Filmme Fatales Chase and Jeff

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"Yes, she's emotionally disturbed. She's unbalanced!"

For our final week on the incomparable Joan Crawford, we will be talking about one of our favourite films: the 1962 psychological thriller, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Two aging sisters, former child star Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) and her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), live together in a decaying mansion filled with resentment, secrets, dead animals, and DRAG.

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"A man can lie, steal... and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he's still a man. All a woman has to do is slip - once. And she's a "tramp!" Must be a great comfort to you to be a man."

For our third week on Joan Crawford, we are looking at the 1954 gritty Western, Johnny Guitar, where love, power, and revenge collide. Directed by Nicholas Ray, the film follows the mysterious gunslinger Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden) entangled in a tense love triangle with the fearless saloon owner Vienna (Joan Crawford) and the menacing, and kind of camp, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge).

Next Week's Film: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

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"Oh, I loved her so much. Oh, please God, don't ever let anything happen to Veda."

For our second week discussing the legend Joan Crawford, we are chatting about her Oscar-winning performance in the 1945 film, Mildred Pierce.

Based on a novel by James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce follows the titular character, played by Joan, as she tries to build a life for herself and her daughters away from her toxic ex husband. What emerges is possibly the most demonic, evil movie villain of all time: Veda Pierce.

We discuss our thoughts about the film, Veda, and Joan's performance, as well as what 1945 feminist takes don't quite live up to a modern perspective.

Next Week's Film: Johnny Guitar (1954)

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"That's all quite propper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.'"

Our next Filmme Fatale is the incomparable Hollywood golden girl, Joan Crawford. This week, we are discussing the 1932 film Grand Hotel. Ahead of its time in cinematography and plot, this movie follows a group of dynamic and flat characters as they intersect living within a hotel in Berlin. There's camp, drama, glamour, and mystery!

Neither of us are buffs of old Hollywood, so it will be a fun month diving into movies we have never experienced before with Ms. Crawford.

Next Week's Film: Mildred Pierce (1945)

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"We need to be quiet for awhile. Storm... it's powerful, so we need to be quiet for awhile."

For our final week on the 96th Academy Awards Best Actress nominees, we are talking about the breakout star of the group: Lily Gladstone in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). The film is described as an American American epic, wester crime drama and centres around the Osage Nation–at one point, the richest community per capita on earth. That is, until white people got involved and Osage members began mysteriously being killed.

Lily Gladstone plays Mollie, a strong Osage woman whose family's fortune becomes the target of Robert De Niro's William King Hale, the deputy sheriff, and his naive nephew, Ernest Burkhart, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Gladstone presents one of the more understated and intentional performances of this year's Oscar nominees; however, her performance is as powerful in what is unsaid as in what is said.

Listen to the end to hear our final predictions and rankings for who will snatch the trophy, and tune into the Oscars this Sunday to see how wrong we probably are!

Next Week's Film: Grand Hotel (1932)

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"If the summer doesn't sing in you, then nothing sings in you. And if nothing sings in you, then you can't make music."

For our fourth week focusing on Best Actress nominees at the 96th Academy Awards, we are discussing Carey Mulligan in Bradley Cooper's 2023 biopic, Maestro. This film focuses on the marriage between Leonard Bernstein, the first great American composer and a closeted bisexual man, and his wife Felicia Montealegre, a successful actress -- played by Bradley and Carey.

This week, we discuss our feelings on the film -- we consider ourselves professionals on biopics at this points -- as well as Carey's knockout performance and what we felt was maybe lacking in the development of Bernstein's character. We also introduce a new segment in which we evoke some Letterboxd reviews in order to provoke our discussion.

Join us as we discuss one of our favourite performances of this Oscars season!

Next Week's Film: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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