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This week's Staff Pick is: Strangers on a Train (1951)  Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Written by: Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde Based on a novel written by: Patricia Highsmith Cinematography by: Robert Burks Edited by: William Ziegler Original Score by: Dmitri Tiomkin Two strangers meet on a train and agree to "swap" murders to make each other's lives easier and pull off a perfect, apparently motiveless crime. A classic thriller from the thrillmaster himself. This selection is a bit self serving because I've been working my way through big Al's filmography in chronological order for a while now and this just happens to be next, and its probably worth watching a Hitchcock at some point in these selections. It's available on demand on a lot of places, but not on Filmstruck I don't think. Criterion has always been very limited in its Hitchcock selection since he is such a recognizable name in the film world, the rights for his stuff gets muddled all over the place. Also, I was thinking about this during the last one, is there a way to host like, synchtube style events for movies? Might be fun to have a set time when people can just pop onto a website and watch this all at once if they wanted to, and livechat like you're in the audience throwing popcorn at the screen and saying Don't go in there! etc. --------------------------- From the Staff Picks Archives January 31st, 2017: Cure February 7th, 2017: Westfront 1918 February 14th, 2017: John Wick February 21st, 2017: Red Sorghum February 28th, 2017: God of Gamblers March 7th, 2017: The Autopsy of Jane Doe March 14th, 2017: Perfect Blue March 21st, 2017: Spring Breakers March 28th, 2017: Cemetery of Splendor April 20th, 2017: Parallax View April 27th, 2017: Right Now, Wrong Then May 02th 2017: Stalker May 12th 2017: White God May 19th, 2017: Red Beard June 1st, 2017: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant June 18th, 2017: Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer/The Matrix Summer Special July 31st, 2017: Summer Under the Stars (Month Long Special) September 6th, 2017: Westworld
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i did somethin like that back in the day, best way to do it then was to just pick a time and have everyone start the video on filmstruck or w/e and have discord open. its not a perfect system but what is
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Sep 13, 2017 14:50
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this is one of the best hitchcocks. highly recommended
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Sep 13, 2017 21:02
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Sounds pretty cool. Haven't heard about this before but hoping to catch it on some internet platform.
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Sep 13, 2017 22:02
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i cant check if it still works and if it even has the abilitiy to stream your own movie since im on my phone but i remember this website is awesome for twitch and youtube stuff https://andchill.tv/
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Sep 13, 2017 22:27
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im going to watch cure on a plane tomorrow btw
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Sep 13, 2017 22:27
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trying to jack off posted:im going to watch cure on a plane tomorrow btw Nice, can't wait to hear your thoughts on stranger son a train in 2024
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Sep 13, 2017 23:14
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i appreciate any movie with scenes in the National Gallery of Art
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Sep 14, 2017 04:26
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Bruno ftw
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Sep 14, 2017 21:23
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Sep 14, 2017 21:24
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https://my.mixtape.moe/obraja.webm
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Sep 14, 2017 21:38
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hungry so i have to take a break and make dinner but this movie is so sick. Before this summer the only hitchcock I had seen was rear window and vertigo. my understanding is that between this film and the end of his career every movie he made is of this insane quality. gotta love Big H
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Sep 14, 2017 22:17
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The tennis match 
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Sep 14, 2017 23:42
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Ill hold off for a few days before posting the screenies because its still early in the week, but, needless to say, another fantastic entry in his career. my favorite element of the best hitchcock movies is how dedicated they are to the Swerve, more than a late stage twist. the mid film revelation that simultaneously defuse all existant tension and plunges everybody into pure paranoia. its such a great structure, and obviously pushed to its extreme in psycho (i assume. ive read probably hundreds of pages about it but ive never seen it)
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Sep 14, 2017 23:54
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It's rad
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I forgot to post the screenies oops. Theyre coming soon along with this week;s thread. Screenies: https://imgur.com/gallery/LemCd New Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3834907 In Training fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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