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

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.

Holly: You ever hear of 'The Lone Rider of Santa Fe'?
Calloway: Can't say as I have.
Holly
: 'Death at Double X Ranch,' uh, 'Raunch'

holly martins, sir? the writer? the author of death at double x ranch?

it's vonderful ze vay you keep ze tension

Ve haf to control ze intelligence from Zaigon.

http://i2.listal.com/image/2098481/600full-the-third-man-screenshot.jpg

http://www.thematinee.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/third-3.png

better img

https://catsonfilm.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/3rdman02.jpg

he only liked harry.

You're wrong about Harry. You are wrong about everything.

i wish he was dead. he would be safe from all of you then.

He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?

sorry, wrong Orson Welles character

Not Valli's fault that her character annoys the hell out of me.

You're wrong about Anna. You're wrong about everything.

:)

Not Valli's fault that her character annoys the hell out of me.
Curious as to why. She obviously doesn't follow the normal 'arc,' but I kind of dig that fact that she doesn't really like Holly too much and never warms up to him. Also was her first name ever dropped before or after this particular film credit or was that just the product of a Selznick publicity prank?

Her dislike of Holly is fine and adult and all that; I meant Valli as an actress, whose simpering is so one note.

Fair enough, but I've never really liked her in anything else- this is her best role and performance!

She's fierce (not a word I like to use on the regular) in Suspiria.

Guess I could watch Senso again.

It was her birthday two days ago.

She's cast to simper through Senso; besides, I'm ogling at Farley Granger.

Have the impression that at some later point she was cast or typecast as evil housekeeper types, like Dame Judith Anderson in Rebecca but without the gravitas.

Never heard of this until just now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Softly,_Stranger

y'all seen Welles' nutty Mr Arkadin? def has t3m as a departure point, in fact partly based on the Harry Lime radio series.

The reconstructed Confidential Report Criterion is likely the best version we'll ever see. It includes episodes of the radio program "The Lives of Harry Lime."

yes ive been rewatching. Michael Redgrave hilarious as gay antiques dealer.

y'all seen Welles' nutty Mr Arkadin?

watched a bunch of this on cable the other night - v enjoyable but I missed the beginning :(