I could go on, if you like.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i voted for "the apartment" because it's really the only one i care about, tho some of the others are funny.
― J.D., Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder what Alfred thinks of Joe E Brown in Some Like It Hot? or in anything else?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ZOWIE!
http://www.movieactors.com/photos/slihot89.jpeg
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder what Alfred thinks of Joe E Brown in Some Like It Hot? or in anything else
Nobody's perfect.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
iF ONLY aPATOW COULD EQUAL Kiss Me Stupid!
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
suggset banlevard
― Ron Polarik, PhD (and what), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Ginger Rogers so I have a weird affection for The Major and the Minor even though it is creepy. I didn't vote for it, though.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i cant believe the witness for the prosecution hate on this thread
― Ron Polarik, PhD (and what), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Lots of unpleasant performances in Wilder films. Besides Power and Dietrich, there's Nancy Olsen, Cooper, Ray Milland, Richard Gaines...
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Carol Burnett, of all people, in The Front Page
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw buddy, buddy when it came outpretty dire despite presence of klaus kinski
― velko, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
is avanti! any good?
― negotiable, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw Ace In The Hole only the other night, and while it wasn't bad, I fail to see why it's considered a classic. I vote Double Indemnity.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember liking Avanti! long ago. Juliet Mills, oo la la.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd rank the ones i've seen like this, best to worst:
1944 Double Indemnity1950 Sunset Boulevard1959 Some Like It Hot1961 One, Two, Three1964 Kiss Me, Stupid1960 The Apartment1945 The Lost Weekend1953 Stalag 171951 Ace in the Hole1974 The Front Page
the only stinker is the last one.
― abanana, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
So
Alfred : Wilder :: Me : screwball
― Eric H., Tuesday, 16 December 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
but I can watch Wilder!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Double Indemnity vs. Sunset Blvd vs. Ace in the Hole
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Eric watches screwball, don't believe the hype.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
― negotiable, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:32 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i threw it the one pity vote it got, not great but pretty entertaining, definitely worth a look.
― Tom Botantino (some dude), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I voted The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps not a Wilder classic but he puts an interesting spin on proceedings.
― sam500, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Um, I actually voted for Avanti!. As usual, I go for an auteur's later works and this is his masterpiece followed by The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. I'd even take the cleansed vision of Buddy Buddy over the two winners here.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
You'll need to explain the Sherlock Holmes love, KJB. Nice and slow.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
(Naturally you sound like me defending "Empire Burlesque")
weird, i swear i voted for Avanti too, maybe i just shrugged and went for the Apartment after all
― Tom Botantino (some dude), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Forgot a lot of the great lines in A Foreign Affair! Congresswoman Jean Arthur on a crime spike in Iowa: "A little boy in Des Moines took a blowtorch to his grandmother..."
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 February 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
tried to watch Avanti! a few wks ago and got about as far as the kitch-y coroner w/ the color-coded italian forms and turned it off. none of it was funny or charming and there was no reason to think it'd get better imo. there was a line where jack lemmon outright refers to juliette mills' character as fat that seemed really mean-spirited and would probably draw protesters today
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 February 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
After 1964 the guy totally lost it.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― Ron Polarik, PhD (and what), Tuesday, December 9, 2008 11:48 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― Luz, a saucy taco slinger (hmmmm), Monday, 15 February 2010 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
but the correct answer is SABRINA, what the hell is wrong with you communists
― Luz, a saucy taco slinger (hmmmm), Monday, 15 February 2010 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
nobody threw a bone to Five Graves to Cairo? shame on yall
― yakko warner (cankles), Monday, 15 February 2010 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Jonathan Rosenbaum introduce Double Indemnity in Toronto last night (followed by Q&A afterwards). One of my dozen favourite films. Never read the novel, but he was describing the original ending, and does it ever sound preposterous. Apparently the Dietrichson house still stands in California. And the Pacific All Risk office where Norton makes a fool out of himself trying to intimidate Phyllis was designed like the Paramount offices--which made me wonder if Norton was modelled on a studio head whom Wilder thought a buffoon. (Which in turn made Fred MacMurray wonder if I wonder.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably Sunset Blvd, at this point. Maybe that would change with re-viewings.I actually enjoy Witness for the Prosecution.
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
you can buy A Foreign Affair from TCM now
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
yes!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
Black market,Cuckoo clocks and bangles
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Seem to have read today that BW was considering using Marilyn Monroe for another project after Some Like It Hot but can't remember what that might have been.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Kiss Me, Stupid I guess
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Irma la douce. Liz Taylor was also considered.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, look at that, thanks.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's amusing that a pre-"Faster Pussycat" Tura Satana is in Ild.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
It's gotta be Foreign Affair. Or the Lost Weekend. Or the first 20 mins of Sabrina. Love in the Afternoon is genuinely awful though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
i was pretty disappointed in 'ace in the hole' when i finally saw it. haven't watched any of these in a long time but 'the apartment' still stands out to me as the best one.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't get through One, Two, Three. Two votes for that ahead of Sunset Blvd. or Double Indemnity is some outstanding contrarianism.
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
xp def agree on both
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
Voted One, Two, Three for incredible fast-paced funny and believable performance of Cagney as a hectic executive and its images of post-war, pre-wall Berlin. Almost voted A Foreign Affair for reasons stated above. Not conscious contrarianism, just think these New World meets Old Europe scenarios stress his strengths and help him steer clear of schmaltz.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
Recently remarked that Tony Curtis wrote a book about the making of Some Like It Hot, but a perfunctory perusal seemed to indicate that it mainly consisted of him making stuff up, mostly about Marilyn.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
^^I think I read an excerpt from that in VF when it came out. Apparently he was rocking a serious irl boner during the boat seduction shoot.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link