Very very enjoyable, I kind of wish we'd not taken my daughter (her classmates had all already seen it) as there were a few moments where i wasn't sure if she'd get upset and thats a new cinema experience for me.
She liked it but I think a fair amount went over her head.
I thought its message was probably its strongest aspect but it was funny and looked really good and most of the performances were strong.
Its worth…
I had this marked as seen but not sure I actually had. Watched it tonight in the directors cut ending which is a lot.
Some really interesting stuff about mid 80s appropriation of 60s black music and about the way its comedy stars used their sketch backgrounds to grow cameos into lasting moments. A fun watch if nothing really more
There's a scene in here where Robert Ryan takes a long hard look at himself in a mirror that on the surface should be cliched and overdone but somehow works, because it's Robert Ryan and we've already seen that he's a piece of work and because Robert Ryan's face does self loathing like nobody else in the history of cinema.
There's another where he sits on the side of a bed looking at the floor holding himself upright with both…
I guess I'm just going to watch this every few years for the rest of my life and keep finding different things to enjoy in it. This time it was finding Leiutenant Doyle more hilarious than usual and admiring everything Kelly brought to it.
Oh and the construction, the way the events in the other apartments are used to divert Stewart (and of course us) at key moments or to have him on the phone about lonelyhearts so he can talk straight to the police, a perfectly plotted movie.
But everything else was great too, is there a film Thelma Ritter doesn't elevate?
