Comments on: Film Noir Month: LiC meets MovieZeal in a dark alley

By: Miranda Wilding

Miranda Wilding — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:06:55 +0000

Craig, your NIGHT & THE CITY review was exquisitely evocative. You can FEEL like you’re really there watching it. Your descriptions are so alive and vivid.

I actually haven’t seen it. I didn’t even know that my beloved GENE TIERNEY was in it. My bad. I should really check it out one of these days.

I HAVE seen the remake.

It’s supremely acted by ROBERT De NIRO and JESSICA LANGE. (No great surprise there.) They’re very believable in that romantic triangle. (Mr. De NIRO had no girlfriend in that film and he and JESSICA do have sex standing up in an alley, as I recall.) But CLIFF GORMAN almost steals the picture right out from under them as JESSICA’S volatile dangerous husband.

It’s really a disappointment ultimately (the parts are greater than the whole, as in so many motion pictures) but it’s well worth a watch.

GOD DAMN, you can write, honey.

Anything I can get you? A lollipop, perhaps?

By: Sam Juliano

Sam Juliano — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:57:32 +0000

Hooray for Film Noir month at Movie Zeal!!!!!

By: Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:15:47 +0000

“Ok, but I’m not telling you how I voted.”

please don’t.
I’m sure I’ll have enough to deal with on Judgment Day as it is.

By: Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:13:11 +0000

So far, only two write-ins, Daniel. One for Blindness (which I forgot, so I added it to the poll), and the other for Righteous Kill (seems too re’Heat’ed to be a contender.)

I’m happy to see there are at least 40 films to look forward to over the next few months. (So, 30 that will ultimately disappoint, ha.)

Little too conventional, this selection. I’m ready for another stripper to write something.

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:35:42 +0000

Great poll, Ryan.

Who voted for “Other”?! What’s missing? The Happening?

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:27:55 +0000

Ok, but I’m not telling you how I voted.

By: Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:21:13 +0000

not graded, per se, Craig.

However, your choices go on your permanent record and will be reviewed by appropriate heavenly authorities* on Judgment Day.

*Eva Marie Saint and Jill St. John

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:02:28 +0000

Sweet, I never pass up an opportunity to prove how little I know.

Will this be graded?

By: Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:23:13 +0000

While we're cross-pollinating, may I please pass out some flyers among the intelligentsia? Invitation to cast a vote in our Oscar Contender Poll at AD. C'mon, it'll be like stopping off for some debauched after-hours fun after your swanky black-tie gala at MoMA.