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Post by cineclassics on Mar 19, 2023 0:15:25 GMT
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 19, 2023 15:34:05 GMT
The frenetic pace of His Girl Friday is stirring, to say the least. I find that if I try to watch it too late at night, it wakes me right up, and then I can't go to sleep! But that sustained pace throughout is part of what makes this film so wonderful. Fabulous performances all around. I truly love Billy Gilbert's Mr. Pettibone in this film.
But then there's All About Eve. This film is like a train leaving the station. It builds steam, and builds steam, until there is no stopping it, and all we can do as riders is brace ourselves and buckle our seatbelts for the bumpy night. Brilliant performances all around here too, as well as beautiful writing, cinematography, costuming by Edith Head, and I don't know that Bette Davis' hair has ever looked more becoming.
It makes me feel a little bad to vote against Howard Hawks, but I'm going to do it. I have to choose All About Eve in this matchup.
(C'mon.....just look at the gown!)
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 19, 2023 15:48:18 GMT
The frenetic pace of His Girl Friday is stirring, to say the least. I find that if I try to watch it too late at night, it wakes me right up, and then I can't go to sleep! But that sustained pace throughout is part of what makes this film so wonderful. Fabulous performances all around. I truly love Billy Gilbert's Mr. Pettibone in this film.
But then there's All About Eve. This film is like a train leaving the station. It builds steam, and builds steam, until there is no stopping it, and all we can do as riders is brace ourselves and buckle our seatbelts for the bumpy night. Brilliant performances all around here too, as well as beautiful writing, cinematography, costuming by Edith Head, and I don't know that Bette Davis' hair has ever looked more becoming.
It makes me feel a little bad to vote against Howard Hawks, but I'm going to do it. I have to choose All About Eve in this matchup.(C'mon.....just look at the gown!) |
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Post by topbilled on Mar 19, 2023 15:56:01 GMT
What people often fail to point out is that Cary Grant is missing from about 20-25 minutes in the middle of HIS GIRL FRIDAY. When it's just Roz Russell, I think the film starts to fall apart because it's the relationship between the two main characters that provides the spark. Then Grant is written back into the action, and it gets on track again. But that middle section bores me and as a result, I don't think the film overall is as strong as something like ALL ABOUT EVE.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 19, 2023 16:30:14 GMT
That middle part doesn't bore me as I was fascinated at how Russell, early on insisting how she's "had it" with the newspaper game, shows how deeply embedded it is in her blood as she quickly, not slowly, gets swept up into the so-called "last" story she'll do before giving it up. By the time Grant returns it's clear Bellamy is going to get deep sixed. I abstained from this vote.
Sepiatone
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Post by topbilled on Mar 19, 2023 16:39:32 GMT
That middle part doesn't bore me as I was fascinated at how Russell, early on insisting how she's "had it" with the newspaper game, shows how deeply embedded it is in her blood as she quickly, not slowly, gets swept up into the so-called "last" story she'll do before giving it up. By the time Grant returns it's clear Bellamy is going to get deep sixed. I abstained from this vote. Sepiatone |
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Post by cineclassics on Mar 19, 2023 19:19:12 GMT
That middle part doesn't bore me as I was fascinated at how Russell, early on insisting how she's "had it" with the newspaper game, shows how deeply embedded it is in her blood as she quickly, not slowly, gets swept up into the so-called "last" story she'll do before giving it up. By the time Grant returns it's clear Bellamy is going to get deep sixed. I abstained from this vote. Sepiatone I haven't seen The Front Page yet, but I agree with you on the middle section of His Girl Friday dragging just a bit. |
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 20, 2023 15:35:53 GMT
I do kind of like the '74 remake of FRONT PAGE a bit more than the '31 original mostly because I don't and never did like Adolphe Menjou.
Sepiatone
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Post by Swithin on Mar 22, 2023 0:57:56 GMT
His Girl Friday for me. I was never a big All About Eve fan. AAE is enjoyable, but it's just one of those hugely popular films that I don't fancy.
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