Film noir

[Tommy]

I love how you think. I've seen that one maybe ten times and it's still endlessly fascinating. A great tragedy of film is that Laughton never directed again. There are still plenty of beautiful films made these days but gosh, just nothing like TNotH gets made any more. The imagery alone is enough for the compendiums of analysis. The more I think about it, the more I wonder why it isn't in my all time top ten.

[bugen]

Hey, Tommy! Sorry for the late response.

The last noir I watched was actually The Night of the Hunter. After we watched it together I tried a write-up, but it was giving me some difficulty. So I watched it again a couple of days later and tried to write again, and realized I still wasn't doing it properly.

I've seen it either 3-4 times now, trying to get thoughts on paper after, and have lost the battle each time. It's that dreamy sequence on the river, I'm convinced. That sequence just blows me away. It's like it's both always supposed to have been in the film and never, and something about it fries my brain.

[Tommy]

How goes the noir journey, bugen?

[Tommy]

For comparison...

Spoiler!

[Tommy]

This is the scene I was talking about the other night guys.

Spoiler!

[Tommy]

Agreed! I'm anxiously awaiting Andrew's review.

[Theli]

It was a great movie last night. It was fun shooting the shit with you guys too. We'll have to do it again, sooner rather than later.

[Theli]

Let's do it!



And by it, I mean watch Night of the Hunter. Not sex.

[Tommy]

Should be fine with me!

[bugen]

I'm fine with the same time we had before, though I've shifted a timezone over and would start at 8. We OK with 7 PDT, 8 MDT, 9 CDT and 10 EDT?

[Theli]

Make it so!

Which time works better for you guys? We're all in different time zones so it's tough to find a perfect time, but let's try for the best option possible. Being located in the middle of the continent, it really doesn't matter to me.

[Tommy]

Good choice!

[bugen]

I wish the Davis Grubb e-book wasn't so overpriced so I could read it first, but I'm still leaning towards The Night of the Hunter. Something tells me the film's as good as they say.

[Tommy]

Yay! Whacchu wanna watch Andrew?

[Theli]

Alright let's make this official. Movie night tomorrow. I'm thinking between 8 and 9PM CST. Whichever time works better. As for a movie, I'm down for They Live by Night or Night of the Hunter. Basically as long the movie has Night in the title.

If you're new and want to join, send me a PM and I will add you to our Google Hangouts chat group.