This is a thread about CASABLANCA because it is utterly awesome and the best black and white film ever.

@OscopeLabs
CASABLANCA, one of the greatest films of all time, came out 75 years ago today. What's your favorite quote?

@labuzamovies
"Sam, play that song about the guy and his sled, Rosebud!"

(btw gen release was actually 74y ago)

I haven't called it a criminally overrated hill of crap beans itt yet, so here goes

but everybody's having such a good time

imago, why do you hate fun?

(btw, I stand by my initial post itt.)

Orson Welles loved it -- sort of!

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/31/reluctant-enthusiast-orson-welles-casablanca/

It's a good film and all, but Casablanca wouldn't even make my Top 100 for B&W movies.

Funnily enough, I watched it on Monday for the first time in years. Not my favorite Bergman performance. I was struck this time by the ease with which Curtiz shoots the scene b/w Ilsa and Sam: it's rare to see a period film in which a beloved white woman talks casually to a black man. Also, Rick includes Sam in the champagne toast, even pours him a glass.

A couple of Curtiz films around '50 are similarly generous to characters played by the Afro-Puerto Rican actor Juano Hernandez: The Breaking Point and Young Man with a Horn.

Claude Rains's last-minute transformation from opportunistic jerk to hero is such a classic bit of old-school acting and charisma

sweetnessheart, what watch?

ten watch.

such much?

Huh, always thought it was "such watch?"

that's how i recall it

Rains drops
such watch

I believe it's such much watch

Super Borges just made an appearance on another thread.