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A "BONUS" COLOR TEST PATTERN ON. A. BLACK AND WHITE. MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, and- in retrospect- I'm sorry I let my rant about CRITERION get in the way of commenting on the film, which is really good and which I started rewatching this morning before I headed in to work and which I will watch again.kingrat wrote: ↑January 7th, 2024, 7:34 pm Clouzot's LE CORBEAU is indeed a good film, and to me it improved on a second viewing. The Nazis approved it because they thought it showed how awful the French people were. The French saw it as a film about France under the Occupation. Truffaut thought it captured the feeling of life under the Nazis very well, with everyone suspicious of each other and people denouncing each other to the authorities.
Did the same last night, Allhallows. Enjoyed it immensely. And as you noted here and as Alicia also mentioned in her wraparound comments last night, the Hollywood version made five years later (but which I've never watched) is generally considered to be far inferior to the Dutch original version. Alicia noting the tacked-on happier ending (explained in the final paragraph within that film's Wiki plot synopsis, btw) being a major reason for this. As it says in this same Wiki page for the American remake, with one film critic commenting: "The original was about the banality of evil, but the remake became about the evil of banality. It was a mess."Allhallowsday wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 1:50 pm SPOORLOOS (1988) I stayed up late to revisit this one. There's nothing like it. The Hollywood version is junk.
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Uhm, I think the film is about obsession...and Rex has a death-wish. Implausible, and indeed "banal".Dargo wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 5:55 pm ...SPOORLOOS (1988) I stayed up late to revisit this one. There's nothing like it. The Hollywood version is junk.
...My only complaint with the Dutch version being that considering Rex was a fairly smart guy, what kind of outcome did he expect to happen after Raymond told him in order "to experience what Saskia had" years earlier, he'd have to drink the drugged coffee???!!! Couldn't believe he couldn't have put two and two together and figured out Raymond's plan for him beforehand and regardless how inquisitive he was.
(...I know I wouldn't have drank it, anyway...but yes if he hadn't, that very memorable ending to this film wouldn't have happened, of course)
One thing I never understand -- why didn't Izzy use some of the $500 Bubbe gave her to purchase that evening dress? Instead, she tells a co-worker who asks what's in the bag "My lunch for the next three months".
Saving? She'll be buying her lunch. One thing I will point out: Izzy is a liar.Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 7:39 pm ...One thing I never understand -- why didn't Izzy use some of the $500 Bubbe gave her to purchase that evening dress? Instead, she tells a co-worker who asks what's in the bag "My lunch for the next three months".
What is Izzy saving the money for anyway? She's got a rent-controlled apartment "people would die for"
A favorite movie moment with lie:Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 9:38 pm Ha!
But she certainly didn't splurge with her birthday dinner. (although I can personally attest that Papaya King frankfurters were terrific. 50 cents back in the day (1980's) Two of those dogs slathered with mustard and topped with loads of sauerkraut, washed down with their signature papaya drink, was New Yawk food of the gods.
But then of course that job at New Day Bookshop certainly didn't pay much.