― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Why ever not?
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
TS Victor Laszlo vs. Laszlo Lowenstein vs. Laszlo Kovacs (I) vs. Laszlo Kovacs (II)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ceezah, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
To each his own then...
― Ceezah, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
- Fabulous photography!!! Moody, striking, atmospheric, dramatic - the whole ball of wax.
- The plot is total cornball, but the pacing and dialogue are so crisp that you never have time to dwell on the silliness of it all. Each vignette is a perfect little bon-bon of entertainment. No waste. No chewing necessary.
- Claude Rains was having a ball and so were the scriptwriters for him. Every line he spoke was a gem. Probably a commentary on Hollywood studios in there.
- Not a good scenery-chewing Nazi to be found anywhere, just the ho-hum cardboard kind.
- It is very rainy and foggy in Morrocco. Who knew?
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link
"Ninochka""Andrei Rubylev""Broken Blossoms""Pandora's Box""Orphans of the Storm"that film w/Dirk Bogarde where he's a homosexual doctor who gets blackmailed (heh, sorry, bad memory)"Sabrina""Valley of Song""Kind Hearts and Coronets""Passport to Piml1co""Night of the Demon"
That's eleven, but never mind, and I'm not even getting into Ford or Kurosawa films, either.
So obviously, I don't think it's the best black & white film ever, though I do like it quite a lot.
I don't really give a shit about what "name" critics think, and am curious as to why you keep bolstering your arguments by bringing these people's opinions in, c*l*m.
Regarding films as "quotable" is a bit james brown-edited magazine-ist for me, but I suppose if I were no think of the most quotable film, it would be "Scarface"
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/images3/edisonposter.jpg
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
That's eleven, but never mindWhy does anyone like 'Sabrina'?I was gonna say, there's an obvious one to remove if you want an even ten.
Trouble in ParadiseSearch! - Any movie involving Edward Everett Horton and gondolas.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost - please tell me that movie is real)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― :| (....), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I sincerely hope that's next. I nominate the five of the seven Sternberg-Dietrich collabs I've seen.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 January 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link
No. What's it called?
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
VampyrThe Philadelphia StoryMThe Big SleepL'Age d'OrThe Man Who Knew Too MuchA Canterbury TaleThrone of BloodPeter IbbetsonAlphaville
I like the implication in the title that Black & White films are somehow inferior to their Colour cousins. That's LadCrit for you.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― :| (....), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
tracer, wanna read an AMAZING book on the making of a movie? devil's candy by julie salomom on the making of bonfire of the vanities. just finished it last night. soooooo good.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
my old college roommate once told me "yeah, i saw 'citizen kane' and i liked it. it seemed really cool, not like those other black and white movies at all." i still don't know whether to be touched or appalled.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 7 January 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Friday, 7 January 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link
through a glass darklytokyo storyordetbattleship potemkinvivre sa vieshadowscleo from 5 to 7ikirucity lightsearth
casablanca has a great screenplay, but it is just your typical hollywood film of the time. it is not ground-breaking, it is not amazing.
― t0dd swiss, Friday, 7 January 2005 08:13 (nineteen years ago) link
how many hollywood films of the time have ingrid bergman and humphrey bogart?!?!?!?!?!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
The Marseillaise scene always gets me too.
Somebody wrote a volume of short stories 10-15 years ago about the fates of Great Movie Characters after the films ended. Never read it, but reviews said his "Casablanca" sequel had Rick and Renault becoming lovers, and Ilsa dying in the plane crash with Dag Hammarskjold...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link