Fatal theory

Rope

(1948)

Technically fascinating--filmed with I guess 5 reels, a virtual single shot broken only by the occasional push into the back of someone's dark suit jacket to cover a reel change. And beyond that, the fictional riff on Leopold and Loeb is better than I remembered from the first time I saw it, at least until the inevitable copout on the James Stewart character, who in the climax recants the pseudo-Nietzschean philosophy that has inspired the young murderers. Would have been far more interesting had he maintained the stance that it's OK for superior men to kill inferior ones and had take the young men to task only on execution, as it were. But you can't do that w/ Jimmy Stewart.

[Sat. p.m.] Remembered this burning question later: why do these people serve champagne in martini glasses?