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The Third ManOther

by Carol Reed

Who uses, recommends or left The Third Man, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Molly Manning Walker
British director, writer and cinematographer; her debut feature How to Have Sex (2023) won the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes and was nominated for two BAFTAs, and she shot Charlotte Regan's Scrapper (2023).
loved

When I can just be totally immersed in something, as I am when I watch The Third Man, that’s when I know it’s a great film.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Molly Manning Walker, the entry for The Third Man.

2024-03-21·criterion.com ↗

Wendell B. Harris Jr.
American filmmaker and actor trained at Juilliard and Interlochen; wrote, directed and starred in Chameleon Street, which won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
loved

The Third Man is a spine-tingling, zither-tinged movie where the murderous and the mundane always walk hand in hand.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Wendell B. Harris Jr., the entry for The Third Man.

2021-11-02·criterion.com ↗

Dick Cavett
American talk-show host and comedian whose interview programmes ran on national US television from the late 1960s into the 2000s.
loved

I forget which director said they should close all the film schools and just show the students The Third Man thirty times. It bears at least a dozen reseeings, with something new and fine discovered each time.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Dick Cavett, the entry for The Third Man.

2014-12-18·criterion.com ↗

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