What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Mahagonny Bill]

Monday night at Noir City: Seattle

Inside Job (1946)
The craziest damn Christmas miracle you have ever seen.

Human Desire (1954)
Fritz Lang directs this beautiful movie about ugly people doing uglier things. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, and the incomparable Gloria Grahame.

 

[Argee]

Watched "Man of the Century" the other day. That's quite a unique movie. Too bad we'll never see the further adventures of Johnny Twenties.

 

[Miss Golightly]

The Apartment

 

[jessesgirl08]

An Affair to Remember

 

[EmergencyIan]

3 Days of the Condor (1975). I hadn't seen any of it prior to this past Saturday evening. I thought it was terrific!


- Ian

 

[Miss Golightly]

Vertigo

 

[Feraud]

^ That is my favorite Hitchcock movie.
The San Fran setting with it's long hilly streets is perfect for the unravelling of a man who we think has one illness(vertigo=dizzy,disoriented sensation) but suffers from something much darker. Jimmy Stewart is perfectly cast in the role of a man with obvious control issues who loses control over reality and himself. This is probably the best from Stewart.

 

[Miss Golightly]

^ That is my favorite Hitchcock movie.
The San Fran setting with it's long hilly streets is perfect for the unravelling of a man who we think has one illness(vertigo=dizzy,disoriented sensation) but suffers from something much darker. Jimmy Stewart is perfectly cast in the role of a man with obvious control issues who loses control over reality and himself. This is probably the best from Stewart.

I think it's the perfect movie - great cast, plot, score, imagery, settings - and fantastic chemistry between Stewart and Novak.

I was in San Francisco on honeymoon in 2008 and we did our own Vertigo tour - we took in Fort Point, Palace of Fine Arts (which sadly had scaffolding up in places), 900 Lombard St (Scotty's apartment), Mission Dolores, Nob Hill (Madeleine's apartment), Mission San Juan Bautista (the grey horse is still there although looking a little worse for wear!) and the Empire Hotel (now renamed Hotel Vertigo). It was great to have the opportunity to see these locations looking pretty much as they were in Hitchcock's movie.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Veritgo is my favorite Hitchcock film too... actually, it's tied with Rear Window.

Brief comments on some other films that have been mentioned recently:

Three Days of the Condor - a perfect example of the disillusionment and paranoia of the immediate post-Wategate period. One of Sydney Pollack's best.

The Apartment - simply my favorite Billy Wilder film, and considering how many great films he made (The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Ace In The Hole, Some Like It Hot, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, etc.), that's quite a statement.

Man of the Century - I just saw this for the first time recently. A hoot and a half - the best low-budget film I've seen in ages. (If I had continued as a filmmaker after my Super 8 and 16mm shorts of the 70s, this is just the kind of movie I'd have made myself!)

Werewolf of London - I also much prefer this one to the Lon Chaney, Jr. Wolf Man films, though it is a bit of a creaky antique in some ways. The music was later recycled endlessly in the Flash Gordon serials, and the passing-behind-the-columns transformation technique reused to great effect in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man".

 

[Feraud]

Agreed on Vertigo's cinematography, music, etc. Just wonderful.

My wife and I are also planning on doing our own Vertigo tour when in S.F.
There are a few websites that do "then and now" movie location comparison pics. The Vertigo shots are neat.

About Read Window.. what I find interesting about this film along with Vertigo is how terrible Jimmy Stewart treats women! lol
Whether it be Kim Novak in Vertigo as Judy being completely made over to represent Stewart's dead obsession or the beautiful, rich, classy but ultimately empty headed Grace Kelly treated like Stewart's one night stand (make that a booty call in modern parlance..) in Rear Window. I appreciate an actor who plays against type.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Despite the common perception of him as an aw-shucks Mr. Nice Guy, Stewart had a great dark side. It first surfaced in the fillibuster scene in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, then was even clearer in the despondent moments of It's A Wonderful Life. And don't forget those Anthony Mann-directed 50s westerns - he's downright grim in those. He was a far more versatile and gutsy actor than many people realize!

 

[Miss Golightly]

About Read Window.. what I find interesting about this film along with Vertigo is how terrible Jimmy Stewart treats women! lol
Whether it be Kim Novak in Vertigo as Judy being completely made over to represent Stewart's dead obsession or the beautiful, rich, classy but ultimately empty headed Grace Kelly treated like Stewart's one night stand (make that a booty call in modern parlance..) in Rear Window. I appreciate an actor who plays against type.

That's so true! I recall he wasn't that nice to Donna Reed either in parts of It's a Wonderful Life!

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

And he made his children cry.

 

[Feraud]

And possibly kicked a dog or two.

 

[sixties.nut]

Don't Forget, He Bummed the German's too.....

Don't make 'em a bad person.

 

[Mahagonny Bill]

Tuesday night at Noir City: Seattle

Red Light (1949)
George Raft and Virginia Mayo try to find the killer of Raft's chaplain/war hero brother. Raymond Burr and Harry Morgan play the heavies with special guest appearance by God.

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
A fairly mediocre police procedural with the FBI and Scotland Yard teaming up to stop communist spies at a US nuclear research facility. Worth watching for the homo-erotic tension between the two leads and the opportunities to make cracks about J. Edgar Hoover in a dress. Starring Raymond Burr in a chin beard.

 

[Falconetti]

The Anniversary 1968

Great performance bt Bette Davis at her most evil best..

 

[Nathan]

Terry Gilliam anyone?

I just watched both The Fisher King and Brazil again....I'd forgotten how much I enjoy Terry Gilliam's movies.
I also watched Avatar again. Anyone else reminded of Disney's Pocahontas...cept in space...and with no singing.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Re Pocatar, see this one-page story treatment of the Disney film revised for Avatar!

http://web.me.com/pascalboogaert/Site/foto3.html

 

[Atomic]

1941 Maltese Falcon. Had never seen it before and it comes up so much on this site that I decided to watch it. Good flick!