Some of the BEST Film Directing Ever. Resolution ahead of its time, like 1080p back then. Best Classic in my book.

"He has this rugged, old-school masculinity" - yes, actors like Humphrey Bogart were one of kind. The closest modern-day equivalent I can think of is George Clooney.

I saw Louis Ahern at the beach once in Santa Monica when I was 4 or 5...Young women were all over him...I watched in amazement....I was a bright kid...My mother said..oh it is just movie people...don't be too concerned....OK....

First off, I really love your stuff. Your reactions very insightful. Since you are a big Bogart fan (As I am) I thought I'd share a few tidbits you may or may not be aware of. Bogart and Bacall were married on the Ohio farm of their mutual friend, author Louis Bromfield. The farm is now a state park. Bromfield wrote two books which were later made into films, 'Mrs. Parkington' and 'The Rains Came'. The later is a very interesting picture because all the stars are cast opposite to type. Myrna Loy is a slut, Nigel Bruce is a villian. Ronald Coleman is a Muslim Doctor. Maria Ouspenskaya is an Indian Princess. It's also one of the first Hollywood 'Disaster Films'. You might want to give it a look...

I first saw Notorious in the 1950s when I was a kid...It was just an old movie shown in the afternoon back then that I watched after school....I was staggered by its fineness though I was very young...I later became an English major so had a natural talent for such things....It has certainly tested time and the human experience....

I rarely see pr-Code classic Hollywood movies, and ones like this one feels so different from the ones we usually see.

I was six or seven years old when this movie premiered. I wasn’t permitted to see it; but seeing it when I was a bit older, I want to pass along that the play and movie, taking place when the Civil Rights movement was picking up speed, and violence against Black and Hispanic people was in our news, were intended to wake people (especially white people) up and confront them with the pain this violence was causing. When the gang members look into the camera at the end of “Cool,” they’re directly challenging the viewer and saying: if you don’t help stop this madness, it’s going to get worse. It was a real attempt to disturb people enough to motivate them to positive action. Originally conceived during and just after World War II, West Side Story was originally called East Side Story, and was set in NYC’s Lower East Side, among two immigrant communities: Irish Catholics and Eastern European Jews. The LES had been a hotbed of crime, violence, and poverty since the 19th century, when it contained the notorious Five Points district (see Scorcese’s Gangs of New York for the earlier English vs Irish violence of a century before this). But the show’s creators, all of European Jewish immigrant backgrounds, recognized that many of the immigrants’ children had moved out of the LES, and the gang violence that arose in the 50s was elsewhere, for the most part. So they shelved the project. Fast forward to the late 1950s, when the Upper West Side saw a lot of youth violence among immigrant Puerto Ricans and white gangs. This area would later be torn down to make room for what became Lincoln Center. But at the time, with the rise of this violence, the creative team revisited this project and transformed it into West Side Story.

Wow this film and this reaction is everything ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

100% with you. Some of the best science fiction films are not "blockbusters". Gattica comes to mind.

Thanks!

What a film! She basically had never been loved, either by her fake fiance' or her heartless father...

Mia, I love your reactions, very smart and intuitive. You're a true movie lover.

Hooray for the almost forgotten but always fabulous Irene Dunne ❤

You should watch the remake “Washington Square” as well I dunno if you have a cut-off date for films but it’s an interesting contrast

This was an astounding film with incredible performances but ultimately it’s a very sad story. If you would like to see a rather different Olivia deHavilland romantic movie, one that’s a bit more upbeat but still very interesting, I strongly recommend HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941), with Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard. It’s a movie that really stays with you long after you’ve seen it.

Most world leaders believe it or not love this film. That's a fact.

Catherine was in a though spot. Let down by her father, who was disappointed she didn't possess her mother's beauty or grace. Abandoned by her lover when he found out Catherine would lose her inheritance. I guess the only path left for her was revenge.

Nice to see someone watch the old classics. Some people won't even watch a film if it's in black and white

The print that you watched wasn’t the best that’s available. Nosferatu is actually supposed to have the same kind of tinting that Wings does - it was fairly standard in silent films. Also, the music often changes between different copies, so this score wasn’t what audiences originally heard in 1922. Kino Lorber probably produces the best copy of this film on Blu-ray in North America. Also the inter-titles in this copy are quite different from the ones seen in the Kino blu-ray. It almost seems as if the ones who produced this copy made them up, which wouldn’t surprise me since it is such a popular public domain film.

The ending. It's not an "I see dead people" surprise-type ending, but there is a "wow" factor to her leaving him pounding on the front door and ascending that staircase.

Love this movie The movement of light to dark is amazing

I am sorry I can't do story time in the middle of a classic. What are we doing here?

Glad that the movie and actors have won the Oscars

Marlon Brando is awesome in the movie 🎥 with Eva Marie Saint That was her first film 🎥 with Brando. They were excellent marvelous as Karl Reiner playing priest. That character that Marlon played was very tough, masculine and caring to her that he falls in love with her. That story is about working at the Dock working around shipyards And I love ❤️ that movie. 🎥

I've read the Henry James novel at least three times.. James is the master of super-subtle character work. The film's really pretty faithful to the book.

I love it when you watch these old black-and-white films from the classic Hollywood era. It reminds me of when I had my mom living with me in her declining years so I could take care of her. She loved these films. I would hear the sound of these old films coming from her room every night and the glow of the TV illuminating from the half-open door. She would always fall asleep during the movie. She grew up watching these films. She was born in 1924 and lived to be 87. She watched her brothers and high school friends go to war in 1942. She had five children. The oldest passed away at just 39 years old. Her mom was killed by a drunk driver. He husband (my father) died at a young age leaving her to raise five children. She had a successful career as an interior designer and fought heart disease. These films gave her comfort. Thank you for watching these great films.

Bolt the door, Mariah! A brilliant film from 1949 directed the great William Wyler.

I know I am 3 years late with this comment, but I thought I'd share an anecdote. My maternal grandparents were not "vaudevillians" as dancers or singers, but they were part of a musical combo that would tour with a silent movie and play the score live (Grandma was the pianist, and Grandpop was a violin player). During one particular tour, my grandmother gave birth to my mom in the lobby of the hotel they were staying at.

One of my favorite performances ever. Olivia DeHavilland is top rate.

Today I thought to myself "there's no way Mia will NOT react to this movie" and I wasn't disappointed. Btw: the piece playing Rachmaninov's piano concerto in a more orchestral form.

Her father had her so crushed mentally and emotionally that he turned INTO a shy thing who wasn't comfortable "in company" and didn't have all the desirable social graces, and so she is "unmarriageable." The fact he has no other children makes me think Catherine's mother died giving birth to her, and I'd bet that when it comes down to it, her father resents her for "killing her mother." Bad enough that he lost evidently the only woman who ever found him to be an acceptable husband (made clear by the fact he didn't manage to remarry), but on top of that she isn't a boy, a son to carry on his name. He resents her. "Your dress is so lovely dear...too bad YOU can't pull it off because you aren't pretty and fair enough." He made her insecure and lonely, turning her into the perfect target for any predatory man, and then he has the nerve to put her down for being the perfect target. And of course Morris IS a predatory man. MAYBE he would have actually loved her, and maybe she'd have come out of her shell more if she thought she was with a man who loved her. But he doesn't show up when he thinks she won't get the money, and dad calls her an idiot for ever believing in Morris, and the life gets crushed right out of her. It's so bad that when Maria pays her a compliment because she's in a pretty dress that, for that time, was the HEIGHT of fashion and that any young maid would have envied, Catherine can't accept it and thinks she's just buttering her up before making a request. I wish I could say she had changed into a self-assured and confident woman, but it feels more like she has become hard and cold and cruel. It feels like she can never find love now because she will never believe that it's real; any man who likes talking to her or is GENUINELY happy sitting home at night reading while his wife expertly embroiders is never going to have a chance with her because she is always going to doubt that anyone can find her interesting or pretty. 😢

I love this movie, I think it's one of the funniest comedies of all time. Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal have such fabulous chemistry, and Madeline Kahn (in her debut role!) was such a blast as Eunice. I must admit I didn't like Bringing Up Baby though. This 'inspired by' remake is the much superior film with much more likable and relatable characters.

4:32 But there is a movie called Washington Square. I haven't read the book but the father in that movie is so harsh. But Jennifer Jason Leigh's portrayal was interesting. You can tell how much she is suffering just trying to be herself in a world where a woman should be proper and marry. It was painful to watch from the first ten minutes. I tried to watch the Heiress but my kids wouldn't let me.

I'm sorry, but how do you review movies but not know how to pronounce Coppola?

Love classic movies, and this is a favorite. It is based on the novel Washington Square, by Henry James. A great book.

Olivia was some actress . My favorite film with her was the snake pit that scared the daylights out of me as a kid . She lived to be 104 years old !

Narcissist! Love bombing. Rushing to propose. Playing the victim. Looking for her vulnerabilities. Surrounding himself with enablers. Run away!!!

Mia! They redid this movie in the 90s with Albert Finney (daddy warbucks) called Washington Square (which is the name of the novel)-- check it out!

Mia went from falling for him to nope you moving too fast. Red flag! Her switch up when she got her hurt broken was sad because it led her to distance herself more and more from her father. Her father should have treated her better and stopped comparing her to her mother, but I feel one day she will regret not trying to reconcile with him. Edited to add: I don't know if you have ever seen Dark Victory with Bette Davis, but I think you would enjoy it. Glad to see you will be watching The Women.

When you introduced the cast you forgot to introduce "Bruce"... the shark! 😢

Such a classic! "The French Connection" (1971) is a great Roy Scheider movie with Gene Hackman. It also has one of the best movie car chases!

lol shut up and watch it

I love this movie, So excited to watch it with you. (I haven’t seen anyone else react to this, thanks)

Richardson's classical training makes Cliff's method acting seem amateurish. It's ironic that these method actors believe that becoming the character is true acting. Hell, if you're being chased by a real lion it's easy to show terror but it's not acting. Acting is when you DON'T have these emotions and find a way to portray them convincingly.

Thanks so much Mia .. I love watching movies with you !

This is a classic and wonderful movie! Olivia De Haviland deserved her Oscar. Montgomery Clift was drop dead handsome!!

I just loved when Olivia Dehavilland turned cold.

That trackside shot is worse than you describe here. If you look carefully you can see one of the brake arm return levers brush his hair. IF Eli had flinched ONE inch his head would have been torn off. JEEZ !!!!

I remember enjoying the novel, Washington Square. I read it so long ago, but I believe Henry James wrote Catherine's character with care and empathy and, as a reader, I felt quite protective and proud of her.

Your outtakes at the end crack me up. The Women is a fantastic movie. It has very subtle suggestions about a taboo topic back then…