Watching it now. Who knew one man in a chair could be so interesting? This is great.

Only thing that saved you from an insta-ban, imo

I mean this in the best way, but near the end, when he says he's getting emotional because he's having an epiphany, my first thought was, "Wait, maybe those weren't cigarettes he was smoking."

Yeah, Rupert is obviously disturbed...but that doesn't mean what he's saying isn't at least partially true and happening now.

Truman Capotes... In Cold Blood

Directed and crafted by Richards Brooks... If you have not seen this great movie I can not recommend it highly enough. Noir style movie making at it's finest but what really sets this movie apart, besides the great capote story, is the framing of the movie in that every scene seems to be framed exactly perfectly... Every shot seems to have a meaning and sub-text behind them.

Being a Noir film the lighting is superb, and the morality (and ultimately the humanity) behind the story come shining through despite the overwhelming beautiful visuals.

the story centers around two misfit robbers that try and pull off their perfect robbery only for it to come back on them in the end. simple morality, but extremely well presented... give it a look some time.

out of Five

A truly great film. Odd, but in all my years of film study I never once considered it film noir. But I guess it could be... To me, it had more in common with Italian neo-realism.

I think I might have been describing it as a noir mostly because of the texture of how it was shot... that's it really. I will deffer to you if it's not really a noir.

no, I can definitely see it as a noir...but that's what's great about noir...there are many definitions of it! We'll let John Cole enlighten us.

After seeing In Cold Blood deliciousness on BD... I am going to have to go back and re watch Elmer Gantry on DVD, another great Brooks film.

From what I understand, Elmer G is really considered the first "Independent film"

not a fan of Elmer Gantry, way too long and uneventful. something like The Miracle Woman with Stanwyck is a better movie imo.


big fan of this movie. by BD you mean blue ray?

yes... BD = Bluray Disk.

I am a big fan of how much Lancaster commands the screen with his presence. As a matter of fact, Criterion is releasing "Sweet smell of success" soon on BD. that's a definite purchase.

Pete Malloy as a Jazz Guitar playing dope smoker FTW

Sweet Smell of Success is just so nasty. Love that movie.

need to watch that sometime. Lancaster is the man.

While not his best movie, I love frankenheimer's "The Train". Lancaster is so awesome in that movie. it's really one of his highlights if you like a man that actually does his own stunts. in one scene he's running across a bridge (with a broken leg in real life) and he gets shot at by some german bad guys. Lancaster is running at near full clip and dives headfirst onto a wooden bridge/floor with no padding or stunt double. In another scene lancaster is trying to signal a train to stop from a controllers tower, in a single shot he drops from a two story tower runs a couple hundred yards in rocks and switches a rail then runs down a train to talk to the engineer.

He was the man.

The Train is awesome! That's what made Unstoppable so entertaining, that it was mostly real train shots and not CGI