― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
and Corman's Suburbia, which is vastly superior to Linklater's Suburbia.
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Sorry,I guess I was loosely associating it. More or less I'm not looking for suburb movies as I am for movies that are the similiar of the works of writers like John Updike, Richard Yates, David Gates etc.. You know, the whole next door neighboor, adultery, acoholism themed kind of stuff they seem to specialize in if that makes any sense.
― CL, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony (Anthony F), Thursday, 16 September 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never read the Cheever story, but Frank Perry's "The Swimmer" with Burt Lancaster is a good one in this vein.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― RMac, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― nycfilmguy (nycfilmguy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Sunday, 3 October 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm (kephm), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 9 October 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― mayo apetrain (mayoape), Monday, 11 October 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― knit, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Thursday, 21 October 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― scout, Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― PVC (peeveecee), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
How narrow are we getting in our definition of "suburb"? I think the concept of a suburb has changed quite a bit in the last 15 years or so, and there may be a big difference between a suburb near a large city and that in a smaller area. Or should we just define this as "neighborhood" films?
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
has anyone seen Martin Ritt's No Down Payment? Scope, b&W, 1957, Joanne Woodward, Jeffrey Hunter, screenplay by uncredited blacklistee Ben Maddow. Tony Randall as a used-car salesman "looking for a good time," married to Sheree North!
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/no-down-payment
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 March 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
watched it last night, it's on youtube. takes a little bit of patience but definitely has more than a few details & nuances I wasn't expecting, with some fairly intense meltdowns. I know the whole point is that everyone's home is identical, but my guess is they used the exact same set for every interior shot, slightly redecorated, so the sense of claustrophobia keeps building as the scenes transition from house to house. the TV is in the same spot in every home.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 13 March 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
The best burb film is clearly 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, right?
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Maybe some of the claustrophobia comes from the YT version being 'square' when it's a 'Scope film? xp
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Such a sadness to think you've seen a film on youtube
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link