How you can make a film better than this one.
It is absolutely riveting from beginning to end. This is as close to perfect a film as you can get. Just my opinion.
I highly highly recommend a book called Pictures At A Revolution by Mark Harris.
If you enjoy film and especially if, like me, the 50's and 60's are your favorite era it is an absolute must read.
Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I found a copy at abebooks and started reading it today. I'm barely into it and am already learning a lot about the movie business. It's very well-written.
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How you can make a film better than this one.
It is absolutely riveting from beginning to end. This is as close to perfect a film as you can get. Just my opinion.
I agree!
I just watched this again...
and this movie has aged really well.
I could not take my eyes off of Poiter and Steiger...
They were awesome!
the supporting cast was great also...
I cried when Grant cried....well done..
Double Ditto!
I watch it every few years and enjoy it anew.
Poitier is just so cool. So good.
Steiger is just superb with his multi-dimensional character realizing change.
Lee Grant does her usual great job in earning sympathy for her character. She was just so likeable. BTW, I watched her first picture the other night "Detective Story". She lit up the place.
Warren Oates did what he does best, affable, humorous, straightforward.
The context of this film should date it but that does not happen. It is as fresh as the day it came out. Perhaps because it is not as preachy as say "Mississippi Burning"?
Absolutely agree! They don't make'em like this anymore. Steiger is AMAZING! As a crime story, it's very simple, but as a people story - WOW! You can't find dialogues this simple, yet so heavy anymore.
Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.
JAWS is better
shareIt's on Netflix. Just watched it for the first time in years. One of the greats.
Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.
Check out the cinematography too. What a superbly shot film. I guess they were shot extremely and cleverly and meticulously well, even back then. Almost every shot is a great moment of photography. Check out the scene when they are standing outside of the diner talking while the diner clerk is looking at them through the window. The director specifically had the three actors standing a way that they would all fit into a window square from the perspective of the diner window inside. That wasn't just by accident.
I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way
This aficionado would agree that ITHOTN is a fantastic film although "Chinatown" is this viewer's concept of a perfect movie.
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