Brian Charles Dauth (in Message 33714, et al., a couple of weeks ago) raises the intriguing possibility that John Robie (Cary Grant) in TO CATCH A THIEF is a...
[KM here again, just before continuing to quote Theodore Price. I meant to add last time: I'm uncertain about Price's reference to Jessie Royce Landis 'whom...
... There's some appeal in this idea. When a storyteller puts a huge amount of energy into making us contemplate a fully realized scenario (i.e. Grant as...
Despite "arduous" work put in on the script, this film still had the makings of a potboiler before Ford worked his magic. I think one sign that he knew this is...
I hope I'm getting this right finally: Brian informs me that after Monday there won't be any prints playing in NY, and I assume that goes for LA too....
Then there's Wayne's huge-brimmed hat in the "parlay" sequence. It's wonderfully romantic, but the first time you see it, it kind of dares you to laugh -...
It was a piece that was in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago.Lane, who is now 101, is in great spirits and says he's available for work -- though now ...
... The ending is amazing. It doesn't deny the tragedy, but it moves on faster than we are willing to, into a very strange-looking world with a sense of magic...
... This is an interesting idea. I wish I knew of some contemporary writings that talked about the "death before (sexual) dishonor" idea from the inside: it's...
This reminds me of a great script moment from the film. As I remember it, Ethan tells Martin that the scalp was his mother and Martin begins to react as...
... A very important point. "The Searchers" was the one film budding cineaste Marty loved that all his buds in the neighborhood knew and admired as well....
Some thoughts: If Grant's character in "To Catch a Thief" is gay, he spends a vast amount of time dating Grace Kelly - and seeming to enjoy it very much. I...
... spends a vast amount of time dating Grace Kelly - and seeming to enjoy it very much. But Robie's pursuit is connected to clearing his name. Once that has...
... A question for more senior members of a_f_b: was the ... David may be the best authority on this subject but in Ken Hughes's THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE...
... I suspect that if Debbie were a 'raving maniac,' she would ... Apologies if somebody has mentioned this in one of the previous copious threads on the...
... reactions toward Ethan. But that assumes that the audience is passive and does not take an active part in shaping the aesthetic experience. Can a viewer...
... Not an authroity, just a cat owner. http://ehrensteinland.com/htmls/bride/ijkl/b_kuro.shtml ... Funny, but I was thinking about thatmovie just the other...
... I remember that Newley took STOP THE WORLD I WAN'T TO GET OFF on a road show some years before he died. It was in Memphis sometime during the late 80s. He...
... I saw him do it on Broadway with Anna Quayle. Shame;lessly entertaining. ... Don't forget, "Fings" was directed by the greatJona Littlewood, whose solo...
... Hughes's ... next- ... appearance. ... CARTER ... Thanks for mentioning "The Small World of Sammy Lee", a movie I fondly remember from way back in the...
Not quite accurate about the Scorsese film: they go to see Rio Bravo, a scene which is followed followed by his explaining to her, while passing a church, the...
Oops. "both films" referring to The Searchers and Who's That Knocking at My Door, not Flaming Creatures. And my talking during a course on films of the...
... J.P. "Sammy Lee" appeared in 1963. Apart from one showing on Bravo cable TV in England, it has virtually vanished but is certainly worth seeing. Also, in...
... I ... unlike ... Bravo ... worth ... Thanks for correcting me. At this point in time to me the late fifties and early sixties become a blur -- but I now...
After all the hubbub regarding THE NEW WORLD and the Silent Film Aesthetic, I was surprised to find that one of the most striking visual moments in the film...
... I have no idea if Malick was indeed referencing those two films (he isn't much of a film buff, actually), but a closer echo to me seems to be DAYS OF...
... You don't have to be much of a film buff to have seen a Bresson or a Lubitsch film, I hope! But if Terrence Malick had never seen a film that wasn't...
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