[lbo-talk] Todd Haynes and Mildred Pierce

[Chuck Grimes]

I have two maybe more great memories of Los Angeles that are movies and 
moments of walking down the big streets  with my step father and my 
mother--that later felt like Truffaut 400 Blows, when Antoine was loving 
life with his mother and step father hand in hand skipping in the wet 
streets of neon and traffic.. you can not know how beautiful that feeling 
was unless you tasted it as a boy...

And this fucking movie was one of those times. Bilious  color and a perfect 
sound track, that evoked a whole series of visions of Mexico and Los Angeles 
in some weird mix of sensibility. Alvarado  and Wilshire, across from 
Westlake, then down to where we parked the car. Joy and comradeship with 
boys I knew from my class at Union selling papers on Alvarado in front of 
the bars after ten at night. Blew my parents away