Films I Watched This Week — Aug 18–24, 2025
Old Yeller (1957)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Joan Crawford won the Academy Award playing Mildred Pierce, the hard-working, pie-baking, people-pleasing mother, working full-time as a waitress all the while building a savings to own her own restaurant. Mildred's ruin is inevitable, as she is manipulated, accused of murder and used by the people closest to her. Mildred Pierce represents the quintessential womens picture while being set within the confines of the film noir, as the story is drenched in melodrama, yet doomed in fatalism. The film is also a perfect demonstration that in a patriarchal society, when a woman steps outside her home, the end results could become tragic.
Mildred Pierce (1945) is on MY TOP 500 GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIMES LIST
Stop Making Sense (1984)
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