no wait he's not major payne he's sergeant or something. just as well.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
must you take those?
they'll be returned, miss.
they're private letters.
that's all right, miss; don't worry. we're used to it. like doctors.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
i think, in this movie, there's a bit character in maybe the opening third of the movie, working in a ceiling lit office room, who wears a pair of glasses with sharply edged, perfectly trapezoidal frames. i have been searching for that exact pair of glasses for about 8 years now
― 乒乓, Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
the story of dayo's glasses will be 1/5th or so of my room 237-style exegesis of the third man
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
Prob the russian attache guy?
clnl pickering pwns in this too, oh i forgot m'hat
― privilege as 'me me me' (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2013 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite bit:
Sting: All this brings up a memory you two probably won't like. 'Next To You' is essentially a love song. However it was written during the height of punk, and Andy and Stewart complained it wasn't political enough. So I said, "Okay, go and write some lyrics." Andy came up with "I'm going to take a gun to you".
Copeland (sings): "Gun to you, gun to you, all I want is to take a gun to you!" That would have been great. Why didn't we do that?
Sting: Because I vetoed it.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
yes that is also my favorite scene from The Third Man, a 1949 movie by carol reed starring joseph cotten and orson welles and sting
― 乒乓, Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
This bit contains some of Greene's best writing imo:
Copeland: 'Darkness' is a song about vertigo. I'm very proud of it, and there's not really much to say about it except that...
Sting: 'Vertigo' is an Alfred Hitchcock movie!
Copeland: True, but unlike you, Sting, I didn't steal my ideas from films or other literary sources. I came up with the crap I wrote my goddamn self!
Summers: That's easy for you to say, Stewart. You've never even read a book - or seen a film!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't you heard, Callahan, I'm here as a guest of Miles Copeland and I.R.S. Records
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'll be your dumb decoy duck.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
"In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? De doo doo doo, de da da da. That's all I want to say to you, Holly."
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Heartbreaker, with your Ferris wheel, they chased a boy through Prater Park.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
(Sorry, wrong doo doo doo doo doo)
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
new thing noticed, viewing #30 or something: holly sitting on the ground at the police excavation of lime's grave, unhelpfully trying to set a whiskey glass on fire
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Monday, 22 July 2013 04:50 (ten years ago) link
if you're not a very careful viewer movies just keep giving and giving
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Monday, 22 July 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/vlcsnap-2013-07-21-22h20m48s87_zps5f041211.png
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Monday, 22 July 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
Really gotta get this on dvd.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, 22 July 2013 07:04 (ten years ago) link
Trayce, in Australia it often shows up on those super-cheap packs of 10 movies; of course, it looks significantly less cool on the shelf in a lurid VALUE MOVIE PACK case than in a nice Criterion case, so I have my regrets
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 25 July 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7zTW3Oe.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 11 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
I hate these movies based on games
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 April 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Reminds me of the famous broken-image-link Mark S Decodes Mastermind For You thread.
― tl;dr5-49 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 April 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
"Zither not included"
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 11 April 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
David O. Selznick wanted to axe Karas' score
― J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de (Michael White), Friday, 11 April 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
anyone else find the score kind of irritating?
just me then (and Selznick I guess)
― Number None, Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
No.
Yes.
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
I sort of find the whole movie a little bit irritating.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Tho I guess at least it's not boring, which I can't say for Reed's Odd Man Out.
It's a great theme, and I really like its use in the opening credits, but it's just so incessant and monotonous
― Number None, Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.)
I'd like to thank Eric for making me regret not a whit our divorce.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Mexican or Haitian?
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, July 20, 2014 5:44 PM
otm
― WilliamC, Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
I sort of find the whole movie a little bit irritating.― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:47 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkTho I guess at least it's not boring, which I can't say for Reed's Odd Man Out.― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:47 PM (34 minutes ago)
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:47 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:47 PM (34 minutes ago)
i now feel even more confident that these are two of the best films ever
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Eric, you forgot to go for challops triple and dis The Fallen Idol.
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Love this movie. Saw it most recently at a special screening in Vienna, and then went to the Third Man Museum there the following day. The score was playing incessantly throughout the exhibit, so it did become a little irritating after a while.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Sunday, 20 July 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
the insane repetitiveness of the score is really expressive. i love it!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
well now Eric knows how the rest of us feel about de Palma
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
you know i don't know why but it wasn't until this year that i realized the ending of long goodbye was a really obvious homage to the ending of this film
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 21 July 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
Oliver > all three
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Monday, 21 July 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
OK, that really was challops.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Monday, 21 July 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
they think you did it.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 21 July 2014 07:42 (nine years ago) link
of course a situation like that does tempt amateurs. but they can't stay the course like a professional.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 21 July 2014 07:48 (nine years ago) link
ten minutes too late. already gone... mr lime--an accident. knocked over by a car. in front of the house. i have seen it myself. killed at once. immediately. already in [points upward] hell. or in [shrugs, points downward] heaven. sorry for the gravediggers. hard work.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 21 July 2014 07:54 (nine years ago) link
wait, holly walking down the sewer pipe out of the fog mirrors anna walking down the cemetery road between the trees
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 May 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
these are the only things that help - these tablets. These are the last. Can't get them anywhere in Europe any more
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
oh, and when we do meet, old man, it's you i want to see -- not the police. you'll remember that, won't you?
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 May 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
this time i noticed for the first time the sign at the hotel regretting they cannot serve austrians. holly never knows what country anyone's from or what it means. calloway.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 May 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
actually re the tablets the really great line is "the same old indigestion". best satanic figures in movies.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:01 (nine years ago) link
Holly: You ever hear of 'The Lone Rider of Santa Fe'?Calloway: Can't say as I have.Holly: 'Death at Double X Ranch,' uh, 'Raunch'
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
holly martins, sir? the writer? the author of death at double x ranch?
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
it's vonderful ze vay you keep ze tension
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link