I'm going to have to rewatch Vertigo, aren't I? It is probably my least favourite Hitchcock from that period, but I think I was about 18 when I saw it, and I can imagine it is one of those movies which improves as you age.

I was a huge Hitchcock fan when very young and really didn't like Vertigo. It still wouldn't be my favorite, but best and favorite are very different for me. It has definitely risen in my esteem. Of course, since moving to San Francisco it has risen to a whole new level.

I've always loved Kane. Whether that's the cause or effect of my obsession with Hearst Castle, I couldn't say.

I guess I really was destined to live in California.

Yeah, I didn't fully appreciate Vertigo when I first saw it as a teenager. Now as an adult, I am blown away. From the direction, to the cinematography, it is really a great film.

I thought more highly of Citizen Kane after listening to Ebert's commentary. Holy fuck that's some great commentary. When I saw it without the commentary, I thought it was a good movie, but seemed overpraised. I still think it is one of those "everyone thinks its great so it must be", but I can definitely see why people like it.

What I remember most about Citizen Kane was the big deal my film teacher made about the scenes where you can see the ceilings of the rooms. Putting ceilings on sets was a big deal back then.

Interesting blog post on the list.

It's a long-established fact that Frankenbuddha and I share a brain WRT Kane and Touch of Evil, so I'll mostly point up to what he said and say, "What he said."

But also, what Jessica said. I still, every time, approach Kane like it's a spinach movie, because it's just so crusted over with cultural expectations of Serious and Important and Vital For Your Cinematic Education... and then it swoops in and leaves me breathless. It's like some boy everyone you know has been nagging you to meet because he's handsome and employed and dresses well and is nice to his mother, and by the time you actually meet him you've mostly written him off because no actual person can be that unfailingly great; he's got to be either terminally boring or a serial killer. But then when you do meet him, he's neither; he's just actually seriously that much of a catch, and more. If anything, all the people who practically turned you off from him forever underplayed the totality of his multilayered awesomeness.

Except, sadly, that boy never really exists as a boy. Fortunately, he does as a movie, and that movie is Citizen Kane. It's a catch, a keeper, the one you bring home to meet the parents and then grow old with.

But Touch of Evil is still the movie that throws pennies at your window at two in the morning, and you sneak down the trellis and duck down an alleyway so it can do dirty, dirty things to you, and you're almost ashamed of how good it feels.

I less-than-three JZ's spicy brains.

I'll be in my bunk with Touch of Evil.

Oh my god. I love JZ so much.

Please become a professional blogger...mommy or otherwise...so I can direct everyone I know to your brilliance. (Making the world a better place, that's me!)

135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema.

If you've lost faith, that is. Mostly, it's very, very pretty. One might even say sumptuous. Plus, the music is from Clint Mansell's awesome score for Moon.

Owen has been obsessed with Classic movies with a "C" for months now. He goes through TMC's schedule and records everything he can. he's rented Rear Window, borrowed a copy of Dr. Strangelove, watched half of Citizen Kane and now is talking about watching Topaz.

To tell the truth, if I wasn't as happy as a pig in slop, I'd be a little bit afraid.

He can tell you what year Steve McQueen starred in Bullet and The Blob. He can tell you who directed what and what year and what studio made the film. Is it wrong of me to say I love his little Aspie brain?