This is kind of an odd adaptation because they truncate the romance and the scandal with Lydia while enlarging the role of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, seemingly in order to better showcase Edna May Oliver.
It's hard to object to more Edna May Oliver, but it's also not what someone is hoping to find when seeking out a Jane Austen adaptation, unless that someone is one of the two old queens who've just got a minute to catch up.
I've been on a losing streak with these screwball comedies. Despite an S-Tier cast (Irene Dunne; Alice Brady and Jean Dixon from My Man Godfrey; actual Lucille Ball) by the halfway point I was starting to hope this was one of those movies that suddenly turns tragic midway through.
The earliest surviving fiction film from Brazil.
It's a story about a boy who pranks his sleeping grandpa by painting the lenses of his glasses. Grandpa wakes up and just assumes he's gone blind.
Sadly, not enough of the film still exists to get even that basic story across, but it's still a fascinating glimpse of early 20th century Brazil.
A surprising anti-imperial revenge fantasy from Korea wrapped in a genre picture about a creepy boarding school.
A girl with TB named Shizuko--wait, a Japanese name? Yes, one imposed on her by the Japanese empire--is placed at a boarding school for sickly girls. The homogenizing effects of this Japanese cultural assimilation are immediately apparent when she learns that Shizuko, literally "Quiet Child," was also the name of a girl who was suddenly withdrawn from the school by her parents without…
