oooh summer of darkness. amazzing.
― surm, Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
La Jetee bout 2 commence!
― andrew m., Friday, 29 May 2015 03:45 (nine years ago) link
Best. Movie. Ever. (My sister tuned in to watch it.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 29 May 2015 06:10 (nine years ago) link
TCM sponsored Film Noir MOOC class if anyone wants in: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/748
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link
Friday, 6/05
6:00 AM / M (1931) 8:00 AM / La Bete Humaine (1938) 9:45 AM / Letter, The (1940) 11:30 AM / Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) 12:45 PM / High Sierra (1941) 2:30 PM / Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 4:15 PM / Journey Into Fear (1942)5:45 PM / Johnny Eager (1942) 8:00 PM / Nora Prentiss (1947)10:15 PM / Woman On The Run (1950)11:45 PM / Dark Passage (1947) 1:45 AM / Born to Kill (1947)3:30 AM / L.A. Confidential (1997)
Note: all festival titles will be on WatchTCM, which is nice.Never saw M, always meant to.The Maltese Falcon is an obvious classic, Noir 101.L.A. Confidential was entertaining enough when I saw it so many years ago, not sure if it holds up. It felt like there hadn't been a conscious return to noir in mainstream movies for a while at that time.Haven't seen the others, thoughts? Tell me what to DVR.
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 June 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
la bete humanite is required watchinghigh sierra is toowilliam wyler is fuckin' awesome and i never saw the letterm is canonicalthe rest are all new to me (except la confidential which never got me); i'm taping them all
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
The Letter is WW's best film with Davis imo, maybe best fullstop
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
i'm psyched to see it.
Here's a collection of openings and vignettes from the first batch of films:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC55WRXRuDkzNnGOn5Am4MQ3u8EEiyyqI
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
damn, recording six of these
― Brad C., Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
over the past two days watched: M, The Letter, The Stranger on the Third FloorGood stuff!
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 June 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
it's been at least a decade since I saw dark passage, gonna rewatch that soon
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 June 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
To celebrate (this) summer of noir, The Nitrate Diva's gifting us w noir gifs. Here's today's; click back at top right for all previous:https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/raymond-chandler-in-double-indemnity-1944/
― dow, Monday, 8 June 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
ugh 'm so srry i missed Friday
― surm, Monday, 8 June 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
watched high sierra tonight. end sequence is great but in general not an awesome film.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
much better than Dark Passage!
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2015 08:26 (nine years ago) link
I meant to ask something about High Sierra -- I noticed Ida Lupino's name was above Bogart's in the opening credits. Was she a bigger star than he was in 1941?
― WilliamC, Monday, 8 June 2015 11:36 (nine years ago) link
Lupino was going back and forth on suspensions with Warner Brothers at the time but Bogart wasn't yet a star at the start of 41 even following the success of Petrified Forest... here's some wiki info about Bogie's life from '36 until High Sierra/Maltese Falcon made him an unlikely leading man with a few minor bolded emphases on my part:
In spite of his success, Warner Bros. had no interest in making Bogart a top star. Shooting on a new movie might begin days or only hours after the previous one wrapped. The studio system, then at its most entrenched, restricted actors to their home lot, with only occasional loan-outs. Any actor who refused a role could be suspended without pay. Bogart disliked the roles chosen for him, but he worked steadily. Between 1936 and 1940 he averaged a movie every two months, at times working on two simultaneously. Amenities at Warners were few compared to the prestigious MGM. Bogart thought that the Warners wardrobe department was cheap, and often wore his own suits in his movies. In High Sierra, Bogart used his own pet dog Zero to play his character's dog, Pard. Bogart... made films like Racket Busters, San Quentin, and You Can't Get Away with Murder. The only substantial leading role he got during this period was in Dead End (1937), while loaned to Samuel Goldwyn, where he portrayed a gangster modeled after Baby Face Nelson. He did play a variety of interesting supporting roles, such as in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) (in which his character got shot by James Cagney's). Bogart was gunned down on film repeatedly by Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, among others. In Black Legion (1937), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene described as "intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest".In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a "hillbilly musical" called Swing Your Lady as a wrestling promoter; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance. In 1939, Bogart played a mad scientist in The Return of Doctor X. He cracked, "If it'd been Jack Warner's blood ... I wouldn't have minded so much. The trouble was they were drinking mine and I was making this stinking movie."
Bogart... made films like Racket Busters, San Quentin, and You Can't Get Away with Murder. The only substantial leading role he got during this period was in Dead End (1937), while loaned to Samuel Goldwyn, where he portrayed a gangster modeled after Baby Face Nelson. He did play a variety of interesting supporting roles, such as in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) (in which his character got shot by James Cagney's). Bogart was gunned down on film repeatedly by Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, among others. In Black Legion (1937), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene described as "intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest".
In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a "hillbilly musical" called Swing Your Lady as a wrestling promoter; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance. In 1939, Bogart played a mad scientist in The Return of Doctor X. He cracked, "If it'd been Jack Warner's blood ... I wouldn't have minded so much. The trouble was they were drinking mine and I was making this stinking movie."
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
We're likely gonna watch maltese falcon tonight as the gal hasn't seen it, though it'll be my fifth time through or so.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
https://learn.canvas.net/courses/748/pages/the-case-of-film-noir-lecture-transcript-number-1
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know Pard/Zero was Bogie's dog! I saw the last 30" the other day, and thought, although his part as written was a bit wet, like everybody else's, he did the best with it. Good to see HB and *Ida Lupino* together, though---did they team up again??
― dow, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Don't think so... I recall reading they didn't get along?
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
all the stuff on the mountain is beautiful and brilliant but the multiple nonsensical b-plots (the two dueling toughs for lupino's affections, the effete songbird hotel clerk, cutie mcclubfoot, the crooked cop and the criminal doctor) do not help business.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, made the mountain chase and showdown even better, breaking through all that clutter! Maybe Bogie's character subconsciously/secretly yearned for such. And Pard proved crucial, at the last second. Good dog.
― dow, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Well he did get bogie killed so maybe not! I kinda think he's meant to be a jinx.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
It was time to *go*,somewhere and maybe B's dead-end character knew that, deep down. Lupino: "Oh, GET IT OVER WITH!" Or words to that effect. She also pointed out that he would never surrender. So it was a mercy, at least as far as she was concerned, and the audience was primed too. He was always something of a jinx, yeah, but good at bringing on the next turning point, and a reminder of life's inescapable details ( for example,chasing down B's car, when the Big Heist was finally underway).
― dow, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
"He" Pard, of course.
Wish I wasn't out tomorrow night: I haven't seen Going in Style since it came out.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
"Gentleman Jim" is insanely good.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
unsurprisingly, a rewatch of Maltese Falcon was very rewarding.
Woman on the Run was very very good! highly recommended!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP17gzfzO5M
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that happened to be starting when I knocked off work the other night. Good performance from Sheridan.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
I just watched that too, got it from Netflix on a whim. Very enjoyable.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
the script is tart, the acting is excellent and san francisco in the late forties looks gorgeousi did not see the twist coming!
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
caught most of Dark Passage - not particularly great (well, Bacall is great) mostly caught my eye cuz of the local landscape
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
man, high sierra is so fucking good.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
i'm sick so I didn't get around to posting the schedule last night.just realizing Detour is on now - i'll have to watch that on demand
Gun Crazy is the only one I've seen today, and I love it. Peggy Cummins is fantastic
― Nhex, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Taping everything here:
FRIDAY, JUNE 126:00 AM THE GLASS KEY (1942)7:30 AM LAURA (1944)9:00 AM MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944)10:30 AM MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)12:15 PM DANGER SIGNAL (1945)1:45 PM DETOUR (1945)3:00 PM MILDRED PIERCE (1945)5:00 PM DEADLINE AT DAWN (1946)6:30 PM JOHNNY ANGEL (1946)8:00 PM THE GANGSTER (1947)9:45 PM GUN CRAZY (1950)11:30 PM TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (1951)1:15 AM NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)3:30 AM NIGHT MOVES (1975)
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 June 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah, Ministry of Fear is pretty enjoyable too. unusually light for Fritz Lang.Laura's a goddamn classic
― Nhex, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Glass Key is slept on.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 June 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
mm been meaning to see Gun Crazy forever
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I recorded Ministry of Fear for later, and watched Murder, My Sweet while I waited for work clients to get off their asses.
― WilliamC, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
i was a big Dashiell hammett fan as a kid; never seen Glass Key but it's basically the same plot as yojimbo, right?this looks like a pretty great lineup for this week.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 June 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
You're thinking of Red Harvest ... the film that most resembles The Glass Key is probably Miller's Crossing.
― Brad C., Friday, 12 June 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
right, right: my bad.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 June 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
I wish they'd included Killer's Kiss in this -- I'd like to see it again.
― WilliamC, Friday, 12 June 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Has Scarlet Street run this year? So sick. See it with a nurse.
― dow, Friday, 12 June 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
http://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/2015/summerofdarkness/TCM_SummerOfDarkness_Schedule2015.pdf
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 June 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm still shaking my head at TCM giving us a damn PDF
― Nhex, Saturday, 13 June 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
Alright, who watched xpost Nightmare Alley? I saw most of it, but was very sleepy---and passed out for a while, having a dream about the characters which I can *almost* remember, through a translucent, yet blurry and unshakable carny tent flap--- a few questions: What was the business with the bottles? Wiki says Stan accidently gave Pete the bottle of wood alcohol, rather than the moonshine he, Stan, had just purchased (atypically enough, according to the seller's comments). But Zeena says she kept it in her trunk, which Stan does have access to, since it sits unlocked, in an open area: we see him doing some kind of switcheroo *after* Pete's fatal imbibing. I thought, initially, that Pete helped himself to the easily available wood alchohol, after finishing the moonshine, but there seems to be some shine left? Anyway, something about Stan being the cunning sort re the code, but kinda slipping into self-monitor darkness re psychopathic detailing, how to get from point A to the main goal, acquiring the code. And this foreshadows the way he finds his way toward the biggest pay-off of all (also lured by the evil shrink, who may not have a clear idea of why she tests Stanton The Great at first; they find each other). But does he also come to believe that he has a real degree of psychic power, despite the element of deceit, and that the latter is a means to a benevolent, healing end? Is that right? Or is he just pretty much aware of bullshitting Molly, and the goal is not money for the church, and the church for psychic healing, but just for the Big Score? (Also, what is the deal with Molly and Bruno? He seems like a jealous father-boyfriend figure, and "You gotta marry her now," when Stan and Molly have just been hanging out--suppose the book made it seem like they'd been doing more than that--anybody read the book? Gotta find that.)
― dow, Saturday, 13 June 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
So I get that Stan is the unstable product of the system, the orphanages and all, at least according to him, and that his smarts and drive can veer off course, but I just couldn't quite track his course (shoulda grabbed a coffee).
― dow, Saturday, 13 June 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I saw NA again a few months ago, and the short answer, i think, is "a little of all that."
The book is apparently a lot more raw and fetid, no surprise there.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 June 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link