I really enjoyed watching Match Point directed by Woody Allen. The ending was just superb. 8/10
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I really enjoyed watching Match Point directed by Woody Allen. The ending was just superb. 8/10
oh yes it is one of the best of his 2000 something movies!
I watched Apocalypse Now, saw it years ago but had forgotten a whole lot. Many great scenes and it's shot in a great way using lights and sound in way that make it even better. My favorite scene is when Sheen kills the lady that is wounded on the river boat.
It's a ten!
This one turned up in the library. It was an interesting story, but the dialog did not seem realistic. I did like how the courtroom scene reached a climax and then the movie swiftly ended going back to the attorney explaining what finally happened and then the final scene. It was enjoyable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
It occurred to me that I had a hard time distinguishing Ellen from Ruth. They looked too much alike. Of course, they had quite different personalities. I recall Ellen did look particularly wicked when Richard's brother was drowning.
Score: 7/10, but I actually have no basis on which to score these. 5+ is good. Below 5 just means I had no clue what was going on.
Build My Gallows High stars Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas. Once Mitchum appears in trench coat and snap brim trilby, you know you're back in the world of films noire with their complicated plots including double and triple crosses and dangerous femmes fatales . In this one the femme is truly fatale with her killing of the hero at the end of an exercise in fatuity. It's always a pity when good actors are handed the wooden spoon by directors like Jacques (I Walked With a Zombie) Tourneur but he couldn't do much with this adaptation from a typical piece of pulp fiction of the period.
http://youtu.be/dn8EImlkRV8
Some critics have made it out to be far more of a pastiche than it is. I agree that it does get bogged down in parts, I admire its ambition more than its execution. Sin City is probably a better example of parallel narratives being executed in film, but the anthology structure is a bit easier to convey than the intertwining narratives in Cloud Atlas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
I liked the movie but it is flawed.
Me too, it really flew under the radar critically and box office. Woody Allen films get a polite applause nowadays - at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
The Stranger (1946) is directed by Orson Welles and stars Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young.
The plot, which is one of the first post-war Nazi hunting stories, details the tracking down of a suspected ex-Nazi living in a small US community under the anonymity of a pseudonym and a position as professor at a local school for boys. Edward G Robinson plays the US government agent who traces his quarry ( Orson Welles ) and exposes the truth behind the respectable facade that Welles has built up among the townspeople.
I remember being impressed by the film when I first saw it on TV years ago but this time round it seemed rather flat and unconvincing, but it's not bad and gets 6/10.
Film is a type of narrative I suppose. Here are some I've enjoyed.
BicycleThieves
The Cow and I
The Big Lebowski
Les Infants du Paradis
Withnail and I
Once There were Heroes
Trees Lounge
Andrew Rublev
The Seventh Seal
Lacombe Lucien
In general I detest war films and silly fantasy stuff
Probably that was damn all to do with the conversation but that is life - it diverges.
Probably that was damn all to do with the conversation but that is life - it diverges.
Oops. "Posted" twice. Bodach's prerogative. What are the best Nicholson films? The Pledge, The King of Marvin Gardens and The Postman Always Rings Twice
I watched Poltergeist last night (have seen it before but not at midnight on my own in a haunted house). 9/10
Don't forget Chinatown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eiseabhal
Bang the Drum Slowly -- pretty good, about a baseball player, played by De Niro, who is dying. 7/10
House of Sand and Fog - Tough to watch, great acting. 8/10
Awakenings -- based on book by Oliver Sacks. Patients "wake up" for a while. Great movie. 9/10
The Illusionist -- Fantastic
(all on you tube)
The Perks of being a wall flower - I loved it five stars
I watched Carnage, a film by Roman Polanski. It’s a nice, funny movie with a good cast. 7/10
Recently I have gone to the cinema to watch "Lawless". To tell you the truth, I wasn`t astonished. It was a quite good movie but I wouldn`t recomment it.
Shia LaBouf as a gangster, it`s not a good idea in my opinion.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer, or something like that.
Technically, I suppose it was well done. There were ugly vampires running toward you with their mouths open wide. However, I didn't like the portrayal of the south in the US Civil War as being overrun by vampires.
Score: 3/10