From one of the best film noir movies of all time- The Third Man-
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Time for me to get all High Fidelity n shit. (didn't really care for the book, was so-so on the movie- must be a guy thing)
Top 5 film noir movies of all time:
Sunset Boulevard (gotta love Billy Wilder- I would put The Apartment on the list if I didn't think someone out there would bitch n moan)
Double Indemnity
The Third Man
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The Maltese Falcon
They would make an excellent boxed set. Or an equally excellent film festival. But the bestest, most earthshakingly bizarre film festival was one I undertook in Grad school- Kafka, followed by Naked Lunch, finished off with the ever so fine Barton Fink. Warped my mind forevermore. Who needs drugs, people?! This did nicely, thank you.
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Sadly, I've never seen any of those movies.
Also sadly, it snowed yesterday, as you know. Did you make it to your interview? Did you venture outside? We got quite a bit of snow. We went to the rat hole anyway. Desperate amount of cleaning to do. Oy.
I share your reminiscing of snow! I loved walking through town when it was the big, slow, fat flakes. I miss the magic, but not the scraping of windshields in the morning. Amen.
Give us an update when you can!
We'll organize some kind of movie night for you in the distant future when the world is cleaner, and your house is habitable. See you later this morning!
amen to all your choices!
(btw, i did like Hornby's "High Fidelity" and of course it's a guy thing--it's the quintessential male confessional. What woman would ever want to read that kind of book, when she's already heard that shit in her life from dozens of bastards)
That's probably my problem with the book. I liked some of his others- think he's an entertaining enough writer, but have no stomach for infantile, silly men (at least not like the ones in the book).
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