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In Reply to: RE: Your favorite detective (crime) movie... posted by Eldragon on July 16, 2007 at 19:11:48
..to name a favorite but I'll add a couple or three:
Bad Day At Black Rock
The Big Lebowski
Blood Simple
Fargo
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Excellent choice. A real sleeper. Spencer Tracy was just outstanding.
Lots of great characters in this one! I want to see it again.
One of the very first featurtes in CinemaScope, with interesting uses of the camera in this format.
..about the use of the camera in Cinemascope format. That's an interesting note, Rico.
I haven't seen it in a while and, unfortunately, at the moment my laserdisc player is out for repair so I don;t have access to the film. But I should soon and will comment further. I just remember it as obvious playfulness with some angles.
To be more specific, I took your comment to imply that particular aspects of Cinemascope lent particular opportunities for uses of the camera not otherwise available. Maybe I read too much into it.
Still, I'm going to watch it again with a keen eye to the technical characteristics.
I'm still interested in more of your thoughts on this when you're ready.
Now, if I could just figure out why you don't like Missouri Breaks...........LOL! :^)
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