i may have jumped the gun a little.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
(EGR is just a midlevel guy -- an adjuster? -- I think.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 August 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Picnics and Pixie Stix (Charles McCain), Monday, 28 August 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Barton Keyes: You know, you, uh, oughta take a look at the statistics on suicide some time. You might learn a little something about the insurance business.
Edward S. Norton: Mister Keyes, I was RAISED in the insurance business.
Barton Keyes: Yeah, in the front office. Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why they've got ten volumes on suicide alone. Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day. Suicide, how committed: by poison, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. Suicide by poison, subdivided by TYPES of poison, such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, alkaloid, protein, and so forth. Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks, under the feet of horses, from STEAMBOATS. But, Mr. Norton: Of all the cases on record, there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train. And you know how fast that train was going at the point where the body was found? Fifteen miles an hour. Now how can anybody jump off a slow-moving train like that with any kind of expectation that he would kill himself? No, no soap, Mr. Norton. We're sunk, and we'll have to pay through the nose, and you know it.
― Picnics and Pixie Stix (Charles McCain), Monday, 28 August 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
As these two monsters thrust and parry contemptuous dialogue at each other ...it's hard not to feel that the prospect of sex between two people has seldom looked so joyless.
makes me doubt that Dan Callahan has ever had a good hatefuck.
btw, re Wilder, Sarris eventually recanted many of his complaints.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Hooray! Finally.
http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=396
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
:D
― ghost rider, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Posted this on ILF:
Boy, Ace in the Hole's unavailability has inflated its reputation. Really stupid in a rancid way, as if he wanted the audience to applaud his "nasty" premise and rub its nose in it too. Kirk Douglas' loud, unmodulated performance doesn't help.
And, as usual, he doesn't have the courage to accept the consequences of his rancidness -- the last 30 minutes are just awful.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess it's something that Richard Gaines as a Gotham editor is as terrible as he was as the boss in Double Indemnity.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Sunset Blvd the cinema is a tad overworshipped by homosexualists
― Eric H., Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit, Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
BOO!
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
So to speak.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Er -- I mean, I like it a lot. (Hence name.) The excessive rancid darkness -- that's the good stuff.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
heh
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Morbs makes me sound like Lady Bracknell.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Douglas' style is nearly perfect for the material here til he has to feel guilty.
I do a mean "No Lindy's! No Yogi Berra" impression.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
til he has to feel guilty.
Isn't that the typical Douglas role?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n05/wood01_.html
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.hulu.com/some-like-it-hot
― and what, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Double Indemnity getting a Criterion release
https://www.criterion.com/films/30460-double-indemnity
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
Ugh, a Richard Schikel commentary track.
The Eureka/Masters of Cinema disc has a really good CT, and lots of good extras:
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/double-indemnity/
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 February 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
That Dobbs/Redman CT was--like the Schickel one--a port from old Universal DVD/BLU.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 February 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
Hey, maybe you want to buy some black market good take this quiz
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 February 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link