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A moment of reverie, or a song remembered, perhaps, by Millie Stephenson.


... Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Listen to Jo Stafford sing.

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Film Makers 3: Scorsese on Powell

A master discovers a masterpiece

Criterion Collection’s I Know Where I’m Going! contains a thirty minute documentary titled I Know Where I’m Going! Revisited. Within it, Martin Scorsese recounts his first encounter with the film.

As he was just about to begin shooting Raging Bull, he came into possession of a video cassette of I Know Where I’m Going! (Video cassette technology was new at that time.) He watched the film, apparently not alone, for when he described the experience he used the collective "we."

Martin stated that one of the few films he hadn’t seen was I Know Where I’m Going! (One assumes he meant of the Powell/Pressburger films.)

“We watched this film which we fell totally in love with, and it was such an incredible ... uh ... quote, discovery, unquote. Other people knew about it. I didn’t. And I remember a few months later seeing Michael again and saying "Hey, I just saw a new masterpiece.”

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Greta Garbo as Mata Hari looking in a mirror -- with a reflection of herself and the mirror in a mirror showing herself looking in a mirror. With a reverse mirror image of Greta Garbo as Mata Hari looking in a mirror -- with a reflection of herself and the mirror in a mirror showing herself looking in a mirror.


Note: A variant of this posting appeared as Mirror Images 4 in January 2010.

Acknowledgement: The first photo shown is from Film Noir Photos.

New York Stories 2

David McCullough recounts in People Books and Book People a tale Peter De Vries has told about himself. One time apparently, Mr. De Vries was hungover, ashen pale, and in dire need of a pick-me-up.

He headed to a renowned New York bar, noted for its cocktails and asked the bartender “Do you serve Zombies?” To which the bartender responded: “Yes sir, what would you like …? "

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