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Film · RKO · 1936

Swing Time

Name: Swing Time scores 29 — Live Historic
Item: Swing Time
Rating: 29
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29Leave it.

Keep the other dances if you want, but Bojangles of Harlem is blackface, full stop.

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The review

Fred Astaire plays a gambler-dancer who has to earn a stake before he can marry, and then he would rather dance with the teacher. Ginger Rogers is that teacher. The dances are light enough for a tired night, and it was a hit of the year without leading the rentals. A house can watch the other dances. I was ready to leave it there.

There is a blackface number called Bojangles of Harlem. It is not a footnote. I won't sand that down for the partnership. The marriage he was earning toward already sits second to a dance, and the makeup is the part a parent has to name. Leave it on only if someone in the room will say what that number is.

Journal

Keep Swing Time in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Stormy Weather

41 instead of 29

Stormy Weather is still a musical film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is stewardship: The dances are what that year left, and they outlast the thin romance.

The eight

5
Industry
He has to earn a stake, and the dancing is the work the picture is built on.
4
Household
A marriage waits on the stake, and he would rather dance with the teacher.
2
Piety
Nothing stops Bojangles of Harlem, and the marriage promise does not either.
3
Courage
The risk is a stake and a partner, not a life he would miss.
2
Republic
Bojangles of Harlem is a blackface number in the film, not a side note.
2
Temperance
He gambles for the stake, and the blackface number is played as a dance.
3
Truth
The stake was the condition for marrying, and then he wants the teacher.
2
Stewardship
What remains is famous dancing with a blackface number still inside it.

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Film · De Laurentiis · 1986

Blue Velvet

29Leave it.

He finds an ear and then wants the night more than he wants an exit.

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The review

He finds an ear in a field and follows it, a college boy treating a crime as a personal door. By day the town is lawns and robins. By night there's a singer, a criminal, and a detective's daughter. I'm not describing the cruelty. The detail that decides whether you should leave it on is simpler: he wants the mystery more than he wants to leave.

Not for teenagers, and not as a style to borrow. The neat lawn isn't proof the place is sound, and his curiosity isn't a favor to the neighbors. He could stop. He doesn't want to. If your house already flatters people for poking into the dark, this will flatter them again. You can admit the film is skilled and still keep it off this week. He wants the mystery more than a way out. That is the warning.

Journal

Keep Blue Velvet in the record.