― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes! One of the film's subtlties is that as an audience we initially identify with Holly because he's curious and vulgar (the Innocent Abroad of Henry James' nightmares, 50 years later); then we retract our empathy slowly as Reed builds suspense to Lime's first appearance, after which it disappears entirely -- Lime is so much more attractive and intelligent than poor compassionate Holly Martens -- until the conclusion. It's the tragedy of a virtuous dull man
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
(though I didn't find Fallen Idol as interesting as The Third Man. As a thriller, brilliant, as a movie less so.)
― milo z (mlp), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
VALLI
in the opening credits
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
know her only as "Valli."
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Let me second that!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link
is the ridiculously tragic final scene. I can't think of another film with such an emotional denouement.
(I can, actually. Etre Et Avoir, for the final look on the teacher's face.)
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Just saying.
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roz, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Saturday, 10 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Special Features # SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES # All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer # Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich # Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by film scholar Dana Polan # Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film # Abridged recording of Graham Greenes treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke # "Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist # Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew # 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 # Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer # Actor Joseph Cottens alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version # Archival footage of postwar Vienna # A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film # PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr # Also: a web-exclusive essay on Anton Karas by musician John Doe
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― ghost rider, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link