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

No -- I mean his stay in Ireland in 1932. MacLiammoir's partner directed Welles' first big break on stage.

These are good stories

These are good stories

These are good stories

Edited by Peter Biskind, America's foremost film historian

Saw this again last night...Checked my Letterboxd page and I didn't list this--it must be my favourite film that's not in my Top 100. I think I know someone who models her whole being on the Alida Valli character.

http://mistercomfypants.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/third-man-anna.png?w=450

this movie is a bit too 'easy' for JRo

Welles — who hated the Harry Lime character too much to have been able to make him palatable in a movie of his own — was turned by Korda, Greene, and Reed into such a charming monster that most moviegoers have preferred to remember him that way: Welles without his customary self-critique, playing the guiltless profiteer. Moreover, because this is one of Greene’s “entertainments,” we’re not shown any of the children in the Vienna hospital who’ve been treated with Lime’s diluted penicillin — unlike Martins, who’s taken there by a British officer (Trevor Howard) who correctly surmises that seeing the children will goad him into betraying his best friend. In other words, watered-down penicillin was actually sold on the Vienna black market during this period, but Greene was more interested in the effect of this on Martins than on the audience. “We had no desire to move people’s political emotions,” he wrote years later in his autobiography Ways of Escape. “We wanted to entertain them, to frighten them a little, even to make them laugh.”

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2016/04/welles-in-the-lime-light/

In the pub yesterday afternoon I got to watch the last 15-20 minutes, muted with subtitles. It was still a very thrilling, engaging and moving experience. Of course, I was drunk...

Er war gleich toten.
Er war gleich toten

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'

very popular, sir.

How long can one stay here on this stage money?

anything really wrong with your papers?

they're forged.

...why??

do you believe, mr. martins, in the stream of consciousness?

i said: where would you put mr. james joyce? in what caTEGory?

(you could ask him the same question about harry)

(punches Holly in the face) *do* be careful, sir.

^otm. thought about posting this myself

It WASN'T the German gin.

we should have dug deeper than a grave.

I don't think they'd look for a bullet wound after you'd hit that ground.

oh, the same old indigestion. these are the only things that help: these tablets. these are the last. can't get them anywhere in europe anymore.

Is that what you say to people after death? "Goodness, that's awkward"?

sorry for the gravediggers. hard work.

Paine. Paine.

i read a bit of it. looked as though it was going to be pretty good!

Look at yourself. They have a name for faces like that.

holly. what a silly name.

t's all right, Paine. He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him.

i'd say you're doing something pretty dangerous this time.

yes?

mixing fact and fiction.

should i make it all fact?

oh, no, mr. martins. i say stick to fiction. straight fiction.

i'm too far along with the book, mr. popesco.

haven't you ever scrapped a book?

never.

pity!

Mm, yes?

Showing at the nearest art cinema in a week or so - never seen it on the big screen.

...which I guess is for the 70th anniversary.

‘Twas good! There was a bit with a zither player beforehand, which was good - though some folks made annoyed noises as her discussing plot points when describing the piece of music. I had to get a bus so I couldn’t stay for the Q&A, though it didn’t interest me much.

pencil moustached Trevor Howard with his duffle coat on or that big fuckoff leather coat - such a cool look!

Yup

I noticed a lot more rats in the sewers on the big screen.

The shoulders on his jacket are something else xp

In a good print that jacket is very black, as in White Light/White Heat or Smell the Glove black.

showed this on the big screen (from blu) to my movie theater coworkers for my birthday this summer (also inland empire). otm about the rats. in fact the whole sewer sequence opened up for me-- always secretly found it prolonged and dull and this time i found it prolonged and riveting. the part where lime is surrounded by echoes emerging from like a dozen indistinguishable archways suddenly felt like a less ostentatious / more successful version of the mirrors at the end of lady from shanghai.

fave lil character etching these days: popescu, a monster.

the sewer looks like a ken adam set tbh, especially when dozens of people in white jumpsuits start rappelling into it.

Love those sewer entrances that fold up in triangles to reveal a staircase.

I couldn't get over how shocking the reveal was as a kid when i first saw this. Was it the first big he's-dead-no-he's-not type twist in the middle of a film ever? I'm sure it can't have been but..

oh, little things. how to put your temperature up before an exam. how to avoid this and that.

the dead are happier dead. they don't miss much here, poor devils.

XPS Laura did it a few years earlier, but it's spoiled a little since Tierney is the star.

A parrot bit me.

the qualities of this movie that stand out more over time as very "modern" in the best sense are the humor (which remains funny and sharp and incredibly well-timed and true to character), and conversely it's very realistic cold-bloodedness. Holly is a sort of typical Hollywood hero, a big talker, sentimental, a bit blustery in parts, but it's undercut by the fact his innocence and naivete have been and will be taken advantage of by his best friend, and later sharply pointed out by the woman he's in love with. and in a refreshing bit of business, the character of Anna isn't a particularly innocent, betrayed sort in need of rescuing. She doesn't want to be rescued, she's extremely cruel at points, and her love of Harry Lime remaining despite his crimes is a sign of something other than someone who has blinders on.

Was you ever stung by a dead bee?

Sorry, wrong thread