'Ariel'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Also the first half of Dark Passage, before the main character has plastic surgery and ends up looking like Humphrey Bogart. Which is a good thing, because the main character was played by Bogart.
That one actually worked better than LitL, probably because they only kept the style up for a portion of the movie. A movie I just picked up, coincidentally, in a BOGIE & BACALL boxed set (it also has TO HAVE & HAVE NOT, THE BIG SLEEP [both versions] and KEY LARGO).
That one actually worked better than LitL
It's also hard to go wrong when you have Bogie, Bacall, and Agnes Moorhead.
well, this kinda fits in with the current discussion; there's a new film version of "the Scottish play" aka Macbeth about to come out. It's by Geoffrey Wright, the bloke who made Romper Stomper with Russell Crowe, and sets the story in modern Melbourne, where it incorporates the "underworld war" that's plagued the city for the last few years. No idea how good it will be but reports indicate it has a "noirish" feel to it, so might be worth a look.
It's also hard to go wrong when you have Bogie, Bacall, and Agnes Moorhead.
This is true.
If there's ever been a movie that wasn't good just from having Bogie & Bacall in it, I'm blissfully unaware.
And I have a strange fangirl love for Agnes Moorehead.
And I have a strange fangirl love for Agnes Moorehead.
Pssst! AmyLiz is hot for Endora!
That happens in Sondheim's "Into the Woods."
Dang, Dana beat me to it.
Yup. It happens. Narrator gets killed. It's awesome.
Oh, Lady in the Lake. One of the few Chandlers I haven't read (I haven't read Westlake either).
If there's ever been a movie that wasn't good just from having Bogie & Bacall in it, I'm blissfully unaware.
Matt, have you seen Key Largo? It's actually kind of crappy. For one thing, the script is terrible; and for another, it's as contrived as contrived can be. It's notable that the woman you've never heard of, who plays the blond floozy, is the only person in that cast who got an Oscar for her role.
It's Michael Caine narrating The Quiet American, right? Not Brenden Fraser.
Right. I think the first line of the book explicitly states something like, "So-and-so came to see me the day after I killed the quiet American." And since the stupid book is under copyright, I canna google it! Grrr.
In the stage musical Urinetown, it turns out the narrator is a bad guy. When he is forced into hiding late in the show, he's asked if he fears for his life. He points out that since he's the narrator, the other characters have to keep him alive if they ever want to see the end of the show.