ILX Film Club, The (1924-2019)

Never seen it in a theater.

Me either, but I would love to.

Big P&P retro at the bfi right now, wonder if this one will be playing this week.

23rd December at the IMAX apparently

> A Matter of Life and Death,

bbc2 Saturday lunchtime

Just heard about that from this article which I posted earlier on The Archers thread: https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/cutting-edge-thelma-schoonmaker-on-powell-and-pressburger-scene-by-scene

Finished this yesterday, just some of the greatest cinematography I've ever seen, a bizarre story, but one that worked perfectly, some very memorable performances, some incredible scenes, so not sure why I liked it (a lot) rather than loved it.

Also to note - it somewhat blows my mind that June is Zira in Planet of the Apes two decades later.

Les Enfants du paradis, Marcel Carné, 1945

Morbsies #448

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 October 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Cine Lumiere in London usually screens this around Xmas. Maybe I will watch this year

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The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks, 1946

Morbsies #542
Sight & Sound Critics #133

The DVD featurette on the differences between the versions is worth watching too.

As I probably also said about Maltese Falcon (can't remember), I can't be objective about these Bogart movies, my dad showed them to me when I was a kid and it was some real father-son bonding stuff. A third generation was also involved: we saw them dubbed into German on VHS tapes that my grandfather would send to us in Portugal. Grampa was an enthusiastic but none-too-capable techie, so he'd program the VCR for stuff to send to us and inevitably it would show up with the beginning or end cut off - which is to say I was in my early 20's before I saw the ending, and frankly between the jolly spousal abuse musical moment and the ending not being Bogart looking defeatedly into the darkness like a noir should be, I could leave it. The plot doesn't matter to such an extent that the truncated VHS version I knew as a child was a fully satisfying experience anyway.

its the sexiest movie ever made i think

Dorothy Malone is still my all-time movie crush yeah

The plot doesn't matter to such an extent that the truncated VHS version I knew as a child was a fully satisfying experience anyway.

Yeah it's very much a world-building exercise, this alluringly corrupt realm of wealth and seduction and betrayal. It's one of those movies I watch because I like to inhabit it for a little while.

Haven’t rewatched in ages but yeah. Love Daniel’s story. Also, it was a surprise but not really a surprise to learn that Dorothy Malone in real life was kind of a prude, as discussed on a Sirk thread recently.

Because it is part of a WRITTEN ON THE WIND add-on currently available on Criterion.

General Sternwood: I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

Was trying to remember what famous person Martha Vickers was married to and it was Mickey Rooney, d’oh!

its the sexiest movie ever made i think

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 November 2023 12:11 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm twenty minutes in and every woman in this wants to fuck Bogart, and I think one just did

Go ahead and scratch.

Yes I do think Bogart movies gave me unrealistic expectations regarding how little initiative I would have to deploy in order to get laid.

Tell that to all those lads that bought fedoras

That is slander NV, you know full well none of those lads have ever watched a Bogart film. They may have seen Sin City and played LA Noire.

well yeaaaaah but it's kind of Bogart by osmosis

That was a very enjoyable watch, no idea what was going on for the most part.

famously, neither did the cast and crew

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Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946

Morbsies #52
Sight & Sound Critics #133

never been able to watch it. i think its a very badly directed and acted movie.

i expect this not to be the consensus

Whole thing is on youtube here

never been able to watch it. i think its a very badly directed and acted movie

challops of all challops

Probably Hitch's best film, Cary Grant's best "dark" performance, the thing is an expertly wound clock.

That's a silly thing to say, but it is good

Claude Rains is great too!

Louis Calhern okay too but a standard performance. Anyway the whole thing is on the vector that leads through Vertigo to Marnie of the crepey male lead but with 40s glamour to boot.

I enjoyed Evil (OR IS HE?) Cary Grant in Suspicion, though the film itself was definitely c-tier Hitchcock at best.

Y’all with these Hitchcock tiers now.

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film fans otm

Meh, swap out Dial M for Murder for any one of the four on the other side, but probably most especially The Birds or Shadow of a Doubt.

Rope? Rebecca?

George Sanders is turning over in his grave.

To catch a thief is basically unwatchable

I like all the Bergman ones, including under Capricorn which is a deeply weird film but not like his terrible weird films like the trouble with Harry

Re what someone said earlier , yes Hitchcock is very tiered.

Marnie is only okay. Psycho beats vertigo for me, but mainly for the first section before she arrives at the motel. So lurid! the way the camera follows Leigh around in her sweater is obscene! I also think Perkins is so sweet in it. ('I'd love a sandwich!' - me.)

Vertigo score is the best and the moments of abstraction keep their strangeness while the tricks in e.g. rear window wear off after a few watches

Rear window is fun to watch with people who've only seen cartoon parodies that only follow the plot until the first big twist.

The Simpsons ep that is based on Rear Window is just as good as the film

To catch a thief is basically unwatchable

It's a nice foreign holiday for two hours, and I like the Franju-esque cat burglar stuff at the end.

TCAT is minor Hitchcock, but it moves and doesn't waste time. Before you make claims about unwatchable try watching Jamaica Inn, The Paradine Case, I Confess, or Topaz.