Speaking of which, I better sign off and do mine! (Actually, all I really have to do is recopy the forms, thank God -- I was up till 3 a.m. last night going through all the instructions and forms and am having a hard time concentrating today due to lack of sleep -- if my posts seem rather wiggy, that's why ...)