I am this house, my eyelashes are wood between glass

[sovay]

So this noir series at the Brattle is really paying off. Phantom Lady (1944) and Black Angel (1946) were a terrific, unexpected double feature—one a flawed B-picture with some indelible scenes, one a genuine minor gem with a few rough edges. The former is New York noir, the latter L.A.; both were adapted from novels by Cornell Woolrich and share the theme of a female protagonist trying to clear a man wrongly accused of murder. In an effort not to glue myself to the computer for the rest of the afternoon, I will almost certainly split them up into posts of their own. Financially, I cannot sustain a double feature every other night for much longer, but it's been totally worth it so far. These last two were very much the sort of movie that under normal conditions I discover at two in the morning on TCM, only this time I got to see them on 35 mm in a theater with rushthatspeaks.

yhlee sent me a pretty fantastic mermaid recently. She seems to be part of an online collectible card game now being Kickstarted, with another quite decent mermaid if you scroll down a little. This sort of thing improves my day.

I have never seen any Baby Peggy films, but I hope Diana Serra Cary can get the support she needs. I should look for her books. People become amazing links of time.

Further content forthcoming.

Comments

[sovay]

I hope you find it! I love Law's work and wanted to share.

All is well! My mother located the package and it is waiting for me in the room which used to be my bedroom and now belongs to my niece!

[yhlee]

Aww! I'm glad there's a happy ending. =)

[sovay]

I'm glad there's a happy ending.

Thank you for making sure to double-check!