like it's good and all but i don't get emotionally involved in it
― the late great, Monday, 13 May 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
^^
― i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2013 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
it's one of those where the music swells and the actors are clearly feeling all sorts of important things and somewhere btwn them and me the dreaded sillies intervened, this movie is just silly
― i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
eff you, and wait til yer middle-aged
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2013 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
Middle-aged guy agreeing 100% with the late great (though not darraghmac).
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
That link is great, Morbs!
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 13 May 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
this is not really the kind of movie where its admirers get caught up in the plot and characters (at least i dont) but it does have a strong pull in its surface appeal--the music and hallucinatory way its edited. once that pulls you in the "important things" everyone is feeling starts to have meaning.
― ryan, Monday, 13 May 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
the late great otm.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Sux to be all of u.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, 13 May 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Kim Novak always a stumbling block; however, I wish more steakhouses looked like Ernie's.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
see, novak is almost the "flaw" or humanity of it that makes it real and approachable for me.
― ryan, Monday, 13 May 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
darraghmac, tlg, Sotosyn, youve all seen it in *a theater* at least once, yes?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, May 13, 2013 10:09 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 13 May 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
novak is amazing!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 13 May 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, May 13, 2013 10:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 May 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
i like the way this movie looks... the sunny version of mid-century san francisco it presents. rear window is better, i think. both are kind of ridiculous and overblown in their attempt to tackle "psychological" themes. i think it's cool how this movie and citzen kane and vertigo go back and forth on critics' "greatest movie" lists because both films seem to disdain the idea of subtlety, and i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. they are ambitious hollywood productions.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
subtlety is what closes on saturday night.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
in '96 before its VHS reissue. It's not a big deal. There's at least six other Hitch movies I'd watch again.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Can only think of 2 or 3 Hitchcocks I *wouldn't* see again.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
I think Teddy Roosevelt is winking at you....
There's at least six other Hitch movies I'd watch again.
Well, there are at least six English professors I'd marry ahead of you.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
well, i would have seen her, you know! i've been right here all the time putting olive oil on my rubber plant leaves.
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
there's only one veritgo for me: http://bit.ly/8RqSDk
― markers, Saturday, 3 August 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
also I like the interp that Scottie jumps to his death right after the fadeout.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 2, 2012 3:49 AM (1 year ago)
haha morbs don't you also think this is how "it's a wonderful life" should have ended?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
i think i prefer that last shot to the scream
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
also lol
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
if only "the searchers" had ended with john wayne shooting his niece
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
I would LOVE to have eaten at Ernie's. Hitch shoots that place more attractively than any woman.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
anyway dud
i just wanna hang out in midge's apartment
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
"midge"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
theory: any fictional character named 'midge' is inevitably adorable
http://www.archiefans.com/gallery/d/15365-1/Midge+1+BV+55+Jul+1960.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
only in "Dallas"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
part of the problem is you people thinking Kim Novak is an attractive man
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
"you people"
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
don't listen to dlh: he was "rescreening" "Zizek."
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
a do-it-yourself type thing
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 4 August 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
a 30-film Brooklyn fest of movies that "engage" Vertigo
(before clicking, guess as many as you can)
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/the-vertigo-effect
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:25 (nine years ago) link
The lack of Les Diaboliques there seems the most obvious omission
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/13/alfred-hitchcock-peter-ackroyd-michael-wood-review
two new bks.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 April 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
A former ILXer gives the Ackroyd book a brutal review in the latest Sight and Sound
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
more (at least in my mind):antonioni l’avventurawenders paris texashitchcock rebeccaalmodovar broken embraces, talk to her, skin i live in, etc
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Don't forget La Jetée and, more obviously Twelve Monkeys.
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
and High Anxiety
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Ah yes.
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Don't forget La Jetée and, more obviously Twelve Monkeys.― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkand High Anxiety― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
absolutely. those are included (i already clicked, so i'm not guessing)
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Doesn't Les Diaboliques come before Vertigo?
The museum sequence in Dressed to Kill.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
they included some movies earlier than Vertigo, so "engagement" applies before and after
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
XP The source novel for Diabolique was written by the same guys who wrote the Vertigo novel.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 April 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
yes!
i'm thinking no one guessed Pal Joey.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Nope. Think it may be time to peek
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link