![]() If you’re willing to commit, you’ll be rewarded.GUTHRIE Sunday in the Park With George, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edgardo Mine. ![]() I like this one, I think it’s one you have to devote your whole being to, or much will be lost. It was released at the peak of its genre, and is revered by critics today. ![]() Maybe the film just hasn’t aged well, or maybe it’s just me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. ![]() The film drags as a result, with important details spread out over several conversations between the same seedy characters, all of which could’ve been accomplished much quicker had, say, the film taken place in real life. Noted for its extensive use of Dutch camera angles and its interesting score (performed entirely on a zither), it’s a noir in all the right ways, though perhaps to a fault.įor one, it’s slow in introducing Welles’ character, in an attempt to make the twist that much more shocking (though is it really a surprise that they didn’t have top-billed Orson Welles’ character actually killed off-screen before the film started?). Joseph Cotten ( Citizen Kane, Shadow of a Doubt) stars as a man thrown into an investigation into the death of a close friend (Orson Welles) in post-war Vienna. Third Man has a third act for the ages it’s just the getting there that’s a pest. “A person doesn’t change just because you find out more.” ![]()
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