movies

[The Third Man]

Criterion just announced their October titles: blu-ray of Seven Samurai, The Magician, Paths of Glory and Hausu (in addition to The Darjeeling Limited which I haven't seen). Wow I'm going to be broke. That's on top of the blu-ray release of the Alien Anthology.

Robert Shaw's monologue about the USS Indianapolis is the best part of the movie.

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That, and the dolly zoom on Scheider on the beach.

[JL21]

The artwork on Bergman's "The Magician" is incredible:
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[The Third Man]

Word. I want a poster of it.

[ghostrunner]

Criterion just announced their October titles: blu-ray of Seven Samurai, The Magician, Paths of Glory and Hausu (in addition to The Darjeeling Limited which I haven't seen). Wow I'm going to be broke. That's on top of the blu-ray release of the Alien Anthology.

Robert Shaw's monologue about the USS Indianapolis is the best part of the movie.

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That, and the dolly zoom on Scheider on the beach.

My favorite movie of all time. Other good stuff:

Also in that or one of the other scenes on the beach when the camera starts far away from Scheider and the camera zooms in further with each person that walks in front of the camera.

The scene where Chief Brody walks into the town meeting (the one where Quint shows up). I once had a teacher spend half a film class talking about it, how it's framed and photographed, and the way it helps show how the Chief is becoming isolated from the rest of the town.

Sometimes I wonder how differently (and probably much worse) Spielberg would have made that movie if he could have CGI'd the shark. It answers itself really, since part of the greatness of the movie is the fin and how little you actually see of it. Same with Alien, of course.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

There was a really neat 2 hour Jaws special on Biography a couple weeks back. Some interesting tidbits I didn't know.

Shaw was actually drunk during the Indianapolis scene. Got permission from Spielberg to have a couple drinks to "loosen up" and when he showed up to film he was plastered.

The budget and shooting time were tripled and the studio nearly canned it.

The script was never complete. They were writing a lot of scenes and dialogue the night before shoots.

Dreyfuss was interviewed before it's release and thought it was going to be terrible. Kept insisting that it wasn't Steven's fault and that he did a great job and the studio butchered it.

[Vidor]

Is this the general "Movie" thread? That is, may one discuss movies one hasn't recently viewed?

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Is this the general "Movie" thread? That is, may one discuss movies one hasn't recently viewed?

Pretty much anything movie related is good here.

[MrSaigon]

Dinner For Schmucks is a collection of all the men that give me a boner. The preview isn't mind-blowing, and I worry it's going to be pretty predictable, but I'm all over that film.

[Freed Roger]

Finally watched "Shutter Island"

More good work by Scorcese. Can't say I "enjoyed" due to the dark theme, but was definitely glued to it and glad I watched. I agree with earlier posts about acknowleding the great use of background music. The setting and the capture of it was good too.

I can see why it got thrashed by critics.

[SHOW]

I guess they didn't like the complete turning of the story outside-in. Probably could have given more clues questioning his mental state rather than a complete lifting of the cloud so late in the flick. I had no clue. Kind of reminded me of "Beautiful Mind" with how it switched it up.

[Maclowery]

So ya, the midnight showing of Inception was pretty good. I think I said "Holy [expletive]" out loud ~15 times. I'll be seeing it a second time later this week. About time this summer gave me something awesome!