love

Poll

What's your favorite film by Ida Lupino?

Haven't Seen Any
6 (46.2%)
Don't Like Any
0 (0%)
Never Fear
0 (0%)
Outrage
2 (15.4%)
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
0 (0%)
The Hitch-Hiker
3 (23.1%)
The Bigamist
2 (15.4%)
The Trouble with Angels
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 13

Author Topic: Lupino, Ida  (Read 1463 times)

1SO

  • Moderator
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 36128
  • Marathon Man
Lupino, Ida
« on: December 16, 2013, 02:12:34 PM »
1. The Bigamist
2. The Trouble With Angels

3. Outrage
4. The Hitch-Hiker
« Last Edit: December 26, 2015, 10:50:27 PM by 1SO »

MartinTeller

  • FAB
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 17864
  • martinteller.wordpress.com
    • my movie blog
Re: Lupino, Ida - Director's Best
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2013, 03:18:47 PM »
1. The Hitch-Hiker
2. Outrage

mañana

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 20862
  • Check your public library
Re: Lupino, Ida - Director's Best
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2013, 03:46:35 PM »
She comes up in crosswords a lot.
There's no deceit in the cauliflower.

Antares

  • Godfather
  • *****
  • Posts: 5013
Re: Lupino, Ida - Director's Best
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2013, 10:54:31 PM »
Haven't Seen Any

But I've seen scores of the TV shows she's directed.
Masterpiece (100-91) | Classic (90-80) | Entertaining (79-69) | Mediocre (68-58) | Cinemuck (57-21) | Crap (20-0)

1SO

  • Moderator
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 36128
  • Marathon Man
Re: Lupino, Ida
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2015, 11:14:21 PM »

The Trouble With Angels (1966)
* * * - Okay
Mislabeled as a comedy, on the surface this looks like typical fare from Disney's live-action output of the 60s. A rebellious teen (Hayley Mills) attends a religious girls academy where she gets into constant trouble with the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). Some of it is goofy and childish, but Lupino ultimately seems to ditch the scripts road of corn and cheese for more interesting territory. (It's important to note this walks and talks like a Disney film, but is actually a product of Columbia Pictures.)

Some moments are rushed, but Lupino guides Russell and Mills to great success with the film's emotional core, and as Mills starts to mature and realize she needs to put away her childish things the film becomes deeply affecting. Both actresses end up doing some of their best dramatic work and the final 15 minutes gets into the complicated nature of school friendships with a depth Disney would never attempt. I wondered how far Lupino fell to end up making a family comedy. Turns out she warps the tone into something she can ultimately be proud of.

Sandy

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 12075
  • "The life we build, we never stop creating.”
    • Sandy's Cinematic Musings
Re: Lupino, Ida
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2015, 11:54:25 PM »
Wasn't sure how you were going to like this one, 1SO. Nice write up.

I learned a lot about life, watching this as a kid. :)

Totoro

  • Guest
Re: Lupino, Ida
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2016, 09:45:20 PM »
OUTRAGE is a cut and dry masterpiece.

oneaprilday

  • FAB
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 13746
  • "What we see and what we seem are but a dream."
    • A Journal of Film
Re: Lupino, Ida - Director's Best
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2016, 10:27:43 PM »
1. The Hitch-Hiker
2. Outrage

1SO

  • Moderator
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 36128
  • Marathon Man
Re: Lupino, Ida
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2016, 10:51:50 PM »
OUTRAGE is a cut and dry masterpiece.

I'd love to read your reasons. I was really looking forward to it, but ended up wishing it was more bold.

Totoro

  • Guest
Re: Lupino, Ida
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2016, 05:02:52 PM »
OUTRAGE is a cut and dry masterpiece.

I'd love to read your reasons. I was really looking forward to it, but ended up wishing it was more bold.

You're going to knock the film points for adhering to the Hays Code? Of course they couldn't flat out call it rape. And even if they could - there's a sublime power in the subtext here. It's the same reason that they don't need to show the actual rape - the implications in the change of tone people have when they discover or realize what exactly happened is more than enough. So yeah, they call it criminal assault. But I wouldn't use today's explicit nature of spelling everything out as a knock against the film. Anything but, really. The fact that they had to cover up the sexual nature of the crime at that time speaks to the systemic, ever pervading patriarchy of that era. It's truthful.

Then again, I rally hard against people who say that the Hays Code was inherently a no good very bad thing. Artists can show a lot of creative skill when there's a certain code placed upon them (the Iran New Wave, for a modern example). This is no different.

 

love