It's pretty good but no classic; haven't seen it in awhile, but the church confession scene particularly annoyed me. SEE, HE'S FULL OF INARTICULATE GUILT.
I prefer Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:38 (7 years ago) Permalink
― N_RQ, Friday, 16 September 2005 13:41 (7 years ago) Permalink
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:42 (7 years ago) Permalink
watching enemy of the state--solid fuckin flick, holds up well
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think the slowness is just frank aiming for 'serious auteur' art-movieness.
This is a deeply irritating statement, but never mind.
― Freedom, Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
ive probably mellowed in the intervening seven years (dats a pretty typical ilx thing to say, c. 2003), but it's not my favourite failure-of-communication movie. probably should give it another go, since i haven't seen it since ooh 1998.
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, June 7, 2009 11:47 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark
^^^ also kind of an ilx thing to say. don't really agree with this tho.
― V-E-R-Y (history mayne), Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
best eugene hackman movie
― chris nibbs (cozen), Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah. great haskell wexler opening shot.
― V-E-R-Y (history mayne), Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
remember this as wonderful, kind of afraid to go back to be honest. lotta films like that from the student days, though.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
i still prefer 'blow up' but maybe it's because im a londoner.
― V-E-R-Y (history mayne), Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
kingston-upon-thames is in london right?
blow-up has way more hotter chicks that's for sure!
― da Wesley CRUSHER (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
huh I guess I should see this eh
― I won't vote for you unless you acknowledge my magic pony (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
blow-up has way more hotter chicks that's for sure!this is true, but young teri garr in the conversation ain't bad. love Harrison Ford in this. He shoud be more like this in other movies.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes!
― fuckin' lame, bros (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 09:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
he is in the movie star bizness, no characters plz
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 11:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
very ILX of everyone above to be so allergic to something "deep."
anyway, aside from all that, i think what will stick with me from this movie is yes the editing but also some lovely moments--that strange slow swooping movement the camera makes (i think) three times as Hackman gives that monologue to the blond woman in the green dress. and him riding the subway alone with the recurrent musical theme.
― ryan, Thursday, 2 June 2011 05:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
this flick owns
― in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 June 2011 05:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seeing it (again) tonight as part of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. I was baffled too...Coppola? No, don't think so, and Harry Caul's a devout Catholic. It's David Shire, the composer, who'll be talking and performing afterwards.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 May 2012 12:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, I guess the score is quite central to it, but yeah, a tad tenuous.
― Freedom, Monday, 7 May 2012 10:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
He was great--lots of stories, and he sat and played The Conversation's main theme. Didn't even clue into the fact he was Talia Shire's husband, nor did I realize that he did the piano work on Zodiac (hired because Fincher had The Conversation in mind), and that it's him playing overtop that amazing overhead Library-of-Congress shot in All the President's Men.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 May 2012 11:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
interesting stuff here from an interview with Terri Garr http://www.avclub.com/articles/teri-garr,2390/
― piscesx, Monday, 7 May 2012 11:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
man, that's a great interview. thanks, piscesx.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
They're showing this at a beer theater in Portland in the next few weeks. Should be good.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
weird, just watched this for the first time a couple weeks ago
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
like it? i think it's kind of the perfect 70s movie.
― tylerw, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah def dug it. It does encapsulate a lot of different 70s tropes in a great way
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
One thing I learned last night that surprised me was that Hackman played all his saxophone parts himself. Coppola would be after him to go over lines, and he'd be off in a corner practising B-flat scales.
I'm tempted to say that nobody has ever so completely disappeared into a role as Hackman does here, but thinking about it, Hackman's impish humour does surface in some of his banter with Allen Garfield.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 May 2012 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't prove a thing, nor does it matter, but David Shire's score is to my ears deeply indebted to Emahoy Tsege-Maryam Guèbrou:
― poxen, Monday, 7 May 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can hear some similarity--that's before '74, I assume? He said his main inspiration was a late-night DJ he used to listen to who'd accompany himself on piano underneath his patter. I asked him in the Q&A if there was any Scott Joplin influence, because I always thought I heard some of The Sting theme in there (which would have been a year earlier). He gave one of those polite "Maybe"s that really meant "Not at all," and now that I've relistened, I see what he means--they're not really similar at all.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
haw, it'd be pretty wild if shire was listening to that in 1974 (though i see what you mean).
― tylerw, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'd say "strikingly similar", before "deeply indebted", if i didn't know better (and i don't)
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Check the rest of that album out, it's uncanny! And Guebrou wasn't unknown in the early 70s. "Strikingly similar" for sure. I guess saying "indebted" suggests plagiarism, which isn't what I meant.
― poxen, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
i do want to hear the rest of the album now, as that one minute snippet is great
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
also..
― piscesx, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
snap, put it on telly as a late movie last Sunday and stayed up to watch it
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
this film is pretty hard to love IMO
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 01:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
'blow up' is much better IMO
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno, hard to love? maybe i'm a pushover, but you put gene hackman, paul cazale, frederic forrest, teri garr, cindy williams and harrison ford in a movie together, i'm going to love it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is perhaps my favorite nihilistic "you got played" ending next to "The Killing."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
idg what's "hard to love" about it
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a thread topic: great nihilistic endings. Those two for sure, Straight Time, White Heat, Reservoir Dogs, so many others.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Chinatown obviously
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dumb and Dumber
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Half serious about that one
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Parallax View?
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Definitely^
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Long Good Friday
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Night Moves
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Easy RiderElectra Glide In Blue
(matched set)
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shallow Grave
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Weekend, of course, both film proper and end credits. It's more a matter of mood and gesture, but I find the last shot of Miller's Crossing strangely nihilistic...I think, I don't know; it's one of my favourite endings ever, but I'm not sure what feelings it conveys.
After relinquishing whatever privacy and anonymity he still possessed, Harry Caul has now lost control of this thread.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
wowwwwwwwww
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Monday, 10 September 2012 02:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
Never seen it before?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2012 03:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
Nope, it was always on the list, decided to watch it tonight. I'm giving up the NFL and Sundays are going to be for fillum.
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Monday, 10 September 2012 03:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
You made a fine choice. So what leapt out at you most?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2012 03:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
The score, the static shots, the tightness of the editing, but mainly Hackman's performance. Great all-around.
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Monday, 10 September 2012 03:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
45.
Re: great nihilistic endings. Morocco has a good one, I'd argue -- it's not properly romantic at all.
― Michael Daddino, Monday, 10 September 2012 03:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
Five Easy Pieces?
― aerosmith suck because their corporate rock that sucks (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 10 September 2012 08:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
I mean, abracadabra, Harry, show and tell--I'm number two, so I have to try harder.
― clemenza, Monday, 10 September 2012 11:08 (8 months ago) Permalink