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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Big Sleep in Books

Jul 28, 2017  
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
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5.3 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
Complex classic film noir style
This is a classic. Most people will probably know the Humphrey Bogart big screen version but Raymond Chandler was clearly the original. Gritty, dark and twisted - unusual for its time - he broke boundaries with some of the themes described. As brilliant as it is written, the plot at times gets too complicated and if you're not concentrating, you'll end up missing important clues.
  
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Megan Abbott recommended In a Lonely Place (1950) in Movies (curated)

 
In a Lonely Place (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
1950 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
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"Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, and Nicholas Ray: the film-noir hat trick. Based on Dorothy B. Hughes’s very different but equally brilliant novel, it’s doomy, romantic, pitch-black, and unforgettable. The Criterion extras here are particularly superb, with special attention to the movie’s turbulent backstory (Ray and Grahame were divorcing during production). This is the movie for which I’m most intensely evangelical. It feels as vital now as it did a half century ago."

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    Old Time Radio

    Old Time Radio

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    This is a project that started because it seemed to me like all the OTR available online was either...

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F. Gary Gray recommended On the Waterfront (1954) in Movies (curated)

 
On the Waterfront (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
1954 | Classics, Drama, Romance
7.5 (4 Ratings)
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"On the Waterfront, with Marlon Brando. Between the look, the feel, the casting… even the casting of the extras. Just to look back and get a sense of what America was like back then, and the details, it was just amazing. And again, it was another one of those movies where the leading man, the way they struck a balance between masculine and vulnerable. Humphrey Bogart did it in Casablanca; I think Marlon Brando did it in On the Waterfront, so that’s why they stick out as the best to me. They’re pretty incredible. You’re just like, you sit back and you say, “Damn, I wish I could do that!” [laughs]"

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    Noir Factory Podcast

    Noir Factory Podcast

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    The Noir Factory Podcast is created for the mystery reader, noir movie goes, or true crime buff who...

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Morgan Freeman recommended Moby Dick (1956) in Movies (curated)

 
Moby Dick (1956)
Moby Dick (1956)
1956 | Action, Classics, Drama
8.5 (4 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"What’s my fifth favorite movie? Now there have been quite a number of them. See now I’m sort of in no-man’s land, because I’m thinking Bonnie and Clyde, I’m thinking Chinatown… I’m just wandering around now. [laughs] One of my favorite books was Black Beauty; I read it when I was eight-years-old, and I’m trying to find if there was a movie, like that, that sticks with me. Oh, I know! Moby Dick. Yes. Now that was filmmaking. John Huston. Call me… Ishmael. I read the book, and there are very few books that I have read and seen the movie and liked the movie. Gregory Peck was in two of ’em: Moby Dick and To Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck was one of my favorite actors. Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart, those guys."

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William Sadler recommended The African Queen (1951) in Movies (curated)

 
The African Queen (1951)
The African Queen (1951)
1951 | Drama, Romance, War
8.5 (11 Ratings)
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"A romance between a beat up, tired, old, raggedy-ass drunkard hanging on by a thread and one last hurrah. There’s a theme in the film that I love. To see the two of them [Humphrey Bogart and Kathryn Hepburn], the chemistry was so magical. It was so easy and fun. They were having so much fun. Clearly. It was like watching a tennis match between two of the best players of all time. Just effortless. And they tell this phenomenal story. I’m a sucker for those. [Hepburn] had a similar chemistry with lots of people, with Spencer Tracy in the Pat and Mike film, it was just sparkle and fun. Going back and forth between her and Bogie and they let Bogie play this guy, this stumbling bumbling [does impression “Well, Ma’am”] which was great, he just went there. John Huston did a brilliant job with that thing."

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