RandomCha

Well, here I go again: I’m about to leave to go see Laura at the Siskel. I’ve already watched it once this year, but I really want to see it on the big screen. So sue me.

So Dark the Night [1946]

1. CU: he raises his head after examining the body, and we see the rippling reflections of the water on his face.
2. He’s shot, but before dying he smashes the window with a poker.
3. In a fit of annoyance, the innkeeper flits the edge of her apron against the top of the bar over and over again.

Whipped up this one last night. Tangy, potent.

THE LES BAXTER

2 oz. orange juice
1 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
3/4 oz. lemon syrup
1 1/2 oz. gold rum
3/4 oz. 151 (overproof) rum 

Shake with ice, strain into a tiki mug or double old-fashioned glass filled with ice.

It’s only June, but …

Andy was planning to have his last-ever assigment for his last-ever class due next Monday, but last night the instructor pulled a switcheroo and instead it’s due tomorrow. Bad? Sure. Good? Yes! It means that today will be hell, but after tomorrow night it’ll all be over. Yeah, he’ll still have to go to that final class next Monday, but it’ll just be a sit-and-veg exercise. 

The Red Balloon [1956] 

1. In the first shot of the film the little boy goes up to the cat and plays with it for a moment before he descends the stairs.
2. He climbs over the fence and on the fence is a poster for a performance (or a movie?) with Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo.
3. The final shot reminds me so much of the way Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ends. The little boy, suspended from a raft of balloons, slowly flies away.

Mark of the Vampire [1935]

1. Looking out the window we see the ghostly female vampire staring  at us, eyes widened, her face lit up.
2. A mass of spiders crawling up a dust cloth; rats crawling in and out of holes in the walls.
3. Bela Lugosi only speaks once in the entire film.