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Heat Wave!
Since many of us around the country have been experiencing a heat wave, let’s talk about films where heat and summer and sweat play a big role in the film.
When I think of movies where it’s hot-hot-hot, I instantly think of Body Heat. For songs, I immediately think Summer in the City.
For some reason, I also think of Atlantic City, and a scene with a female actor on a hot summer night, partially undressed, standing in front of a mirror or a window, squeezing a fresh lemon onto her skin. (Something about seafood?) Funny, I don’t remember much else about the movie except that I really liked it at the time.
I am also picturing a movie where some stocky fellow is yelling “Stella!” :-) I also saw that one as a play – in the middle of August in a small un-air conditioned community theater. Talk about making you feel like you are there!
But first, a quick announcement:
Toward the end of July, we will begin a 2 or 3-part Medium Cool series on Josephine Tey. I’ll share more details from Subaru Dianne soon, but I wanted to give you guys a heads up – in case anyone wants to read a book or two of hers as a refresher, or perhaps read something by Josephine Tey for the first time.
Okay, let’s talk heat and summer and sweat! Funny, there must be tons of films where summer heat plays a big role and they are not hot in another way, but those aren’t the ones I thought of!
AliceBlue
The Long Hot Summer – Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. ‘Nuff said.
Omnes Omnibus
Different medium, but there is this. And this. And finally this.
Roberto el oso
Re Atlantic City — Susan Sarandon with the lemon and Burt Lancaster checking her out …
schrodingers_cat
Garam Hawa (Hot Air) based on the Partition of India. It is a classic.
Tamas (Darkness) another miniseries on the Partition is also good.
eclare
I seem to recall a lot of sweaty people in A Time To Kill. I don’t remember much else about it.
oldgold
The car wash scene in Cool Hand Luke.
Steeplejack
Could we get a hint on one or two Tey titles to check out? I presume The Daughter of Time, but what else?
prostratedragon
Do the Right Thing takes place on a record hot day, and the heat seems to shorten everybody’s fuse. WE-LOVE Radio Rollcall.
Jackie
This was summer in my teens:
https://youtu.be/iokgq4I0OM8
Steeplejack
I have always found it interesting that large parts of Out of the Past, the greatest film noir, and I will not be taking questions at this time, happen in the glare of Mexican sunlight and outdoorsy California/Nevada.
WaterGirl
@Roberto el oso: I thought it might have been Susan Sarandon but I didn’t want to look because her political beliefs so annoys me.
Jackie
This still is summer to me:
https://youtu.be/TGVMLMlIxjM
BellaPea
Body Heat was hot, hot, hot. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner at their best. The scene where he smashes the window with the chair to get in to her…WHOA.
WaterGirl
@eclare: I was thinking it might have been a hot summer day when either Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino was robbing the bank in some famous movie whose name I have forgotten. :-)
Scout211
Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window original movie trailer
Elarciel
@Steeplejack: A Shilling for Candles is good, but perhaps my favorite (other than The Daughter of Time, of course), is The Singing Sands.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Let’s see if Subaru Dianne weighs in with some titles. This pre-announcement was just to give folks a heads up about what is coming up – I’m not entirely sure that she has even decided on specific books or not. We’ll see!
Bee Girl
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof …Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in another humid southern summer.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Dog Day Afternoon? I don’t remember it being that hot, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Dog Day Afternoon?
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: I may have done this wrong :-) perhaps I should have had us thinking about films set in the winter, with snow!
eclare
@Scout211:
Perfect! I knew I was missing something obvious. The couple sleeping on the fire escape, everyone’s windows open, etc.
Bee Girl
Laurence of Arabia…
Steeplejack
@Elarciel:
Thanks.
WaterGirl
@eclare: @Omnes Omnibus:
Yes! Dog Day Afternoon! I think dog day is a reference to a hot day.
(the google says I am correct
edit: All I could remember was “Attica! Attica!” but I knew that wasn’t the name of the movie.
khead
12 Angry Men
Do the Right Thing
Edit – Missed prostratedragon posted Do the Right Thing at #8.
Spanky
How about a dry heat? Both Lawrence of Arabia and Flight of the Phoenix are plenty hot. And sandy.
Delk
Sunny Afternoon
James E Powell
Back in the 90s, a friend & I went to see a restored 70mm of Lawrence of Arabia. At the intermission, we were both dying of thirst. Nothing is written!
Narrator: Later on, we find out that some things, indeed, are written.
WaterGirl
@khead: Love 12 Angry Men, had forgotten about the heat! I bet that courthouse didn’t have air conditioning.
prostratedragon
@Bee Girl: ” it ain’t the heat”
Yes it is.😉
WaterGirl
@Delk: Excellent!
oatler
“Bridge Over the River Kwai”. Man, the humidity…
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
I’m putting together a proper annotated list, but in the meantime:
The Daughter of Time
The Franchise Affair
Miss Pym Disposes
Brat Farrar
eclare
@James E Powell:
Ooh! Greed has the same effect with the ending.
Joseph Patrick Lurker
In the Heat of the Night, Shawshank Redemption, Inherit the Wind, and Papillon.
I couldn’t find it, but wasn’t there a thread on this same subject within the past 2 months? It seems extremely familiar.
bjacques
The Day The Earth Caught Fire (featuring a beatnik end of the world party)
H. P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” segment of Night Gallery
“August Heat”, a classic short story by W F Harvey. There are some narrations of it on YouTube.
cope
@prostratedragon: When we lived in Central Florida, I used to say “it ain’t the heat, it’s the humanity”.
Roberto el oso
@WaterGirl: understood :) …. On the Liev Schrieber project ‘Ray Donovan’ Jon Voight had a very prominent role and Susan Sarandon was on for a couple of seasons. I don’t think their characters ever had a scene together but I often have wondered what that must have been like, if they ran into one another … despite their separate nuttiness I expect they’re pretty professional on set.
prostratedragon
@WaterGirl: Back before I had a/c at home, I got some relief from The Abyss and The Big Blue, among others. Not winter, but very cool-looking.
Bee Girl
@prostratedragon: Heh!
piratedan
School’s Out seems kind of appropriate here in its use with Dazed and Confused.
and this song hit me in my first summer of abandon….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbI5A5Lxvps
Roberto el oso
Ridley Scott dwells rather obsessively on Sigourney Weaver’s sweat in the latter part of Alien.
Anonymous At Work
43 comments and no one mentioned Touch of Evil?
Steeplejack
Having completed the formal rites and rituals and duly received the official keys, I am now invested as the estate manager at Sighthound Hall for the next seven weeks. The mob has decamped on their extended vacation to greater London, Sicily and other parts unknown. I have moved in to live with Chipley von Chippendale, the resident (non-)sighthound and oversee things. My modest rooms in Threadkill Lane are only five miles away, so I’ll be backing and forthing a good bit, but this will be my base of operations for most of the summer.
I’ve got my ThinkPad and other electronics set up, complete with clicky external keyboard, and I even did a session to see if I could plumb the depths of Apple TV. They cut the Xfinity cable cord a few weeks ago and are streaming everything now. I think they have a goodly selection of premium channels, but I need to explore that in greater detail.
I am going to take some pictures and see if they might build to a post for “On the Road” or “Garden Chat.” I watched a robin take a very splashy bath in the dripping birdbath a while ago. That might even be good video.
prostratedragon
@James E Powell: I took my mother to see it during that run, at a properly-equipped theater since torn down (Same one where I saw The Abyss, come to think of it). It was terrific — and hot!
funlady75
@AliceBlue: I so agree!
oldster
Here’s a link to online copies of Josephine Tey’s “Inspector Grant” novels:
https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Mackintosh%2C%20Elizabeth
They’re great fun, and occasionally a bit more than that.
Bee Girl
Biloxi Blues …”Africa hot”
oldgold
From Body Heat:
Matty:
My temperature runs a couple of degrees high, around a hundred. I don’t mind. It’s the engine or something.
Ned:
Maybe you need a tune up.
Matty:
Don’t tell me. You have just the right tool.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Just wanted one or two to start with. Daughter of Time it is!
prostratedragon
@cope: That is it.
Evap
Josephine Tey! I believe I’ve read all of her books. Brat Farrer is one of my all time favorite books
Bee Girl
@WaterGirl: They couldn’t get the jury room’s little oscillating fan to work until it was getting dark and somebody turned on the lights…fan was on the same switch. Such a good movie.
Suburban Mom
@WaterGirl: Dog Day Afternoon
lgerard
BBC radio dramatizations of Josephine Tey
https://archive.org/details/JTeyBBCr4
H.E.Wolf
The African Queen, for sure.
The Year of Living Dangerously? (I’ve only seen it once, and it was ages ago.)
In both cases, two kinds of heat. :)
hueyplong
@eclare: Nice call on Greed. Suspected the others would be mentioned
ETA: Has anyone mentioned Apocalypse Now?
Almost Retired
A truly not-at-all good and justifiably forgotten movie called Frogs.
It takes place on a hot and humid southern island owned (IIRC) by a reclusive billionaire played by Ray Milland who didn’t give a shit about the environment. All sorts of critters with a sense of environmental grievance killed off the Island’s visitors one by one (death by alligator, death by leeches, death by some sort of lizard).
It culminated in Ray Milland being “frogged” to death in his wheelchair (it wasn’t clear how the frog swarm killed him). Everyone sweated a lot before their death by angry swamp creatures.
It was ridiculous and comically preachy about the environment. But it nevertheless scared my 4th Grade self totally shitless about hot and humid subtropical states. I literally cried in fear when my parents announced they were taking us to Disney World.
I was right to be scared of Florida but for the wrong reasons. I would totally watch a Frogs remake set in The Villages.
moonbat
The scene of Susan Sarandon rubbing a lemon over herself was not nearly as erotic as Burt Lancaster DESCRIBING her nightly ritual to her later in the film. The reason for the lemons was that she worked in a raw shellfish bar in one of the casinos and she was trying to get the fish smell off her skin. That movie also had a wonderful scene of Lancaster reminiscing aloud about “Flat-foot floozie with the Floy-Floy” with a straight face. Some of his later films were just perfect.
My favorite line from Body Heat belongs to Kathleen Turner: “You’re not too bright. I like that in a man.” lol
evodevo
Delores Purdy cooling herself off in front of the fridge in In the Heat of the Night… Spend a summer in AL in 1969 – I thought KY was humid…got nuttin’ on AL..
funlady75
I am a TCM junkie —- How about James Cagney in White Heat!
eclare
@hueyplong:
Apocalypse Now, also perfect, from the opening ceiling fan scene to the end.
Which reminds me, how about Good Morning Vietnam?
Glidwrith
@BellaPea: Some years ago, I was suffering through a Chicago summer with no A/C. The local radio station had a contest to name the movie with the following quote:
”I don’t know, but I’ll tell ya, you better know what you’re doing.”
I recognized it and won $50. I think the station was rather disappointed as I was the first caller.
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: That sounds crazy, are you sure you’re not making that up? :-)
prostratedragon
“You’re not too bright. I like that in a man.”
And she was so, so right.
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: Right that he wasn’t too bright? Or right that not being too bright is a good quality in a man?
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: yeah she shucks clams so she has to use the lemon to get the smell of the clams off her it’s definitely Sarandon
delphinium
Stand by Me and Jaws for some PG-rated heat/sweat.
zhena gogolia
Wind across the Everglades?
Almost Retired
@WaterGirl: I am sure that the studio executive who greenlighted Frogs wishes I were making it up.
oldster
@prostratedragon:
It’s a great line, but the follow-ups are even funnier:
“What else do you like? Lazy? Ugly? Horny? I got ’em all.”
“You don’t look *lazy*.”
Hurt’s character is *so* out of his league, and out of his depth.
moonbat
Paul Newman was in a lot of hot and sweaty movies. The Long, Hot Summer, a William Faulkner southern special, with Joanne Woodward. They spark off each other.
My favorite hot/hawt movie with him would have to be Hombre, though. When the baddie played by the ultimate baddie, Richard Boone, and his Mexican compadre threaten the life of his racist, white, Karen hostage, John Russell (Newman) declares without missing a beat, “She’s nothing to me.” Zing!
Elmore Leonard wrote the story so it is as good as it gets.
hueyplong
The weather seems kind of warm in my favorite western, Once Upon a Time in the West.
Both the opening scene and Fonda’s first scene are memorable.
Bee Girls
The Seven Year Itch. The
eclare
Speaking of Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone, with Michael Douglas, has some sweaty and steamy jungle scenes.
hueyplong
It’s a cheap shot, but you could include the opening sequence in The Big Sleep, set in an orchid greenhouse, as Bogart gets info on his new case while sweating profusely and drinking brandy.
West of the Rockies
It’s not great cinema, but the fun, steamy Summer Lovers with a young Daryl Hannah and Peter Gallagher comes to mind. Santorini and sunshine.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Steeplejack: The Singing Sands (her last book which was published posthumously), To Love and be Wise, and The Franchise Affair all include her detective Alan Grant. Brat Farrar and Miss Pym Disposes are stand alone. These are my favorites, and there are a couple more with Grant. If I had to pick two besides DoT, I’d go with The Singing Sands and Brat Farrar, with the others I listed close behind.
In the discussion, i really want to have someone explain the details of how the murder was done in Brat Farrar, since Tey doesn’t really explain and I haven’t figured it out!
Yutsano
Moving to television…
A classic Twilight Zone episode. You can’t get much hotter than the Earth falling into the sun!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Haven’t seen it and the source of the heat is artificial so maybe it doesn’t qualify, but from the trailers it looks like the entire plot of the new film Inside is “Willem Dafoe is cooking to death”.
So many images in my brain of people in deserts from various movies … how about Flight of the Phoenix?
(I just learned there was a 2004 remake with Dennis Quaid but I’m talking about the 1965 original with Jimmy Stewart)
UncleEbeneezer
Point Break
Raiders of the Lost Ark (other than the Nepal bar shoot out the rest is all in jungle or desert)
Every movie about the Vietnam War
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@WaterGirl: Dog Day Afternoon with Pacino.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Elarciel: Ah ha, another vote for The Singing Sands :-)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Anybody mention The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? I’m thinking specifically of two scenes where one character drags another across the desert without water. Clint Eastwood is the dragger in one, and the draggee in another.
Steeplejack
@oldster:
I usually like Faded Page, but I took a look at The Daughter of Time there and have to say “Ugh!” on the formatting—business-letter block paragraphs with double spacing in between. For fiction you want indented paragraphs, no extra spacing in between. At least if you care about such things. Which, okay, not everybody does.
I’ll keep looking, but I did find a nicely formatted Kindle edition (based on the preview) for 99 cents at Amazon.
Layer8Problem
The opening scene in Oscar’s apartment in The Odd Couple movie. Five sweaty men awaiting a sixth in a New York City apartment with a broken air conditioner in the summer playing poker. The Pigeon sisters later describing how they cope without an air conditioner by sitting naked in front of the open refrigerator. Oscar chasing Felix onto the building’s roof where they argue with the Hudson behind them covered in that hot, humid summer haze.
hilts
92 in the Shade
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: Surely that fine film won some awards! No?
WaterGirl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: As I always say on Medium Cool, this is Balloon Juice, the rules are fluid :-)
kalakal
Beau Geste, Sands of the Kalahari and very big on sweaty deserts Ice Cold in Alex.
Sweaty jungles Apocalypse Now, The Emerald Forest, and The Wages of Fear
There’s quite a few SF films eg Total Recall
and a remake of Lifeboat called Lifepod spring to mind
WaterGirl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
There were a lot of westerns, like Bonanza and others, where the main characters were dragging themselves across the desert, with sand on their dry lips… will that make it to safety???? :-)
kalakal
Forgot, The African Queen – Bogart looks like an ambulant puddle throughout
mrmoshpotato
Die Hard With A Vengeance!
Opening scene
stinger
The Midnight Sun (episode of The Twilight Zone TV series) ETA: Yutsano beat me to it.
Thelma and Louise
Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring
Scuffletuffle
A Summer Place
kalakal
The epic other epics call sir
Ben-
HimHuralso Spartacus, really just about every thongs and sandals movie
lowtechcyclist
A couple of song references:
The Eagles, “Hotel California“:
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
…
Fall Out Boy, “Uma Thurman“:
The stench, the stench, of summer sex
geg6
@BellaPea:
Sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.
Steeplejack
Okay, before all the elderly shut-ins head to bed and Balloon Juice implodes for the night, I have an Apple TV question:
I have pretty much figured everything out except for the command to dismiss or get rid of multiple open apps or tabs or whatever behind the scenes. I tried to look at CBS or something and got told that I had exceeded the limit of open [whatevers]. I remember the brother-in-law showing me that for about five seconds, but I can’t remember how to do it. Apparently they and the kids just open apps with abandon and never close them until forced to. [shudder] Let me know if anyone knows what I’m talking about.
p.a.
Twilight Zone The Lonely
– IMDB
Roberto el oso
@moonbat: oh, yes, good call on Hombre! Still one of the great, inadvertently amusing openings, when the Apaches are catching horses and you get a close-up of Paul Newman’s blue eyes.
West of the Rockies
@Almost Retired:
Frogs also featured a young Sam Elliott.
Geminid
Louis L’Amour wrote a gazillion westerns, and a dozen or so are set in the deserts of the Southwest. A common plot element is for the protagonist to be ambushed in the desert and left for dead, 60 miles from the nearest settlement and without a horse. First they find shade and rest, because walking in the sun means certain death. When night comes they pop a pebble in their mouth to relieve the dryness and trudge off in search of a spring.
Being Louis L’Amour heros, they always find one. It’s usually with the aid of the desert’s creatures, too. Trying to go another mile at sunrise, a man will hear a bee fly by and follow it to the seep hidden in the rocks above. Another guy collapses while searching for a rumored spring, and wakes up to the sound of a toad croaking next to his little pool.
Another man hears scuffling sounds in the night and finds a porcupine couple digging a hole. They smell water, but they hurry off when the man approaches. He finishes the hole, drinks his fill and then courteously camps a hundred yards off so the shy porcupines can get their water.
I love that stuff.
Heidi Mom
Gettysburg (like the actual event) takes place at the beginning of July in south-central PA. July in that area (where I live) is often hot and humid. At one point Sgt. Kilrain urges Col. Chamberlain to “ride the damn horse” because he’s already been down with the heat.
prostratedragon
eclare@63: Speaking of fans, Angel Heart, the New Orleans sequence. Actually the earlier parts are pretty winter-chilly.
oatler
!776 the movie. All through it the Founding Fathers keep yelling “it’s so damned hot!”
prostratedragon
@WaterGirl: The former. Noirs frequently rely on dim bulbs, as horror films often do. Body Heat‘s a good example; another is Angel Face.
ETA I personally prefer some smarts.
prostratedragon
@Yutsano: Was going to enter that one when I had to stop and do something. One of my favorites from that show, and insipred a good movie called Last Night.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I have still never seen any Die Hard movie. Watching the opening scene now.
edit: Explosion! I suspect I’m not giving anything away there!
frosty
@Geminid: Louis L’Amour: “I’ve been all over the West. When I write about a spring the water’s there and it’s good to drink.”
Just standard Western plots, some better than standard characters, but great settings.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: My Apple TV is so old that it can’t do apps! :-)
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: Smart is sexy.
phein64
Dune . . . Arrakis . . . Desert Planet: The recent movie is, well, decent
or
Doon . . . Arruckus . . . Dessert Planet
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Well, channels, or whatever you call them. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc., and all the minor ones.
Timill
Kurt Weill, Street Scene: “Ain’t it Awful, the Heat”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQBXvD8aGBE
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: No, I was serious. At some point Apple TV started using apps that you had to install, rather than just channels.
So I think you probably do have a ton of apps open; I just can’t help because I have an older version
edit: I imagine you already googled, but this is what I found:
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Thanks. Yeah, I did get on the Google after I thought of a plausible search phrase, and I think I found the solution, although I haven’t tried it yet. Basically I was doing “press and hold” on a button and should have been doing “double click.” I’ll see if that works later. Too tired and wound up to watch anything now. Plus I’d actually have to choose something, unlike my usual strategy of “what’s the least obnoxious thing on Cox Cable now?” What a world of adventure awaits me!
ETA: And thanks for taking the time to pursue this. Somebody cares! 😿
geg6
Lonesome Dove. Lotsa sweat.
NotMax
Totally spaced out it was Sunday. Just now going back to read the prodigious amount of comments.
frosty
@Steeplejack:Plus I’d actually have to choose something, unlike my usual strategy of “what’s the least obnoxious thing on Cox Cable now?”
This is one of the subtle flaws of cutting cable. I don’t watch any TV any more. Used to watch John Oliver every Sunday night. If I can watch it on demand any time?? I have other things to do. Like this f’rinstance!
Plus navigating Prime vs Hulu vs Apple vs Disney+ … hell with it.
Jackie
Any baseball movie! The public swimming pool/drowning/mouth to mouth CPR scene in The Sandlot still makes me laugh.
https://youtu.be/1jmKpjqDrPs
TiredOfIiAll
The Seven Year Itch and Against All Odds (remake of Out of the Past)
NotMax
@WaterGirl
::cough:: Roku ::cough::
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: I’ve only seen the first Die Hard, and years after it was released, but it is superb. Because: Alan Rickman is the urbane terrorist in charge. Amazing performance.
Jeremy Irons, I believe, starred in the second in the series.
Can’t speak for any of the others, but I think you would like the first.
Elizabelle
The opening scenes of Baghdad Cafe. Desert scenes, bathed in a kind of neon yellow, if memory serves.
Jack Palance, CCH Pounder. Time to watch it again.
MomSense
Marilyn Monroe performing
We’re having a heat wave
A tropical tropical heat wave
There’s no business like snow business.
Narya
Another vote for Long Hot Summer—love that movie.
eclare
@Elizabelle:
Maybe I was having a bad day, but I only lasted about ten minutes into Die Hard. My nerves were frayed, and I turned it off.
Elizabelle
@eclare: It is not a soothing film.
NotMax
See no one thought to mention Patricia Neal checking out Gary Cooper’s big — um — drill in The Fountainhead.
Not normally a sweatfest but this version of a number from The Pirates of Penzance ends up with Pirate King Jon English coated in a sheen of moisture.
A few more: Raging Bull, The Set-up, Captain Blood, Chariots of Fire, Breaking Away.
NotMax
Italics fail above. Apologies. Was typing while on the phone with mom in NY.
@Elizabelle
It’s on Prime at the moment. No “h” though; Bagdad Cafe should you do a search for it.
Roberto el oso
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia …. very sweaty
MichiganderGail
Father Goose. Sweaty and scraggly Cary Grant.
NotMax
One more just sprang to mind: 3 Godfathers.
Elizabelle
@NotMax: Thanks! Bagdad Cafe opened a DC film festival the year it was released. (1987??) I am not sure I have seen it since.
Will watch it on Prime.
Steeplejack
@frosty:
I may have talked about it here before, but I have gotten into a “listening to radio” mode vs. “playing a CD” mode. In the former, you have “live” choices available (on Cox Cable, for me), and you pick one. In the latter, you have a vast array of choices, but you have to explicitly select one and then sort of feel obligated to watch it. If I’m channel-surfing I can just bop around if something doesn’t hold my interest. Not optimal, but that’s the way it is.
I do occasionally have “appointment viewing” where I specifically choose and watch something, but it can be hard in our multitasking, short-attention-span world.
thruppence
If you have The Criterion Collection, they’re currently running a collection of erotic thrillers – I think Body Heat is one of them
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Sad day in this household late last year when Roku updated their software somewhat and the Accuradio channel was suddenly incompatible with it.
However, can still listen free to a veritable cornucopia of music selections at Accuradio online. Also a free Accuradio app in (AFAIK) both the Google Play and Apple stores.
Pennsylvanian
If it hasn’t been offered, Angelheart.
Just typing that made me break a sweat.
billcinsd
I am going to request you squeal like a pig as I put Deliverance into the mix
chrisanthemama
Coen Bros’ “Barton Fink”. John Turturro with writers’ block in a stifling hotel room. Shenanigans (including a dead woman in his bed he has no idea about) ensue.
kalakal
@NotMax: Ah, Captain Blood now there is a movie
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thanks. Will check it out.
oldgold
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@oatler:
Will somebody open up a window!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Frosty the Snowman
the greenhouse melts Frosty
WaterGirl
@MichiganderGail: Loved Father Goose! So much! Thanks for the reminder.
Miss Bianca
@Almost Retired: Wasn’t Sam Elliott in Frogs? I never saw it, but I totally remember seeing newspaper ads for it when I was a kid that featured a human arm sticking out of a frog’s mouth. Freaked me the fuck out.
Nancy
@WaterGirl:
I liked the movie. It was Atlantic City. Something about someone finding someone’s cocaine and some of the characters survived the fallout.
Susan Sarandon may have been the big name in the movie, but Burt Lancaster was the star. S’s character worked at a fish stand in Atlantic City and the lemon was supposed to remove the scent of fish. She wanted a breeze so the window was open. Burt looked.
Burt played an aging gangster hanger-on. He had a moment with Susan and then reality landed on him with a crash.
He played the moment out, rolled with the crash, and then he was a believable hero.
It was hot where the characters could afford to live. Worth watching for Burt and other supporting actors.