What's on at the movies
dilbert1
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Theater near me is doing a Hitchcock marathon. I’ve previously seen Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho and North by Northwest. I’ll be seeing Foreign Correspondent tonight, and over the weekend Rebecca and Shadow of a Doubt. Any others I absolutely must see? They’re screening almost all of them for the next few weeks.
version
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Those first four you mentioned are the best I've seen of his. The only other two I've seen are The Birds and The 39 Steps and I don't think they're essential, although The Birds has some cool scenes.
@Clinamenic watched loads of them a while back, so he'd be a good person to ask.
william_kent
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huge filmography
39 steps and the birds are essential
39 steps huge influence on Jacky Chan's 'clock tower" scene in Project A
Jack Chan - project A clock tower scene which might have gone not to plan and resulted in a trip to the hospital
and THE BIRDS an inspiration for the finest funniest independent movie EVER
Birdemic ( I can talk about this film all night )
39 steps and the birds are essential
39 steps huge influence on Jacky Chan's 'clock tower" scene in Project A
Jack Chan - project A clock tower scene which might have gone not to plan and resulted in a trip to the hospital
and THE BIRDS an inspiration for the
Birdemic ( I can talk about this film all night )
GhostofKinski
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JC was the last half of the 20th century’s answer to Buster Keaton.
If you haven’t already, check out the movie ‘Ah Khan’ *sp. in English it was released as ‘The Stuntwoman’ a young (and eternally beautiful) Michelle Yeoh. She broke both hips during filming & it didn’t get cut. You see the commitment/bravery of this former Ms. Malaysia or wherever she’s from.
william_kent
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I'm a fan of Michelle Yeoh
I went to school with a kid whose younger sister was called MAGGIE CHEUNG
unfortunately not the same one who starred in THE HEROIC TRIO with Michelle Yeoh and the HK /Cantonese madonna wannabe Anita Mui
GhostofKinski
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Yes great film. When I was playing judo regularly I saw Michelle at a MA public demo at city college. She literally had an aura of beauty.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Oddly I might argue that The 39 Steps might be more important than The Birds, seeing as its arguably his first great film.
dilbert1
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Your list disappeared!
hmg
Victory lap
Rope is a good 'un.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
What you can’t see it anymore? The image still shows for me, and the link still works
dilbert1
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Alright so I’ll have to see 39 Steps and Rope then.
Foreign Correspondent was great. Fast-paced and absorbing. If you’re a romantic antiquarian like myself, these expertly shot and edited films old as they are can really transport you to their moment, the crispness of the picture making it feel unnaturally close, real time-travel escapism. Not to mention the urgent substance of the film’s plot, taking place in the immediate lead-up to WWII, and its release a week before Germany began bombing London.
The main character symbolizes how a free American press might leverage the sympathy its courageous journalistic exploits could generate for an ever-greater threatened Britain to inspire mass support of the US population for its government’s intervention. The ending title card, following an impassioned Edward Murrow/Walter Cronkite style radio appeal from an embattled London studio to an American listenership for their thoughts and prayers, had me burst out laughing, with a shining art-deco eagle and the final bar of the national anthem booming over top.
Reading up on the film, its said that at the time of its release even Joseph Goebbels tipped his hat to it, as “a masterpiece of propaganda, a first-class production which no doubt will make a certain impression upon the broad masses of the people in enemy countries.” High praise, indeed!
Foreign Correspondent was great. Fast-paced and absorbing. If you’re a romantic antiquarian like myself, these expertly shot and edited films old as they are can really transport you to their moment, the crispness of the picture making it feel unnaturally close, real time-travel escapism. Not to mention the urgent substance of the film’s plot, taking place in the immediate lead-up to WWII, and its release a week before Germany began bombing London.
The main character symbolizes how a free American press might leverage the sympathy its courageous journalistic exploits could generate for an ever-greater threatened Britain to inspire mass support of the US population for its government’s intervention. The ending title card, following an impassioned Edward Murrow/Walter Cronkite style radio appeal from an embattled London studio to an American listenership for their thoughts and prayers, had me burst out laughing, with a shining art-deco eagle and the final bar of the national anthem booming over top.
Reading up on the film, its said that at the time of its release even Joseph Goebbels tipped his hat to it, as “a masterpiece of propaganda, a first-class production which no doubt will make a certain impression upon the broad masses of the people in enemy countries.” High praise, indeed!
dilbert1
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Yeah the link is dead for me but if the image lists best to worst that works for too. That poster for Downhill is awesome
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Linklater has a new one coming out about the making of Breathless and the new wave
Clinamenic
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Clinamenic
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