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Comment by iggzy on July 8, 2012 at 5:38pm

This page doesn't get enough posts which kinda sucks. As such, I thought I'd post about an awesome movie that is screening in a week, one that is a serious contender for the title of "my favorite movie" or at very the top 3 of my "favorite movies" list and at very least top 2 of my "favorite movies made before I was born"

The classic Carol Reed's classic film noire The Third Man with starring Joseph Cotton, Orson Wells, Alida Valli, and Trevor Howard is being screened at the Paramount...or the Stateside at the Paramount (site doesn't say which one) on July 19th. This film is a gorgeous black and white film that is one of the quintessential film noire's, set in post WWII Vienna and tells an amazingly intricate mystery story and Orson Well's is so god damn charismatic in it you can't help but love him. If you call yourself a film buff and you haven't seen it then you really should, especially if you like mysteries and noire. You can click the link that is the movie title above for tickets, its only $6 a ticket and you can get a parking pass for another $6 which you might want seeing as its downtown.

Because I already wrote a fair bit and I know I tend to ramble, especially about a movie I love this much, so I'll just give you my favorite, and possibly the best, line in the movie:

"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. So long Holly."

Anyways, I'm sadly not sure I can go, even though I'm dying to because I've never seen it in a theater, and even missed an opportunity to do so when I still lived in Dallas a few years ago and I swore I wouldn't squander that opportunity again. However, I might not be able to because a friend already treated me to a ticket to the Drafthouse's Batman marathon that night (both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight then The Dark Knight Rises at midnight) and while I'd be fine skipping The Dark Knight as I saw it 3 times in theaters and literally 30 times since. Sadly doesn't look like it'll work out, but I wanted you guys to have a chance to see it.

If you can't make it to the screening like me, but are interested enough to see such a good movie, its sadly almost impossible to get on DVD. It has a DVD and blu-ray release by Criterion, who you should know does awesome stuff and I'd kill for that, but its been out of print for a while and you generally can't find either the DVD or blu-ray for less than $100+. Studio Canal did a blu-ray release of the movie (not sure how that works if Criterion had the rights to make a blu-ray as well, so either could own the rights now) you can find that one in a few places for under $50 but I'm not sure how good the transfer and extras are but have heard the Criterion version is better. The hope is that Criterion will eventually start printing their versions again so they're not so expensive, or at very least make a new one but either way finding a copy of any of these and being able to buy it for a sane price is hard. You could try a library, I found my library had a copy of the Criterion I was able to rent, and I have to tell you that the special features are worth it. However, best news of all is that if you just want to see it, the movie is available on Netflix Instant.

Comment by iggzy on June 6, 2012 at 10:14pm

I'm going to go see Time Cop at the Ritz next Wednesday....

Comment by Carl Webb on June 6, 2012 at 6:22pm

So what's going on?

Comment by LOLA0813 on March 6, 2009 at 7:54pm

Hi Fred...

I will be seeing Ong Bak 2 at South Lamar when Trailers From Hell is showing... sorry....