Judging from a conversation I overheard before the start of the screening, it seems that there will always be people who haven’t seen Casablanca (1942). ‘I can’t believe you guys have never seen it,’ said the man to the two friends he’d brought along. ‘How did that happen?’ Even the friends were probably wondering. Because if you haven’t seen Casablanca, you may feel as though you have: as with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it’s hard to start fresh with Casablanca, so prevalent are certain images and lines from the film. A foggy night, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman gazing at each other from underneath the wide brims of their hats before the plane takes off. The stylishly dressed customers in ‘Rick’s bar américain’, Rick the most stylish of all in his white double-breasted dinner jacket. ‘Play it, Sam’, ‘here’s looking at you, kid’, ‘I think...
- 2/20/2012
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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