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2 movies you can't stop watching

posted 8 years ago by papyrus beetle
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this week (on the "Movies" channel) I saw films I had seen many times before, but could not turn off:

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953)-- possibly why Mayor Daley forbid movie-making in Chicago. A fantastic trip through a "noir" world of terrifying characters, be they good or evil. Led by cop Gig Young who is magnificent, but of a totally different movie tradition than this "dream noir", but GOOD. As the movie goes on we realize that his "partner" is an "angel" (perhaps). In a "noir" film?
Solution to his "ego" problems as a cop? His elegant wife will quit her job to make him feel "more like a man". Sister, that ain't going to work, and you might also starve.
The night, the endless night, continues and there is no escape from Chicago!

I MARRIED A NAZI/THE MAN I MARRIED (1940) -- Joan Bennett rules movies of this period, along with suave Lloyd Nolan (who plays, perhaps, William Shirer?). Another film (a re-make of this one?) is the Sally Field film NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER.
But THIS movie is a trip to Nazi Germany and all the attendant horror and mystery and weirdness just before WW2!
Let's get the first train plane ship out of this nightmare world!

"We will bury you"-NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV

[–] darryl-tahirali 8 years ago

You think, maybe, that a combination of the Channel Surf Stop Test and the Neglected Disc Syndrome represent some kind of not-so-latent holdover from the pre-home-video era when we had to wait for our favorites to show up on broadcast or at revival houses? It's as though the surprise makes it more special.
Definitely. It goes back to what you said about having the chef surprise you.

I used to do this far more with music. I'd be dying to hear something, but I'd scan title after title in my collection and then laugh to myself, "I don't have anything to listen to!" even though I'm staring at a sonic smorgasbord.

Somewhat related to this phenomenon may be a tendency to be reactive rather than proactive--letting the chef suggest the menu instead of planning it yourself. For instance, I rarely start a thread in these discussion forums, but I'm happy to tack on to someone else's.

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