What did you watch today? v 25.0

Version 25 has arrived. The first post in this version will be # 8691.

The ghost of Lupe Velez reminds us all to link our posts, and don't eat a big meal on the evening you plan to kill yourself.

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Permalink Reply by beeswax on October 27, 2009 at 11:10pm: Perhaps it is fitting, in light of that touching remembrance of Lupe Velez,

to mention that I just watched long-lived and happy Lupita Tovar give a lovely introduction to her own starring vehicle, the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula. Many of you already know it was shot on the same sets at the same time as the more well-known Bela Lugosi version.

Some say it was the massive international success of the (English-language) Hollywood version of Dracula that made audiences at the time reject Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr so violently. (Riots in Berlin!)

At midnight I'll be watching Dracula's Daughter (on the same disc as Spanish Dracula).

Permalink Reply by Sevorin on October 28, 2009 at 9:34am: Considering how much I dislike the vampire genre I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Dracula's Daughter.

Interesting to see Otto Kruger in a sympathetic role. And Marguerite Churchill has been one of my minor hubba-hubbas since I saw her in The Big Trail.

Permalink Reply by Pihk on October 28, 2009 at 10:24am: Considering how much I dislike the vampire genre

SWEET MOSES! We finally agree on something again.

Excluding Christoper Lee/Hammer vampire movies.

I have little need for any vampire movie made after Blacula. With the very rare exception here and there.

Anne Rice should be shot.

Permalink Reply by beeswax on October 28, 2009 at 10:31am: Anne Rice should be shot.

Neil Gaiman calls her books "drippy." But he likes vampires, so what does he know?

Permalink Reply by Microwaved on October 28, 2009 at 10:50am: Anne Rice was pretty good stuff until after Memnoch the Devil, then it just went all downhill after that.

Permalink Reply by Knaldskalle on October 28, 2009 at 6:10pm: The Tale of the Body Thief was pretty f**kin' bad, though... But I stopped reading her after Memnoch the Devil, so I guess I've been spared.

Permalink Reply by Microwaved on October 29, 2009 at 8:55am: I actually didn't mind Tale of the Body Thief either.

But I'm easy. Easy like Sunday Morn.

Permalink Reply by Lester on October 28, 2009 at 1:51pm: I'm also not much of a fan of films about those of the blood-sucking persuasion.

Hmmm, maybe this guy is on to something: Why women love vampires and men don't.

Permalink Reply by Nicole on November 18, 2009 at 5:46am: Yes, I am not a huge fan of the vamp genre either. I think I was just about the only person I know that did not wet myself for "Let The Right One In."

HOWEVER. I just saw Chan-Wook Park's "Thirst" and it was damn good.

Permalink Reply by joeoftexas on October 28, 2009 at 5:40pm: Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (2008) on DVD
Cannes Film Festival - Prix du Jury (Paolo Sorrentino)
Cannes Film Festival - Prix Vulcain (Luca Bigazzi and Angelo Raguseo)
4.5 stars
Currently it is also available on Netflix Instant Watch
Check it out.