What do you think about when a house is full of women?
That it’s a brothel? Isn’t there some old law somewhere that a certain number of women under one roof is considered a brothel?
I think that’s a myth. But if you were a woman, where would you rather live? A women-only boardinghouse, a sorority house, or a brothel?
Is the boarding house like the one in “Stage Door”?
No Ginger Rogers. No calla lilies. But Kathleen Freeman would be in it!
If it’s “The Ladies Man” boarding house, then yes.
You would want to live in a dollhouse?
Like a Barbie Doll.
One of the best movie sets ever created.
Starring Jerry Lewis. Directed, produced, and written by Jerry Lewis. After watching it, I still don’t understand what the French see in Jerry Lewis. I don’t care what Cahiers du Cinema says. And that set, as gorgeous as it is, screams misogyny. It conceives the ladies in the house as nothing more than living dolls. It’s definitely a doll house I would like to own.
What do you expect? It’s from the 60s. Peak “Mad Men” era.
The female characterizations are as flat as paper dolls.
It’s a dork’s dream. To be the only man in a house full of women and be fawned over.
But he was great in Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy.”
And as a telethon host.
Can’t say I was an avid annual viewer of that. I guess I like more restraint when it comes to comic acting. He was always mugging for the camera in “The Ladies Man.”
You wouldn’t live in a sorority house?
No. It’s usually featured in a horror movie or a skin flick. Sometimes both.
Tell me a moment when you had a black Christmas.
I associate a black Christmas with death. Just like the movie “Black Christmas.” Not serial killer deaths. But I’d say Christmas was black after my brother died. Isn’t that always the case when a family member dies? The first holiday after they’re gone seems like a black holiday.
It’s going to be a black Christmas for many the way COVID-19 cases are rising.
The movie reminded me about “Silent Night, Deadly Night.” I remember seeing that in the movie house when I was in first grade. My mother’s friend brought me to see it. I think it was after a Christmas party.
That must have scarred you as a child. Watching Santa Claus killing people.
I don’t think it destroyed Christmas for me. Sunday school in Bible Baptist Church already burst that Santa Claus bubble for me. I like movies that blend genres.
Is “Black Saturday” a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie?
Depends on the mood you’re in. Like “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
Do you care that Olivia Hussey’s character is the final girl?
Considering her acting ability, no. But I guess audiences at the time will care about the character depending how they feel about abortion.
My question was - are they graduate students? Because Olivia Hussey, Andrea Martin, and Margot Kidder do not look like undergraduates.
What I found more chilling was whenever the camera switches to the killer’s POV. Yes, like “Peeping Tom,” but somehow more disturbing because as an audience member you’re filling in motives which the movie leaves unresolved.
Total B movie. Which one would you be in the sorority house?
I’d like to think I would be the final girl. The survivor. But we don’t know if she survives.
I would be Margot Kidder’s character, the boozy sorority sister.
Too bad Andrea Martin didn’t have a solo number …
But she had a fabulous death scene.
If you were a courtesan in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “Flowers of Shanghai,” which flower would you be? Crimson, Pearl, Emerald, Jasmin, and Jade?
All of them.
Whoever Tony Leung is with. For a movie set in 19th-century Shanghai, I was surprised how fiercely feminist those women are.
I loved all of them. They understood economics more than the men did.
Because it’s a matter of survival for them. All of them had some agency in their fates. I thought they would be tragic opium-addled figures. And they weren’t. Totally went against my expectations. I'm a delicate flower, so I wouldn't survive in that Shanghai.
And so beautiful to look at.
That camera hovering like an opium haze. Courtesy of Mark Lee Ping-Bing. Even more beautiful with the restored print.
Makes me want to see the restored “In the Mood for Love,” which he did with Christopher Doyle.
Now, can we restore other movies shot by Mark Lee Ping-Bing?
"The Vertical Ray of the Sun!"
“Millenium Mambo” and “Three Times”
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