I just watched _The Third Man_ in full for the first time

ha!

oh holly, if you do get anna out of this, be kind to her; you'll find she's worth it. i wish i had asked you to bring some of those tablets from home.

just gonna keep posting in here endlessly it's darraghmac's fault

best bits of supporting business: baron kurtz's coyness about his gig at the casanova club ("one has to make a living somehow"); crabbin the aged propagandist hustling a rotating series of girls through doors and up stairs; popescu the ultracivilized romanian psychopath ("no ice for mr. martins!"); and of course poor innocent MAJOR PAYNE (played by the pre-dench M!) with his rhinoceros slide. lime sheds the blood of the lamb there.

no wait he's not major payne he's sergeant or something. just as well.

must you take those?

they'll be returned, miss.

they're private letters.

that's all right, miss; don't worry. we're used to it. like doctors.

i think, in this movie, there's a bit character in maybe the opening third of the movie, working in a ceiling lit office room, who wears a pair of glasses with sharply edged, perfectly trapezoidal frames. i have been searching for that exact pair of glasses for about 8 years now

the story of dayo's glasses will be 1/5th or so of my room 237-style exegesis of the third man

Prob the russian attache guy?

clnl pickering pwns in this too, oh i forgot m'hat

my favorite bit:

Sting: All this brings up a memory you two probably won't like. 'Next To You' is essentially a love song. However it was written during the height of punk, and Andy and Stewart complained it wasn't political enough. So I said, "Okay, go and write some lyrics." Andy came up with "I'm going to take a gun to you".

Copeland (sings): "Gun to you, gun to you, all I want is to take a gun to you!" That would have been great. Why didn't we do that?

Sting: Because I vetoed it.

yes that is also my favorite scene from The Third Man, a 1949 movie by carol reed starring joseph cotten and orson welles and sting

This bit contains some of Greene's best writing imo:

Copeland: 'Darkness' is a song about vertigo. I'm very proud of it, and there's not really much to say about it except that...

Sting: 'Vertigo' is an Alfred Hitchcock movie!

Copeland: True, but unlike you, Sting, I didn't steal my ideas from films or other literary sources. I came up with the crap I wrote my goddamn self!

Summers: That's easy for you to say, Stewart. You've never even read a book - or seen a film!

Haven't you heard, Callahan, I'm here as a guest of Miles Copeland and I.R.S. Records

I'll be your dumb decoy duck.

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? De doo doo doo, de da da da. That's all I want to say to you, Holly."

Heartbreaker, with your Ferris wheel, they chased a boy through Prater Park.

(Sorry, wrong doo doo doo doo doo)

new thing noticed, viewing #30 or something: holly sitting on the ground at the police excavation of lime's grave, unhelpfully trying to set a whiskey glass on fire

if you're not a very careful viewer movies just keep giving and giving

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/vlcsnap-2013-07-21-22h20m48s87_zps5f041211.png

Really gotta get this on dvd.

Trayce, in Australia it often shows up on those super-cheap packs of 10 movies; of course, it looks significantly less cool on the shelf in a lurid VALUE MOVIE PACK case than in a nice Criterion case, so I have my regrets

http://i.imgur.com/7zTW3Oe.jpg

I hate these movies based on games

Reminds me of the famous broken-image-link Mark S Decodes Mastermind For You thread.

"Zither not included"

David O. Selznick wanted to axe Karas' score

anyone else find the score kind of irritating?

just me then (and Selznick I guess)

No.

Yes.

I sort of find the whole movie a little bit irritating.

Tho I guess at least it's not boring, which I can't say for Reed's Odd Man Out.

It's a great theme, and I really like its use in the opening credits, but it's just so incessant and monotonous

Tho I guess at least it's not boring, which I can't say for Reed's Odd Man Out.

― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.)

I'd like to thank Eric for making me regret not a whit our divorce.

Mexican or Haitian?

No.

Yes.

― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, July 20, 2014 5:44 PM

otm

I sort of find the whole movie a little bit irritating.

― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:47 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tho I guess at least it's not boring, which I can't say for Reed's Odd Man Out.

― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:47 PM (34 minutes ago)

i now feel even more confident that these are two of the best films ever

Eric, you forgot to go for challops triple and dis The Fallen Idol.

Love this movie. Saw it most recently at a special screening in Vienna, and then went to the Third Man Museum there the following day. The score was playing incessantly throughout the exhibit, so it did become a little irritating after a while.

the insane repetitiveness of the score is really expressive. i love it!

well now Eric knows how the rest of us feel about de Palma

you know i don't know why but it wasn't until this year that i realized the ending of long goodbye was a really obvious homage to the ending of this film

Eric, you forgot to go for challops triple and dis The Fallen Idol.

Oliver > all three

OK, that really was challops.

they think you did it.

of course a situation like that does tempt amateurs. but they can't stay the course like a professional.

ten minutes too late. already gone... mr lime--an accident. knocked over by a car. in front of the house. i have seen it myself. killed at once. immediately. already in [points upward] hell. or in [shrugs, points downward] heaven. sorry for the gravediggers. hard work.

wait, holly walking down the sewer pipe out of the fog mirrors anna walking down the cemetery road between the trees

these are the only things that help - these tablets. These are the last. Can't get them anywhere in Europe any more

oh, and when we do meet, old man, it's you i want to see -- not the police. you'll remember that, won't you?

this time i noticed for the first time the sign at the hotel regretting they cannot serve austrians. holly never knows what country anyone's from or what it means. calloway.

actually re the tablets the really great line is "the same old indigestion". best satanic figures in movies.