Wednesday 17 February 2010
Following our film club's inaugural screening last month of Chintaown, Jo and I continued our LA Stories season on Tuesday with 40s noir-melodrama Mildred Pierce. It's one of those classic films I've shamefully never seen. Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her performance as the suburban housewife who'll seemingly do anything for her daughters. Yesterday it was officially announced that Kate Winslet will now play the role in an HBO mini series written and directed by Todd Haynes.
Here's the original trailer:
I loved it. It looks great - all expressionist black and white; the dialogue is especially juicy (William Faulkner was one of the writers) and Max Steiner's score is brilliant. By coincidence we saw Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film Micmacs on Sunday which reuses lot of Steiner's old film music, Inglorious Basterds style, to excellent effect.
Our shortlist of LA films is growing but I'm still open to suggestions if you have any.
