Posts Tagged ‘The Women’

With Friends Like These

I have alot of good friends. Supportive, lovely people. I am a very lucky person. My friends and family have been incredibly supportive throughout the dating, engagement and my recent wedding. I have been thinking alot as to how to thank them. Thank you notes seem just not enough. Gifts seem to express the wrong thing. How would I ever buy them something that is the equivalent of what I feel. (Well I’m sure if I had the ability to give out cars no one would be to offended) This is my attempt to thank them. I was thinking of what precode films my friends may enjoy. My dear friend who assisted me in my wardrobe choices I was thinking this little gem I recently found. The Search for Beauty (1934)


about debauched connoisseurs of young flesh. It just sounds like so much fun. Three on a Match is another one which I think is a good film. I love the idea that it is about girls talking about old times in a restaurant and light up a cigarette. (I don’t think that the superstition that the third member to use the match will become unlucky is what I’m trying to suggest) What I like about it, is that it follows the lives of friends who separate, live their lives and then reunite.

The Women-The Original Sex and the City

I noticed the other night before on TCM The Women was on. I almost watched it, but I had gotten my finace to watch Grey Gardens the weekend before (he loved it, which really surprised me, but it was quite good). But, I DVR’d it to watch later. But I was thinking as I was watching Sex and the City

with my fiance (he surprisingly enjoyed that as well) how similar they are. (I’ve seen The Women several times, but love to watch it over and over). I can’t even talk about the newer version of The Women with Meg Ryan,[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlxwcwESDkQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&] which I didn’t see but seemed like a rip off of Sex and the City since they were released in theaters around the same time. Anyway, the idea of women that they are supportive of each other and flawed and that they have sex and affairs and ruin and save each others lives is not a social network that is seen today in film.
If you love Sex and the City, see the original gangstas. Joan Crawford is a bad ass in that bathtub and the final line in that movie is great to use at a party or with that girlfriend who has stood you up one too many times.
The thing I think that is most vivid to me is the phone in the bathtub with Joan Crawford. It is fantastic. Oh, and just like Sex and the City the men have a peripheral existence. There are no men in The Women. They exist entirely off screen. Just like Mr. Big’s real life and all the men’s lives in Sex and the City exist entirely off screen.
Just like most women in most films only exist on the other end of a phone at home or are the accepting hug at the end of a terrible adventure.