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1. Truth serum.
2. Swedish movie.
3. Hotter in the forest.

Devastating. The ways in which it constantly flips between being “dated” and chillingly timely are enough to give you whiplash.

(Until this lost masterpiece gets a proper release, you’ll have to watch a cruddy VHS rip: archive.org/details/last-summer-69)

#3things #movies #frankperry #summertime #brucedavison #barbarahershey #cathyburns #richardthomas #cinema

four young adults with troubled expressions crouching together on a beach

And now our feature presentation: “Ladybug, Ladybug” (1963)- a docudrama written and directed by wife and husband team Eleanor and Frank Perry (https://youtu.be/Or4BVyzR8Ww?si=_ix3msJa9XlCHHoq)
#LaEsoterica #LadybugLadybug #EleanorPerry #FrankPerry

Portrait of Brick Fleagle, #DickNewman, #DickRomoff, #RalphTressel, #GordonHeidrick, #HerbieBass, #HarryShockey, #FrankPerry, #FrankDeMartini, #FredLambert, #PeeWeeErwin, Rex #WilliamStewart, Wimpy #Schmidt, #NormConley, #LyleMurphy, #SandyWilliams, and M

#jazz #photography

3 things about Frank Perry’s THE SWIMMER [1968]

1. “Why can’t we travel more?”
“What for? We’ve got everything we want right here.”
2. The man whispers something to Joan.
3. As the afternoon progresses he gets colder and colder.

#3things #burtlancaster #frankperry #johncheever #movies #suburbia #cinema #cinemastodon

a still from THE SWIMMER showing Burt Lancaster emerging from a pool just as man hands him a cocktail with a lemon peel

On June 10, 1982, Mommie Dearest debuted in Brazil. Here’s some Faye Dunaway fan art!
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#MommieDearest #FrankPerry #JoanCrawford #FayeDunaway #ComedyDrama #Biopic #BiographicalDrama #DramaFilm #80sMovies#MonsterVision #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Pen drawing of Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford scowling on a black background.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 21: It's the end of the world on the #EndOfTheWorld

It's another schoolday in rural America when the #NuclearAttack alarm starts ringing. A teacher, instructed to calmly walk the kids home, tries to keep the youngest ones oblivious of the impending doom. While the children walk, talk and sing, this thing up there, in the sky and in the mind, grows bigger.

#FrankPerry #EleanorPerry #LoisDickert #drama #film #ColdWar #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film ★★★★½

Ladybug Ladybug (Frank Perry, 1963)

In a scene echoing Ingmar Bergman's Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957), one of the older girls leads the younger children in dance on top of a hill. Their teacher Mrs Andrews (Nancy Marchand) plus two of her students walk along.

Assuming an undoubtedly harrowing #FilmDinner with #FrankPerry's Doc (1971). #film #cinemastodon #FilMastodon #western #RevisionistWestern

@BernieWonIowa I've seen 3 Frank Perry films so far (The Swimmer, Ladybug Ladybug, Last Summer) and all of them are hard to find, virtually unknown, and brilliant. Very VERY recommended.

#film #FrankPerry @film

#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 6: Ordering a beverage on #BeverageDay

At a poolside party, the swimmer appears. He notes that the houses in between his hosts' and his are connected by a “river” of pools and decides to swim home, from one pool to the other, foolishly, superficially meeting people, crashing suburban pool parties, increasingly irrational.

(cont. https://write.underworld.fr/settima/bales2023filmchallenge-may-6-ordering-a-beverage-on-beverageday)

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon #FrankPerry #BurtLancaster @film

Burt Lancaster as the swimmer Ned Merrill. While reaching the end of the pool, someone off-camera hands him a #beverage with a slice of lemon on the rocks.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 25: Walking in #sand on #WalkInTheSandDay

During a summer vacation on #FireIsland, two young men come across Sandy, a young woman with an injured #seagull. While nursing the bird back to life, the relationship between the three deepens. A second girl, the much younger Rhoda (the breathtaking Catherine Burns) is taken in by the trio. Set almost entirely on a sunny #beach, Last Summer (Frank “The Swimmer” Perry, 1969) is one of the most claustrophobic films you may ever watch.

#film #cinema #LastSummer #FrankPerry #EvanHunter #BarbaraHershey #BarbaraSeagull #RichardThomas #BruceDavison #CatherineBurns #ComingOfAge #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

The four teenagers on the beach, which a pensive Rhoda in the foreground. The three in the back are playing with driftwood. One of the boys takes a threatening pose with a stick, aimed at Sandy.

The Swimmer (1968) Review
✨ 8/10
https://boxd.it/3NVXhz

#Movies #MovieReview #Letterboxd #Cinemastodon #TheSwimmer #FrankPerry #BurtLancaster

It took me till 2022 to see this one. It's a true masterpiece and one of a kind! (but then again, aren't masterpieces always unique?)...
Here's Roger Ebert's view on the film with #burtlancaster - one of his finest performances, no doubt.
Also, #janicerule and #kimhunter are perfectly cast.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-swimmer-1968

#theswimmer #film #dvd #frankperry #rogerebert #moviereview