(July 3, 2012 at 9:17 pm)Epimethean Wrote: If you want to go esoteric, add The Blue Angel (1930). While you are looking for classics, add Hitchcock's Notorious.
Good choices*. Only last week,I rewatched Hitchcock's 'Lifeboat' (1944); highly recommended. I also recommend one of his 'minor' films, "Rope" (1948)
Quote:Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn (treatment)[2] and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, it is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28film%29
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"The Blue Angel" made a star of the rather boring Marlene Dietrich,mainly through the amazing lighting and brilliance of its director, Josef von Sternberg,who also carefully chose songs to suit Dietrich's very limited vocal range.
