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Old 03-16-2017, 10:52 AM   #19031 (permalink)
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Alphaville is my favourite Jean Luc Godard film behind Weekend. You should probably watch Night of the Hunter first though, that one's incredible.
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Old 03-16-2017, 12:30 PM   #19032 (permalink)
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Yeah, it's one of my favorites as well. Apparently, before the movie was released Orson Welles sent a letter to the studio about his displeasure of their cut and outlined a bunch of details for how to fix it to get it to his vision. I got a blu ray where they did their best to recut it and include some additional scenes to get it as close to his vision as possible. Gotta say, it's worth a watch if you like the original theatrical version.

Do you have any recommendations? I'm moving on to the Third Man next, but I need more!
I don't think I've seen the version with the additional scenes. I'll have to find a copy and check it out.

Here's a list of ones I've seen before that I think are worthy of watching. A few of these were new to me until recently, and others are old favorites that I've been re-watching or plan to re-watch over the next few weeks. I'm guessing you've probably seen some of them already.

Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Chase (1946)
Convicted (1950)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Detour (1945)
D.O.A. (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Force of Evil (1948)
Framed (1947)
Gilda (1946)
Gun Crazy (1950)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Key Largo (1948)
The Killers (1946)
The Killing (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss of Death (1947)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Laura (1944)
They Live By Night (1948)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Prowler (1951)
Quicksand (1950)
Raw Deal (1948)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
White Heat (1949)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
The Wrong Man (1956)

I'm probably forgetting some at the moment. There are so many good and great classic noir films out there.
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Old 03-16-2017, 01:45 PM   #19033 (permalink)
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Alphaville is my favourite Jean Luc Godard film behind Weekend. You should probably watch Night of the Hunter first though, that one's incredible.
Got it...those have been added to the list as well.

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I don't think I've seen the version with the additional scenes. I'll have to find a copy and check it out.

Here's a list of ones I've seen before that I think are worthy of watching. A few of these were new to me until recently, and others are old favorites that I've been re-watching or plan to re-watch over the next few weeks. I'm guessing you've probably seen some of them already.

Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Chase (1946)
Convicted (1950)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Detour (1945)
D.O.A. (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Force of Evil (1948)
Framed (1947)
Gilda (1946)
Gun Crazy (1950)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Key Largo (1948)
The Killers (1946)
The Killing (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss of Death (1947)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Laura (1944)
They Live By Night (1948)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Prowler (1951)
Quicksand (1950)
Raw Deal (1948)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
White Heat (1949)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
The Wrong Man (1956)

I'm probably forgetting some at the moment. There are so many good and great classic noir films out there.
Wow, thanks! There are plenty there I haven't seen. There are some real classics on that list. I was going through a Kubrick phase, and The Killing is actually what prompted my current noir binge.
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Old 03-16-2017, 03:53 PM   #19034 (permalink)
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Wow, thanks! There are plenty there I haven't seen. There are some real classics on that list. I was going through a Kubrick phase, and The Killing is actually what prompted my current noir binge.
I watched The Killing for the first time a few months ago. Didn't even realize that Kubrick had written and directed it until after it ended.

And I was just taking a look through my DVD collection and came across 4 more that deserve to be on my previous list...

Kansas City Confidential (1952)
My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
The Stranger (1946)
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Old 03-17-2017, 10:52 AM   #19035 (permalink)
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Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane (it's on Netflix)

10/10

I don't care how old you are or if you are a fan of The Stones. SEE THIS.



P.S. I nominate them as the true original punk band. Some of the footage of their crowds in the mid 60s looks like it was taken during a Sex Pistols show in the late 70s.
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Old 03-17-2017, 11:12 AM   #19036 (permalink)
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Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane (it's on Netflix)

10/10
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss. Never enough Stones documentaries, didn't even hear about this one coming out.

EDIT: On the topic of good rockumentaries.

This Dr. Feelgood documentary kills.

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Old 03-17-2017, 11:23 AM   #19037 (permalink)
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P.S. I nominate them as the true original punk band. Some of the footage of their crowds in the mid 60s looks like it was taken during a Sex Pistols show in the late 70s.
They definitely had a punk dynamic, but there were predecessors like MC5 and even Link Wray. You could make the case that they were the first punk band to meet success though.
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Why is it that bending over and making coughing noises is movie/TV shorthand for throwing up? In all my years of vomiting I have never once coughed while doing so. I guess I can maybe understand network TV doing it since maybe actual vomiting is verboten by the censors, but why do movies do it? It just sounds so dumb.
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I puked a few times when it was set off by coughing.
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OMFG hell the **** yes! I never felt like I was watching some cheesy superhero movie, just a movie about people with spandex in their past. The characters were fantastic, the story was simple but highly effective, Patrick Stewart put in his best portrayal of Professor X to date hands down, and the action scenes were ****ing brutal.

Spoiler for dat ending:
And that ending was insane. When Logan took the medicine and just started manimalizing people, I felt like Hugh Jackman had ceased to exist and the ****ing Wolverine was now in front of me. And when Laura started turning the cross on his grave into an "X", at first I groaned. Like, are you serious? But after a few seconds I started getting the feels cause apparently the X-Men ****ing mean something to me or some ****.


Bummed that this will be both Jackman and Stewart's last times as Wolverine and Charles Xavier, but I doubt they're ever going to get a better or more fitting send off, so I'll just be happy that they gave me the best X-Men movie yet as a final gift.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read Old Man Logan cause what the **** else could I do?
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