Jimmy Fucking Stewart

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he's great in rear window.
also good in NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY w/ DESTRY co-star Dietrich

― gershy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

IAWL is way misinterpreted because ppl never view it in the context of capra's other films - espec. "meet john doe," which is certainly among the darkest classic hollywood era movies i can think of. the genuine frustration and despair makes the corniness more poignant for me.

i think the ending's supposed to be more bittersweet than ppl assume - yes george never got to live out his dreams, but that's life, yknow? most people don't get to.

despite my love for capra and "liberty valance" i'm gonna have to go with "vertigo" since it basically affected me more than any movie ever. every time i've seen it i wind up feeling like i've witnessed a suicide or something.

― J.D., Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

without him bedford falls turns into baltimore

Jeez, I guess I should go somewhere besides Camden Yards next trip.

btw Ally, b4 you get pissed about Ice Cube remaking Mr. Blandings, you shd be aware that this Disturbia thing coming out tomw is apparently a Rear Window ripoff with 20-year-olds (ie, whoever the fuck Shia LeBouef is).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I know! It looks like it could be funny.

― Nicole, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

ugh morbs, that news is terrible. i have no idea what movie you're talking about but everything you just said grossed me out. i mean, disturbia??

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

All the reviews I've seen say it has zero surprises, by the numbers.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

also, my fave interp of RW is that it's really about JS trying to figure out if he wants to marry Grace Kelly (the wedding ring, the different women/couples he spies on, etc).

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

that's an interpretation?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

shia lebouef is spike witwicky in the new transformers!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

it's produced by Ivan Rietman

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I read about it in the newspaper

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

but yeah disturbia is a terrible title for a film

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

or anything

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

one of my film profs lectured us on the marriage anxiety interpretation of rw. i remember him repeatedly pausing the scene in which grk wiggles her finger to show js that she has the ring.

― lauren, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i wouldn't say RW is 'about' one thing, but the settling-down theme is all over the movie and explicit. that great music thing you found - that's an interpretation

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's a tie!

I've never seen "Rear Window"

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

PIKACHU???

― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

in retrospect i think i prob should've voted for the shop around the corner, that one needs more love.

― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure how I missed this. Lately I rep for Anatomy of a Murder.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah jeez, not even Nora Ephron could destroy shop around the corner

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

i am regretting not voting for my second choice, anatomy of a murder, since it got no votes at all ;_;

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 13 April 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

i was going to go for rear window, followed by vertigo

>>>mr consensus<<<

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

No one vote for It's a Wonderful World?! I was thinking about that, but I settled for Harvey.

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'd probably have voted for "Shop Around the Corner", even though that's more of an ensemble piece, and not a star vehicle for Stewart.

― o. nate, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Pervy James tops Iconic Jimmy!

I first saw him on his starring eponymous network sitcom.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

What about those immortal Campbell's Soup commercials?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

my fave interp of RW is that it's really about JS trying to figure out if he wants to marry Grace Kelly

"What is it that's just above the subtext?"
"The text."

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I would have voted Bell, Book and Candle if I'd seen this earlier.

― sunny successor, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

happy 100th...

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

jesus ally was pushing like 45 different memes in this thread alone

― max, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

i have never been a fan of this dude tho no matter how much i like vertigo

― max, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Those Anthony Mann westerns are really good.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

how's that possible, max?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

i have never been a fan of this dude tho no matter how much i like rear window

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

8 votes for Harvey and only 3 for The Shop Around the Corner?

Bad show, ILX.

― Hubie Brown, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

still haven't seen The Mortal Storm, and Harvey getting more votes than Anatomy of a Murder = disgraceful.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

But... but... Harvey is brilliant. And Stewart in it is wonderful!

― James Morrison, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

i can't even think of a better actor than stewart, much less one who appeared in so many astonishing movies.

― J.D., Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

love this dude so much.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

Rear Window: Great Hitchcock or Greatest Hitchcock?

― kenan, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I've never gotten through Harvey, so I am slackjawed about this:

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Spielberg will soon be seeing imaginary rabbits.

The filmmaker will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase's play "Harvey," about a (DRUNK) man and his friendship with an invisible, six-foot tall rabbit.

20th Century Fox and DreamWorks will co produce the project. Novelist Jonathan Tropper ("The Book of Joe") has written the adaptation for the new version.

"Harvey" was first adapted for the screen in 1950 with James Stewart in the starring role as Elwood P. Dowd. He received an Oscar nomination, while Josephine Hull took the prize for her supporting role.

No casting for the remake is in place yet; filming is set to begin early next year. Spielberg was last in theaters with 2008's "Indiana Jones" sequel.

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:06 (sixteen years ago)

I bought a pristine copy of Anatomy of a Murder last week -- still underrated as an "exploration" of how Stewart manipulated his aw-shucks persona for selfish ends (i.e. overturning a murder conviction on specious grounds).

― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:18 (sixteen years ago)

No casting for the remake is in place yet

Please got don't let it be Mike Myers or Jim Carrey (or even worse, Mike Myers WITH Jim Carrey as Harvey, made visible to the audience for added gurning hilarity!)

― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)

'the mortal storm' isn't that great except for margaret sullavan's death scene which is of course classic. he was always great with margaret sullavan.

― keythkeythkeyth, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:26 (sixteen years ago)

'the mortal storm' isn't that great

As Trinere once sang, wrong!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:42 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, mortal storm is pretty good iirc

― velko, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:53 (sixteen years ago)

is it really possible that Spielberg would have any Elwood P Dowd but Tom Hanks?

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, when I read that it seemed pretty obvious to me the role is for Tom Hanks.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

i dunno 'the mortal storm' ranks with anti-fascist things like '3 comrades' and is to be more applauded for its message than the finished product. but they both have margaret sullavan and i love margaret sullavan so they are both pretty good. i wonder what the rules were on the accents in these movies, some people have them, some don't, was it a case that if you couldn't quite fake it they just told you to skip it? frank morgan as doddering old "jewish" college professor is great.

― keythkeythkeyth, Thursday, 6 August 2009 05:15 (sixteen years ago)

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