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...GRETA GARBO: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION...
...Garbo's centenary this September made lots of people remember that she was once considered a great actress. This set offers irrefutable proof: 10 features packed with enough glamour and bold genius to leave any skeptic awestruck. See her ignite the screen in Ernst Lubitsch's divine comedy Ninotchka or the Dumas melodrama Camille--made in 1939 and still the most astonishing display of star acting the movies ever recorded...
...honest self-interrogations throughout his massive Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 (HarperCollins; 1,048 pages; $40). Heroically edited by Katherine Bucknell, the book takes us through Isherwood's first 21 years in California in 901 pages (the glossary alone takes up an additional 93!). Profoundly sane, Isherwood traveled from Garbo to God and back again--by way of the gay underworld--without losing a sense of humor or proportion...
...irreverent open-mindedness to even the most outlandish scenes. Almost every page, in Isherwood's best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg show"); with penetrating observation (Garbo is "the woman whose life everyone wants to interfere with"); and with a hard-won wisdom of the heart ("It's much easier to turn hate into love than to turn fear into love...
Famous on the Brattle’s screening menu are classics marathons and festivals such as the Bogart, Hitchcock, or Warner Brothers cartoon festivals. This month, the Greta Garbo Festival gave film lovers an opportunity to relive the glory days of this classic star. Great classics are often shown as part of double features; recently “Psycho”/“The Birds” were paired for the price of one admission...