I first saw this movie 40 years ago,it took me by surprise and made a big impression on me as it was a different type of film I saw of Rock Hudson,the tone,plot photography,cast,THE ENDING...an amazing film and one of my favorites (came across of VHS copy years ago,still have it!) Auckland New Zealand 2024
Most everything in “Seconds” not just works but works dazzlingly well. John Frankenheimer created a parable of the Faust myth, coupled with North America’s pronounced fear of aging. James Wong Howe’s glistening camerawork looks at times like a superior “Twilight Zone” episode. And it is refreshing to see Criterion adding back in film grain, after their crisp, digital restoration. Discussions of dystopian story telling aside, today it is impossible not to see the story resonating with Rock Hudson’s Hollywood make over as an heroic, good natured, heterosexual everyman.
In 1965 California, the youth generation blossomed. It was a nudist bacchanal. Adults from a earlier time, like Rock Hudson in the film, were tense, ill at ease, trying a little too hard to have a good time. Social conventions were being exploded and not everybody was comfortable with that. Then there was the Manson killings and it all suddenly ended.
I always wondered why a certain scene mentioned here was ommited from the final cut. Did J H not have a say in the editing together of this film? Or did he approve that scene being cut? I didn't quite get what the documentary concludes about that. I personally think that the final image makes the point about that longing for a past long gone (with his daughter on the beach) but it could easily be missed...
Maybe my favorite film of my late great uncle James Wong Howe.
He and Conrad Hall are the two best B&W cinematographers in my estimation.
He should have at least got an Oscar nomination, if not the Oscar itself for his amazing performance.
I love this movie. I heard Mr. Hudson was very proud of it.
I first saw this movie 40 years ago,it took me by surprise and made a big impression on me as it was a different type of film I saw of Rock Hudson,the tone,plot photography,cast,THE ENDING...an amazing film and one of my favorites (came across of VHS copy years ago,still have it!) Auckland New Zealand 2024
Top B&W Cinematography & Grip work in Seconds.
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
If you don't have a story, you don't have a film... This was a great story.
Beautiful!!!
Such a great film. Unbelievably good.
Legend! Thanks again mate.
A classic film, but I don't blame people for hating it due to the operation and the ending.
This is superb. Do you have the Frankenheimer audio commentary?
A superb science fiction film.
Most everything in “Seconds” not just works but works dazzlingly well. John Frankenheimer created a parable of the Faust myth, coupled with North America’s pronounced fear of aging. James Wong Howe’s glistening camerawork looks at times like a superior “Twilight Zone” episode. And it is refreshing to see Criterion adding back in film grain, after their crisp, digital restoration.
Discussions of dystopian story telling aside, today it is impossible not to see the story resonating with Rock Hudson’s Hollywood make over as an heroic, good natured, heterosexual everyman.
In 1965 California, the youth generation blossomed. It was a nudist bacchanal. Adults from a earlier time, like Rock Hudson in the film, were tense, ill at ease, trying a little too hard to have a good time. Social conventions were being exploded and not everybody was comfortable with that. Then there was the Manson killings and it all suddenly ended.
I always wondered why a certain scene mentioned here was ommited from the final cut. Did J H not have a say in the editing together of this film? Or did he approve that scene being cut? I didn't quite get what the documentary concludes about that.
I personally think that the final image makes the point about that longing for a past long gone (with his daughter on the beach) but it could easily be missed...