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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2016, 02:41:51 PM »
Mullholland Dr. is less than 2.5 hrs. It's the film that turned me from mixed on Lynch to being a fan. Happy to discuss it anytime. Once you figure it out - or at least come up with a theory because Lynch won't comment - it becomes a lot of fun.

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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2016, 03:17:39 PM »
Double Indemnity

The femme fatale had good dialogue but the performance was not very fatale.

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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2016, 03:24:04 PM »
Does your universe have cookie Thursdays ? Because any universe I inhabit must have cookie Thursdays.

What draws you to the character ?
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« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2016, 03:31:20 PM »
It's true though. It's not that Stanwyck doesn't give a good performance : she does... but she's nowhere near as seductive as she is in The Lady Eve.
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« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2016, 03:34:14 PM »
It's true though. It's not that Stanwyck doesn't give a good performance : she does... but she's nowhere near as seductive as she is in The Lady Eve.

Now, there is a woman who could fatale my heart.
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« Reply #35 on: December 22, 2016, 05:27:59 PM »
Crazy! I'm with MT.

On a purely operational level, the guy is more of a sap in The Lady Eve, which makes her less of a fatale. And then you move on to her actual character!
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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #36 on: December 22, 2016, 05:34:49 PM »
He is a humongous sap, but that is a comedy, not noir. She is not supposed to be fatale to begin with, just seductive.
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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #37 on: December 23, 2016, 06:01:46 AM »
97/101 for me. Need to get to:

27. The Double Life of Veronique
48. Fanny and Alexander
64. Ikiru
100. The Royal Tenenbaums

I've since made up three of these. One more to go!
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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #38 on: January 06, 2017, 05:31:03 AM »
I have updated the index with movies from previous forum Top 100 lists, thanks to Corndog's work. The progression will, as always, be irregular and dishevelled, but I will try to update the index whenever I do watch one of these - the frequency of which depends on how taken I am by watching movies for other projects, clubs, or recent releases.
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Re: DarkeningHumour's Filmspotter Forum Top 100 (2014) Checklist
« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2017, 04:52:49 AM »
My review of City of God from the List of Shame Club.

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