[miss marmelstein]

You can’t seem to get anything right about movies. Casablanca is a GREAT movie although where you get the idea it is a noir is beyond me. Maybe because it is black and white?? Gilda is a film noir so half a point to you. Casablanca has a wonderful script with tremendous wit, great performances, beautiful photography and the kind of patriotism unknown in America today, much less Europe. My husband teaches this film to students and they are about as bright as you.

No Pardons is right that The Party was a bomb although I think it has some wonderful gags. I don’t like everything that Blake Edwards does but up until the late 80s when all types of censorship were gone with the wind, he was a brilliant gag man. That talent derived from his early love of Laurel & Hardy and Harold Lloyd.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a charming, adorable film that shows Manhattan at its beautiful best. I think the party scene is one of the funniest scenes in all of 60s movies.

And what a dumb remark about watching it after 10pm on a worknight.

[golux]

What is with all the personal attacks? Why do you say I have a "pea-sized brain?"

What is a coup de gras...? Is that like when you get hit in the face with a scoop of Crisco?

Why do you repeatedly attack my intelligence whilst reminding me about movies I know as well as you do? Why do you use whence incorrectly?

Who needs to tell anyone on this forum who Riefenstahl was? Who actually describes Caligari as one of their all-time favorite films, other than perhaps a film studies grad who wants to appear to be the smartest person in the room?

Who doesn't understand that opinions differ about movies, and de gustibus non eat disputandum?

What is the point, after all, of screaming at a fellow Freeper in ALL CAPS about how they are stupid, etc., because they disagree with you about whether a movie is "good" or not?

In any case I will bet you dollars to doughnuts you are both single and have plenty of time to watch movies. Therefore may I recommend Birth of a Nation? The Director's cut. It's better than Rocky IV, or even Cats!

[nopardons]

It's getting to the point, vis-a-vis having any kind of conversation/discussion on movies and/or plays, here, with many posters, is akin to asking a protestor or just someone on the street, why they hate Trump. The vast majority of replies are not only incoherent, but uninformed.

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.