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The Twilight Zone: Long Live Walter Jameson (1960)
Timeless Classic
A marvelous, thoughtful piece of science fiction. Kevin McCarthy's performance as a dashing middle-aged professor is exceptional, including a gripping (albeit apocryphal) history lecture, an impetuous marriage proposal, and a surge of guilt and heartbreak. A climactic confrontation toward the end of the episode--beautifully directed, in which a ghostly character appears before Walter Jameson and bids him look into her eyes--calls to mind Hamlet's mournful lament to the skull of Yorick: "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. Make her laugh at that."
A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
nice little film
It doesn't rank with the best Woody Allen movies, but it's a nice little film. There is a suspenseful and sad scene where Elle Fanning's character is mistreated by a slimy Lothario; her exfiltration from his flat counterpoints the Timothée Chalamet character's comical flight through an art museum. There is a touching, albeit far-fetched, reconciliation between a mother and son. The dialogue requires suspension of disbelief, and the many romantic betrayals never cut
very deep.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Murder Me Twice (1958)
Hidden in Plain Sight
An eerie, entertaining little story. Phyllis Thaxter gives an excellent performance as the protean young wife. The shock of the terrible deeds in the story comes from the halcyon settings in which they are placed. I confess to some pleasure at seeing a mountebank hoist with his own petard.