Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen (1944)
Taylor Dayne (Tig Notaro)Heard her do this bit on This American Life recently. It was the funniest effin’ thing I’ve heard in a long time.
His Girl Friday - Between The Lines Edit
[A]ll the action without the dialogue - hard cuts for sound and picture only - strictly in chronological order.
Absolutely worth it for the first minute and a half alone, in which Cary Grant gives a master class in nonverbal communication.
She Wouldn’t Say Yes (1945)
Blithe Spirit (1945) 
1½ stars for Margaret Rutherford for being hilarious without being buffoonish - ½ star for the awful print that made the movie look colorized (*shakes fist at Netflix*) + 1 star for Kay Hammond for putting the perfect edge on all of her many snide remarks (and not letting it bother her that she was green) - ½ star for pronouncing it “El-veera” (If ElvIra is good enough for the Oak Ridge Boys I don’t see why it’s not good enough for Noël Coward) + ½ star for Constance Cummings for being appropriately insufferable (I would take off some because I didn’t really care for her, but that hat she had to wear at the end seems punishment enough.) + 1½ stars for Rex Harrison’s totally fabulous siphon coffee maker
Love Actually (2003) 
½ star for Billy Mack - ½ star for Juliet, Peter & Mark (Could I have cared less about them? Not much.) + 1½ stars for Jamie & Aurélia (Adorable.) + ½ star for Harry, Karen, & Mia (That’s all for Emma Thompson) + ½ star for David & Natalie (I’ve had “Jump” in my head pretty much ever since.) + ½ star for Daniel, Sam & Joanna (Mostly for the kid, mostly for the airport scene) + ½ star for Sarah, Karl and Michael - 3 stars for Colin (God, I hated everything about that) + 1½ stars for John and Judy (I would have watched a movie just about them.)











