The guru has laid another egg.
― I Don't Zing Like Nobody (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Lemmon and Matthau planted close by, Marilyn about 50 yards away.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
Nobody's perfect.
― I Don't Zing Like Nobody (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
Joe E Brown's in Glendale
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Double Indemnity... kind of a fake film noir, really? Sort of what High Noon is to non-watchers of westerns.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/double-indemnity
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm sympathetic to claims that it's drab and uninteresting and once you get it the first time it doesn't keep resonating (and Kael was right about the other supporting actors, so bad they're unbelievable); but in the novel Phyllis and Walter aren't much crazy about each other either.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
not my favorite noir. it's good but there is something perfunctory about it.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I think it's pretty damned good but a definite step below a lot of other classics (and even a bunch of films not considered to be classics.)
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Stanwyck playing not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is MacMurray holds my interest more than the Robinson scenes ... they're both repellent characters, but that doesn't make the proceedings any less noir
part of the problem is probably Raymond Chandler, who couldn't quite write a screenplay
― Brad C., Monday, 28 July 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
it's certainly one of Wilder's best films.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Double Indemnity > High Noon
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
jeez Gary Cooper is a pretty cowgirl than Grace Kelly.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
is High Noon really liked by non-fans of Westerns? i didn't know this! i thought the default Westerns for non-Westerns fans were the Spaghettis.
― piscesx, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
Confused here too, High Noon seems like a pretty hardcore Western to me
― Nhex, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
It's the kind picked as the favorite by people (eg Bill Clinton, ugh) who don't know from Budd Boetticher, Peckinpah, Anthony Mann et al.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
morbs otm. shane's kinda like that also.
― balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
iirc Farber hates on High Noon for similar reasons
― Brad C., Monday, 28 July 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
I don't hate the movie anymore than I hate DI, but if you stack them up against say My Darling Clementine and Out of the Past, respectively, you see what's what.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
every time Brandon de Wilde said "SHAAAAAAAAANNE" I hoped he'd get stung by hornets.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Noel Murray reviews the new Blurays of Witness for the Prosecution and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
http://thedissolve.com/reviews/938-witness-for-the-prosecution-the-private-life-of-sh/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
Saw Fedora for the second time -- a really sincerely bitter funeral for Old Hollywood, side AA of Sunset Blvd. It'd have been claimed as a gay classic if he'd succeeded in casting Dunaway and Dietrich in the Keller and Knef roles.
Holden is so vital to making any of it work; Jose Ferrer very funny as the mice-and-monkey-fiddling cosmetic butcher.
Weirdest of all, Mario Adorf and Gottfried John showing up as a comic hustler hotelier and a strong-arm chauffeur. You can hear the German producers telling him, "Hey, hip to Fassbinder? Use these guys."
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
isn't Kevin Bozelka a fan?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
he would be!
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Did you dine at the Fedora restaurant afterwards, Morbius?
― Santiniketan Go Straight To The Ghat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 September 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
dont know it
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 September 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
OK, this was very good, maybe great, both a love letter to and exposé of Classic Hollywood, which he had to go to Germany to make because "the boys with the beards" had taken over. Recommended even if you are not a Friend of Fox.
― Colossal Propellerhead (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 September 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm fine with Detweiler's rant bcz hey, he's talking about DePalma.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:31 (ten years ago) link
Detweiler? You mean "Dutch"?
― Colossal Propellerhead (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 September 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
btw Olive Films releases a Fedora BD on Oct 28.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Read about it.
Did you read about the dubbing of the actresses voices on Wikipedia?
― Colossal Propellerhead (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
*potential spoiler*
yes! halfway through I wondered "why does Knef sound like Keller? who's dubbing who?"
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
there is a great Lost Weekend gag in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Slick Hare.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
review of the Brackett diaries, he didn't like many people
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2015/01/book-ready-when-you-are-cb-charles.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
NYers can see both The Apartment and 1,2,3 in 35mm on Friday, which would be exhausting
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/black-and-white-scope
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Fedora available on DVD.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
like, for five months?
Kiss Me, Stupid Bluray out. The vile, smutty thing!
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Hah. I think I'll get that as a birthday gift for a friend who loves it.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
does he like "ACTION," like Dino?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Not really; it just makes his love for the film all that more baffling. But what can I say, it's a "charmer".
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
I have great affection for its prurient, curdled heart. (the uncut Euro version, obviously)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
This maybe something that belongs in the "Post a Controversial Opinion" thread, but here goes: the narration in Double Indemnity bothers me way more than the much maligned voiceover in the original cut of Blade Runner. Kael gets at part of why when she calls it "so gaudy and terse that it seems an emblem of 40s hardboiled attitudes," but for me it is as much a problem of the film telegraphing its punches in an unnecessary way. I guess it could be argued that the narration helps focus on MacMurray's friendship with Robinson, but the final scene conveys already this much more succinctly and poignantly. Honestly, I really cannot think of any way that the narration/flashback structure enhances the film at all.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Monday, 14 December 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
not a very good movie, but there should be a book-length study of representations of evil in cinema called closer than that with jack nicholson on the cover peering through his fingers at the viewer/bartender
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 14 December 2015 06:42 (eight years ago) link
I didn't include what Morbs called "the honorable miss" The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes .
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/shut-up-and-deal-the-best-of-billy-wilder/
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 July 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
Dietrich is great sizing up Congresswoman Jean Arthur in A Foreign Affair:
"I see you do not believe in lipstick. And what a curious way to do your hair, or rather not to do it."
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
Man, those early shots of John Lund driving his jeep to Dietrich's place through the ruins of Berlin... while "Isn't It Romantic?" plays on the soundtrack.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Dont know this one, put it on my watch list
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 June 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
It's one of BW's most enjoyable movies and it's a shame it's not more well-known. Even John Lund is good.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 June 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
it has real emotional depth, i think due to Wilder and Dietrich's biographies.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
The Fortune Cookie, which i hadn't seen in at least 20 years, is obv second-tier but better than i remembered. Matthau is positively Fieldsian.
I don't think the NFL would cooperate with this script today.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
Some of Whiplash Willie's best line are throwaways ("Unwed mothers... I'm for that").
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link