Some Came Running (1958)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
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Unsurprisingly for Godard, there are icons, totems, and references galore, from the hat and slacks the screenwriter Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) wears in homage to Dean Martin’s character in Some Came Running to his wife Camille’s (Brigitte Bardot) preference for tucking her traffic-stopping blond locks underneath a wig that could represent a cheeky reference the hairstyle of Godard’s own wife at the time, Anna Karina.
Additionally, Godard pays tribute to several of his favorite films here, including several by Lang, Howard Hawks' Hatari!, Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy, Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running and many more.
The husband once penned crime novels and now finds himself as both whore and pimp, in his own mind he's Dean Martin in Some Came Running.
Finally, there is Vincente Minelli's Some Came Running, in which Dean Martin always wears a hat for luck (which Paul mimics in Contempt), and who takes it off only in honor of the woman who gave her life for the struggling artist hero (Frank Sinatra), just as the death of a woman in Contempt releases (one hopes) an artist.
There’s an old joke that’s designed to be funny ha-ha for men but is, I suspect, only bitterly funny for most women: “Show me the most beautiful woman in the world, and I’ll show you the guy who’s tired of fucking her.” Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt is many things: a free-verse editorial on the unholy alliance between art and commerce, a meditation on sea and countryside as landscapes of infinite sadness, a whirring phrasebook of intellectual thought that name-checks Dante, Bertolt Brecht, and Dean Martin in Some Came Running.
6. Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running (1959).
His Spring Breakers is a deliberately ugly picture, looking at the world as if from the inside of a jukebox, to use Vincente Minnelli's description of his own late 1950s film Some Came Running .
The movie is based on the 1962 novel by James Jones, whose novels were the basis for the 1950's hits From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running.