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The Bride! (2026)
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
influenced by The Thin Man (1934)
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Sarsgaard and Cruz share witty THE THIN MAN-style banter and chemistry.
Penelope Cruz’s lady detective who is named for “The Thin Man’s” Myrna Loy…
Peter Sarsgaard and Penelope Cruz play detectives inspired by Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man…
A New York undercover police saga, "We Own the Night" is set in 1988, but it recalls even earlier eras: the 1970s, when movies like "Mean Streets" blurred the line between crime film and art film, and the 1930s, when audiences flocked to such good brother/bad brother gangster yarns as "Manhattan Melodrama," the movie John Dillinger watched before he was gunned down outside the Biograph theater in Chicago in 1934.
Some 20 movies, starting with the 1918 silent (with Elmo Lincoln in the title role) and going on to the Johnny Weissmuller/Maureen O'Sullivan classics (the first of which, Tarzan the Ape Man, came out in '32), the 1981 Miles O'Keeffe/Bo Derek remake, Hugh Hudson's 1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (with Christopher Lambert and Andie MacDowell), and last year's Tarzan and the Lost City (with Casper Van Dien and Jane March).
It gives not only the character a sense of cool, but the film itself as we follow alongside him as he attempts to unravel the mystery and pull what he can from those around him while they remain none the wiser. It’s an immersive, engrossing experience that makes tracking the mystery fun in a way that calls to mind the cunning of Nick Charles from the previously mentioned Thin Man franchise…
Many have compared its central romance to The Thin Man, and indeed Koepp had been working on a remake of The Thin Man back in 2011…
…turns the story into a cocktail of The Thin Man and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Both qualities are on amply display in the bombshell's 1981 bomb, "Tarzan, the Ape Man."
Poor Tarzan, once king of the jungle, has been reduced to the status of mere sex object in this latest screen adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure-classic, ''Tarzan, the Ape Man.''
Norma Shearer’s portrayal of the queen in 1938 Oscar-nominee Marie Antoinette inspired power-hungry Eva Perón to dye her hair blonde.
Clooney and the absolutely first-class Farmiga project the kind of understated sexual chemistry and easy intellectual rapport reminiscent of Nick and Nora in " The Thin Man ," Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in " The Awful Truth ."
(It speaks to some sort of collective masochism that we take such pleasure in watching ourselves be flattened, or, more likely, we just get a kick out of destruction â cinematically it does, after all, date back at least to 1936âs San Francisco, if not the early silent newsreels.)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Directed by Hugh Hudson
influenced by Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Over the coming weeks, we'll be covering seven of Warner's Tarzan titles, the first six of which (Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan Escapes, Tarzan Finds a Son!, Tarzan's Secret Treasure, Tarzan's New York Adventure) are available only as a package deal known as "The Tarzan Collection," whose supplementary material we'll cover in conjunction with Tarzan's New York Adventure.…
Roman Holiday and Tarzan the Ape Man both factor into some of the main scenarios, and keeping with the Kurosawa love in Millennium Actress one character even manifests as the director in his dreams (you can tell by the hat and sun-glasses).
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) – Ardından bu filmin klasik ağaçtan ağaca sallanma sahnesine harika bir geçiş yaparız.
At least one unfunny comedy (the 1940 William Powell-Myrna Loy vehicle I Love You Again) and one unmoving drama (the 1991 Harrison Ford vehicle Regarding Henry) have been built around the premise of amnesia threatening a marriage.
Despite Jim and Nora's spontaneous eruptions of good cheer akin to Dashiell Hammett's detective duo in The Thin Man, Almereyda subtly intertwines an undercurrent of creepy ghost story devices.
Plus, the relationship of Hounsou's character with Danny Archer is well-developed and demonstrates that, yes, we actually have made some strides in this old world, since the two characters' fates in Blood Diamond are essentially a reversal of those of the title character and his black gun bearer in Trader Horn (1931), the granddaddy of all African adventure pictures.
As for the screwball elements, there is a certain amount of homage paid to classics like Bringing Up Baby and The Thin Man in Wallace and Chantrys banter.
The Thin Man with blood cocktails, an ode to hipsterism through the ages, a mainline shot of cool and a playful tribute to artistic fetishism, Jim Jarmusch’s vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive is an addictive mood and tone piece, a nocturnal reverie that incidentally celebrates a marriage that has lasted untold centuries.
Anyone whose idea of a screen marriage is the one between William Powell and Myrna Loy, in “The Thin Man,” should stay clear.
Meanwhile, Jason talks his way into Ellie’s (Imogen Poots) bed courtesy of alcohol-fueled repartee that’ll leave The Thin Man’s William Powell and Myrna Loy spinning in their respective graves.
The Thin Man (1934) still stands as the 70 year-old pinnacle, and thoughDoug Liman's Mr. & Mrs. Smith is not nearly that good, it's enough funthat it may become a favorite of husbands and wives in years to come.
As for how Louis Armstrong’s “It’s a Wonderful World” is used, I’ll let you discover on your own.
The tough-guy couplings go back to Gable and Tracy in "San Francisco," and Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen in the silent "What Price Glory."