#Joseph Ruttenberg

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BUtterfield 8 (1960)

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming, 1941).

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Audrey Hepburn, cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg, Anthony Perkins, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Mel Ferrer during the production of Green Mansions (1959)

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The Women (1939)

The most accidentally sapphic film of all time?

Director: George Cukor

Cinematographers: Joseph Ruttenberg and Oliver T. Marsh

Costume Designer: Adrian

Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Mary Boland, Florence Nash, Virginia Grey, Marjorie Main, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Butterfly McQueen, Theresa Harris, and Hedda Hopper.

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Dread by the Decade: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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★★½

Plot: A doctor experiments upon himself, hoping to scientifically separate his good and evil sides.

Review: Despite its high budget and a powerful performance from Bergman, this remake is not much more than a defanged retreading of old ground.

Remake of: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Source Material: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Year: 1941 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Gothic Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes

Director: Victor Fleming Writers: John Lee Mahin, Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg Editor: Harold F. Kress Composer: Franz Waxman Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Peter Godfrey

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Story: 2.5/5 - Its strongest scenes are merely retreads of its predecessor's. Any new material is repetitive and overlong.

Performances: 4/5 - Shaky accent aside, Bergman is devastating as the abused Ivy. Tracy, though, is less memorable, with his Jekyll being solid, but his Hyde little more than a brutish criminal.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Striking, especially during Jekyll's transformation hallucinations.

Editing: 4.5/5 - Wonderful combination of of fades, dissolves, and cuts. Jekyll's transformation are standouts.

Music: 3/5

Sets: 4/5 - Lovely and high quality.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 3.5/5 - The women's gowns are gorgeous, but Jekyll and Hyde's costumes desperately needed more distinction.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Rape (off-screen)

Domestic abuse

Animal death

Animal experimentation

Misogyny (mostly critiqued)

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Van Johnson, Barry Jones, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse in Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954)

Cast: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones, Hugh Laing, Albert Sharpe, Virginia Bosler, Jimmy Thompson, Tudor Owen, Owen McGiveney, Dee Turnell, Dodie Heath, Eddie Quillan. Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner, based on his book for a stage musical. Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Art direction: E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Albert Akst. Music: Conrad Salinger; songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. 

Three years after Brigadoon, MGM's biggest musical star wasn't Gene Kelly or Judy Garland, it was Elvis Presley, who made Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe, 1957) and eleven more movies for the studio. Arthur Freed, Brigadoon's producer, made six more musicals for the studio before leaving it in 1961, but Brigadoon is often regarded as a sign that MGM's golden age was ending. It's not an original movie musical like An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) or Singin' in the Rain (Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952), the most highly regarded of the films produced by the Freed Unit, but an adaptation of a Broadway hit. It's also filmed in Ansco Color, widely regarded as inferior to classic Technicolor. It was originally intended to be shot on location in the Scottish Highlands, but the studio decided the weather was too uncertain there. After considering another location in California near Big Sur, the decision was made to film it entirely on a soundstage in Culver City. The expensive set earned an Oscar nomination for art direction, even though the decision to make the film in CinemaScope only magnified the artificiality of the artificial turf and painted sky. Brigadoon is not just stagey -- there are pauses at the end of musical numbers where the Broadway audience would have applauded -- it's soundstagey.  Kelly, who also choreographed, is in good voice and Cyd Charisse (whose singing voice was dubbed by Carol Richards) dances beautifully, The song score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe is one of their best, including hummable tunes like "The Heather on the Hill" and "Almost Like Being in Love." (Although some of the songs from the stage version, including "Come to Me, Bend to Me" and "There But for You Go I," were cut.) Yet there's something lifeless about the movie. Van Johnson, who was cast in the role of Kelly's sidekick after Donald O'Connor was considered, seems a little bored with his part. The cutesiness of the village that outwitted time and space is a little too thick: There's something almost refreshing about the scenes satirizing life in New York near the end of the film, which are supposed to indicate that Kelly's character made a big mistake in not staying in Brigadoon. Vincente Minnelli directs these scenes with a sharpness and vigor that's absent from the rest of the movie. 

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Gaslight, 1944.

Dir. George Cukor | Writ. John Van Druten, Walter Reisch & John L. Balderston | DOP Joseph Ruttenberg

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🎃: what are some good memories you have of celebrating halloween? and do you have any plans for this year?

going to the corn maze and picking out pumpkins and carving them was always so fun, as was trick or treating. there was also a party for kids in the neighborhood at a neighbor's house which i remember being fun but don't remember anything that happened lmao. also the year i lived in jerusalem i watched ghostbusters and had brunch with rabbi danya ruttenberg who im just mentioning for clout bc she's like famous on twitter or something. i don't have plans yet this year but hopefully i will make some.....

🌧️: time for a movie marathon on a rainy day. pick your top 5 movies to watch!

this is so difficult omg. any 5 movies? ok well here are some fun ones

emo the musical

but im a cheerleader

high school musical 2

joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat (also this is a good movie for late autumn/early winter specifically)

the princess bride

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b.f.’s daughter (us, leonard 48)

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The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor

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What's real and what's just in your head? This month's horror adjacent episode features the prestige Victorian thriller GASLIGHT (1944) from director George Cukor, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten!

Plus, discussion of how pervasive the term "gaslighting" has become, and whether the film is a good or bad portrayal of an abusive relationship -- spoiler alert: it's both!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 43:19; Discussion 53:50

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Small Town Girl (1953)

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THE WOMEN (1939)

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

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The Philadelphia Story.

Released: January 17, 1941.

Director: George Cukor.

Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart (screen play), Phillip Barry (based on the play by).

Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg.

Film Editing: Frank Sullivan.

Music: Franz Waxman.

Staring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard.

Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Woman of the Year (1942)

In their first (and low-key best) cinematic pairing, Hepburn (erudite) and Tracy (loutish) crackle with sexual tension (they’d never be this openly sexy onscreen again) as the latter struggles to accept the former’s disparate feminist ideals after a whirlwind romance and marriage.

Director: George Stevens

Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg

Costume designer: Adrian

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Roscoe Karns, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, and William Bendix.