Vintage Century Idle Hour

Jennifer just watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic thriller, Psycho, for probably the fifth time in her life.  At this point, is there a person alive who hasn’t seen Psycho at least five times?  People like this movie. It’s always a scary, fun ride.  It never disappoints in that regard.  But sometimes people forget that it’s also a masterpiece.  Doing a close read of this very familiar story pr...

Jennifer's working her way through a list of classic films–watching and studying them to see what makes them great.  Well, our feature film in today’s episode was NOT on that list.  It just landed in Jennifer's Youtube feed, it was free, and she thought “OK, why not?”  Perhaps Tomorrow is Forever landed in her feed because, as she was recording this, it was right after Christmas, and the...

Jennifer is on a personal journey of discovery to find out whether the films from Hollywood’s golden era live up to the hype.  Her  journey must include a stop in Casablanca.  After all, Casablanca is  at, or near, the top of every list of the greatest films of all time.  BUT…it has elements like war and international intrigue that Jennifer find extremely boring.  So, in this episode we seek to an...

Portrait of Jennie , the 1948 film starring Jennifer Jones and the very dreamy Joseph Cotten, is one of the weirdest movies I’ve seen in a long time.  Should you watch it?  Definitely.  Let’s talk about it in this episode of the Vintage Century Idle Hour.