Movie Clip Wednesday: Garden Scene

I'se been sorta hot mostly miss in MCW this summer--so I'se off mah game some.

Iffin' y'all ain't yet played, Joanna Cake is keepin' the meme goin' in the absence of Boxer-Babe. Jes' check out what others has done an' join in--


Mercy, the first idea flitting across mah screen were that sppof in the movies now--Gnomeo and Juliet--garden gnomes that animate when their humans ain't lookin'...but I couldn't do it to ya'.
Hmmmnnn...what about an ole' timey Audrey Hepburn film, Green Mansions, might be new to most readers. But that story is in a jungle, not a proper garden. Edward Scissorhands? Well...not a favorite.


Next, what about that recent box office flub Garden of Eden? Uh, I'se not ole enough yet fer it. An' I ain't sure much of it really besed on Hemingway's work--more like a rip on Hemingway.


Still, the garden theme could be rather serence--or I chose a serene clip--
I simply went wif'a quiet reflective sort of movie where the garden scenes are restful with a hint of mystery. It is a period piece, great costumes, endearing theme. If you have not seen Enchanted April, rectify that lapse as soon as possible.

Movie Clip Wednesday: One Hit Wonders

The theme this week is a really good one--actors and actresses who make one memorable movie then....disappear.

It seems to Aunty that this heah category especially marks out chile' actors. Many of 'em is chosen for some quality that in a chile' is grand, but doan always translate as they grow up, or, they grow up an' is damaged in the process by the whole actin' milieu. Often it be real sad, but sometimes not--I heered that one of the kids in Encounters of the Third Kind went on to be veterinarian or somethin'.

Anyhoo, I done singled out Harvey Stephens, a British chile' actor, in honor of Joanna Cake (Cakey-Pie!) who is our hostess for Movie Clip Wednesday while Boxer continues her hostess hiatus.

Stephens starred in one of what remains one of the most frightenin' movies I'se ever seen. It's a David Selzer screenplay that won an Oscar fer the music. Wif Gregory Peck an' Lee Remmick as his daddy an' mama'. Harvey Stephens played the chile' Damian in THE OMEN. Even the trailer below unnerves me.



Stephens, 41 years ole' now, went on to work at the London Stock Exchange.

Movie is jes' plain creepy.

Movie Clip Wednesday: Best Movie set in Ireland

Movie Clip Wednesday is hosted by Anonymous Boxer whar' the blogosphere's glitterati gather. Check it out to find movies ya always meant to see or see again. This week's theme is Best Movie filmes in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England.

I chose Ireland: I ain't never been, but hope to go. Soon.




A gorgeous film (wif' Robert Mitchum) that justly won an Academy Award fer cinematography, Ryan's Daughter is a grand, sweeping historical movie. The picture is long--3 plus hours, but the mature story is a good use of time on a rainy day when ya' need to git the mendin' done.

It's a David Lean movie (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago) so ya' already knows it will be intense. AN it is--set in Ireland durin' WWI, a pretty young thang marriet to an older, sweet pacifist--she meets a British soldier who is despised in the village but since he's already sufferin' war stresses, he an' she is ripe fer a "torrid affair" --meanwhile while local IRA boys is gunrunnin'. Fer yore money ya git a crusty ole priest, a village idiot who knows more than fols thinks he knows, a controllin' father an' more wild Irish coast than most Irishmen seen.

I tried to git you tube to play fair, but as I write this at 11:30 pm, it ain't very cooperative--so these still pics is all I have fer ya'


"The Oscar-winning cinematography by Freddie Young is indescribably beautiful. Whether he’s shooting a delicately lit interior scene or a spectacular panorama of the wild Irish coast, Young fills the screen with such masterful interplays of light and texture that each shot is like a timeless painting. Even more impressively, Lean manages to make Mitchum, the quintessential macho movie star, believable as a soft-spoken pacifist."

MCW: Most Overrated Oscar

Boxer-Babe is back at the helm of Movie Clip Wednesday an' this week's theme is WORST OSCAR--oh wait, thas' too dramatic. The theme is Most Overrated Oscar.

Ain't sure if it's worst movie or worst ANYthing that won an Oscar, but since I'se on the road an' have mounds of work to git done, I'se cribbin--from an earlier post fer MCW, I noted that this watery whine ain't fit for anybody over 19 years ole. Yeesh, this is sentimental smarmy -ness. Yick.
HOW could the academy lose its collective mind on this??

But jes' in case the "Worst Oscar" can be applied to other categories? Then mah nominee fer worst winnin' music is ....(the envelope please), ...you guessed it, "My Heart Will Go On" from the same sappy movie!:

It woan even hurt mah feelin's none iffin' ya skip the clip.

MCW: Worst Sequel

Mr. Milk River carries on in gracious style, choosing themes for Movie Clip Wednesday for us'uns to play. Check out his home base for MCW, then visit around to see how creatively others handled the theme. Have fun!



Seems to me the worstest sequels is always in the horror genre. Once the original shock done scared the phooey outa ya', them same tricks is laughable when reheated.

Then again, mebbe the worst sequels is to the worst movies? Why double the dufus factor?

Oh well, at least this one boasts Vincent Price. But the emphasis is on worst.


The Return of the Fly