Month: July 2021

WHY POPCORN FRIDAYS

I believe that at times like the present, where the pandemic related pains haunt us, there may be nothing better to do on a Friday evening than making a bit of popcorn and watching an old movie.

It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.

For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.

The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.

So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.

TODAY´S MOVIE

This time we are going back to B&W. We are going to watch SHOCK (1946), a thriller that cemented Vincent Price´s career as a thriller and horror movie star.

A psychiatrist (Vincent Price) and a nurse (Lynn Bari) treat a veteran’s (Frank Latimore) wife who has seen them kill the psychiatrist’s wife.

Director: Alfred L. Werker. Stars:  Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore

Enjoy!

Until next time!
Ignacio

©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera

WHY POPCORN FRIDAYS

I believe that at times like the present, where the pandemic related pains haunt us, there may be nothing better to do on a Friday evening than making a bit of popcorn and watching an old movie.

It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.

For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.

The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.

So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.

TODAY´S MOVIE

This time I am deviating from my promise of B&W. We are going to watch MY MAN GODFREY (1936), a true comedy classic, in its colorized version. For purists, this is blasphemy, but it also may give it a chance with those who do not watch movies in monochrome, to fall in love with the genre.

Enjoy!

Until next time!
Ignacio

©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera