IdleRich

IdleRich
Sorcerer is one of my favourite films. I exhausted watching film noir so have moved on to thrillers, starting with the obvious ones like Manhunter, and speaking of Friedkin, To Live and Die in LA. I really like the Paul Schrader film Light Sleeper too, when I talk about Thrillers that's the kind of atmosphere I go for, night time photography, synthetic soundtracks, and psychologically deep characters.
Funny how many times To Live and Die in LA has come up recently. I remember liking it a lot too.
What would you recommend from film noir? Definitely a genre I enjoy a lot when it's well done.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
a buddy movie. did those two do any other buddy movies together? ive watched another film where Hoffman is paired with a handsome blonde gentile. they're both hustlers in New York.
"Hey I'm walking here" one of those famous ad-libbed scenes.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
i quite liked klute. i havent got any ideas for what film to watch tonight. im floundering.
How about The Neon Demon to contrast/compare with Under The Silver Lake. And maybe that one Starry Eyes again (I know you've watched it cos we discussed it years ago. It sort of feels that Starry Eyes is very similar to ND in terms of its premise but different in its treatment - and then Neon Demon has its own parallels to UTSL as discussed.
Or, how about, a cold neon glamour trilogy; Liquid Sky, Cafe Flesh and The Neon Demon.
 

luka

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i dont thinik ive actually seen starry eyes. i saw neon demon and liked it. i definitely want to see cafe flesh and liquid sky too.
 

luka

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version gets a gold star for recommending a good film. sweaty men drinking scotch in a tropical climate. i love films that do that. or espressos and cigerettes, sweating, in a tropical climate.
 

luka

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i dont thinik ive actually seen starry eyes. i saw neon demon and liked it. i definitely want to see cafe flesh and liquid sky too.
i thought neon demon was more commited to its metaphors or its mythology or whatever you want to call it.
 

luka

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im glad everyone agrees tangerine dream were better than can now. it was baffling that period of time when people thought can were better
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
version gets a gold star for recommending a good film. sweaty men drinking scotch in a tropical climate. i love films that do that. or espressos and cigerettes, sweating, in a tropical climate
Yeah it's irresistible.
I dunno if that actually literally happens In The Treasure of the Sierra Madre but it feels as though that or something else very much like it is happening in every scene.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
i dont thinik ive actually seen starry eyes. i saw neon demon and liked it. i definitely want to see cafe flesh and liquid sky too.
Well Cafe Flesh is pretty much a hard core pore film. It's got this cool imagery and music and the kinda barker guy is good too, but I would probably advise flicking through the scenes once you've got the idea of the aesthetics. So it doen't have to be a huge investment of time is what I'm saying I suppose.
 

luka

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The Internet is very good at doing that. Part of the reason magical thinking is proliferating
Example. @Jim Daze posted wake in fright on the sweat and dust thread then sent me a link to this site https://mubi.com/showing saying this site has just sent me an email telling me to watch wake in fright I was scrolling down the page thinking of a really funny thing I'd done and I said in my head "funny, HA HA" and the next thing I saw written on the page was funny ha ha
 

DLaurent

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Funny how many times To Live and Die in LA has come up recently. I remember liking it a lot too.
What would you recommend from film noir? Definitely a genre I enjoy a lot when it's well done.

I actually got one of my favourites as a recommendation on here. Kiss Me Deadly, loved that, just has some scenes that stick with me like when they have to pull the car over to a garage and they pull a big branch from under the wheel. I must have watched 200 noirs now and generally feel apart from some lesser known ones like Dial 1119 and Dangerous Crossing, it's a genre that's been so canonised the obvious ones are the best. Fritz Lang seems to be the master, Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window (both with Edward G Robinson) and Blue Gardenia.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I actually got one of my favourites as a recommendation on here. Kiss Me Deadly, loved that, just has some scenes that stick with me like when they have to pull the car over to a garage and they pull a big branch from under the wheel. I must have watched 200 noirs now and generally feel apart from some lesser known ones like Dial 1119 and Dangerous Crossing, it's a genre that's been so canonised the obvious ones are the best. Fritz Lang seems to be the master, Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window (both with Edward G Robinson) and Blue Gardenia.
I love Kiss Me Deadly.... was thinking about the other day for some reason.
Problem with film noirs is the names are so generic and often I can't remember which I've seen.
Is Scarlet Street the one with a painter or something? Slightly different from your normal noir maybe, not what I think of when I think of the genre. I do really Edward G Robinson though and agree with you about Fritz Lang. Is it The Big Heat with Lee Marvin that was famous (notorious) for that scene where he throws coffee in a woman's face? I think I have seen the Blue Gardenia though and wasn't that keen.
 
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