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Movies I've seen:
The Innocents -- Deborah Kerr
Hobb's End -- Catarina Conti
The Naked City -- Barry Fitzgerald
Hell is for Heroes -- Steve McQueen
Mark of the Vampire -- Bela Lugosi
Return of the Vampire -- Bela Lugosi
Dawn of the Dead -- 2004 remake
White Zombie -- Bela Lugosi
I Walked with a Zombie -- Frances Dee
Invisible Ghost -- Bela Lugosi
Bad Day at Black Rock -- Spencer Tracy
Farewell to Arms -- Helen Hayes
Stalag 17 -- William Holden
Northfork -- Nick Nolte
400 Blows -- Jean-Pierre L�aud
Charlotte Gray -- Cate Blanchett
Bad and the Beautiful -- Kirk Douglas
The Bridge -- Gerard Depardieu
OxBow Incident -- Henry Fonda
Wolf Creek -- Cassandra McGrath
Heights -- Glenn Close
Is Paris Burning -- Leslie Caron
The Clearing -- Robert Redford
Mararia -- Carmelo Gomez
My Wife's Murder -- Suchitra Krishnamurthy
Sous le Sable/Under the sand -- Charlotte Rampling
Detour -- Tom Neal
House of Mirth -- Gillian Anderson and Eric Stoltz
The Lady and the Duke -- Lucy Russell
Too Late for Tears (aka Killer Bait) -- Dan Duryea and Lizabeth Scott
Common Ground (aka Lugares Comunes) -- Mercedes Sampietro
Palm Beach Story -- Claudette Colbert
Gun Crazy -- Peggy Cummins
Cars -- Owen Wilson
Fury -- Spencer Tracy
The Hitch-hiker -- William Tallman
Dirty Pretty Things -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
Grand Canyon -- Danny Glover
Novocaine -- Steve Martin
Murder Room -- Martin Shaw
Mrs. Dalloway -- Vanessa Redgrave
Cheers for Miss Bishop -- Martha Scott
The Game of Death -- David Morrissey
Dragon Seed -- Katharine Hepburn
Easter Parade -- Fred Astaire
A Cooler Climate -- Judy Davis and Sally Field
The Next Voice You Hear -- Nancy Davis
Cet Amour-La -- Jeanne Moreau
The Quiet American -- Michael Caine
S.O.B. -- Julie Andrews
The Jacket -- Adrien Brody
Pane e Tulipani -- Licia Maglietta
Le Chiavi di Casa -- Kim Stuart Rossi
The Perfect Man -- Hilary Duff
Fur -- Nicole Kidman
All That Heaven Allows -- Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman
Three Daring Daughters -- Jane Powell and Jeanette MacDonald
Memories of Murder -- Kang-ho Song
Summer Stock -- Judy Garland
Under the Yum Yum Tree -- Jack Lemmon
Devil Wears Prada -- Meryl Streep
Judgment at Nuremberg -- Spencer Tracy
Material Girls -- Hilary Duff
A Good Year -- Russell Crowe
Little Princess -- Shirley Temple
Little Lord Fauntleroy -- Freddie Bartholomew
Fort Apache -- Henry Fonda
Rear Window -- James Stewart
La Baie des anges -- Jeanne Moreau
Portrait of a Lady -- Nicole Kidman
Clean -- Nick Nolte
The Thing -- James Arness
Wings of a Dove -- Helen Bonham Carter
Cache -- Juliette Binoche
The Tall T -- Randolph Scott
Ride Lonesome -- Randolph Scott
Five Days -- Edward Woodward
Young Adam -- Ewan McGregor
Reservation Road -- Mark Ruffalo
Entre Nous -- Isabelle Huppert
Empire Falls -- Paul Newman
Mama Mia -- Meryl Streep
Japanese Story -- Toni Collette
The Changeling -- George C. Scott
Our Town -- Paul Newman
Le hussard sur le toit -- Juliette Binoche
Napoleon Dynamite -- Haylie Duff
War Games -- Ally Sheedy
Lonely are the Brave -- Kirk Douglas
Zombie High -- Meg Ryndek
Plainsong -- Aidan Quinn
Susan and God -- Joan Crawford
Monsieur Vincent -- Pierre Fresnay
Nora Prentiss -- Ann Sheridan
Hollywood Canteen -- Robert Hutton and Joan Leslie
The Stalking Moon -- Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
To Catch a Thief -- Cary Grant and the luminous Grace Kelly
Winter meeting -- Bette Davis
Un tranquillo posto di campagna -- Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave
The Red Balloon -- Pascal Lamorisse
Horror House -- Frankie Avalon
Reviews
Ladies of the House (2008)
Retired doesn't mean tired
Years ago, there were women's pictures (sometimes called "weepers") and more recently there have been "chick flicks" and I suppose this movie could be categorized as such, but to do so would be to overlook some very fine male performances, particularly by Lance Henricksen as "Frank" and Gordon Thomson as "Richard." Richard Roundtree was under-utilized; he made the most of his under-written character and has one very fine scene towards the end of the picture. But his relationship with his wife "Birdie" (wonderfully played by the very talented Pam Grier) would make a terrific picture or television series by itself. Florence Henderson offers a very fine performance and Donna Mills does what she can with her all-too-familiar character of society wife. There is so much more to Donna Mills than beautiful, wealthy blonde parts, and this role is a good beginning for her to more-fully explore her talent. What I found refreshing about this movie is that it while it covers the ground of aging people's concerns, it does so in a realistic way, without too many pat, completely resolved by the end of the movie answers and without that annoying and unnatural "balance" of fresh, beautiful young characters to (I suppose) hold the interest of a younger audience. This movie might not appeal to a young audience, but if young people were to look at the subject matter as a metaphor for how to proceed in life in an uncertain world, I think they too might find it entertaining.