Similar movies
Anybody have any reccomendations for similar movies? I'm thinking of some dialouge-heavy, psychological dramas, with cat and mouse themes. Maybe like A Streetcar Named Desire, that kind of thing?
shareAll About Eve (1950) comes closest to me, it has one of the best dialogs too.
Antiparanoia is the eerie feeling that nothing is connected to anything else
I'd suggest the 2007 movie "Interview" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480269/), it's a remake of a Dutch film from 2003 but it stands on it's own two feet as a very good film. It's definitely a cat and mouse game and it's very dialog-driven as most of the film takes place in an apartment and there are only two characters who just go back-and-forth with each other.
http://addictedtocelluloid.blogspot.com/
Interview does fit the bill, but the ending is a huge letdown compared to this movie.
Director Neil LaBute has made a few films that come closer:
In the Company of Men
Your Friends and Neighbors
The Shape of Things
Other similar films:
When Will I Be Loved
Glengarry Glen Ross
Closer (another Mike Nichols film, like WAoVW)
Tape
Doubt
what the heck has happened to labute? he started out strong, adapting his own stage plays to film, but now he just does horrible studio pictures and/or remakes.
he's definitely my favorite living playwright... the steam-bath confession in "your friends and neighbors" is one of the most chilling monologues i've ever seen in a movie (though he really outdoes himself with at least two of the ones from his play "bash.")