Showing posts with label Katharine Hepburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katharine Hepburn. Show all posts

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) is an autobiographical Tennesse Williams psychosurgery paranoid woman benevolent aunt madness or truth thinly veiled story about the unspeakable, homosexuality, Southern aristocracy and madness unsung surreal masterpiece of intriguing and twsited based on a play theatricals around a mad sister and a dead son, and a proposed lobotomy, and a pscyhoanalytico-religio-sacrificial erotomania suppression of women symbolic Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed film noir psycho-melodrama starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Bringing Up Baby (1938) is a screwball thirties film classic classic Howard Hawks zany heiress and hen-pecked fiancée comedy proto femme fatale use of gay reverse stereotypical gender role bumbling sexless workaholic themes of exploitation, and the impact of colonialism and the removing of animals from their natural habitat madcap fast talkin improvised and anarchic universally acclaimed seminal item of Americana as well as a semantic and semiotic artistic act of gender and social denotation starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant and May Robson and Charles Ruggles and Walter Catlett, as well as Barry Fitzgerald as Aloysius Gogarty, Mrs. Random's gardener.

Undercurrent (1946)

Undercurrent (1946) is a paranoid women lousy husband drama woman's picture-style essential woman's picture film noir story of riches, jealousy, egregious abuses of domestic trust, and all out manic equine-based murder plot around a mystery Mitchum-alike sibling and significant and pressing hunky love interest in a rough leather jacket.

Undercurrent starts with normality, suburbia in the snow, the very surface that film noir was about to break, when 1946 spilled into the century and sped the future on with its weirdismal messaging about the martyrdom and murderdoom of wifely women.