Billy Wilder, the genre-jumper who would be 100 years old on June 22

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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

two months pass...

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

six months pass...

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n05/wood01_.html

the pinefox, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.hulu.com/some-like-it-hot

and what, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

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

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Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 February 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link


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