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CHAINED TO A MAN SHE DARED NOT LOVE!
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Time Out of Mind
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Brumas do Passado, 万缕情丝, Almas borrascosas
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New York City, New York
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03 May 1947
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I liked it but it not really a Noir, considering i am watching Powerhouse's Universal Noir 2 set.
There is however an outstanding tracking shot, near the end of the film, which goes round the back of the theater and up the stairs and across, it is "Russian Ark" like tracking, well impressive. I think you can also see the Rope esque cut moments, with foreground placcing
It is Sidomak and it kinda deals with addiction, its dark and melodramatic, so I kinda get it, as it comes across a little English period drama, Amberson's and if Letter from an Unknown Woman had a happy ending.
Basically a once rich Maine high class family, plan to send the brightest boy…
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Heavy toned story about a tormented composer. Not the type that wins you over with its charms. This was pure serious business. So much so, one struggles to find reasons to like it. Then it would show signs of the right attitude by throwing in nursery melodies into the big symphonies just to provoke and show the immature mind of the male lead. The story for the most part throws enough twists to keep things moving. Just be in the mood for a bleak experience.
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Time Out of Mind is the second film I've watched in the recently released Universal Noir #2. It isn't a noir. Not in any way. It is a beautiful-looking period melodrama directed by Robert Siodmak, with a lot of sweeping shots of rich mansions, stormy seas and shadowy conversations. Siodmak really spent whatever money this budget had and makes everything look great. However, it isn't a noir.
Rather it is a melodrama about a young man (the legitimately terrible Robert Hutton) who doesn't want to go to sea, as required by his wealthy Maine family. He sneaks off to Paris to compose mediocre music.
His love interest is the so-sweet-she-makes-your-teeth-ache Phyllis Calvert. All martyrdom and sexual absence. This film was…
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Fabulous seeing this apparently rare film on a pristine print at the BFI this afternoon. It's a fairly simple and quite familiar story, perhaps lacking a bit in the drama department, but I love Ella Raines and Phyllis Calvert is great in this. It manages to cover a long period of time in just 88 minutes, without ever feeling particularly rushed, which is a problem I often find with films that play out over a span of many years even if they last an hour longer than this film. By the end, I was not unmoved. And there's some very fine piano playing on display. Not Siodmak's best I'm sure (that would still be The Suspect from what I've seen), but not a bad little film at all.
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Florid historical melodrama swirling with repressed female sexuality of all kinds melded to a tortured, weak male — it is almost a parody of a ‘Women’s Picture,’ one that has lashings of classical music and female self-sacrificing. In the film’s final moments I thought Phyllis Calvert’s masochistic heroine was going to awaken from a feverish dream, where all of her scheming and interfering had finally led to her wishes coming true. None of it would work for a second without director Robert Siodmak’s superb visual compositions and elegant camera moves, the opulent art direction, and Miklós Rózsa‘s suitably baroque score.
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This long forgotten period melodrama is barely even a footnote in Robert Siodmak's career, a film that even he would rather was left to time—the German expat didn't want to direct it and only a very appealing pay rise managed to lure him back to this stiflingly dull and unengaging picture. The plot is a ludicrously heated family soap opera where Robert Hutton's bratty son of a fisherman wants to train as a musician but his old man is a bit of a dick and wants him to go to sea instead—that's the crux of dramatic intrigue offered here and it fails to stir up anything other than manufactured tension.
Siodmak knew it was a dud so evidently focused his…
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Indicator Challenge, Pt. II: 63/100
Ranked: Robert Siodmak
1947 RankedDirector Robert Siodmak did not care for Time Out of Mind’s material, having to be begged and overpaid in order to direct the film in the first place. He even retained veto power to have the film’s release nixed, though by his own admission, he didn’t need it because the film played for just one day then “disappeared forever.” It is not hard to see why this did not land in 1947, nor does it land in 2023. It is a simply dull, uninspired picture. It has a great start with a gothic setting, a quaint New England town, and a close-knit family eagerly awaiting the return of young Christopher…
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First of all, this is not a noir. I know this comes in a noir boxset, but no, not at all is this a noir. What this is though, is a damn fine melodrama directed by the legendary Robert Siodmak. It concerns a very wealthy family who make their fortune off of boats that sail the seas for the wondrous and delicious delights our oceans provide us. The patriarch is more than nonplussed that his heir Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton) has aspirations to be a great composer. He loves music so much so that he fucks off to France for a number of years. Upon his return, he finds that one servant still has feelings for him and this is…
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Whoever is putting together the box sets at Powerhouse (Indicator), needs to find another job. Included in the ‘Universal Noir #2’ box set - THIS IS NOT NOIR. It’s a weak melodrama.
No logical reason why our “hero” becomes an alcoholic & suddenly recovers. The story is (sort of) about the housemaid (or is she an adopted daughter? Or just some blow in?) but she’s not given any depth. Dad’s a prick but he just dies, the wife’s a bitch bit fuck knows why.
A total shambles of a film - does have a couple of technical flourishes but overall it should have remained gathering dust in the Universal archives.
Oh and the continuity errors, here’s three obvious ones, the basket…
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Once again this is another effort in a film noir box set that stretches the definition of that genre as this is far more of a period drama but it is still a good effort albeit one that is far inferior to other Siodmak films from the same time. That said the cast is effective in their roles, it evidently has a sizeable budget to it which helps it look convincing, it is well-shot, the plot is generally engrossing and there is some decent characterisation. Unfortunately, it is nothing we haven't seen before meaning it is predictable and it is somewhat lacking in dramatic heft.
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Another “gothic noir”, though really more a period melodrama, this one seemingly way off the radar, has Phyllis Calvert of Gainsborough fame pining for Robert Hutton as he marries, fails at music, and drinks way too much. Ella Raines is Hutton’s sister, and they are just waaaaaay too close for comfort. When she gives a speech about Calvert trying to separate Hutton not from his wife but from… her 😳😳😳. Bleak story but solid performances, great photography and sets too.
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I really can't say much more than James did:
letterboxd.com/justwannaboogie/film/time-out-of-mind-1947/The direction, sets, costumes, and photography are tops, while the story and characters aren't worth all those efforts.
Why in the world was this packaged as a Film Noir by Indicator in their Universal Noir box set v2? This is a period melodrama with gothic touches. Publishers have realized they can slap "Noir" onto nearly any black and white movie from 1945-1959 and it will sell a whole lot better than if they labelled it accurately, I guess. This is a huge pet peeve of mine.
I normally try not to remark on an historical film's adherence to present-day standards of morality, but I can't resist this time. By 2024…