Wait, don't you work in a theater? Does that count?

I have to say that I worked in a movie theater for only three horrific months and I was only able to drag myself back there to see one movie. Just couldn't bear to go back to the place I had to be at the rest of the hours of my day.

is character seemed to me to be not only her father figure, and psychotic, and cruel, and a terrifying contemptuous finger-breaker, but ferociously and utterly gay

Hahaha. I must locate a copy of the film to see if I see this now.

I was expecting some grand tragedy of the ending where Mason's character would get what's coming to him but it would be operatically fucked-up in a way I'd find interesting, then the happy-ending made me go, "... the hell?" Still, I love the film for the melodrama, headgames and WTFery. And James Mason, damn his eyes.

He walked the line between a tragic woobie and the creepy sociopath really well. He made a couple of very fine Carol Reed films around that time -- "Odd Man Out" and "The Man Between", where the story of the tragically flawed antihero took a more sense-making path.

Epic fail: Jewel Staite's movie THE TRIBE (which basically looked like a Lost rip off) has been renamed THE LOST TRIBE, with Jewel recast. The producer gives a somewhat amusing and major league wankage interview about it: [link]

Although reading the interview I'd say the producer has no idea what the fuck he's doing.

Yes I work in a theatre so I get to see movies for free so it kinda doesn't count.

just watched Once. i pretty much had goosebumps through the entire thing. amazing, beautiful and really, really lovely.

I loved Once too, tiggy. I got the OST and the other version they put out, they're on iTunes - lovely.

"You're making out with your physically abusive clinically insane gay uncle and I should be happy for you? I...but...What? How? WHAT?"

bwah! A very reasonable response, and very likely how I'd have reacted if I'd seen it as an adult - but I was about ten, and crushing hugely on James Mason. Um. So - yeah. Um.

Wow, finally sort of read that article on The [Lost] Tribe and what an unprofessional, gossipy ass! I don't care if any of it was true, you don't speak out of school like regarding your colleagues. "Everyone was so horrible and undedicated except for ME ME ME!". I say good for Jewel for getting the fuck away from that.

"Odd Man Out"

Loved this, but I can bearly stand to watch it because it's so heartbreakingly sad.

"The Man Between"

I was a bit dissapointed in this. Mason was fine (as was Claire Bloom), but it seemed to be trying to hard to be another THIRD MAN.