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Post by cineclassics on Mar 19, 2023 0:25:54 GMT
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 19, 2023 15:51:46 GMT
Grace Kelly is glamorous and gorgeous in Rear Window, James Stewart's eyes have never been more expressive or bluer, and I love Thelma Ritter unconditionally. But....
Some Like It Hot. Billy Wilder was a wizard with dialogue.
Tony Curtis effectively gives three separate performances in this film, and he's great in each of them. Jack Lemmon's Daphne seems truly disappointed to have to break off the engagement to Joe E. Brown's Osgood on account of being a man. Tony Curtis in drag kissing Marilyn Monroe is a beautiful turning point for the characters. Everyone knows exactly who they are and what they want in that scene. Leave it to Wilder -- he gets my vote here.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 19, 2023 16:36:46 GMT
I abstained from this one too. For everything that Bunny said about SLIH and that Rear Window is excellently cast and equally performed by that cast. It was actually the first Hitchcock movie I saw and it thrilled me no end. Plus it did spark my interest in photography.  Sepiatone |
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Post by LiamCasey on Mar 19, 2023 17:51:32 GMT
I had no hesitation on this one. My favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Mar 19, 2023 18:53:00 GMT
This was a tough one. I voted for, "Rear Window," because it's great and I get just as breathless watching Grace Kelly in the bad guy's room every time I see it,
but, the world would be a poorer place without, "Some Like it Hot, and it stands up to repeat viewing, too.
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Post by sagebrush on Mar 20, 2023 22:29:09 GMT
SOME LIKE IT HOT hits the ground running and never lets up. My favorite scene contains no dialogue; it's the tango scene with Jack Lemmon and Joe E brown. 
REAR WINDOW is a slow burner that has little action until the end, but is in constant movement. It may seem odd that two women can dig up a flowerbed, climb a fire escape and enter someone's apartment without any of the neighbors noticing, but as a lifelong apartment renter, I can tell you it is possible!
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Post by Lucky Dan on Mar 20, 2023 22:43:26 GMT
Just about everyone thinks more highly of Grace Kelly than I. James Stewart and Miss Torso make it a close race, but I'd rather see Some Like it Hot tonight.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 21, 2023 21:33:05 GMT
In all the discussions about Rear Window there've been in the "old" plae and probably in this forum too, nobody mentions the brief appearances of Ross Bagdasarian, creator and original voice of all three of The Chipmunks as the composer whose song "Lisa" seems to have saved Miss Lonelyhearts' life. I've seen that movie probably a dozen times before that fact was brought to my attention.
I always wondered how he felt about most of his early movie appearanced went uncredited and he wound up garnering more fame and fortune under an assumed name(Dave Seville) and never really being seen.
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Post by Swithin on Mar 22, 2023 1:04:08 GMT
This is a tough one, because I love them both. So I won't vote. But if I did, I'd have to go with Rear Window. Any I like the voyeuristic/impotence again. And the "Mona Lisa" scene is the best, and, as always, Hitchcock chooses his music to suit his art.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 22, 2023 22:17:46 GMT
You're probably referring to a scene in which shows the composer having a party in which a quick snippet of the song(popular at the time of the movie's filming) "Mona Lisa" was sung by party guests.
I was referring to the song "Lisa", which was the song of which the melody could be heard several times throughout the movie. It was supposed to be the song the composer character was struggling with and when upon hearing it before committing suicide made Miss Lonelyhearts change her mind. The music was actually composed by Franz Waxman. I forgot who wrote the not fully heard lyrics. It's often been referred to as the "unofficial" theme of the movie.
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