If you watched the 118 minute version, I'm sure you will be eager to watch the longer 143 minute version.
(Or may be not 
)
I didn't even know there was a 143 minute version.... god knows why they have added another 25 minutes when 118 minutes of it was not funny at all
I re-saw The Go-Between (1970), the first time I had seen it since I saw it on release. Stars Alan Bates, Julie Christie and Dominic Guard as their go-between. Michael Regdrave features as the older Leo. The screenplay was by Harold Pinter and it was directed by Joseph Losey.
I can't say that I liked this film any more than I did the first time but the acting is good. The music by Michel Legrand is the most noticeable thing about the film but doesn't seem to fit in with the film. Very early film role by the late Roger Lloyd-Pack.
Revolutionary Road [2008] 5/10
Would have like it more if the leads were played by different actors; Leonoard de Caprio and Kate Winslet seemed very one dimensional and unconvincing. Couldn't help comparing it to Mad Men - similar time period and themes and how the actors light up the screen in their roles.
I re-saw The Go-Between (1970), the first time I had seen it since I saw it on release. Stars Alan Bates, Julie Christie and Dominic Guard as their go-between. Michael Regdrave features as the older Leo. The screenplay was by Harold Pinter and it was directed by Joseph Losey.
I can't say that I liked this film any more than I did the first time but the acting is good. The music by Michel Legrand is the most noticeable thing about the film but doesn't seem to fit in with the film. Very early film role by the late Roger Lloyd-Pack.
Very atmospheric film that... liked the Summer Norfolk setting.
The tiny bit of 300 I've seen didn't make me want to see the film, and I think I will give this sequel a miss.
Twentieth Century (1934) 8.5/10
The tiny bit of 300 I've seen didn't make me want to see the film, and I think I will give this sequel a miss.
Good Choice
I watched it online, but was mostly just listening to it while looking at other websites
We need to Talk About Kevin [2011] 6/10
Sergeant York (1941) 9/10
This was the film that looks as if it was the start of Preston Sturges's decline as film director from being one of the top Hollywood directors. I've seen the film and thought it was a strange concept - part biopic, part comic.
This was the film that looks as if it was the start of Preston Sturges's decline as film director from being one of the top Hollywood directors. I've seen the film and thought it was a strange concept - part biopic, part comic.
He did 2 other films in 1944 which were Hail The Conquering hero and Miracle Of Morgans Creek both were great films, not sure why he declined after that year toough
This was the film that looks as if it was the start of Preston Sturges's decline as film director from being one of the top Hollywood directors. I've seen the film and thought it was a strange concept - part biopic, part comic.
He did 2 other films in 1944 which were Hail The Conquering hero and Miracle Of Morgans Creek both were great films, not sure why he declined after that year toough
The Great Moment was the last of Sturges's 1944 films. Looking at IMDB trivia he had left Paramount by the time it was being released. He had intended the film to be more serious, Paramount were panicked by initial reviews so insisted that the film was recut. Sturges had no say in this.
His contract with Paramount had come to an end. He set up a film partnership with Howard Hughes called California Pictures. It took some time to get this studio from start up tp production. The first film didn't get released until 1947. This was The Sin of Harold Diddlebock which starred the great silent film comedian Harold Lloyd. The film went way over budget and was poorly received when released. Howard Hughes who had not interfered with the making of the film stepped in, removed the film from release and had it re-edited. That took time and was re-released in 1950 as Mad Wednesday.
I resaw Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). Directed by the other Sturges - John Sturges. Starred Spencer Tracy and a strong cast including Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger and Walter Brennan.
The best non-Western Western ever made. (set just after the end of WW2 and automobiles instead of horses)
The Attack (2012) 8/10
Great Fritz Lang film. One of the other Fritz Land WW2 films was the 1944 film Ministry of Fear which is the very first film I remember seeing on television when I was very young. I may have seen others before then but that is the first I remember.
I watched The Woman in Black (2012). A film version of the book by Susan Hill, previously made into a television film. This version starred Daniel Radcliffe and Ciaran Hinds.
The film was doom-laden from start to finish and would have been better if there had been subtle changes in mood during the film. There were some effective scenes in the film but overall disappointing. (by the way I'm not a devoyee of the Harry Potter films)
There were brief appearances from Roger Allam (DI Fred Thursday in Endeavour), Jessica Raine (Call the Nidwife) and Liz White (Annie Cartwright in Life on Mars) was the Woman in Black.
There is to be another film called The Woman in Black: Angel of Death due to be released next year. This is set some 20 years later in WW2 where a group of children from London are evacuated and sent to the same locality as the first film. Different cast, though on a point of trivia Adrian Rawlins plays a doctor and was the lead in the 1989 television film.
Despicable Me 7/10
Karlek 65 (1965) 7/10
