Word: casablanca
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...SUNDAY: Casablanca. 1942. My favorite Bogey and one of my all-time favorite films. Romance and intrigue in wartime Morocco with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Heinreid, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, et al. CH.56...
...THINK THAT Bogart was the catalyst. In each film after Casablanca. Bogart played a role outlined by Chandler. Yet the role was so much in own stylistically, and he emphasized it so much in film after film, that Bogart became our idea of Philip Marlowe, no matter whom he played. That is, he contributed as much to the public's perception of Marlowe as Chandler. Rick Leland and Marlowe are remarkable similar, even though Casabalanca was released before Chandler achieved any popularity. Aloofness merged with compassion, ruthlessness with a unique sense of justice, cynicism with a deep sense of morality...
...Casablanca. Bogart. Why the Brattle brings this crowdpleaser back season in and season out I don't want to know. Why people pack the house I don't like, except on especially good days when nothing can phase me. Only then will the audience stock responses--"Play it, Sam", howls--rub off as some sort of togetherness high that is very very funny. On normal days the movie takes the most self-indulgent of campy spirits to be endured. Brattle...
...Casablanca. Bogart. Why the Brattle brings this crowdpleaser back season in and season out I don't want to know. Why people pack the house I don't like, except on especially good days when nothing can phase me. Only then will the audience stock responses--"Play it, Sam", howls--rub off as some sort of togetherness high that is very very funny. On normal days the movie takes the most self-indulgent of campy spirits to be endured. Brattle...
...undertones of the heavies, of intellectual riffraff at its most sincere and heart of heart having it outs. Everybody eavesdrops, it is licensed voyeurism. The Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) is an outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca (where the preppies hang out for their booze). Grendel's Den (on Boylston St. across from the Hungry Persian) is a basement coffee house with great spicy shiskebab, an endless selection of the most select folk rock albums, and some of the most carelessly elegant counterculture waiters around...