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I actually would've done that if they had more than 1 part up per week...

Wouldn't have been possible without a DVR.

watched Gilda, great film throughout but HAYWORTH oh my god
http://38.media.tumblr.com/b973645987e56a353c78511635b37150/tumblr_mg8ad367FO1qaeet6o1_500.gif

http://33.media.tumblr.com/2a8c19623f5fcacb175484054c43687f/tumblr_njowx9kMes1rdfgw4o1_500.gif
http://37.media.tumblr.com/560711b84b32186537673287bf058c1b/tumblr_n08f2yOq321qicfexo2_r1_500.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/33c33d15bea71914839d716c0dfd4258/tumblr_n08f2yOq321qicfexo3_r1_500.gif
http://37.media.tumblr.com/715d413b7bc408acafe668fc49fea03a/tumblr_n08f2yOq321qicfexo4_r1_500.gif

i liked her better before she "fixed" her hairline

http://www.demeterclarc.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2010/08/RITA-HAYWORTH-FLOWER.jpg

she's like three scoops of ice cream in a shot glass

o god i need to see that

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during their marriage, Orson Welles apparently preferred amphetamines and other women.

rly can't believe i haven't seen this. Astaire too? used to be all over Fred&Ginger when i was like 10

no astaire in gilda but plenty of dopeness

first gif was just kinda the way i felt watching her

ahh but isn't that him in the gif above? gee it looks an awful lot like him

xp ohhhh ok

Different film. Is it Flying Down To Rio?

It's not Cover Girl, I don't think.

You Were Never Lovelier?

yep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyqCTCrpgQ

it's often remarked upon but damn astaire looks so gnomic and weird next to her
good thing he's fred astaire

but he always looked a bit gnomic and weird! i meann...
http://www.movpins.com/big/MV5BMTM2NjE2ODM5N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTA4NTIyNw/still-of-fred-astaire-and-ginger-rogers-in-the-gay-divorcee-(1934).jpg

still looks like a p cool film

sorry so big

as he got older he started looking more like a marionette to me.

always looked about 55 from the '30s thru '50s

yeah but who cared? he was fred astaire.

Can't act, can't sing, bald, can dance a little

that's hilarious tbh

he became an actual marionette-looking puppet in that Rankin-Bass special about Santa Claus, of course.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/lite987.com/files/2012/12/Fred1.jpg

apropos

Friday, June 26
6:00 AM THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
8:00 AM THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (1947)
9:45 AM THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)
11:00 AM LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)
1:00 PM OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
2:45 PM POSSESSED (1947)
4:45 PM ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948)
6:30 PM THE SET-UP (1949)
8:00 PM THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944)
9:45 PM BERLIN EXPRESS (1948)
11:30 PM THE STRANGER (1946)
1:15 AM THE THIRD MAN (1949)
3:00 AM POINT BLANK (1967)

I'm out of DVR space.
The original Postman Always Rings Twice is pretty good stuff. You probably woke up too late to record it.
Gonna try to do Lady in the Lake, hear it's a an interesting experiment.
Out of the Past, obviously all-time great! Same with The Third Man.
Point Blank has a unique place in my heart due to it being remade a million times, semi-sequelized with The Limey, besides already being a cool dark slow boiling revenge journey with Lee Marvin

From the thumbnail summaries, I think I'll record Woman on the Beach, Act of Violence and maybe Berlin Express. I've seen The Stranger, 3rd Man and Point Blank recently enough to skip them this time.

Tomorrow:
6:00 AM JOHNNY BELINDA (1948)
8:00 AM KEY LARGO (1948)
10:00 AM THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948)
11:30 AM THE BRIBE (1949)
1:15 PM SCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)
3:00 PM THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949)
4:45 PM THE THREAT (1949)
6:00 PM WHITE HEAT (1949)
8:00 PM THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
9:45 PM THE WINDOW (1949)
11:15 PM SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950)
12:45 AM HIGH WALL (1947)
2:30 AM THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
4:30 AM MARLOWE (1969)

What's your pleasure?

Lady From Shanghai, total classic.
Not in the same league as Gun Crazy, but I like They Live By Night.

I rewatched Shanghai just a few weeks ago during the Welles Fridays, so I'll pass on that. I've also seen Key Largo, White Heat and The Long Goodbye with in the last few years. I liked Long Goodbye well enough, but don't really grok its classic status, so maybe I should try it again.

white heat and they live by night are the standouts for me

they live by night is very powerful, white heat is "just" one of the most sheerly enertaining movies ever made

like i don't like noirs so take that w a grain of salt but marlowe is a good movie

I doubt I have to tell anyone to watch The Lady from Shanghai or White Heat if they haven't seen them, but I don't think that Key Largo gets quite the respect that it deserves, and The Big Clock is one of my very favourite underrated noirs.

white heat isn't a noir! it's just a fucking awesome gangster movie.

unless any movie about criminals is a "noir," which is dumb.

I think Cagney's mommy issues push it into noir territory. Total prototype of a David Lynch creep.

like i don't like noirs so take that w a grain of salt but marlowe is a good movie

― johnny crunch, Thursday, July 2, 2015 9:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

n/m i was confusing this w/ gumshoe ('71), i haven't seen marlowe

they live by night is very powerful, white heat is "just" one of the most sheerly enertaining movies ever made

Intrigued by the casts of SCENE OF THE CRIME and THE THREAT

The Nitrate Diva ‏@NitrateDiva 1h1 hour ago

Sulky Gloria Grahame and I wish you a very noirish 4th of July.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJGXO67WIAA7_97.jpg

smokes the barbecue

"Don't shake that thing at me"---The Misfits! Dang, already started!

But it's good to watch from any point

Today:

6:00 AM FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
7:30 AM A WOMAN'S SECRET (1949)
9:00 AM SIDE STREET (1950)
10:30 AM BLACK HAND (1950)
12:15 PM ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
1:30 PM CAGED (1950)
3:15 PM D.O.A. (1950)
4:45 PM DESTINATION MURDER (1950)
6:15 PM THE TATTOOED STRANGER (1950)
8:00 PM RED LIGHT (1949)
9:45 PM KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
11:45 PM ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
1:30 AM THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
2:45 AM BLUE DAHLIA (1946)
4:30 AM RAW DEAL (1948)

This looks like the most authentically noir lineup yet. Raw Deal got remade as Point Blank and Payback, right?

i kinda doubt it -- it predates the novel the other two are based on.

Side Street is a keeper

Agreed. Kiss Me Deadly is crazy, great OTT pulp cheese, and that ending is unforgettable. Often known now as "the movie Tarantino stole the suitcase gimmick from in Pulp Fiction".
On Dangerous Ground is really great too IMO. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, kind of proto-Coens in the atmosphere.