The Mighty Angel (Pod Mocnym Aniolem) (2014) 8/10
I watched Accidental Hero AKA Hero (1992). The film didn't work for me. Odd coincidence that Geena Davis should be in two seriocomedy films with titles stating with Accidental though totally unrelated. I preferred The Accidental Tourist.
Chevy Chase was in quite a lot of the scenes but was uncredited, the reason being that at the time he was under contract with a different studio and was only permitted to work in the film as long as he was not credited.
Blue Ruin (2013) 7/10
I watched Half Past Dead (2002), a rubbish Steven Seagal film. The only reason for watching it was that I saw that Linda Thorson was in the cast. I hadn't seen her for many years. She was Tara King in The Avengers television series, after Diana Rigg left, and before Joanna Lumley in the New Avengers.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [2013] 8.5/10
A rollicking good adventure. Jennifer Lawrence combines star charisma with girl next door likeability. Supporting cast are great too, not least the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The Double (2013) 6/10
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
That's one of the few Hitchock films made after the early 1930s that I've never seen.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
That's one of the few Hitchock films made after the early 1930s that I've never seen.
Family Plot and Topaz are the only ones i have not seen from the early 30s onwards
Sincere Heart (Magokoro) (1953) 9/10
El Loro what are your top 10 hitchcock films?
Mine are
Rear Window
Rebecca
North By Northwest
Lifeboat
Vertigo
Strangers On A Train
The Lady Vanishes
Shadow Of A Doubt
Foreign Correspondant
Rope
Very similar to yours though I would include The 39 Steps rather than Rope. I would probably include The Birds rather then Lifeboat.
Family Plot is worth seeing though not a classic. Topaz is stodgy and not very good.
Interesting that you don't include Psycho. I don't include it as it's not a likeable film and that, because of its unexpected success, it effectively created the slasher movie genre which is as unsubtle as any.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Very similar to yours though I would include The 39 Steps rather than Rope. I would probably include The Birds rather then Lifeboat.
Family Plot is worth seeing though not a classic. Topaz is stodgy and not very good.
Interesting that you don't include Psycho. I don't include it as it's not a likeable film and that, because of its unexpected success, it effectively created the slasher movie genre which is as unsubtle as any.
The Birds and 39 Steps are both just outside my top 10
Psycho is a good film but it is highly overrated
God's Pocket (2014) 6/10
I rewatched "In Which we Serve" (1942), Noel Coward's patriotic naval war film. He produced, wrote the script, co-directed, acted and wrote the music. The other co-director was David Lean in his first film credit as director.
John Mills also starred. His daughter Juilet appeared as his baby son near the end of the film thus making her film debut.
It was also the film debuts of Celia Johnson, Daniel Massey and the late Richard Attenborough.
The Grey [2012] 6/10
Survival adventure. Inspiring in parts and lifted by Liam Neeson's performance.
Psy (1992) 8/10
Boyhood (2014) 9/10
The Ides of March [2011] 7/10
The Rover (2014) 7.5/10
I watched "They might be giants" (1971) starring George C Scott and Joanne Woodward. Scott believes he is Sherlock Holmes and Woodward is the psychiatrist called in to deal with him and happens to be called Dr Watson.
An affectionate unusual film with an open ended conclusion. Touches of Don Quixote and much warmer and less cynical than The Fisher King, not that Terry Gilliam had anything to do with the film (It was written by James Goldman and directed by Anthony Harvey who had worked together before on The Lion in Winter).
Mud [2013] 7.5/10
Human Desire (1954) 8/10
Hana-Bi (1997) 8.5/10
I resaw Murder on the Orient Express (1974). The first and best of the series of star-laden Poirot films though Albert Finney's porttayal as Poirot suffers is comparison to David Suchet.
George Coulouris, the elderly doctor in the film, was Walter Parks Thatcher in Citizen Kane.
I resaw the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Trouble with Harry" (1955). It's not a typical Hitchcock film and is better on a second viewing as you know what to expecr and what not to expect.
It's set in the fall (autumn) in Vermont and is full of autumnal colours. It's quite a slight story but is very watchable. It was one of Hitchcock's personal favourites and I can see why.
Screen debut of Shirley MacLaine. Lovely music by Bernard Hermann in his first score for Hitchcock.
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Two fine films though very different.
I watched "Il Conformista" (1970) the Bernado Bertolucci film. The best known actors/actresses were Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli and Dominique Sanda. Powerful film and very stylish with scenes which were almost like paintings come to life and striking use of colour.