Watching it this time I felt a bit sorry for that Mooninite they brought back to Earth. (Well, technically he *chose to* jump onto the capsule and then the capsule fell to Earth where he was promptly captured.)
Poor bastard's gonna have to dance around like a trained monkey for the rest of his miserable life.
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Hannay: "And what is your country?"
Anabella: "I have no country."
Hannay: "Born in a balloon, eh?"
This could move up a few spots on my list. I had a blast watching this again. It's like watching Hitchock create modern filmmaking on the fly.
It's funny, it's intriguing, tense, surprising and it zips along at a lightning pace. Sure, there may be a couple plot holes, or let's call them extreme conveniences.
Robert…
Currently #17 on: Ranked: Hitchcock │The Features
Joseph Cotten arrives in the idyllic town of Santa Rosa on a train belching black smoke. It's as if Eugene spawned a doppelgänger at the end of The Magnificent Ambersons and that doppelgänger has arrived to take down more innocents. (The ending of the *book* that is, where Eugene's auto factories have polluted the city, not the sanitized film version RKO forced onto Welles!)
And I mention doppelgängers because I gotta think David…
Worth a watch, but other than the end, literally nothing is memorable. (except maybe for that shot of Indy running on the top of the train...but that's memorable for the wrong reason.)
Why in God's name is this 150+ minutes?? That's 30 minutes longer than the others. Nearly 40 minutes longer than Raiders. Anyone??
Honestly, the only time my heart stirred was when the 'blood of Kali' was mentioned and I remembered how much fun Temple of Doom is.
Ok,…
"You've got loads of options and cutting off your fingers is your first port of call??"
McDonagh's masterpiece? It's surely in the running. Especially due the fact that it's his best photographed film *by far*. (This is McDonagh's 3rd team up with cinematographer Ben Davis and it's glorious but perhaps this is due to the West coast of Ireland more than anything else)
Add to that the story which plays like a biblical parable. I kept thinking of the Coen…
