Film Talk Friday Episode 3

Swing Time (1936) Director: George Stevens
Starring: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
Genre: Comedy/Musical

Swing Time is about Astaire (Lucky) who leaves his performing group to head off to New York City to make some money so he can marry his Fiance. While in New York he meets Penny (Rogers) an aspiring Dancer. It isn't love at first sight at least not in Penny's eyes but they soon grow on each other and Lucky is left to choose between Penny and his Fiance. I'm sure you can guess who he chose?

Swing Time was such a fun movie to watch. Naturally the film was entertaining with the infamous duo of Astaire/Rogers singing and dancing together truly at their best. I had not watched an Astaire/Rogers film in a while and I had forgotten how beautiful Ginger Rogers was and how much chemistry they have together. The one thing I love about watching older films is that the comedy is so innocent. It is not based on sexual or dirty references like many of today's films are.

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Top 100 Movies

I decided to finally start watching the AFI list of the top 100 movies of the last 100 years. You can see the complete list here. I plan on starting at #100 and working my way to #1. I placed the first 10 movies into my Netflix que and waited for the first to arrive. The first movie I got is #100 which is the epic, Ben-Hur. I have to tell you right off the bat I am intimidated by this movie. Not only because it's suppose to be a great epic film, that won 11 Academy Awards but because it is 4 HOURS long. I am going to have to tackle this movie in pieces over the weekend. I don't think I can sit still for that long, but I'll check back in and let y'all know what I think! Happy Friday!

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