Old school
Nosferatu / The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (a lot of people have seen Nosferatu)
Top Hat
The Third Man
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 13:46, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

haven't seen TopHat
but seen the other two/three
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 26 May 2010, 13:47, Reply)

Top Hat's the best one!
Edit: That's not true, even I, of all people, can't pretend that Top Hat is better than The Third Man
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 13:50, Reply)

Agreed on Third Man
Not seen the others
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Wed 26 May 2010, 13:56, Reply)

Fantastic film

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 26 May 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Saw it in an underground cinema in Vienna
While on holiday with parents.
Didn't get to go on the ferris wheel though
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Wed 26 May 2010, 14:06, Reply)

Orson Welles giving a masterclass in how to casually arrive in the middle of a film and blow everyone off screen in five minutes
Top Hat, just to try and make myself look even more masculine, is a Fred & Ginger film about, oh, I don't know, some romantic misunderstanding or another, with some fucking aMAZing dancing
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 13:59, Reply)

there's a female empowerment quote on calendars that says
"remember, everything Fred Astaire did, Ginger Rogers did backwards and in heels".

Makes me smile.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:02, Reply)

Yeah, Ginger said that herself, I think maybe after Fred went on to dance with Cyd Charisse
who was, I'm sorry to say, probably technically a better dancer than Ginger. But they never quite had the same chemistry. Fred Astaire can make anyone look good but all his films with Ginger, complete fluff although they were, had amazing sparkle to them

/awaits accusations of gayness
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Cyd and Gene all the way for me
Fred was technically the better dancer, but Gene had that sass. The magic ingredient. And Ginger would have been too saccharine with Gene.
Cyd and Gene.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:10, Reply)

Hmm
I agree... sort of. Gene was a legend, no doubt, and for the reasons you describe, but I could never get bored of watching Fred, he makes the screen crackle
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:14, Reply)

he's gay and all

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:20, Reply)

No he wasn't
Was he?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:24, Reply)

I don't think he was an actual homosexual
But he was a gay like you are
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 May 2010, 15:11, Reply)

*brushes away the dust from dead horse and whip*
BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER WITH ENCYLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF MUSICAL THEATRE HAS BEEN SIGHTED. REMAIN ON GUARD, PARTICULARLY YOUR REARGUARD, LEST HE SHOULD TRY TO BUM YOU BACKWARDS AND IN HEELS. BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER ALERT...etc
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 26 May 2010, 14:12, Reply)