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Post by davey on Mar 19, 2024 14:18:26 GMT
1951 noir-ish fare. Really good as it happens, largely on the strength of Van Heflin's convincingly underhand performance. He really does come across as a properly unpleasant manipulative controlling presence in a way that really gets under your skin, it jars with the polite feel of the dialogue. This is a GREAT movie!
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 19, 2024 15:24:32 GMT
same director as "The Servant" & "the Boy with Green Hair"!!!
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Post by davey on Mar 19, 2024 15:42:28 GMT
same director as "The Servant" & "the Boy with Green Hair"!!! Joesph Losey also made a really great American remake of Fritz Lang’s “M.” It was about a million times better than it needed to be.
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 19, 2024 15:44:01 GMT
true and yet it still paled by comparison. David Wayne is good in it! I think "Accident" is pretty much a classic along with the other 2 I mentioned.
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 19, 2024 15:52:30 GMT
... and "the Prowler" of course. why not?
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Post by davey on Mar 19, 2024 15:52:34 GMT
true and yet it still paled by comparison. David Wayne is good in it! I think "Accident" is pretty much a classic along with the other 2 I mentioned. Of course it paled in comparison. Lang’s film is one of the handful of the greatest films ever. I’m just saying, an “M” remake sounds like the worst idea ever. But it’s surprisingly strong (and Raymond Burr is also particularly great). Haven’t seen Accident.
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 19, 2024 15:56:30 GMT
it's like "the servant" because it has Dirk Bogarde in it. I think Pinter did both screenplays too. both pretty pointy headed but really gets under the skin IMO.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 19, 2024 16:19:45 GMT
true and yet it still paled by comparison. David Wayne is good in it! Missed opportunity not to cast John Wayne though. Instead of fleeing in terror from the vigilante mob, he'd have just shot 'em.
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Post by davey on Mar 19, 2024 16:51:40 GMT
Whereas, I don’t see David Wayne helping The Searchers much.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 22, 2024 10:41:41 GMT
I've been meaning to watch this for years, especially as I've used the image for so long, and it only hit me yesterday that it was probably on youtube.
At times beautiful and fairly sinister, and at other times a bit overwrought and silly (the entire House of Lords bit is Adam and the Ants' Prince Charming gone weird). I do have a weird fascination with Conrad Veidt though, and he's incredible in this throughout. Has to be difficult to express so much just through the eyes in a silent film.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 4, 2024 8:26:17 GMT
True Things - This featured a great central performance from Ruth Wilson as a young women who drifts into an abusive relationship. It was a bit underwritten which robbed it of a certain amount of dramatic power, but the visceral performances and moody direction made it pretty memorable. One of the better British movies I've seen in recent years.
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Post by davey on Apr 4, 2024 14:51:57 GMT
I happened to watch A Matter of Life and Death on Tuesday night, followed by catching about half of A Streetcar Named Desire on Wednesday evening (it was Brando’s 100th birthday, so they were playing his films all night on TCM).
Even seeing them both so close together, it’s almost impossible to reconcile Kim Hunter from one of those films to the other. She’s really marvelous (as was pretty much everyone in both of those films). It should be said, the opening scenes in A Matter of Life and Death are truly special.
And yeah…Brando.
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Post by DayoRemix on Apr 6, 2024 7:05:17 GMT
Saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. It's an overstuffed fan-service film, which could have benefited from a bit of streamlining. Aykroyd and Hudson needed to be in the film, but many of the rest just clutter up the works. (Murray,Potts,Atherton) The plot is pretty easy, but there are fun moments and good action. Paul Rudd is his normal adorable self and provides key points of levity. If there is going to be a future sequel, they may want to wait until the actual leads (The younger folk) are old enough to be on their own, without having to include the Carrie Coon mom character, which simply doesn't work. All in all, if you like the Ghostbusters universe, you should find enough to enjoy yourself, just don't expect too much.
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Post by DarknessFish on Apr 8, 2024 9:45:21 GMT
After saying just last week that I didn't have any faith in post-millennial Scorcese, my son decided Shutter Island should be the Sunday night film. I can't say as it changed my view any. It's ok, just about, but overall it feels like a bad episode of Quantum Leap. Some individual sequences were pretty good, but as a cohesive film with a sensible plot it misses the mark by a huge margin. Also, it's one of those Raiders of the Lost Ark style films where the actual events of the film make no difference to the end state, it's remarkably empty in the end. Pfft.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 8, 2024 11:03:14 GMT
I liked its dark, noirish atmosphere and De Caprio was good, but yeah the plot didn't hold up to too much scrutiny. Like a lot of 21st century Scorsese it was rather 'style over substance'.
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