This week on The Movie Gourmet – the fall movies, many of which I’ve been waiting for since the Canes Film Festival in May, are flooding into theaters. So, The Movie Gourmet is following last week’s review of Conclave with new reviews of award-winners Anora and Emilia Pérez. The genre-busting Netflix documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin rounded out one of my best movie-watching weeks ever. (I also immersed myself in French cinema and rewatched Jean-Pierre Melville’s neo-noir Second Wind and introduced myself to six of Jean-Paul Belmondo’s films.)
Next week – a new review of A Real Pain, which The Wife and I saw last night.
REMEMBRANCE
I didn’t remember the name of actor Jonathan Haze, who worked in a score of Roger Corman’s low budget exploitation films. His most memorable starring role was in Little Shop of Horrors, where his character cultivated a flesh-eating houseplant and pulled a tooth from a masochistic dental patient (Jack Nicholson).
CURRENT MOVIES
- Anora: human spirit vs the oligarchs. In theaters.
- Conclave: explosive secrets? in the Vatican?. In theaters.
- The Outrun: facing herself without the bottle. In theaters.
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin: totally unexpected. Netflix.
- Emilia Pérez: four women yearn amid Mexico’s drug violence. Netflix.
- Kneecap: sláinte! Amazon, AppleTV.
- Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!: rascal truth-teller. In theaters.
- In the Summers: they mature, he evolves. Amazon..
- Will & Harper: old friends adjust. Netflix.
- Wolfs: two charming stars and a chase. AppleTV.
ON TV
On November 19, Turner Classic Movies presents the taut 77 minutes of Woman on the Run, one of my Overlooked Noir. When the police coming looking for a terrified murder witness, they are surprised to find his wife (Ann Sheridan) both ignorant of his whereabouts and unconcerned. And the wife has a Mouth On Her, much to the dismay of the detective (Robert Keith), who keeps walking into a torrent of sass. She starts hunting hubbie, along with the cops, a reporter (Dennis O’Keefe) and the killer, and they all careen through a life-or-death manhunt. Another star of Woman on the Run is San Francisco itself, from the hilly neighborhoods to the bustling streets to the dank and foreboding waterfront.