Film Dialogue

Film Dialogue is a community for anyone with interest in cinema and film history #FilmHistory #ClassicFilms #Cinematheque

[Film Dialogue @filmdialogueone]

For all of you who love watching and discussing classic films, I have created @FDCinematheque on @X .
Every day a new double or triple bill. And all seasonal. Let's watch and talk, shall we....?
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[Classic 𝙲𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊 @VintageReview]

Shirley MacLaine by David Bailey, 1965

[Molly McNair @noirgal17]

Three hours’ sleep, second day in a row….🤦🏻‍♀️

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

At the 1997 Oscars, master of musicals STANLEY DONEN was presented with a lifetime achievement award and delivered a legendary speech.

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Orson Welles on “bad” directors. #filmtwt

[STM @Suzanne08253534]

Ava Gardner

[((( ...JMGC...))) @Valferl]

Ava,

[Forever Louise Brooks @ForeverLouiseB1]

Simone Simon and James Stewart for Seventh Heaven (1937).

[Rwelkos @rwelkos]

Carole Lombard

[WallaceReid* @WallaceReid_]

1917 Actress Theda Bara

[Ricardo Hirooka @HirookaRicardo]

Frances Farmer 1937

[Vintage Cuties and Beauties @CutiesVintage]

🥂 Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance (1943)

[💫 Pauline 💫 @Pauline36363605]

Marlène Jobert 🌺

[Film Noir UK @FilmNoirUK]

Do check out the Tipping My Fedora podcast looking at Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954): https://t.co/eZRH89t3HH

[Melanie Ktorides ✨⭐️✨ @melanie_mjk]

@noirgal17 Marie’s wearing a demure little number. Happy Sunday Molly. 🙋🏼‍♀️🌸

[Film & TV Legends @FilmTVLegends]

Louise Brooks ❤️

[Silver Screen Goddes @silverscreengod]

Julie London

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Billy Wilder explains how the commercial failure of "Ace in the Hole" (1951) changed his view about the audience:

"Wilder: 'Ace in the Hole' (1951) was a very peculiar thing. I was very fond of the picture—I got wonderful, wonderful reactions to it from more serious people. But for some reason or other, people did not want to see that grim a picture, that boasted the guy in the hole there, and the reporter, Mr. Kirk Douglas. It was very somber. It was one of my most somber pictures. And they did not believe me that when somebody’s a newspaperman, they are capable of that behavior.

Interviewer: Very much ahead of its time.

Wilder: [Shrugs.] Yeah.

Interviewer: In this current age of tabloid culture, 'Ace in the Hole' has never felt more up-to-the-minute. Is it amusing to you, how this film has held up?

Wilder: Yeah, that’s very funny, I must say. It was a complete failure. It was just... I don’t know. I just changed my mind about the audience. I just think that if you do something very fine, that they will get to the core of the thing, what it’s about, what it’s really about. But they never, at the time, they never gave it a chance.

Somebody in an editorial, I think, in Life magazine said that “Mr. Wilder should be deported.” I felt that I was not with it anymore. That I wrote against the audience, the people who paid, in those days, a dollar fifty, two dollars. They felt robbed. They wanted to be entertained, entertained in a serious way, but not too serious a way. I don’t know. Then again, they did go for 'Double Indemnity' (1944). You can never, never, never predict an audience’s reaction. You never know how it’s going to affect them. But I hear about 'Ace in the Hole' quite a bit these days."

("Conversations with Wilder", Cameron Crowe, 1999)

P.S: On this day, 75 years ago, "Ace in the Hole" (1951) premiered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Satin dreams from 1934... with Miss Marguerite Churchill..........

[SylviaJulie @karenshane63]

#SusanDenberg

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Faye Dunaway -

Pierluigi Praturlon
1969