Seventh Victim is my favorite.
More Things That Happened - David Lynch - 76mQuoting Grouchy (view post)
This isn't much more than weird/creepy dialogues and improvised monologues. It held my interest for about the first 50 minutes but then Laura Dern goes into this improvised monologue with the silent listener from Inland Empire that goes on and on and on with nothing really interesting to say - followed by a very long scene of four lowly hookers doing nothing much on the street.
Lots of people were laughing at my screening, but some of it may have been uncomfortable nervous laughter. There's a karate chopping metrosexual German guy in the movie who is hilarious though.Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
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Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
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Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Also, you're clearly a fan of outre cult movies, so Possession would be right up your alley Ivan.
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Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I prefer Neil LaBute's version with Gwenyth Paltrow.
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You know, while I still haven't seen the latter two, The Body Snatcher really surprised me given its subordinate reputation within the Lewton body of work. It definitely deserves more attention, ditto The Ghost Ship.Quoting Yxklyx (view post)
Cat People was my first exposure to Lewton many years ago, been meaning to revisit it. While I recall liking it a great deal, it doesn't rank as a personal favorite. I probably prefer The Leopard Man over it as well, but that's one I believe is more likely to really resonate with passionate horror fans.Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
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Hm. You may be onto something. Apparently Gary Cooper was an avowed anti-communist, so Zinnemann may have slipped this one past him.Quoting Mr. McGibblets (view post)
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“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Watched The Muppets last weekend. I'm probably going to pick up the Blu-Ray. Best Muppets movie since the original. Loved it. 8/10
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I believe you're looking for the Masochism Thread, Morris.
Nah from my understanding Cooper did the movie even though he knew what the subject matter was really about. Which is cool of him. A halfway decent actor shouldn't let politics impact what roles they choose imo.Quoting Brightside (view post)
The Body Snatcher is really good, and features an excellent Karloff performance. I liked Isle of the Dead, but I want to revisit that one along with The Seventh Victim (not really a fan) and The Leopard Man for the third time (just because its good, plus I now view it as possibly the earliest slasher film).
Possession was a film I found both great and somewhat disturbing. Plus, it has Sam Neil so that's an added bonus.
Oh and I really liked Eight Legged Freaks. Its a nice love letter to the old school 50s monster movies, and works best when viewed as such. The comedy may be a bit hit and miss, but the when the jokes landed I laughed quite a bit.
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A friend alerted me to this IMDb user list. Well worth puzzling over.
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There's more crazyness coming up with the double bill of Piranha 2: The Spawning and Skyline.Quoting Derek (view post)
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I say stick to your initial guns. The film is hardly convincing as any kind of anti-McCarthy sentiment. I doubt so many anti-Communist people would have confused and applauded the film (I find it funny the USSR despised the film as well). I have never seen why this is a film held in such high regard. So much of the film rests on Cooper's shoulders, and he is monotonous and boring, just content to merely walk around with a pained expression on his face.Quoting Brightside (view post)
I will stick up for the film against Howard Hawks' bizarre complaint (and the reason he made Rio Bravo) that Cooper failed to be a traditional western hero, which is precisely the point. Hawks could run circles around Zinnemann so his film winds up being the better one, but it seems so strange for the man who made one of Hollywood's (and cinema's) greatest statements against hard-edged masculinity in Only Angels Have Wings would suddenly view a western with a nervous sheriff seeking help as bad cinema.
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I'm a big Cooper fan, and I really dug him in this. Even outside of its politics, it's a tight, tense experience. I can see both readings, really. Perhaps it's better that way.Quoting Raiders (view post)
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Either way, does it really matter what the exact political subtext is? It's a film about everyone you know bailing on you in a time of need which is very true to life in my opinion.
Rio Bravo is an obnoxious film.
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There's probably a good movie to be made with that script, but High Noon wasn't it, mostly for he reasons Raiders notes.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
Not sure what you could find obnoxious about Rio Bravo. Maybe the slightly forced romance or Ricky Martin's presence but .. Other than that?
Everybody was right: Seventh Victim was probably my favorite of the Tourneur/Lewton movies I've watched. Very quiet and melancholy. I like the strain of Romanticism running through these movies. And Tom Conway rocks the dark and smug style.
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Maybe I'm just exhausted from studying for finals, but this made me laugh really hard. I don't ever want an explanation. The mystery is pure gold.Quoting Boner M (view post)
The Seventh Victim is actually directed by Mark Robson, who also directed the underestimated Ghost Ship and the last two Lewton productions, Bedlam and Isle of the Dead, neither of which I've yet seen. The only Tourneur-directed Lewton you haven't seen is The Leopard Man, which is a wonderful film, but also the closest to resembling a modern horror film. It's actually fascinating as a sort of proto-giallo/slasher flick, albeit just about the classiest one ever made.Quoting Melville (view post)
Speaking of The Seventh Victim, I wonder if Lynch was inspired by the scene in which the detective disappears down the dark hallway for his similar scene featuring Bill Pullman in Lost Highway.
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/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
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/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Jacques Rivette reportedly screened The Seventh Victim to his cast and crew before making Duelle. I haven't seen that particular Rivette, but it's not surprising that he'd love TSV given its mood and thematic preoccupations (hermetic societies, cities as labyrinths).
Well, that explains the mysterious "(Mark Robson)" following the title in the file name. It might also explain the less dramatic lighting, though that might've just been me not paying attention. I'll check out The Leopard Man.Quoting Rowland (view post)
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The whole scene in If.... with Malcolm McDowell and Christine Noonan in the diner is really something amazing.
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Hmm, I didn't expect to like Carnage and Shame more than Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. This last month or so that I've spent catching up with the remaining 2011 releases I was really excited for has proved underwhelming, nothing has been anywhere near breaking the list I finalized for our award stuff. Oh well, there are still a few more I'm firmly intent on seeing, after which I think I'll move on for now.
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