Apart from You (1933; Mikio Naruse) - 8/10
Every-Night Dreams (1933; Mikio Naruse) - 7/10
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948; Max Ophuls) - 8.5/10
Great film, that.Quote:
Originally Posted by miyako73
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Apart from You (1933; Mikio Naruse) - 8/10
Every-Night Dreams (1933; Mikio Naruse) - 7/10
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948; Max Ophuls) - 8.5/10
Great film, that.Quote:
Originally Posted by miyako73
Today I watched Slander, a film made in 1957, based on the problem of scandal magazines that plagued America during the 1950s.
These magazines relied on the prurience of readers, whose mundane lives could only be enlivened by gossip about well-known people: much the same as so-called celebrity magazines do today; the difference being that, where literally anything goes in reporting the activities of 'celebrities' nowadays, back then public perception was more adult and civilised, and unacceptable behaviour was punished accordingly. In this case, a successful performer is blackmailed by the proprietor of a scandal magazine into giving information about a famous actress he grew up with.
As a morality tale it is quite good in style and Steve Cochran, who plays the villain of the piece, is worth watching if only for the exceedingly well-cut clothes he wears: I wish I had a dressing gown like that.
Glengary Glenross.
Watching the broadway show with Al Pacino in a few weeks in nyc.
Cannery Row, baed on two short Steinbeck novels, with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger (some of the plot is taken from Sweet Thursday) an older movie but still a delight. I'd give it 3 of 4 stars as a light-hearted comedy with poignant themes.
I'm so glad you liked it. It's one of my favorite movies. It's actually "Cannery Row," and the author is Steinbeck, but the movie does star Nolte and Winger in two of their best roles, I think.
Gawd ... how far off ... how far. Thanx for the corrections.
A Separation (2011; Asghar Farhadi) -- 8/10
A well-deserved Best Foreign Film Oscar. It's refreshing to see a film where there's serious conflict but no clear protagonist/antagonist and the morality is so ambiguous.
lol, you're welcome.
That's my favorite movie.Quote:
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I saw Midnight in Paris; it’s a film by Woody Allen. Though it wasn’t as good as Match Point, but I enjoyed watching it.
There's nothing wrong with a little melancholy in a Christmas film, and 'Comfort and Joy'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsw1I15Fj9I) has a sleigh's worth of plaintiveness in amongst a continually surprising story of a recently-dumped radio DJ who becomes a go-between in the middle of estranged gelato producers. I'm nothing less than circumspect around movies that purport to be exemplary products of British humour, but this one is so bitingly sardonic yet strangely festive that I was won over in no time. On a twelve-days-of-Christmas scale, it rates a 10/12. The only trouble is that this isn't exactly a family-friendly Xmas flick, due to the romantic woe and the depiction of the ice cream wars(in which six people died).
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Davide Manuli's "La Leggenda Di Kaspar Hauser." Amazing film, a little strange. I've always had a thing for Vincent Gallo. The man is rather unlikable but he does have talent and a certain irresistible charm. This film though, surreal, amusing, strange. Long takes alongside electronic music. An odd combination, yet it works to some degree. This film is surely not for all, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Kaspar Hauser, an evil Grand Duchess, a pusher, a DJ sheriff, the mediterranean, long takes, surreal sequences, an amazing electronica soundtrack of sorts. 7.5/10
Has anyone seen Manuli's earlier film Beket? It looks absurd and fascinating. A strange retelling of various works of Samuel Beckett with a predisposition towards Waiting for Godot. Hideous, fragmented, disjointed, repetitive, absurd, filled with trance music dreams. Or so the trailer seems to suggest. Now if only I could find a copy.
The Iron Lady (2011; Phyllida Lloyd) - 7/10
Meryl Streep was predictably awesome, but everything else was fairly meh.
The Grey (2011: Joe Carnahan) - 5/10
Mediocre plane crash survival film with some hilariously bad CGI wolves.
Bride & Prejudice: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361411/
A musical based on Pride and Prejudice with the action centered in Amritsar, Punjab.
Score: 7/10