Posted on 07/11/2018 6:00:38 AM PDT by KC_Lion
I'm not a fan of GILDA, though yes, it is an example of FILM NOIR, a genre I usually do enjoy watching.
I should have mentioned it previously, but Blake Edwards directed both BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and the execrable THE PARTY. One a glorious light comedy, the second an overwrought, overthought, unfunny hot mess on wheels.
Quite a few movies made in the late '50s through the early-mid '60s were filmed in NYC and show it off, in all of its glory, as not a backdrop, but almost as another major character. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, and PENELOPE are but four examples.
To me Gilda is a very expensive film noir - I prefer the B noirs full of B actors giving great performances (although I LOVE Touch of Evil). Actors like Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Lawrence Tierney, the great Marie Windsor. I recently saw a heist movie with Mickey Rooney that my brother gave me - just fabulous - filled at Malibu Beach. It was when Mickey was down on his luck, career-wise. My brother and my husband are film noir fanatics.
We’ll have to disagree about The Party. It has some fabulous gags - one with a squab and a lady’s hairdo. We can agree that talking about movies on FR is a losing proposition.
I not only used "whence" correctly, but, yet again you show just how uneducated you are!
Since you are either pretending to be really stupid, or you are! The phrase "coup de gras" , though of French origin, is part of the English language and is in common usage. So what's the matter with YOU?
I was never a "film student"; however, have always enjoyed and know about a vast panoply of movie genres, from their earliest days forward, and was mezmerized by THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIAGRI, from the first time I saw it as a kid. It used to be shown, on NYC ( and throughout the Tri-state area ) on T.V.! Anyone and everyone could watch it and didn't have to go to college to see it. So your reverse snobbery and silly personal attack, on me, over that being one of my favorite films, only makes you still look foolish and worse.
Your insulting assumptions ( YET MORE PERSONAL ATTACKS, WHICH YOU SO DISDAIN...NOT! )about miss marmelstein and me are laughable in the extreme! We're both very happily married, have watched and know about movies and grew up watching them in theatres and on T.V.! You only imagine that you are superior, clever, and "in the know", which all of your posts belie...in spades.
BIRTH OF A NATION is a great film, because it introduced many techniques in movie making; however, it is rewritten/revisionist history, propaganda, anti-black, anti-Northener, racist claptrap, which I probably saw long before you ever heard of it.
LOL
The d at the end of “came” was a typo...but then, after you butchered grammar and punctuation to death, misused simple English words, whose meanings you don’t know, nor understand, this post of yours is true to form.
I just rewatched THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, which was even better than I had remember it to be.
THE MASK OF DEMETRIOS, SCARLET STREET, and the mostly forgotten THE SEVENTH VICTIM all tie, for #1, imo.
Yes, THE PARTY has a few funny bits, but none of them are new nor inventive. I just really hate that movie. ;^)
It's a losing cause, to try to have an insightful chat about movies here; present company excluded, of course.
I think the Asphalt Jungle is my husband’s favorite movie, lol. I think we’d watch it each and every night if he had his way. (We watch a movie every night during dinner.)
We don’t associate Orson Welles with film noir all that much - but he made one of the best. He put all his friends in it too. Who can forget Marlene saying to the obese Welles: “You should lay off the candy bars, you’re a mess.” I think Orson may have been padded at that point in his career or used it as an opportunity to spend every night at Chasen’s.
I was never a “film student”; however, have always enjoyed and know about a vast panoply of movie genres, from their earliest days forward, and was mezmerized by THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIAGRI, from the first time I saw it as a kid. It used to be shown, on NYC ( and throughout the Tri-state area ) on T.V.! Anyone and everyone could watch it and didn’t have to go to college to see it. So your reverse snobbery and silly personal attack, on me, over that being one of my favorite films, only makes you still look foolish and worse.
Touche!
Of course, while you were watching important movies, I was watching Abbott & Costello! My brother, my cousin and I were glued to Million Dollar Movie when Hit the Ice premiered!
No, I don't usually associate Welles with film noir, either, though he DID make a couple of them.
Very funny line, that Marlene had!
When I was 11, staying with my grandparents, over the Christmas hols, my grandmother woke me up to watch A HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT, to celebrate the incoming new year, on New Year's Eve. I had a glass of ginger ale ( served in an old fashioned crystal champagne coupe !), to toast with. It was great fun and a wonderful memory.
My love and appreciation for films, starting with the silents, stems from my grandmother, who told me all about them and who took me to a LOT of movies, when I was growing up. And back then, families went to the movies together, which was a great bonding experience and led to very interesting discussions, about the movie/s afterwards. We did/do the same with our progeny and their's. Though now, we do a lot of the viewing at home, thanks to DVDs.
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