Try — Heart Beat, (Sam Wood, 1946) Truly horrible Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone film. I almost feel bad knowing about it - but enjoy inflicting it on others. Scott Higgins Professor, Chair College of Film and the Moving Image Wesleyan University > On Mar 12, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Matoniemi Timo (KAVI) <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth / Pockpicket eli katkelmia helsinkiläisen porvarisnuoren elämästä by > Peter von Bagh (1968). > Pockpicket, a reversal of Robert Bresson’s classic Pickpocket in which the wealthy protagonist tries to sneak banknotes into people’s pockets and handbags around Helsinki. > > > > Terveisin / Best regards, > Timo Matoniemi > [log in to unmask] > > > Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti / Nationella audiovisuella institutet / National audiovisual institute > Helsinki > HUOM: uusi tel. +358 2953 38119 > www.kavi.fi > > > > > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Puolesta Craig Martin > Lähetetty: 10. maaliskuuta 2018 17:07 > Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask] > Aihe: Re: [SCREEN-L] movies about pickpockets? > > I'm sure you already have Bruce Geller's 1973 film *Harry in Your Pocket*. > There's also Curt Bois' character who pickpockets unsuspecting targets in Michael Curtiz' *Casablanca,* the pickpockets in Jack Conway's *The Unholy Three *remake and the self-confessed kleptomaniac with a veritable library of stolen wallets in Steven Spielberg's animated film *The Adventures of Tintin *(2011). > >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:06 AM, Linda Robinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Probably nothing like what you're looking for, but there's always the >> musical Oliver! (1986). >> >>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Fang, Karen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> >>> I'm looking for movies about pickpockets (similar to Samuel Fuller's >>> PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, Robert Bresson's LE PICKPOCKET, and Jia >>> Zhangke's XIAO WU). >>> >>> >>> I'll be considering these films in conjunction with a thread of Hong >>> Kong movies on the same topic, as well as COLD EYES (a Korean remake >>> of a Hong Kong movie that quotes Fuller), but would be grateful for >>> titles and suggestions to other movies about pickpockets within world film. >>> >>> >>> Feel free to reply off off-list. >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any leads! >>> >>> Karen Fang >>> >>> >>> Karen Fang http://uh.academia.edu/KarenFang >>> Professor >>> Department of English >>> University of Houston @KfangKaren >>> >>> author of _Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film_ Stanford >>> University Press, 2017 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26756 >>> >>> ---- >>> Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex >>> podcast: >>> http://www.screenlex.org >>> >> >> ---- >> To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF >> Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] >> > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > > ---- > Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex > podcast: > http://www.screenlex.org ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org