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#VidorFilms2026 1. Lonely Wives. My 1st Vidor Film of the year is a bedroom farce with Edward Everett Horton as a philandering attorney *and* a vaudeville performer who looks identical to the attorney. Lots of smutty sex talk and identity confusion. Good, naughty pre-Code fun.

#VidorCartoons 42. Boulevardier from the Bronx. While I as as a baseball fan enjoyed this cartoon, I as a St. Louis Cardinals fan didn't care for the Dizzy Dean character pitching for the "Giants."

obviously identified with. On rewatch, one little touch I liked was the shot of the Volkswagen crawling up the mountain roads. Looks so insignificant, like an ant. 3

is that the Jack of the novel is a good man brought low by alcohol and Kubrick's Jack is a man who can't stand being a husband and father and is only too eager to fall under the Overlook Hotel's spell. I think that's right. It's a far darker take on a character that King 2/

#VidorFilms2025 The Shining. This is definitely my last Vidor Film of the year. I think a lot of ink has been spilled about how Stephen King hated Kubrick's movie. Personally I think book and movie are both excellent. Someone once said that the reason King hated the movie 1/

Bringing back a NYE classic

but think that not only does Kim Novak deliver a magnificent performance in this film, she delivers a performance of a character who is delivering a magnificent performance. 2

#VidorFilms2025 Vertigo. This may be my last Vidor Film of the year so I'm going out on a high note. I am sad to write that I tried to get my 17-year-old daughter to watch this film and she quit 5 minutes in. Anyway, what do you say about this masterpiece? I couldn't help 1/

did I expect the Brent character to be presented as sympathetic and for the movie to suggest that Stanwyck had it coming because she was a bitch. Her sisters laugh when she tells them this story! She and Brent get back together at the end! WTF did I just watch. 2

#VidorFilms2025 The Gay Sisters. *Jesus*. I watched this movie b/c of the ridiculous title and the fact that Barbara Stanwyck is in it. Didn't expect a film where George Brent rapes Stanwyck and justified it b/c they're married (she did treat him shabbily, but c'mon) nor 1/

#VidorFilms2025 Almost Famous. This movie should have won Best Picture in 2000. The "Tiny Dancer" singalong is an obvious highlight but playing "My Cherie Amour" while William watches Penny get her stomach pumped was another brilliant moment.

#VidorFilms2025: Star in the Night. Oscar-winning 1945 short that transplants the Nativity story to a motel somewhere in the Southwest desert. I've watched a lot of Oscar-nominated shorts from the studio era, and most of them are pretty bad, but this is a good little movie.

I wish someone would explain why this is a thing, instead of using closed captions.

#VidorFilms2025 Mystery Mountain. 1934 film serial. I don't know why I can't stop watching these film serials that TCM runs on Saturday mornings.

Jeanne Dielman, hands down.

People who whine about "spoilers" in 80-year-old movies deserve coal in their stocking.

Right, because St. Patrick's Day is traditionally when families travel cross country to be together and attend the traditional St. Patrick's Day party that is routine with giant corporations, leaving the rest of the building vacant for the traditional St. Patrick's Day closings.

#VidorCartoons 41. Toy Town Hall. A small boy is sad when he is put to bed w/out getting to listen to his radio. Then all his toys come to life & recreate his favorite radio show. Meh. Weaker effort for me b/c I failed to recognize any of the radio celebrity caricatures.

#VidorFilms2025 A Christmas Carol (1984). The George C. Scott version. I think this film is hugely underrated and should be more widely known. Has anyone, anyone, been a better Scrooge than Scott was?