Merrily We Go to Hell

”gentlemen, i give you the holy state of matrimony, modern style: single lives, twin beds, and triple bromides in the morning.”imagine your wife telling you she’s bringing her side piece to a party and she shows up with CARY GRANT. i would just cut my losses at that point…

eely

Love the experience of going into something like this completely blind and thinking I'm watching a plain good classic romantic comedy/melodrama, and then having an extremely dark detail about alcoholism pop up, then another about adultery, and then a completely sudden and…

Josh Lewis

LOVE. If there were ever a better image than a windswept, teary Sylvia Sidney driving alone at night, I haven't seen it. What a perfect performance.

sarah

or: Bittersweet-8100 Few better feelings one can get in a movie theater than that moment when you realize an old pre-code melodrama has you totally hooked and engaged with its story and characters. For me it happened during the wedding scene in this, when Frederic March…

Joe

If you're going to talk about Dorothy Arzner, one also mustn't ignore the ways in which she became a pioneer for queer filmmaking from the day, especially considering the way she codes such subtext within her work. Merrily We Go to Hell also might just be the most fitting…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Cary Grant here to steal yo girl.

Carol Grant

This is brutal and devastating. While it ostensibly tells the story of a man's collapse and recovery (and collapse and recovery, and collapse and recovery), it's clear the moment we meet Jerry (Fredric March) that he has, in fact, already fallen. The deep, fatalistic…

sakana1

have not seen too many endings that are as bleak as this one.

Jamelle Bouie

Imagine if women directed more of old hollywood?

Alex Franqueira