One of Hitchcock’s trademarks has been his habit of shooting on location and working the location itself into the plot. In “Strangers on a Train,” the climax comes in an amusement park, so naturally there’s a deadly duel on a merry-go-round. Truffaut is loyal to this tradition; eve...
A beautiful Parisian woman opens the wrong door and steps into a dizzying psychological mystery that will forever change two lives in Patrice Leconte’s Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes). Leconte’s 20th feature film -- the follow-up to his acclaimed Man on The Train -- is a pro...
“Strangers on a Train” (Farley Granger and Robert Walker pictured above), the hulking figure of Raymond Burr facing off against a wheelchair bound James Stewart in “Rear Window”, the iconic crop-duster sequence as well as the chase on Mount Rushmore in “North by Northwest”, the ...
Movies borrow from other movies all the time, but few have the honesty to admit it.Danny DeVitois nothing if not an honest man. He not only borrows the plot device from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” for his new comedy, “Throw Momma from the Train,” but he even has ...
Strangers on a Train (1951) IMDB *** Hitchcock movie, which includes a very funny scene with a drunk mathematician discussing calculus. Straw Dogs (1971) IMDB *** Dustin Hoffmann as a mathematician driven to extremes to defend his house. He also counts to 100 in binary and there are some...
These in turn translate into solid character work for the proverbial strangers on the train whom Michael probes to locate his mark – among them a feisty college student (Florence Pugh), an arrogant Wall Street banker (Shazad Latif), an emotionally distraught nurse (Clara Lago), a tattooed br...
Mescal—in quite a departure from his portrayal of a soft, sensitive gay man in All of Us Strangers—digs into the layered complexities of his character, hiding a big secret and channeling a fiery inner rage to become a crowd favorite down on the field… kinda like the A.D. equivalent ...
166. Strangers on a Train 167. Dial ‘M’ for Murder 168. I Confess 169. The Sitter 170.Querelle 171.Meeting Evil 172.Boy 173.Blood Feast 174. Godspell 175.Wrath of the Titans 176.The Cabin in the Woods 177.The Raid: Redemption ...
I am a Strangers With Candy fanatic. Borat - phenomenal. The ruder the better. Bring it on. With that sensibility in place, I looked forward to watching Another Gay Movie. It's about time that a film with gay characters was as crazy and rude and irreverent as the crazy teen comedies ...
S1.E47 ∙ Unfiltered and Unapologetic: Roseanne Barr Joins Julian Schlossberg's Movie Talk Podcast Tue, Dec 17, 2024 Legendary comedian, actress, and writer Roseanne Barr sits down for an unfiltered, thought-provoking conversation with host Julian Schlossberg. From her groundbreaking work on Roseann...