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I found it very odd that Aurora didn't want to lend money to her daughter. She seemed to have plenty enough and you'd actually think that controlling mother like that would probably jump at the change to lend money to her daughter because it would giver her leverage in their relationship.
I think it was partly there because it's simply funny but also to show what it might sometimes be like to be middle-aged single woman, thus explaining the desperate behavior of Anjelica Huston's character.
I agree and I have though about that many times before. Most of the so called neo-realist films are pretty much just melodramas that just happen to be about poor people with some location shooting mixed in.
I just couldn't narrow it down to just 3 so I'm gonna just give my top 5 instead. In no particular order:
Rio Bravo
Red River
The Twentieth Century
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Only Angels Have Wings
I agree. I just rewatched it and it's now probably my favourite Woody Allen film.
I mean, there are both still around. Especially in a big cities like New York where Hannah and Her Sisters take place.
I kinda loved the film, especially the visual style, but that's exactly what I was thinking while I watched it.
In case you didn't know, GWTW has intermission. So when I saw it earlier this year in theatre I went to bathroom once, during that intermission.
I saw it in theatre in 2019. Revival houses and film archives are a thing, you know. And of course GWTW has had numerous wider re-releases during it's years as well.
Exactly. Remember that Vertigo was also flop when it first premiered. Great art like this is made for eternity, not for fleeting contemporary reaction
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate is haunting, beautiful, melancholic epic masterpiece. One of the greatests films ever made.
Just like Olivier Assays said, it’s not just that it has aged well; for some reason the passing of time (remember the genuinely moving tagline of the film: "What one loves in life are things that fade") reveals this film as the extraordinary, transcendent triumph that critics couldn't see then. And the way it finally reaches us through the echo of time only makes it more moving, heartbreaking, even.
She opened the door without looking because she thought it was her daughter coming early from the school. She literally says it out loud when she hears the doorbell.
She was perfect "Hawksian woman". Reminded me of young Lauren Bacall. She should have become a big star, strange that she never appeared in much else besides this. If I were filmmaker in 70s this performance would have definitely made me want to consider casting her in my films!
That's pretty much the most logical answer that I could come to when I tried to figure this out, but I still have some problems with this theory.
So let's say it was Noah Cross who hired Ida Sessions and he had two reasons to do so:
1. To find Katherine
2. To discredit Hollis politically
So both of these reasons raise up some questions:
1. If she wanted to find Katherine, why didn't he just order his own thugs (like for example the guy that Polanski himself played in the film and his friend) to shadow Mulwray? Why go all the trouble with fake identities and Gittes?
2. Would simple affair be enough to discredit Mulwray so much that he wouldn't be able to oppose that land scheme and dam? Especially given that his wife could testify that he was set-up? And it's not like his politician trying to win votes or anything, he is chief engineer of one public department?
But I guess your theory is probably what Polanski and Towne had in mind and as sound as one can expect from Hollywood film. It's just so brilliant script that it really begs to be studied and questioned obsessively.
Yes, I meant clerk. I edited my comment, no idea why I made same typo twice in my original post.
That's actually very good point.
The one with Marcello's father is my favourite episode of this great film. It's both funny and touching. And that dancer girl Fanny (Magali Noël) is so cute.
"The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me."
"Nothing is written."
[quote]PS. Love your username if it is a spin on the name of one of the stars of this film. :)[/quote]
Yes, my username is definitely inspired by him :)
She was amazing. Sequence with her was maybe the best part of the whole film. Pure cinema!
It's maybe the best part of the film. Pure cinema.