Dear Reader: Do any of these situations pertain to you?
Single? Exasperated by the maniacal fury surrounding you on this manufactured love holiday, unable to get a seat at your favorite restaurant with your mother due to the influx of lovers calorically proving their love?
Married? Irritated that you have to spend more pretty pennies on your significant other so soon after Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years (and maybe a birthday, or an anniversary to boot) that Love day just seems to be a tired chore?
Courting? You’ve just met someone special but you’re afraid to be overly creepy and suggest something too serious too soon? Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you’re afraid you’ll appear dull and uncaring?
Adventurous? You’re friends with the extremely entertaining Nicholas Bell, master of the macabre, fearless leader of the weak, harridan of the homosexuals, and you’ve been lucky enough to be invited to join him in a rigorous spell of movie love?
Well, if any of the above four situations pertain to you, then I know where you’ll be when the dusk of Valentine’s Day comes nigh!
This Valentine’s Day, the husband and I would like to cordially invite you to our Valentine’s Day Double Feature event, Bad Romance: A Cinematic Exploration of the Dark Side of Love. This movie event is scheduled to take place in a rented home theater! And since we realize this is love’s big day, we thought it best to get word out a little earlier than usual so that you can keep our event in mind.
Featured Films:
Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Director John M. Stahl
Foreboding Quote: “There’s nothing wrong with Ellen. It’s just that she loves too much!”
Boxing Helena (1993)
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands, Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Foreboding Tagline: “Beyond love, beyond obsession, there hides something beyond reason!”
Leave Her To Heaven features my favorite performance from Gene Tierney (in her only Oscar nominated role) as a woman who loves a little too, uhh, fiercely. Described as a “Technicolor” film noir, this is one film directed by John M. Stahl that wasn’t remade later by auteur Douglas Sirk (such as Magnificent Obsession and Imitation of Life). Probably because Sirk realized this film was perfect as it stands.
Boxing Helena is that infamous 1993 debut from the daughter of David Lynch. Originally set to star Madonna, headlines were made when Kim Basinger dropped out of the project, causing a scandalous lawsuit that forced Basinger to file for bankruptcy. The role of Helena would go to early 90’s sex kitten Sherilyn Fenn, in a film that did for her what Showgirls (1995) did for Elizabeth Berkley. Definitely a fun, campy must-see film.
Intermission will feature a game centered around failed celebrity relationships trivia called “Boxing the Tricks,” in which I will be dividing all those in attendance into 5 teams (each team named after a famous American sweetheart). Each team will receive a box that contains the torso of a Barbie doll. Every correct answer to a question asked of the team will receive an appendage. Whatever team wins back the most appendages wins a prize! So come one, come all for a cinematic event to remember!
Please RSVP for show time and directions to the home theater venue.
Single? Exasperated by the maniacal fury surrounding you on this manufactured love holiday, unable to get a seat at your favorite restaurant with your mother due to the influx of lovers calorically proving their love?
Married? Irritated that you have to spend more pretty pennies on your significant other so soon after Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years (and maybe a birthday, or an anniversary to boot) that Love day just seems to be a tired chore?
Courting? You’ve just met someone special but you’re afraid to be overly creepy and suggest something too serious too soon? Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you’re afraid you’ll appear dull and uncaring?
Adventurous? You’re friends with the extremely entertaining Nicholas Bell, master of the macabre, fearless leader of the weak, harridan of the homosexuals, and you’ve been lucky enough to be invited to join him in a rigorous spell of movie love?
Well, if any of the above four situations pertain to you, then I know where you’ll be when the dusk of Valentine’s Day comes nigh!
This Valentine’s Day, the husband and I would like to cordially invite you to our Valentine’s Day Double Feature event, Bad Romance: A Cinematic Exploration of the Dark Side of Love. This movie event is scheduled to take place in a rented home theater! And since we realize this is love’s big day, we thought it best to get word out a little earlier than usual so that you can keep our event in mind.
Featured Films:
Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Director John M. Stahl
Foreboding Quote: “There’s nothing wrong with Ellen. It’s just that she loves too much!”
Boxing Helena (1993)
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands, Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Foreboding Tagline: “Beyond love, beyond obsession, there hides something beyond reason!”
Leave Her To Heaven features my favorite performance from Gene Tierney (in her only Oscar nominated role) as a woman who loves a little too, uhh, fiercely. Described as a “Technicolor” film noir, this is one film directed by John M. Stahl that wasn’t remade later by auteur Douglas Sirk (such as Magnificent Obsession and Imitation of Life). Probably because Sirk realized this film was perfect as it stands.
Boxing Helena is that infamous 1993 debut from the daughter of David Lynch. Originally set to star Madonna, headlines were made when Kim Basinger dropped out of the project, causing a scandalous lawsuit that forced Basinger to file for bankruptcy. The role of Helena would go to early 90’s sex kitten Sherilyn Fenn, in a film that did for her what Showgirls (1995) did for Elizabeth Berkley. Definitely a fun, campy must-see film.
Intermission will feature a game centered around failed celebrity relationships trivia called “Boxing the Tricks,” in which I will be dividing all those in attendance into 5 teams (each team named after a famous American sweetheart). Each team will receive a box that contains the torso of a Barbie doll. Every correct answer to a question asked of the team will receive an appendage. Whatever team wins back the most appendages wins a prize! So come one, come all for a cinematic event to remember!
Please RSVP for show time and directions to the home theater venue.
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