steadytiger.bsky.social
Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Wants to be a Brontë
송강호는 내 부조종사다
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It's good to have that kind of advice. Some of the deadliest ones look quie inoccuous
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It's got a noir title, and the fact that neither of them knows who the other really is is also very noir. But I didn't think it's essentially noir. I do get noir and melodrama confused though. The ending of The Maltese Falcon is noir af, but also pure melodrama to me
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I'm getting strong romance/melodrama vibes from it. It's got a shot of noir, but the essence of it seems closer to Romeo and Juliet
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It riffs on the 1931 Dietrich/Sternberg movie, Dishonoured, with a Mata hari-like female agent, agonisingly conficted and finally self-sacrificing. And like the Dietrich character, Yun In-ja encodes her despatches as musical notation.
Thanks @archivistariel.bsky.social for putting me onto this one!
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Cool! that's commitment. I need more of those guys in my life
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A tatt makes it legit! I've only seen the last three on your list. Might take that as a challenge
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Absolutely. I've seen a few by Im Kwon-taek but not much more. I don't think it was exactly a golden age, but I have definitely neglected it unduly
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Thanks Jacqui, me too. There's quite a few on your list I haven't seen
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I found I could only do this by sticking to one film per director. I also notice a MASSIVE bias towards the 21st century which I ought to reflect on. Thanks @jacquiwine.bsky.social was fun and interesting 😀
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I think this is the first I've seen by him, and it was sooo good. I'll be watching more soon, maybe The Marines who Never Returned or Assassin
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Agreed. The words of a national anthem should be about the country and the people, not some random bloke in a fancy chair wearing a gold hat
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I had to close the blinds and curtains and it was OK. Midnight screening would have been better though
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Most of the film looks like this and you have to watch it in utter darkness. No light may intrude on the experience. I loved it. Dir. Lee Man-hui has been called the 'poet of the night'. This style of cinema suits the story well, a gangstery but woman-centred tale of ravagement and regeneration
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Yeah, great use of widescreen, I just grabbed this shot almost at random. The mist was a real character in this film. (It looks like they changed the English title from The Foggy Town, for which I am very glad)
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Another gem from the Korean Film Archive YT channel. Tons of goodies on here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GppV...
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Thanks to @jacquiwine.bsky.social for recommending this one. I can see why it might have inspired Decision to Leave, as you said. Very multi-layered with a lot left open. I'm imagining all kinds of things from that ending
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Dunlop mini wah is great
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This is a good New York movie, from the jazz clubs of Times Square to the 'glass wall' of the brand new UN building. It sees the city as international, essentially welcoming, with the US at the centre of a tentative post-war hope
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You ever put tips on shoelaces? There's a big steel machine here, see? And over here a giant spool of shoelace. You pull it out like this, 27 inches at a time, all day. Then you stamp a pedal and a ton of steel bangs down, BANG like that, and then again, BANG all day...
Grahame grim & dazzling here
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When you say socialism, you mean like paying taxes to fund free education, stuff like that?
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Must have been awesome in a small venue. I'm gonna nail this tune in tribute to him
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Whoah, would love to have seen that
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*Dick* dammit
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Ah, Blonde Venus might be my favourite of all the Dietrich/Sternbergs
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I showed this to my history students, they were glued to it, and looked a bit teary in some parts. Truly a magnificent turn from Hawthorne
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Love that film. Towering performance from Burt Lancaster, he's never been better
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And this bloke doing impersonations of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre was a riot, I properly laughed out loud
- Did you get the information?
- I couldn't get the information
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Ah, he's the daddy
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Great nightclub scenes. This is one of the best, truest, and dirtiest song about sex I've ever heard. I'll just give you one of the tamer lines
Lancelot got hot pants a lot
Though he didn't care for romance a lot
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"the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen". Key characters get offed at dizzying speed, and casual violence erupts in almost every scene. I watched this bit three times and I still don't know who's doing what to who
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"a sexually rapacious Jacob Rees Mogg" That's a powerful image
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On the subject of Sunshine Mysteries, the Rivera-set episodes of The Persuaders! seems to fit. Rewatching the titles of Tony Rome where he's looking at bikini-clad women's bums certainly reminded me of Curtis and Moore