I think I love A Letter to Three Wives more than All About Eve! All those leading ladies doing perfect stuff!
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Late_Spring_Japanese_Poster.jpg
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
Ozu is just far too sedate and genteel for me tbh
Kind Hearts v The Third Man
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
God, Late Spring is 70 years old.
― jmm, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
White Heat
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
In descending order:
The Third ManThe HeiressThe Reckless MomentShe Wore a Yellow RibbonWhite HeatKind Hearts & CoronetsLate SpringA Letter to Three Wives
I saw White Heat again a couple Fridays ago -- what a cracker.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
aside from immediately scratching The Third Man off the list.
^still evil
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
I also watched The Fountainhead again -- it's a scream, and sexy as hell.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
The Fountainhead is a great anomaly. Never not voting Ozu.
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
it's a scream, and sexy as hell.
how tall is your building?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
is this building sexy or is it just tall
― devvvine, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
if Gary Cooper were a skyscraper I'd jump off his roof.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
never did it for me, except maybe in the silent days when he wore lots of makeup
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
still evil
Everyone gets their allotment of insanely irrational dislikes.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Nearly all of you hate The Searchers, iirc.
they prefer Jodie Foster to Natalie Wood
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Strange how fug Cooper became just as sound was coming in.
I say White Heat, but I love that human firecracker Cagney.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ba/6c/f8/ba6cf8eb0a556345b1f525d8d24f210b.jpg
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Stray Dog and The Reckless Moment are my biggest blindspots here. The Heiress and A Letter to Three Wives probably as well, but Wyler and Mankiewicz have yet to enter my own personal auteur canon (though I like several films by each of them).
Is The Third Man the obvious front runner here, or are we more of an Ozu crowd?
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
It's not m favorite Ozu; he made stronger variants.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
My
Late Spring will run away with this tho I don't adore itThird Man is good... nonstop dutch angles get sort of annoyingYellow Ribbon is gorgeous but pales next to Fort Apache
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Conversely, Late Spring actually IS probably my favorite Ozu variant.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon seemed like an odd inclusion to me as well (I agree that Fort Apache is better).
I like The Third Man plenty, but from this list, White Heat and Kind Hearts and Coronets are just such deliriously entertaining movies that I found it hard to pick between them.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
nonstop dutch angles get sort of annoying
More or less annoying than that interminable zither theme?
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is pretty fab imho
Adam's Rib is a ludicrous omission
Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Silence de la Mer too (been on Criterion awhile)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
haha I love the zither! xp
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
cmon j.lu and flappy, T3M is a stone classic. I've watched it more than i've needed to, it's addictive.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
God only knows why I'm hanging onto my Criterion BR of it, with the prices it's fetching on the aftermarket.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
a situation like that does tempt amateurs
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Let it go, DLH, he's only another scribbler with too much drink in him
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
I'm not saying the total movie is bad; just the way that theme keeps coming back distracts me.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
like themes do!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
Close to a dead heat between White Heat and The Third Man, and I think Late Spring is the Ozu film I really love (more than Tokyo Story), although I get the titles confused. White Heat, I guess.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
all of the Ozu films with Setsuko Hara were pretty great I thought (Late Spring, Early Summer, Tokyo Story, Late Autumn, The End of Summer). hard to pick a favorite, maybe Late Spring
― Dan S, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
went with The Third Man, though i was tempted by White Heat and Kind Hearts. those three films all really stick the landing, too.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
The Third Man gets a lot of deserved props for the intrigue but it's also an extremely funny film, the entire mini-subplot with Holly getting roped into giving a lecture on literature has a great buildup and a great payoff.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
I love how I just watched _The Third Man_ in full for the first time always breaks down into quoting marathons.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
― omar little, W
"The stream of...?"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
piss
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Enough about Welles' personal life...
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Welles' wells run deep
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Smells sweet, doesn't it ?
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
also no other film came close to embodying Graham Greene's sensibility, tho there were some other good ones
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Our Man in Havana is pretty close, methinks
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
I rewatched OMiH recently and it's very entertaining, but there's something a little off. Played for laughs a little more than intended, maybe.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I've never read Graham Greene, but how does Lang's Ministry of Fear measure up?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
I suspect The End of the Affair, while good, is it's own unique thing.
Greene is a fun read, but he's Maugham with religious pretensions. Brighton Rock's good.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
I tend to forget Greene's novels even tho i get the urge to read one every couple of years. He's mostly pretty po-faced is how i think of him.
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
I remember the Lang movie being more straightforward than I gen associate with the GG I've read. From the war years, Went the Day Well? is stranger and more violent.
Yes, Brighton Rock, also The Fallen Idol and the Caine-Fraser Quiet American.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Never realised Went the Day Well? was a Greene story. Cavalcanti had surrealist affiliations iirc so not the obvious director to match Greene's vibe
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
of the Greene novels I've read, Travels With My Aunt is the one that feels most unlike the others. haven't seen the film
― Dan S, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Voting Third man, which I love, but I gotta admit I've never been a fan of the zither, took me more than a few viewings to get over it. Its so goofy and incongruous, it seems like its being piped in from a romantic comedy being filmed next door.
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
you guys know the theme was a huge hit in the US, right?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
wiki:
Following its release in the US in 1950, "The Third Man Theme" spent 11 weeks at number one on Billboard's US Best Sellers in Stores chart, from April 29 to July 8. Its success led to a trend in releasing film theme music as singles. A guitar version by Guy Lombardo also sold strongly. Four other versions charted in the US during 1950. According to Faber and Faber, the different versions of the theme have collectively sold an estimated forty million copies.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
You can see how an Elvis had to happen.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
how does Lang's Ministry of Fear measure up?
The movie is excellent (haven't read the book).
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
I do like the movie but it’s sort of compromised by the peppy lite wartime ending imo (don’t know if that’s in GG’s text). And I have a tough time with Ray Milland...I like The Third Man a lot but I’m not gaga about it, probably due to revisit it
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah there’s seemingly a version of the third man theme on every Salvation Army dollar bin record. It’s is fine as a tune or w/e, just feels like it’s from a different movie is all. I’ve made my peace with it over the years
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
It was a big deal. Has anyone mentioned the radio show yet?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Harry_Lime?wprov=sfti1
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
Think I must have heard this version of the theme song before I saw the movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfZizxzHrY
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
Yadda Yadda late spring
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 07:45 (four years ago) link
Yeah, this is Late Spring, pretty easily.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Do this too: 1939's Best Movies: 80 Years Later
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 12 July 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
that's what happens when i assume it's safe to throw yellow ribbon a vote
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 12 July 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
kind hearts and coronets is so boring btw, why isn't guinness also the murderer
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 12 July 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
Late Spring is the one about parents and adult children where Chishu Ryu goes "mmmmmm." right?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
the multiple-adult-children film is Tokyo Story. in this film there is only one adult child.
I love the storyline that, as the widower Shukichi he agrees to marry Mrs. Miwa to make his daughter Noriko realize she has to let go, as much as she loves him and is comfortable staying at home, and as much as he wants her to stay. In the end so devoted to him that she is willing to marry to make him happy
― Dan S, Friday, 12 July 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
*she is so devoted...
― Dan S, Friday, 12 July 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
10/10
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 12 July 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8njihi1CbI
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 July 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
the final moments when she actually does marry and he realizes he is alone forever is kind of heartbreaking
― Dan S, Friday, 12 July 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link