If you live in New York City, you have three more days to get to the Film Forum to see Otto Preminger’s ‘Laura,’ one of the best movies of all time–it’s noir, it’s hysterically funny, it’s got great costumes, and a man who writes his gossip column (on a typewriter) in the bathtub. I went this afternoon, and discovered a heretofore hidden secret truth: if you have Judith Anderson speak the word ‘adored,’ you have a perfect movie. (Note: the above image is a still from Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca,’ and features Anderson, on the left, as Mrs. Danvers, a wonderfully evil domestic, which is, of course, the best kind of all, as all lovers of the BBC’s Downton Abbey well know.)

Yours in black and white,
Emma