Film Festival: Summertime Blues When summer comes to New York City, it gets hot. Really hot. Back in the 1950s, Manhattan husbands used to pack their wives and children off to the seashore or to the mountains, creating a town full of “summer bachelors.” It’s within this atmosphere that Billy Wilder sets a delightful story…
1955
Lisa’s Home Bijou: “The Rose Tattoo”
Film Festival: Summertime Blues Tennessee Williams is one of the premier voices of the South, so a “set” of films about the South wouldn’t be complete without him. In “The Rose Tattoo,” (1955) we visit another Southern locale on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi. “The Rose Tattoo” is an unusual story…