the formally independent (recently acquired by studio movie grill LOL) River Oaks Theatre was a place where i saw so many beautiful movies and seeing this one rlly sutck with me! twas a feast for the eyes
I had a cold this week but after watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (on the Criterion Channel) it was gone. Marilyn Monroe is a comic genius and Jane Russell is a fucking legend. A film about besties being drop-dead flawless and bringing out the best in each other, getting over and getting theirs. It is pure cinema.
A lot of which is now streaming on the Criterion Channel! RIYL unbridled emotional complexity, novelistic films about families, "genre" filmmaking by a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker. I'd start with We Own the Night, a film I wish I could see for the first time again. If this is your first time I'm v jealous.
