#remember the night

[normasshearer]

Suppose you were starving to death and you didn't have any food and you didn't have any place to get anything. And there were some loaves of bread out in front of a market. [...] Would you swipe one? - If I was starving, you bet I would. That's because you're honest. You see, I'd have a six-course dinner at a fancy restaurant across the street and then say I forgot my purse. Get the difference?

BARBARA STANWYCK as Lee Leander in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) dir. Mitchell Leisen

[murderballadeer]

barbara stanwyck + letterboxd reviews 

[thebarroomortheboy]

BARBARA STANWYCK and FRED MACMURRAY in REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) | dir. Mitchell Leisen

[fuckyeahbarbarastanwyck]

[bornforastorm]

do u have any fave holiday / ny / wintery / decembery movies 👀

Boy do I!!

I bet you've seen plenty of these, but here are the first ones that immediately leapt to my mind, in chronological order:

REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1939) - thee wintery holiday movie for me. unsung masterpiece, extremely sexy.

MEET JOHN DOE (1941) - holidays but make it miserable and moral. sometimes the holiday season is about being glum! Also I love to see young Gary Cooper's big sad eyes in the snow.

(^^both of those are currently streaming on the criterion channel!!)

NEVER SAY GOODBYE (1946) - I think Errol Flynn should be on any winter/holiday list. He's pure cozy to me, and especially in his comedic mode. This is a Christmas comedy of remarriage! A big marine picks him up under the arms and carries him around!!

BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958) - wintery and whimsical! And features gay witch Jack Lemmon so what more could you want (there should also always be one Jack Lemmon movie on every holiday list and while The Apartment is the obvious one, it's never been quite what I want in winter)

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) - a pure Snow movie. ideal to put on while you decorate and then spend ten minutes here and there getting lost in Omar Sharif's eyes.

METROPOLITAN (1990) - Whit Stilman is New York and Metropolitan is his New York Winter Holiday movie. Charming, witty, delightful.

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) - an obvious one but the best. Career best Michael Caine, career best Muppets. I wonder-- too much Gonzo for your taste??

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013) - one of my favorite movies of all time, so sad so cold, maybe more of an early February movie than a December movie, but good winter, good new york, good music.

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) - it's giving winter 🤌 it's giving blood on the snow 🤌 it's giving ghosts 🤌 it's giving Gothic 🤌

THE GOLDFINCH (2019) - I am the sicko who really likes the movie of The Goldfinch. But here's the deal...... it's wintery. It's cozy. the vibes are immaculate (to me). Ends on Christmas in Amsterdam and that feels great!!

[classic-hollywood-glam]

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred McMurray- Remember the Night 1940

[nine-frames]

"What have morals got to do with it?"

Remember the Night, 1940.

Dir. Mitchell Leisen | Writ. Preston Sturges | DOP Ted Tetzlaff

[internatlvelvet]

Barbara Stanwyck: Remember The Night (1940)

[allaboutstanwyck]

Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Macmurray and director Mitchell Leisen behind scenes of Remember The Night, 1939 – released 19 January 1940.

[mehlsbells]

REMEMBER THE NIGHT has a beautiful scene where Barbara Stanwyck's Lee and Fred MacMurray's John talk about their very different lives

I break down how blocking, framing, and camera choreography work together to underscore the scene's emotional movement

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

[normasshearer]

REMEMBER THE NIGHT 1940, dir. Mitchell Leisen

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

Mike getting absolutely BODIED by Spring Bonnie

[lascenizas]

The Last Movie I Watched...

Remember the Night (1940, Dir.: Mitchell Leisen)

[proverbialschoolmarm]

[fabiansociety]

is fred macmurray an homme fatale in the barbara stanwyck christmas romcom Remember the Night? in this essay i will—

okay, no, but really: she's a shoplifter who gets dinged for it all the time, and he's the prosecuting attorney on her case, and he, uh, posts her bail, then drives her across state and national lines so she can hang out with his family and they fall in love in a small town, you get it. but at the end of the movie she blows up her own defense and pleads guilty so she can "deserve" his love (nevermind the many many laws he casually broke over the course of a movie, including the attempted bribery of a judge) and yeah the movie ends with macmurray promising to wait for her after prison, but man. man. she blew up her own life because of his seductive masculine wiles. she had a settled situation and he disrupted and destroyed it, seduced her back to straightness (in a civic sense). it was the inverse of a noir plot. though it still ends with the criminal woman in jail because the male lead put her there, so in that sense it's quite comfortable next to the maltese falcon

we spent the whole movie wondering what the hell was wrong with fred macmurray, because his affect was so inhumanely chill, and maybe it's just that he's written with the utter lack of an interior life that's normally the due of the female lead

weird movie. not good, but it's bad in a compelling way