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Suspicion - Alfred Hitchcock (1941)

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Despite the deeply daft studio dictated ending, the film is a very enjoyable yarn with a jaundiced look at the British upper crust still more than valid today, as events are showing.

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59 minutes ago, Matthew said:

What's the 411? as the kids say...

My visceral, intellectually-undeveloped opinion is that I loved it.  Went with several friends last night and we're all planning to go see it again as soon as possible.  

12 minutes ago, Brad said:

Received a very good review in the Times. 

It's trending around 90% right now on Rotten Tomatoes' critical-consensus meter (audience reviews around the same mark).

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6 hours ago, Brad said:

I saw it on a large screen when it was first released. In the unlikely event that it's shown here in IMAX, I'll go and see it.

The blurb doesn't actually tell us what The Final Cut is. I wonder if it's the original cut , the extended version, or some hybrid, newly edited version.

 

 

Laura - Otto Preminger (1944)

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8 hours ago, kinuta said:

I saw it on a large screen when it was first released. In the unlikely event that it's shown here in IMAX, I'll go and see it.

The blurb doesn't actually tell us what The Final Cut is. I wonder if it's the original cut , the extended version, or some hybrid, newly edited version.

I think  (don't really know) "final cut" might mean yet another version which Coppola thinks is definitive. I saw it in Cannes when it was first shown there and I don't think that version was ever screened again.  IIRC it had a slightly different ending than later versions.    The sound at the screening was amazing. 

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1 hour ago, medjuck said:

I think  (don't really know) "final cut" might mean yet another version which Coppola thinks is definitive. I saw it in Cannes when it was first shown there and I don't think that version was ever screened again.  IIRC it had a slightly different ending than later versions.    The sound at the screening was amazing. 

How did the ending differ?

By the way the movie (although not by name) is discussed in the book The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, who writes about the War from a Vietnamese perspective. He’s not complimentary about the movie or Coppola. Great book. 

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3 hours ago, Brad said:

How did the ending differ?

By the way the movie (although not by name) is discussed in the book The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, who writes about the War from a Vietnamese perspective. He’s not complimentary about the movie or Coppola. Great book. 

IIRC (and I often don't) Martin Sheen comes out of the cave after killing Kurtz and the tribesmen are now all bowing down to him. 

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6 hours ago, Brad said:

How did the ending differ?

By the way the movie (although not by name) is discussed in the book The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, who writes about the War from a Vietnamese perspective. He’s not complimentary about the movie or Coppola. Great book. 

I've had a kindle of that book for several months but haven't got round to it yet.

Will read soon. Thanks.

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On 7/26/2019 at 11:21 AM, ghost of miles said:

My visceral, intellectually-undeveloped opinion is that I loved it.  Went with several friends last night and we're all planning to go see it again as soon as possible.  

It's trending around 90% right now on Rotten Tomatoes' critical-consensus meter (audience reviews around the same mark).

I saw it light last night and also loved it.  It's different than other Tarantino movies for the most part. I'd label it his ode or paean to Hollywood in the 60s, to the way things used to be. He recreates the 60s in a way that takes you back, if you were alive at that time. He also tries to rewrite history a little bit or creates a history that he wishes had happened. More I should probably not say. 

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Since part of Once in a Time deals with the Manson family, the following articles in today's Arts and Leisure section may be of interest. 

Why Pop Culture Still Can’t Get Enough of Charles Manson.  Written by Ed Sanders of the Fugs, who lived with the Mansons for awhile during the trial, when he was reporting for the LA Free Press. 

The Manson Murders: What to Read, Watch and Listen To

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