So I took a flyer and Tivoed
Shanghai Express
because it's Sternberg & Dietrich. How can that be bad?
Answer: You may trust that combination.
Of course, it's all 1932 with the exotic orientals and whatnot, but it's lush and it's the young Dietrich (not just beautiful, but vulnerable) and most imporantly
it's on a train.
Look, train films are cool. I even look forward to all the scenes in the HP movies on the Hogwarts Express. (Famously, JKR conceived of the entire series while taking a train from Edinborough to London that broke down for five hours.)
Cool Train Films:
Palm Beach Story
From Russia With Love
Twentieth Century
Night Train to Munich
Orient Express
Von Ryan's Express
Emperor of the North (Lee Marvin v. Ernest Borgnine)
In short if it's on a train or has "Shanghai" in the title (like, the must see "Shanghai Gesture") it's worth taking a flyer on.
Cool Train Films:
You forgot "The Lady Vanishes" (original version, natch).
In short if it's on a train or has "Shanghai" in the title (like, the must see "Shanghai Gesture") it's worth taking a flyer on.
I enquired of my Shanghainese wife whether she would agree with you. She approves of your message.
Teppy, that's so funny! Because one time over Christmas, Mom and I happened to hear that same song that Matt did in the gay chorus, and so I told my mother that and about his "high school boyfriend" Ben.
She thought it was really funny just from my description.
I love
Silver Streak!
Of course, not more than
The Lady Vanishes
or
The Palm Beach Story.
I remember being disappointed by
Twentieth Century.
The Lady Eve
isn't really a train movie, but does have one key (and brutally hilarious) scene on a train.
I saw Black Swan the other day and I really liked it. I went in knowing absolutely nothing about it. Polter-Cow, I agree with basically everything you said about it a bunch of posts ago. I thought it was very well put together, and there always a chance that I'm just slow, but it kept me guessing the whole time. Not 100% believable, of course, but that never really bothers me in a movie anyway.
I desperately want to see True Grit, The King's Speech, and Rabbit Hole - I don't think the last one is out everywhere yet. If it is anything like the play it is based on it will be amazing.
