Film Noir Buff Style Forum / He has his father's eyes

Gone_to_Gowings · 2011-01-06 06:21:18

Gone_to_Gowings · 2011-01-06 06:47:15

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Prof Kelp · 2011-01-06 08:34:58

Stirling work GTG, some great shots there......many thanks.

Hard Bop Hank · 2011-01-06 08:57:46

yup! Great stills, good work... as in the Graduate thread, too!

With this new stuff about movie stills and with the vintage ad browser I'm looking forward to 2011 and this forum...

Gibson Gardens · 2011-01-06 09:02:44

Marvellous work GTG - give this man an Ivy commendation. You have a great eye. This is a great film and how Cassavetes was not included in The Ivy Look I have no idea... Mid 60s New York has never looked more atmospheric or alluring. I'd love to see what you could do with Love With The Proper Stranger.

GG

Staceyboy · 2011-01-06 09:06:06

And a "good work" from me too! Thanks GtG. Great stuff. I've done similar for Robert Redford in "Barefoot in the Park" which I should be able to post tonight.

Staceyboy

edit* Just realised my post number. Very apt re: "Rosemary's Baby"!

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waxtwist · 2011-01-06 09:18:06

Staceyboy,

I will be interested to see those. I saw the movie as a young boy and the only thing I remember about it was a young Jane Fonda in a bra. That was heady stuff in a far more covered up environment.

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Staceyboy · 2011-01-06 09:28:18

^Too true! The screen grabs are mainly Redford but of course some include Jane. Couldn't resist using the one with her wearing the duffle coat and little else. Watch this space! The files are quite a bit larger than those posted by GtG but hopefully they will load ok.

Staceyboy

Gibson Gardens · 2011-01-06 09:46:08

Yes Jane Fonda was impossibly attractive in that film wasn't she? And in Klute, and Barbarella. God I fancy Jane Fonda rotten.... And Redford wears a great old school button-down with fantastically long tails. And he shows he is also a splendid comic actor. I love this film even though it's stagey and creaky and silly. Great dialogue. Fits in with my foreigner's concept of 'New York'.

GG

Staceyboy · 2011-01-06 10:12:59

So true GG. The film really does show up its stage roots - in their apartment in particular. Maybe like you when you first saw it I thought that was exactly the New York I 'wanted'. A threadbare flat to do up that's central but freezing cold and up a dozen flights of stairs but what the hell! I'd be living with a circa '67 Jane Fonda look alike so the temperature and lack of furniture would be of little concern. And I'm all for a full cut but that shirt of Redford's really is huge - like a nightshirt. Serves him well when he's exiled to sleeping on the sofa. As an aside, I've just finished reading Roger Vadim's autobiography that was published in the '80's. Not a great read but that may be down to the translation. Overall I found it depressing that marriages to Bardot, Deneuve then Fonda could sound so relatively dull and downbeat. Maybe that was indeed the case but it shattered my illusions for sure.

Staceyboy

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Prof Kelp · 2011-01-06 12:53:24

I think Redford looks great in that film, I posted one or two pics from it before on here, but look forward to the stills........

Taylor McIntyre · 2011-01-06 13:42:43

Taylor McIntyre · 2011-11-27 06:30:21

Bumping, just for the Ivy love of it!

Love the flat too... I lived in Cranmer Court, SW3, for a while in a place that made me think of RB...

Blucher · 2012-01-16 13:11:44

I've got it on, at this very moment, and have been studying the clothes. What are those shoes Guy is wearing in the opening scenes?

Jacket in 'baby blue'!

Blucher · 2012-01-16 13:28:32

The film is really a comedy, isn't it? A dark comedy, obviously, but full of wry little lines and images. I think I saw the film before reading the book. Levin's prose is spare and compelling. Polanski apparently wanted it filled with old-time American actors, hence the wonderful Elisha Cook and Hope Summers, Sidney Blackmer and Ralph Bellamy. I found it quite odd to see them as young men in 30s movies.

Liam Mac · 2012-02-04 12:40:31

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Blucher · 2012-02-04 13:04:49

Could be. Thanks, Liam. I'm also interested in the Dexter 'Kirby' - as allegedly worn by Ken Lovegrove. I caught the significance of the jacket - 'baby' blue, no? It's like the playing of Beethoven on and off: a little joke. Polanski had a wry sense of humour and an eye for detail.

Liam Mac · 2012-02-04 13:16:51

Yes, I thought that too. The men wearing blue and pink so obviously kind of gives an indication of where there heads are at even in that early scene, doesn't it? Only really noticeable on further viewings of course. Those little touches are great. I like a director who fucks with his audience.

Blucher · 2012-02-04 13:28:58

I suspect the touches are too subtle for many. I see the film as nothing more or less than a black comedy. Ira Levin was (for most of his career) a brilliant author. 'Veronica's Room' is a genuine chiller. I love the way the devil-worshippers celebrate Christmas and New Year and Guy invoking God.

Liam Mac · 2012-02-04 13:54:48

What I never found quiet right was the casting on JC. I like him as an actor but I've always thought he has a sinister look and a smile that makes me uneasy. For that reason I never bought into him in the first part of the film as a good guy. I always suspected him. Good or bad casting in that respect?

Blucher · 2012-02-04 14:13:51

I think - perhaps - someone like Warren Beatty might have made a good job of it. Cassavetes was about the fourth choice. I associate him far too much with 'The Dirty Dozen': a nasty film. Polanski didn't want Mia Farrow - Sharon Tate, Patty Duke or Tuesday Weld. But Farrow is perfect, I think: sexy and ditsy together. Cassavetes, ultimately: good casting.

Liam Mac · 2012-02-04 15:25:31

I like JC in Mikey and Nicky, where he played opposite Peter Falk. A weird little film.

Warren Beatty I can imagine in the role. Whatever, JC did it and did it well. Looked great and Mia Farrow weren't half bad neither.

The shoes? I can't find a picture of your Dexter Kirby's for looking. Nor can I find any more on those Voyles.

They may be something like the Jarman 'Deerslayers' that Woolster posted last year, though they had a ripple sole I think and the sole on the Voyles is a wedge type, which would tally with the ones worn by the character JC plays.

Liam Mac · 2012-02-04 15:27:13

Liam Mac · 2012-02-04 15:28:33

^These look very similar actually...

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