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2007-12-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Today in (Film) History: "If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"

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Posted by Mike 2007-12-03 08:40|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 What always amazed me about this movie is the slapdash way it was written, they didn't even have the ending when they started filming, yet it all came together perfectly. Still ranks in my opinion as the best movie ever made.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-12-03 12:05|| 2007-12-03 12:05|| Front Page Top

#2 "Huh? My watch is stopped...."
-- Sam

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-12-03 12:18|| 2007-12-03 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 I watched part of Citizen Kane the other night on TCM -- all pretense and camera angle.

Casablanca gets my vote as best movie ever made.

Posted by Fred 2007-12-03 14:24|| 2007-12-03 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I gotta agree with Fred. IMHO, as entertainment, CK rates right up there with watching paint dry. (A film for the critics/effete elite if ever there was one.) But it did give us "rosebud"! (Quick quiz: name any other line from CK. I can't) On the other hand, there must be legions of folks who can recite the whole script of Casablanca from memory...

Posted by PBMcL 2007-12-03 14:58|| 2007-12-03 14:58|| Front Page Top

#5 "Major Strasser has been shot. . . . Round up the usual suspects!"

Posted by Mike 2007-12-03 16:25|| 2007-12-03 16:25|| Front Page Top

#6 The most beautiful Marseillaise ever song... and it is in an American movie.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-12-03 17:38|| 2007-12-03 17:38|| Front Page Top

#7 While not as experienced as JFM, I heartily concur. While the French film industry was indisposed at the time, Madeleine LeBeau was a French woman even if in an American film. And perhaps her experience as related by IMDB explains the power of her performance and the authenticity of her tears:

Fleeing from the Germans in 1940, she and her husband eventually reached Lisbon, where they obtained visas to Chile, but on reaching Mexico they learned that these were forgeries. They eventually obtained temporary Canadian passports and ended up in the US.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-12-03 20:14|| 2007-12-03 20:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Here you go.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-03 20:43|| 2007-12-03 20:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Charles Foster Kane: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.

Posted by Glavigum B. Hayes3666 2007-12-03 21:15|| 2007-12-03 21:15|| Front Page Top

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