Comments on mixedepisodes: M

Hi Diana/Behind Blue Eyes! This is Janina Renée. ...

2009-02-01T18:04:00.000-08:00

Hi Diana/Behind Blue Eyes! This is Janina Renée. I tried to contact you through your e-mail link back in December, but my letter automatically got kicked back, so I thought I'd see what happens if I try responding directly to your blog. Thanks for contacting me, by the way! In my letter which got kicked back, I talked about overlap between Aspergers and Bipolar, and things like that.

By the way, one thing I like I about old movies is the sparkling wit applied to the art of conversation, (though I don't recall if that was the case in "M," because it's been so long since I've seen it).

An ironic thing is many years ago there were these two serial killers in Los Angeles--I forget the names--but they were posing as cops as a way of getting young women out of their cars and killing them. One of the women they stopped was Anne Lorre, but when the phony cops looked at her license, commented on the name, and she mentioned that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre, they let her go, because they were fans of her dad.

Well, I hope that 2009 will be bring you many rewards, Janina

happy new year!sounds like a fascinating film, may...

2009-01-09T07:12:00.000-08:00

happy new year!

sounds like a fascinating film, maybe i'll check it out.

i'm guessing if someone really wanted to recreate that old film look exactly they could - with old equipment and technique. probably the average viewer is satisfied with black and white to get that oldschool feel, and that's easier than going whole hog. but i'm no expert on that.

I haven't seen it, may never see it. I hope that a...

2009-01-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen it, may never see it.

I hope that all is well with you.

oh... i jus watched casablanca... and it felt so r...

2008-12-31T03:32:00.000-08:00

oh... i jus watched casablanca... and it felt so real.... i mean, th whole effect.. anyways!

and yeah... happy new year.. been such a long time!

Happy Christmas.

2008-12-24T09:33:00.000-08:00

Happy Christmas.

True about the cartoons... Look at old Looney Too...

2008-12-22T21:44:00.000-08:00

True about the cartoons... Look at old Looney Toons and you'll see a perfect offering of the American mindset of their time. They don;t even show old looney toons on TV anymore.

I like older films, but tend to watch films made in the 60's and 70's more than any other era. "The Last Picture Show" is an excellent example that comes to mind. Filmed in 1970 or so, but it was done in black and white to capture the older style. I highly recommend it!

crushed-I think that the turn of the century is a ...

2008-12-21T10:51:00.000-08:00

crushed-I think that the turn of the century is a fascinating time. I love the literature and the art and film was a new medium and I love seeing how it all began.

MM-It is hard to find a great film isn't it? That special film tht just has that special something-whatever it is. It can come from any time and any place. M-was like that for me.

I try not to think too much about how the world is going because when I do I have so much anxiety. I don't mean that I put my head in the sand but only that I do what I can and then try to think of something else.

X-I looked it up. Yes, Peter Lorre was a student of Freud's.

If anyone wanted to see the history of racism in the US, all they would have to do is watch movies and even cartoons. That says it all.

I've never heard about the anti-Semitic propaganda...

2008-12-18T15:10:00.000-08:00

I've never heard about the anti-Semitic propaganda of M, but I'm not a bit surprised. Disney, and other US studios often used horribly bigoted Jewish stereotypes in his crtoon imagery, perhaps reminding the American public that, unlike the MGMs and the Warner Brothres of Hollywood, they were as wholesome and 'Christian valued' as the mainstream of the US.

BTW, Peter Lorre was a student of Freud's, if memory serves.

I was always fascinated by Peter Lorre (Mr. Moto) ...

2008-12-17T12:40:00.000-08:00

I was always fascinated by Peter Lorre (Mr. Moto) in crime films and mysteries. When he acted with Humphrey Bogart I was transported to a different world.
This was the world where criminals were not all bad; they were modern day ”Robin Hoods.”
I feel we’re going back that way due to the excessive increase of leeches like the Sheriff of Nottingham.” Anyway!

Films have not progressed really. They got lost somewhere in time, becoming staid, and the proof of that is where we are today.
Art is the expression of the collective unconscious. Though it may seem to be expressed by one or many individuals, it is really a collective force bring about change.
I don’t see this happening at the moment, but we are in the process of a massive upheaval which usually precedes change, however we have yet to go through (unfortunately) the slaughter of the innocent. You would imagine enough have suffered (many more will have to suffer many more will have to die don’t ask me why, there’s a natural mystic blowin’ through the air, if you listen carefully you will hear.”) but the rich haven’t given up yet.
Sigmund Freud, and Jung, talked about the roaming gangs of youths. Hitler’s youth was only the start, a prelude to what’s to come.

It does sound like quite a dark piece...I think it...

2008-12-17T09:00:00.000-08:00

It does sound like quite a dark piece...

I think it's hard to remake any art form from another time period, because it's hard for someone not actually of an age to feel it's sprit in their bones.

The world of 1931 had different dark edges, yet different joys, to our own.
Material comforts were less, but the holocaust hadn't happened.