I don't see how anyone can hate this film.

WHAT.THE.FUCK.

Oh, sweet Jesus, man.

I feel like Alvy Singer when he gets enraged at the obnoxious Fellini basher in Annie Hall.

"You know nothing of my work."

That was Marshall McLuhan, though. not Fellini, hm?

The dude pontificated on a lot of subjects, most thoroughly Fellini. "Satyricon, Juliet of the Spirits; he's really one of the most...indulgent filmmakers working today."

Once he reaches McLuhan, Alvy pulls Marshall out from behind the sign.

I thought I remembered him praising Fellini actually, though you're probably right

Edit - Yes, you are

The few romantic films, that a guy can love...
I understand why this film felt cliched and it felt like it is so typical.

Because we have seen a million films that have been derived from this film. The countless bollywood flicks that mirror this film, my god...

In that i pay respect to this film by giving it a Solid A...
You guys need to show respects to some proper films, forget about all the recent romantic films, this one puts them all to shame.

Yeah, i just watched when my friend who is a guy who found Transformers to be the best film ever and finds a film without boobs, swearing and explosions to be boring, came one day and said "Yoh, you ever seen Casablanca dog, that film is sick man, that rick guy was so classy yoh. That girl was hit, and that police dude was jokes... "

I was left speechless and a tad ashamed that i have not seen it.Also it was surprising that a person that knows only of our current pop culture could watch a 1942 black and white romantic film and be amazed by it.

Man this film is just classy. I have no other way to describe it. Classy! Its a film that feels so familiar even though i have not seen it.
Bogart is classy and Bergman was stunning, the policeman was sheer brilliant and the music was just right.

A+

mine to as well.

Magnus, your right, a film with this storyline today would be tad silly and a flop.

Maybe, this film is a fluke. The thing about timeless classics, they are similar to many other films of their genre, but they have something special in them that none of those other films have.

This special thing may not be noticed by others. Like when i told my friend the 40,000 dollars plays no role in psycho,and then she want "Wohhhh, thats a weird storyline" She figured out the unusual storyline about of Psycho and thus found the film to be great when she re-watched it.

By the way, am I the only one who hates the way people kiss in old movies? Totally random statement, but yeah. It's like they eat each others lips.

yeah i dislike that...

Its better when they just look at each other in cool setting. Only in old films does that seem cool.

If you do that in a modern film, it would be quite stupid.

Actually it's just something about the demeanour of people in old movies in general that I notice more and more over time... I don't want to say the films are dated, because I can get over it and do love a lot of the movies, that's just how they're made of course, but I notice it. Old movie characters don't deliver and react their dialogue like they do now, you would never meet someone on the street who acts like them.

There's also stuff like characters proposing to women after like a day, that's just kind of... eh.

It's one of the things that solidifies All About Eve as an all timer to me, it's old but doesn't feel like it at all. The people and dialogue hold up and seem more real than most other b&w films, it avoids the stingy old movie dialogue and feel.

thats where the differences lies between the terms classics and timeless classics...


In a lot of old films the acting is really a one man show most of the time. 12 angry men is a great expectation though.

I would like to change my grade to an A- I've seen it again some days ago and while my criticisms of this still hold, it's just an enchanting movie with some great great acting by Bogart and Rains and the romance really really works.

That's because of stage acting, really.

Yeah, that's one thing I noticed a lot recently in many old films and it does bother me.

considering also as one would think people were not that daring and open about love in those days...

This classic is a classic among classics. It has classic written all over it. From the classic performance from Humphrey Bogart, to the classic script and the classic directing. I didn't give this classic its due the first time watching, I don't think my tastes were as refined as they are now. But I shall now. Classablanca is a classic through and through.

****

A classic post, if only I'd known what classic posts where like before i delved into more classic posts. My understanding of a classic post has reached new levels and I feel great, yes its a timeless classic.

he brings up a point that many say after watching the films.

Its classy and its a classic or its timeless and it feels like you have already seen most of it. Actually when I think of the film I just see classy. To Humphrey Bogart performance to his white suite to the whole atmosphere of the film.

When I first watched it was like I already saw it and you had one famous scene after another after another. Also you had memorable lines and then you get another one and the another 5 mins after. You knew what would happen and you knew the lines they spoke.

I think in the ending scene you had three all time memorable lines (that were on the AFI list)

bump. cute thread.

Love.

It really is great, and if it seems cliche, it's because all the cliches come from here.

A+

watching this now and this review is basically what I want to say...