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      <title>Film:Shock Corridor</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Shock Corridor<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 1963<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Samuel Fuller<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> Shock Corridor represents filmmaker <a href="/players/P____90748/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Samuel Fuller</a> at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. <a href="/players/P_____8223/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Peter Breck</a> plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution. While pursuing his investigation, Breck is sidetracked by the loopy behavior of his fellow inmates. During a hospital riot, Breck is straightjacketed and subjected to shock treatment. By now almost as crazy as he's previously pretended to be, Breck begins imagining that his exotic-dancer girlfriend <a href="/players/P____71516/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Constance Towers</a> (a <a href="/players/P____90748/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Samuel Fuller</a> "regular") is actually his sister! Typical of the Fuller <I>ouevre</I>, the characters in Shock Corridor are either saved or destroyed by their individual obsessions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 7<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 14<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 2<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 8<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:11:29 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Shock Corridor</spout:Title><spout:Year>1963</spout:Year><spout:Director>Samuel Fuller</spout:Director><spout:Plot>Shock Corridor represents filmmaker &lt;a href="/players/P____90748/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Samuel Fuller&lt;/a&gt; at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. &lt;a href="/players/P_____8223/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Peter Breck&lt;/a&gt; plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution. While pursuing his investigation, Breck is sidetracked by the loopy behavior of his fellow inmates. During a hospital riot, Breck is straightjacketed and subjected to shock treatment. By now almost as crazy as he's previously pretended to be, Breck begins imagining that his exotic-dancer girlfriend &lt;a href="/players/P____71516/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Constance Towers&lt;/a&gt; (a &lt;a href="/players/P____90748/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Samuel Fuller&lt;/a&gt; "regular") is actually his sister! Typical of the Fuller &lt;I&gt;ouevre&lt;/I&gt;, the characters in Shock Corridor are either saved or destroyed by their individual obsessions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>7</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Taggedy Taggged (6-10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>14</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>2</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>8</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>3</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t01576jinkc.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Shock_Corridor/31109/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Need more Noir</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Community_Recommendations/643/discussions.aspx'>Community Recommendations</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/9/2009 12:06:52 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="leeroy711"] [quote user="Risselada"]   I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor. [/quote] Thank you thank you, the only ones of these I've seen were Night of the Hunter, - which had a pretty dark story but I really didn't like that it was all done in a studio. And Third Man was pretty incredible. I haven't seen The Big Sleep, but I have seen The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) which was the one I was actually trying to think of when I mentioned Fury. I think Fury would actually probably be considered pre-noir. I've kinda been on a Sam Fuller kick ever since I watch Shock Corridor earlier this year. I friggin' loved that one. I just got White Dog in the mail the other day but I haven't watched it yet. [/quote] Yeah, if you see any of them, especially one of the first three, I'm excited to hear what you think! Let me know how White Dog goes.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:06:52 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Community Recommendations</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/9/2009 12:06:52 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="leeroy711"] [quote user="Risselada"]   I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor. [/quote] Thank you thank you, the only ones of these I've seen were Night of the Hunter, - which had a pretty dark story but I really didn't like that it was all done in a studio. And Third Man was pretty incredible. I haven't seen The Big Sleep, but I have seen The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) which was the one I was actually trying to think of when I mentioned Fury. I think Fury would actually probably be considered pre-noir. I've kinda been on a Sam Fuller kick ever since I watch Shock Corridor earlier this year. I friggin' loved that one. I just got White Dog in the mail the other day but I haven't watched it yet. [/quote] Yeah, if you see any of them, especially one of the first three, I'm excited to hear what you think! Let me know how White Dog goes.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Need more Noir</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/121669/default.aspx'>leeroy711</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Community_Recommendations/643/discussions.aspx'>Community Recommendations</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/8/2009 10:47:21 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="Risselada"]   I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor. [/quote] Thank you thank you, the only ones of these I've seen were Night of the Hunter, - which had a pretty dark story but I really didn't like that it was all done in a studio. And Third Man was pretty incredible. I haven't seen The Big Sleep, but I have seen The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) which was the one I was actually trying to think of when I mentioned Fury. I think Fury would actually probably be considered pre-noir. I've kinda been on a Sam Fuller kick ever since I watch Shock Corridor earlier this year. I friggin' loved that one. I just got White Dog in the mail the other day but I haven't watched it yet.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:47:21 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>leeroy711</spout:postby><spout:postto>Community Recommendations</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/8/2009 10:47:21 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="Risselada"]   I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor. [/quote] Thank you thank you, the only ones of these I've seen were Night of the Hunter, - which had a pretty dark story but I really didn't like that it was all done in a studio. And Third Man was pretty incredible. I haven't seen The Big Sleep, but I have seen The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) which was the one I was actually trying to think of when I mentioned Fury. I think Fury would actually probably be considered pre-noir. I've kinda been on a Sam Fuller kick ever since I watch Shock Corridor earlier this year. I friggin' loved that one. I just got White Dog in the mail the other day but I haven't watched it yet.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Need more Noir</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/8/2009 6:53:11 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="leeroy711"] I feel like I've recently re-discovered the noir genre. I just watched The Killing last night and I loved it. As with Fuller's Pickup on South Street. I had previously been a fan of Fritz Lang's older German movies, but now I've seen Fury and I need to see more of his American stuff. And after watching Touch of Evil, I can't understand why Citizen Kane is known as Orson Welle's best work.. I mean c'mon....!!! Charlton Heston just grows a mustache and presto!!! He's a Mexican. You can't beat that!   Anyways what are some of the films I'm missing?? [/quote] I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:53:11 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Community Recommendations</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/8/2009 6:53:11 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="leeroy711"] I feel like I've recently re-discovered the noir genre. I just watched The Killing last night and I loved it. As with Fuller's Pickup on South Street. I had previously been a fan of Fritz Lang's older German movies, but now I've seen Fury and I need to see more of his American stuff. And after watching Touch of Evil, I can't understand why Citizen Kane is known as Orson Welle's best work.. I mean c'mon....!!! Charlton Heston just grows a mustache and presto!!! He's a Mexican. You can't beat that!   Anyways what are some of the films I'm missing?? [/quote] I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Weekly Theme for July 29: Locked Up!</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/121669/default.aspx'>leeroy711</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/625/discussions.aspx'>Weekly Theme</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/29/2008 1:12:34 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="indieabby88"] I remember in middle and early high school I was really into "Girl, Interrupted." My weird pseudo-feminist friends at the time thought it was the best movie around. Then, several years later, I watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and realized I'd been sorely mistaken.   [/quote] I hadn't even thought about mental institution movies. With that being said, you can't leave out Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor. Also, I think we can't forget about POW  and concentration camps movies. I've always thought that Empire of the Sun was Speilberg's most underrated film.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:12:34 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>leeroy711</spout:postby><spout:postto>Weekly Theme</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/29/2008 1:12:34 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="indieabby88"] I remember in middle and early high school I was really into "Girl, Interrupted." My weird pseudo-feminist friends at the time thought it was the best movie around. Then, several years later, I watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and realized I'd been sorely mistaken.   [/quote] I hadn't even thought about mental institution movies. With that being said, you can't leave out Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor. Also, I think we can't forget about POW  and concentration camps movies. I've always thought that Empire of the Sun was Speilberg's most underrated film.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: What is it called when.......................</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/leeroy711/archive/2008/7/6/32173.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t01576jinkc.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/121669/default.aspx'>leeroy711</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/6/2008 1:46:03 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Have you ever watched a movie that you liked so much that it actually pisses you off that you waited soooo long to watch it? Is there a special word for that? I just finished watching Samuel Fuller's Shock Corrider and I have that feeling. This movie has been bouncing around my netflix queue for the better part of a year now and I finally sat down to watch it tonight. I had a similar feeling after watching 8 1/2 for the first time. Damn it, what the hell else have I been missing?<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:46:03 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>leeroy711</spout:postby><spout:postto>leeroy711 Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/6/2008 1:46:03 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Have you ever watched a movie that you liked so much that it actually pisses you off that you waited soooo long to watch it? Is there a special word for that? I just finished watching Samuel Fuller's Shock Corrider and I have that feeling. This movie has been bouncing around my netflix queue for the better part of a year now and I finally sat down to watch it tonight. I had a similar feeling after watching 8 1/2 for the first time. Damn it, what the hell else have I been missing?</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Re:Re:Re:Is Pickup on South Street a noir classic?</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Noir/Re_Re_Re_Re_Is_Pickup_on_South_Street_a_noir_class/313/22529/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t01576jinkc.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/7717/default.aspx'>JimBell</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/4/2007 12:49:55 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I don&#39;t know that much about him. Was he involved in espionage? The underworld? Another other movies--noir or not--by him that you&#39;d recommend?JIMBELL<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:49:55 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>JimBell</spout:postby><spout:postto>Noir</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/4/2007 12:49:55 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I don&amp;#39;t know that much about him. Was he involved in espionage? The underworld? Another other movies--noir or not--by him that you&amp;#39;d recommend?JIMBELL</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Bargain Criterion</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2213/default.aspx'>HarmlessAndroid</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/1/2007 3:49:28 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I am a bargain hunter in general, but I love to dig for things. I have made it pretty much a standard that I don&#39;t pay full price for Criterions even though I love them. I have a hard time paying $40 for a movie. Here are a few that I have found for really really low prices.Seven Samurai - $7  (Blockbuster used area)Carnival of Soulds - $5 (Second hand store)Band of Outsiders - $6 (Bizarre junk shop in Niles Michigan)Shock Corridor - $8 (Going out of business clearance at Hollywood Video) Robocop - $25 (ebay, usually sells for $80ish... its out of print) I will add more if I have any new super on the cheap aquisitions. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:49:28 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>HarmlessAndroid</spout:postby><spout:postto>Criterion Collection</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/1/2007 3:49:28 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I am a bargain hunter in general, but I love to dig for things. I have made it pretty much a standard that I don&amp;#39;t pay full price for Criterions even though I love them. I have a hard time paying $40 for a movie. Here are a few that I have found for really really low prices.Seven Samurai - $7  (Blockbuster used area)Carnival of Soulds - $5 (Second hand store)Band of Outsiders - $6 (Bizarre junk shop in Niles Michigan)Shock Corridor - $8 (Going out of business clearance at Hollywood Video) Robocop - $25 (ebay, usually sells for $80ish... its out of print) I will add more if I have any new super on the cheap aquisitions. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: The early stuff is just as good</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2007/9/5/19402.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t01576jinkc.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2143/default.aspx'>quint</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/default.aspx'>An inordinate number of peppers</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/5/2007 10:55:00 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I saw this on Netflix on demand thing. Whatever they&#39;re calling it. I&#39;m becoming quite a fan of the service although it only works on a tricked out pc. It&#39;s pretty cool to have all this stuff at your disposal and although the selection is still slim, there are gems like this: early Sam Fuller. If you are not a fan of Sam Fuller, you probably haven&#39;t seen enough Sam Fuller. This is from a great Criterion Collection of his early films and it has all the tight structure and controversy of Shock Corridor or Pickup on South Street. If you&#39;ve never seen a Sam Fuller film, think Quentin Tarantino, but in the 50&#39;s. That&#39;s doing Fuller a great injustice, but I think fans of the one should become fans of the other. I&#39;ve always found Fuller&#39;s films to be well written. That is mainly why I am drawn to them. He reminds me of Clifford Odets. Fuller should be ranked with John Houston and he&#39;s better than Peckinpah at a lot of things. Check out everything you can. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>quint</spout:postby><spout:postto>An inordinate number of peppers</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/5/2007 10:55:00 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I saw this on Netflix on demand thing. Whatever they&amp;#39;re calling it. I&amp;#39;m becoming quite a fan of the service although it only works on a tricked out pc. It&amp;#39;s pretty cool to have all this stuff at your disposal and although the selection is still slim, there are gems like this: early Sam Fuller. If you are not a fan of Sam Fuller, you probably haven&amp;#39;t seen enough Sam Fuller. This is from a great Criterion Collection of his early films and it has all the tight structure and controversy of Shock Corridor or Pickup on South Street. If you&amp;#39;ve never seen a Sam Fuller film, think Quentin Tarantino, but in the 50&amp;#39;s. That&amp;#39;s doing Fuller a great injustice, but I think fans of the one should become fans of the other. I&amp;#39;ve always found Fuller&amp;#39;s films to be well written. That is mainly why I am drawn to them. He reminds me of Clifford Odets. Fuller should be ranked with John Houston and he&amp;#39;s better than Peckinpah at a lot of things. Check out everything you can. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5889/default.aspx'>Jymkata</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/29/2007 11:15:16 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> interesting topic, I must admit I like a lot of films with higher budgets but here is my top 5 without spending too much time looking up the numbers- 1. 12 Angry Men - $350,000 in 1957, about $ 5.6 mil. in today&#39;s dollars according to your rules. This is one of my favorite films. Yeah, the setting is a couple of rooms, but the direction is taut and wow, what a cast!2. Mad Max - est. $350,00 in 1979, about $ 2.8 mil. Amazing low budget film. They got a steal with an unknown Mel Gibson, but it&#39;s pretty gutsy to make a futuristic movie with this scale.3. City of God - This movie looks like it was made with $ 50 mil. thanks to the direction and cinematography, but can you believe it only cost Miramax $ 3.3 mil. ?4. Donnie Darko - This is another one that looks like it cost a lot, but it was made with $ 4.5 mil. and I loved it 5. Reservoir Dogs - I know it&#39;s hip to trash Tarantino as just a hip poser, but he made an outstanding debut for $ 1.2 millionin 1992. Big budgets, small budgets - the guy can direct.I can&#39;t find info on his budgets, but a master at making the money stretch was Samuel Fuller. I&#39;d love to find out the numbers on my favorites like Pickup on South Street, The Steel Helmet, The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor, Forty Guns, and The Big Red One.  I think a great director can make a masterpiece out of a small budget but a hack can&#39;t make a decent movie out of Titanic&#39;s budget. An interesting case is Sam Raimi who made low-budget horror masterpieces with the Evil Dead series, but I feel like every increased budget yielded a worse film. The Spiderman movies are among some of the most expensive ever made and I think they suck. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:15:16 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Jymkata</spout:postby><spout:postto>Top 5</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/29/2007 11:15:16 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>interesting topic, I must admit I like a lot of films with higher budgets but here is my top 5 without spending too much time looking up the numbers- 1. 12 Angry Men - $350,000 in 1957, about $ 5.6 mil. in today&amp;#39;s dollars according to your rules. This is one of my favorite films. Yeah, the setting is a couple of rooms, but the direction is taut and wow, what a cast!2. Mad Max - est. $350,00 in 1979, about $ 2.8 mil. Amazing low budget film. They got a steal with an unknown Mel Gibson, but it&amp;#39;s pretty gutsy to make a futuristic movie with this scale.3. City of God - This movie looks like it was made with $ 50 mil. thanks to the direction and cinematography, but can you believe it only cost Miramax $ 3.3 mil. ?4. Donnie Darko - This is another one that looks like it cost a lot, but it was made with $ 4.5 mil. and I loved it 5. Reservoir Dogs - I know it&amp;#39;s hip to trash Tarantino as just a hip poser, but he made an outstanding debut for $ 1.2 millionin 1992. Big budgets, small budgets - the guy can direct.I can&amp;#39;t find info on his budgets, but a master at making the money stretch was Samuel Fuller. I&amp;#39;d love to find out the numbers on my favorites like Pickup on South Street, The Steel Helmet, The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor, Forty Guns, and The Big Red One.  I think a great director can make a masterpiece out of a small budget but a hack can&amp;#39;t make a decent movie out of Titanic&amp;#39;s budget. An interesting case is Sam Raimi who made low-budget horror masterpieces with the Evil Dead series, but I feel like every increased budget yielded a worse film. The Spiderman movies are among some of the most expensive ever made and I think they suck. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Journalism Movies</title>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/23/2007 6:07:59 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Some of these movies feature journalism more centrally some more incidentally.1.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas  -  Gonzo Journalism at it&#39;s most iconic2.  Citizen Kane  -  Journalism as a theme and part of the structure3.  Shattered Glass  -  true story of fake stories4.  All The President&#39;s Men5.  No Man&#39;s Land  -  how journalism doesn&#39;t just report on wars, but often affects wars, and sometimes even starts them Runner&#39;s up - Shock Corridor, The Hudsucker Proxy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Good Night, and Good Luck.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:07:59 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Filmspotting</spout:postto><spout:postdate>6/23/2007 6:07:59 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Some of these movies feature journalism more centrally some more incidentally.1.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas  -  Gonzo Journalism at it&amp;#39;s most iconic2.  Citizen Kane  -  Journalism as a theme and part of the structure3.  Shattered Glass  -  true story of fake stories4.  All The President&amp;#39;s Men5.  No Man&amp;#39;s Land  -  how journalism doesn&amp;#39;t just report on wars, but often affects wars, and sometimes even starts them Runner&amp;#39;s up - Shock Corridor, The Hudsucker Proxy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Good Night, and Good Luck.</spout:body></item>
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