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

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.

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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 :(

prob doesnt matter as much as youd think

there's a great clip on the CC of Welles directing Paola Mori (later his wife irl, playing his daughter) while playing a scene with her.

yeah, Shakes, you could watch this movie at any point, makes no difference.

haha I did get that vibe and had no problem just going with it, which was one of the things I liked about ti

actually one of my favorite welles movies, lots of fun stuff. the goya party, the curiosity shop.

anna is kind of a hard part because the entire movie takes place within her ~72hour grieving period

(holly's grieving period is easier to watch since it takes the form of one of his books and it is vonderful the way he keeps the tension, but really it is only delusion that keeps him multi-note)

the scene in her apartment where she's wearing the HL bathrobe and holly is drunk and going on and on about trying to make her laugh is the most excruciating part of the movie, which they must have known because they put the perk-you-up welles reveal immediately after

btw eternal mysteries: does she say "sometimes he said i laughed too much" or "sometimes he said i loved too much"

this film is incredible.

random q: why do the Russians care so much about repatriating some random Czech woman?

I never knew there were snake charmers in Texas.

Some minor niggling points:
There seems to be an awful lot of time between the porter's death and then Holly and Anna arriving to find the accusatory crowd outside. Surely the body would have been discovered sooner. Also, why is the child unattended? And why, if the porter tells Holly to come back later when his wife is gone for the evening, is she not there to see the killers?

Anna shows up at the Cafe where Holly is waiting to meet Harry because "Kurtz told here" and "they were just arrested." Even so, how would he know, and if arrested how would he be able to tell her?

Manny Farber didn't like it as much as most of us

"I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm."