Royal "your."
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
lists are awful
― Unity Tour 2011: 311 and Sublime with Rome (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
If only less of them featured Citizen Kane.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Touch of Evil drags more than CK does (the Heston-Weaver stuff leaves me cold).― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:05 PM (49 minutes ago)
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:05 PM (49 minutes ago)
― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Citizen Kane is great and all, but its inclusion in your list of all time greatest movies isn't going to attract my attention.
I guess you omit Erotica from your list of all time great albums.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not desperately seeking attention from ILM'ers.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
desperately seeking susan from ilm'ers
― Unity Tour 2011: 311 and Sublime with Rome (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
desperately steening HOOS'n
― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wonder what Welles thread will actually feature discussion of CK
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw the Jed Leland scenes in this make me nostalgic for an age when theatre reviews were called "notices."
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
also, was it Kael who wrote that Sloane's Bernstein was thought to be a vocal impression of Bernard Herrmann? I've always delighted in imagining Sloane's accent when reading Herrmann's quote to Brian De Palma when scoring Sisters: "YAW NOT HITCHCOCK!"
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
What are your favorite unremarked-on scenes? Mine: "Certainly we're speaking, Jedediah. You're fired."
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
^CFK at his queeniest
I like it when old Leland refers to Xanadu as "Sloppy Joe's" (fave Hemingway bar in Key West)
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love when Leland says "crimitism" instead of "criticism." Apparently, it was shot at the end of a loooooong day (or days) and Cotten was delirious with sleep deprivation. Welles just smiles at him.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 01:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Other movies that are fast moving and fun as all hell.
The Magnificent Ambersons
this is a joke, right?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think he's got it confused with "Meet the Fockers"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 08:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
f for fake kinda bogs down towards the end. the picasso thing.
I've the same problem with F For Fake that I do with Zelig: the joke gets tired after twenty minutes.
i can't see how either of these hold water; i don't see any of the later sections as offering diminished returns, because they're different; the section on the cathedral is one of the most lyrical in cinema, to me, and the picasso section is playful and graceful in an entirely different way from the start of the film's more mad-cap, technological fun. sure f for fake is uneven, in that it veers, but i don't think it's that it tries one thing and then flags.
― mailbox of snakes (schlump), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 10:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
'f for fake' is great, but getting criterion treatment kinda overexposed it for a while. i enjoy it most because it really lets welles play the showman, which none of his other movies really did. it's a wonderfully unique film -- i can't think of anything else remotely like it. i'd happily shell out for a criterion that consisted of nothing but welles interviews, come to think of it.
the most remarkable thing about welles, for me, is that all of his movies are so different in style, tone, everything. it's almost impossible to believe the same guy made 'ambersons' AND 'f for fake' AND 'the trial.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 12:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
"you see, my mother died a long time ago, and her things were put in storage out west--there wasn't any other place to put them--i thought i'd send for them now, and tonight i was going to take a look at them. you know, a sort of sentimental journey. i run a couple of newspapers; what do you do?"
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 02:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
ever notice the dude on the Smart Puffs bag looks exactly like Peter Bogdanovich?
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
missing the cravat, though
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
on the new release:
For the new Blu-ray, Ned Price and his team at Warner Brothers Motion Picture Imagery scanned three different copies (or "film elements"): the MoMA print; a 35 mm fine-grain master that was found several years ago at a film lab in Brussels; and another 35 mm fine-grain master, discovered much more recently at a European film archive. (For a purely technical caveat, click here.)
"The three film elements had different strengths and weaknesses," Price explained. "For instance, one of them had less flicker in one reel but coarser grain in another reel. So we put together the best bits and pieces of all three." (Even so, Price and his team had to clean up, frame by frame, a lot of dirt and misalignments, especially in all those opticals and dissolves. The restoration project took over a year to complete.)
http://www.slate.com/id/2303638/pagenum/all/
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Had never seen this. Now I have. Wow!
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
:D
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's great no matter how much people want to rearrange the canonical furniture.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Citizen Kane = Magnificent Ambersons = Chimes at Midnight = F for Fake = Touch of Evil
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
You'd need a big room for all that furniture.
esp if Orson is living there
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink