― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 28 November 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
seriously every film noir should end with every major character hospitalized for lung cancer.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
"there's a way to lose more slowly."
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
"Among the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Ronald Reagan, he was like a switchblade on a plate of cupcakes."
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
"Mitchum is always playing a presence, a moral creature, incarcerated by the text, and when it works, he burns a hole in the screen, invests the vacant platitudes of professional screenwriting with something dark and strange, simply because he is not playing by the rules: he is obeying the rules, of course, as any convict must. He is hitting his marks, making the moves and saying the words, but he is not acting by the the rules, not deriving the subtext from the text."
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
After all, every one of these threads devoted to an oldtime actor usually has another actor pop up on them trying to steal the limelight, even the RIP ones.
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n02/cart01_.htmlI recently finally got to see Thunder Road. I can't seen to get hold of The Yakuza in the UK.. anyone got any ideas?
― Pandas At War (pandas at war), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I like OOTP fine, but even after seeing it a few times, I have trouble getting completey absorbed in it- it is a little too long, elaborate, understated, laid back and abstract in a way, it is almost a mannerist take on noir. I actually prefer the other Mitchum/Greer teamup, The Big Steal- it's zips along at a fast pace, has got a great cast, and has some great stuff about Mexico.
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/mainpage/critics.html
And has no one mentioned The Friends of Eddie Coyle?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pandas At War (pandas at war), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=1078
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, I already own "Macao" twice!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Macao is up there with His Kind Of Woman for Quality Mitchum performance in a crazy film.
Ryan's Daughter is a very atypical Mitchum performance - he's good in it.. I wouldn't vouch for the rest of the film though
― Pandas At War (pandas at war), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
:(
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
How wasted is Mitchum in this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YE76CfA_E
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 July 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally got a hold of the Lee Server bio. It's very good, lots of good anecdotes that seem like scenes from Mitchum movies.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ Robert Mitchum on the Dick Cavett show. It's in seven parts but well worth the viewing, he's in pretty great form. Drinking stories, stuff about the pot bust, his early life (chain gang, early jobs), and some stuff on acting that's slightly less one-sided than his soundbytes on the topic usually feel.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 19 October 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
His Kind of Woman an odd 2-hour long film that starts as straight noir and then Vincent Price's ham actor character hijacks it and turns it into a comedic spoof. Has some cool interior design
I posted almost exactly this earlier this morning on the noir thread! I saw this movie eons ago, 1980s I believe, and in the intervening years I forgot the title, the plot, and the stars. All I could remember was the fantastic mid-mod set design of the Mexican lodge, and that the action later moved to a boat. Finally tracked it down last night! Allegedly it was Howard Hughes' meddling and reshoots that led to the incoherent combination of violent hypodermic attacks and shipboard slapstick in the finale.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link