I prefer TOUCH OF EVIL, lack of any definitive version and all.
I'm with you there, but I think we're pretty far outside of the typical AFI voter's response.
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Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 9:57:49 am PDT #9476 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
JZ - Jun 21, 2007 9:57:51 am PDT #9477 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Citizen Kane is one of those movies I always approach reluctantly, as if it were a spinach movie, and halfway through I'm dazzled and breathless and in love.
I still kinda like Touch of Evil just a bit more, but that's because somewhere deep inside me is a dirty dirty girl. But Citizen Kane is definitely the one I'd bring home to mama and marry.
eta: AH HA HA!!! Touch of Evil triple-cross-post!
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 9:58:23 am PDT #9478 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My heretical statement is that, much as I love KANE, and as groundbreaking as it was, I prefer TOUCH OF EVIL, lack of any definitive version and all.
I'm with you, man.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 10:00:26 am PDT #9479 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
One of the best courses I took in college was Film History - we went from the Lumiere Bros. all the way up to the present (then) day. Lots of movies, and the context that surrounded them.
I took History of Film in college, too! The film class I took in high school was also basically a film history course, since we went chronologically, for the most part.
Shakespeare In Film rocked, as well.
Yes, it did. Ian McKellan's Richard III FTW!
AH HA HA!!! Touch of Evil triple-cross-post!
I didn't care much for Touch of Evil ! But then, there was this whole pages-long discussion about that after I saw it.
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 10:00:43 am PDT #9480 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Touch of Evil triple-cross-post!
It's some kind of a movie. What does it matter what you say about cinema?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 21, 2007 10:01:52 am PDT #9481 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I can't even bear to try and make a top ## list. I always get near the end and suddenly start thinking of more movies than the number I'm trying to keep the list under.
Also, different movies mean more to me on different days (seeing the recent Criterion THE THIRD MAN with the commentary made me realize I'd let the movie slip down my list mentally when it's somewhere in the top 20, if not 10).
Frankenbuddha - Jun 21, 2007 10:03:02 am PDT #9482 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's some kind of a movie. What does it matter what you say about cinema?
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 10:06:18 am PDT #9483 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's some kind of a movie. What does it matter what you say about cinema?
::takes bite of candy bar::
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 10:06:24 am PDT #9484 of 10001
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Need to throw Touch of Evil and Wild Bunch on my netflix queue.
I believe I really liked it but spent the entire movie waiting for someone to say "Play it again, Sam."
Like a number of "famous" movie quotes, it's never actually spoken in the film, but is a telephone-like bastardization of the line "Play it, Sam. You played it for her, you can play it for me."
Also? Seekrit message to Kath: I CAN HAS LINGENBEREEZ?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 21, 2007 10:08:19 am PDT #9485 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
::takes bite of candy bar::
You're a mess honey. You better lay off those candy bars.