alright touch of evil fucking ruled
― k3vin k., Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
the opening long shot, wow, I need to find that and watch it again
some incredible performances in this — welles especially, heston, andthat fortune-teller lady
a really unnervingly charming blend of camp and menace
― k3vin k., Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
andthat fortune-teller lady
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 June 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
touch of evil gets better every time i see it, there isn't really another movie that's anything like it
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 24 June 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
otm
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Monday, 24 June 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
― k3vin k., Sunday, June 23, 2019
I had the pleasure of showing it in my film class last Thursday, and I was delighted that half the class rode the groove even when it unnerved them. The idea of Heston playing a Mexican amused them; the quasi-rape scene did not.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
I was a little more nagged-at by The Lady from Shanghai's filler when I watched it last night: the courtroom stuff (although Everett Sloane's soliloquy about Welles's fate is memorable), and, if I'm honest, just a lot of the film when they're not in the aquarium and not in the funhouse. The story is convoluted and absurd (hardly an anomaly in the world of noir). But those two scenes and Glenn Anders as Grisby make up for everything (Rita Hayworth in a sailor suit, too). Grisby is like Timothy Carey in The Killing, or Joseph Wiseman in Detective Story (or Dennis Weaver in Touch of Evil)--it's hard to say if Anders is even trying to remain in sync with the film you're watching, or if he's simply off doing some other movie known only to him, and if the two happen to intersect, all the better. Visually, the aquarium scene is somewhat of a practice run for the funhouse later on, and the funhouse sequence was the clip I showed my last few primary classes in trying to demonstrate what a film director did. The original trailer for the film is on YouTube--there is conspicuously nothing from the funhouse sequence, suggesting that Welles wanted to extract every last iota of astonishment from anyone who went to see the film. (There's a fan trailer that uses the funhouse liberally.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3lW5UKsbP4
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
k*r*g*rg* has The Other Side Of The Wind
Strange way to spell "Netflix".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 24 December 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
Tbf that post was made 10 years before it was on Netflix.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 December 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link