Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

"Mary, for God's sake, forget the past!" "Why? How can I? The past is the present. It's the future too." Curated Cupcake Cinema #17 Like Tolstoy famously wrote in Anna Karenina: happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. What do…

theironcupcake

Action! - Lumet/Pollack: The Fight of the Century After viewing my first Lumet adaptation of an O'Neill play, I was encouraged to learn more about the author. And, in part, I suppose learning more about the playwright's life is more disheartening to me than not as I am…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Cupcake Curated Cinema - #17 There's such beauty in the breakdown. And there's nothing more American than the breakdown of the American family that still chooses to stay together despite its generational trauma. Eugene O'Neill's posthumous published masterpiece is a…

🦇 Leighton Trent 🦇

I still don't know how Katharine didn't win an Oscar for THIS role..

Elizabeth 🥀

i read this play this summer and in my head mary was played by katharine hepburn (because of this adaptation) and edmund was played by jack nicholson (because he's the surrogate eugene o'neill character and not a day goes by where i'm not thinking about jack nicholson…

nora

who's afraid of katharine hepburn?

robbie

I'm always suspected of hoping for the worst, I got so I can't help it.Long Day's Journey into Night is an expansive character drama adapted from Eugene O'Neill's Pullitzer Prize winning play - to borrow from Pauline Kael, the best film to be adapted from O'Neill's writing…

Zachary

Cinematic Time Capsule 1962 Marathon - Film #33 🎶Dysfunction Junction, what's your gumption? Miserable words and phrases and clauses. Dysfunction Junction, how's that function? I got four family members That get most of my job done 🎶 And here it is! …

📀 Cammmalot 📀

Definitely a challenging experience to go through. In addition to the exhaustion feeling of being trapped with those people that are constantly blaming each other as a sort of cope mechanism for their own issues, underneath it, there’s a darker idea of how much pain people…

yuri