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Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Delores Del Rio has one of my favorite movie lines
Overall the movie is a light enjoyable comedy rightfully noted MOSTLY as the first time Astaire and Rogers were paired.
HOWEVER, Delores Del Rio was the real lead comic actress. Though she is basically doing a Gracie Allen imitation at one point she delivers one of my all time favorite movie lines.
At one point Delores is doing the clueless befuddled bit, and in a rather vexed struggle to express how foreign the terrain of Rio seems (and after a subtle titillating set-up line) she ventures to ask why things seem different in Rio.
She puts on an unaware puzzled puppy face and says, "What is it these Brazilians have down below the equator that we don't have?" How they got that line by the censors I'll never know, but I'm glad they did.
Celebration at Big Sur (1971)
Interesting snapshot that gets under the surface almost despite itself
I caught this film late night many years ago. I've seen it a couple times since. Their is more than one edit I assume because the hot tub scene was cut in one version I saw. The musical performances vary from spotty to captivating. Jonathon Sebastion's description of his "trip" to the Dead ranch is funny, revealing, and at points a bit incoherent. Stills throws a hissy fit that exposes his more self-indulgent persona, and Joni Mitchell's performance of her at-the-time brand new tune Woodstock (more famous in the CSNY version) makes the whole film worth a watch. My only question is where's the DVD of this unique psychedelic snapshot?