I just watched _The Third Man_ in full for the first time

Special Features
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SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
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All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
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Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
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Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by film scholar Dana Polan
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Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
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Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
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"Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist
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Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
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The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
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Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer
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Actor Joseph Cotten’s alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version
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Archival footage of postwar Vienna
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A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film
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PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
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Also: a web-exclusive essay on Anton Karas by musician John Doe

I like where this thread ended up.

So anyway I got the two disc edition for Xmas and I just rewatched the movie for the first time since, well, since I started this thread. There was something that grabbed me in the first few minutes this time through that I don't think I'd mentioned on here yet but now it's slipped my mind...it'll come back. I think.

the Criterion set reports in a couple places (Soderbergh-Gilroy commentary) that Reed was able to shoot round-the-clock cuz of Benzedrine.

Seems kinda petty if not downright weird, but I lost some of my love for this movie after learning that Welles refused to go into the sewers (except for a little).

This is the only current serious candidate for the position of 'my favourite film ever'.

yes, Welles was quite the diva.

I just watched Lady from Shanghai, and it was weird watching him try to play a tough guy.

It's a distanced tough guy (equally distantly Irish).

distantly Irish because he spoke like the Lucky Charms leprechaun?

so many things about lady from shanghai are weird and off-key, but in a way that's what i like about it.

yes, it's a wacky noir nightmare!

and The Third Man would be unthinkable w/out it (and the earlier Welles films).

"I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm."

My favourite film.

Did Spongebob rip off the score, or is it just me?

I think my favorite visual from this was when the cop was like "WWII general would keep their enemies portraits on the wall" and it shows the two photos of Harry Lime in his file, looking like the most gleeful/dangerous/crazy man in existence.

Hmm yeah, that watery zither is quite Spongebobesque, isn't it? One of my favourite scores ever.