I saw the Uruguayan film Whisky (2004) Very subtle low key minimilistic comedy. Never boring even though very little happens.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I saw the Uruguayan film Whisky (2004) Very subtle low key minimilistic comedy. Never boring even though very little happens.
Seen this and thought it was very good, i do like films where little happens or there is not much dialogue
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Hell Drivers (1957) 8.5/10
I've seen this several times and rate it as one of the best British films of the 50s and the cast list is remarkable.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Hell Drivers (1957) 8.5/10
I've seen this several times and rate it as one of the best British films of the 50s and the cast list is remarkable.
Its a great film, I would have given it a 9 but it loses half a rating because of the woman secretary whos role in the film wasnt needed at all i thought
I saw The Professionals (1966), the western starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance and Claudia Cardinale. Also featured Ralph Bellamy. It's a good western. Chronologically and stylistically it could be placed between the earlier The Magnificent Seven and the later The Wild Bunch.
As others have commented, at one stage Marvin etc have got onto the train fleeing from the Mexicans, the Mexicans manage to stop the train, climb on board to find it empty, and we then see Marvin etc riding through the canyon on horseback as if they've been magically transported from the train on to their horses.
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Two top quality films, particularly The Angry Silence.
The Dupes (Al-makhdu'un) (1973) 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuC_dZebFF8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVOjSYAaNA&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZV5Yf-AOT4&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8186XQYtTE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82N905U_XzI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYd5UNqjRmE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLjvGzKlsLQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fp7iLUGIdU&feature=relmfu
I saw Surrogates (2009) starring Bruce Willis. An interesting premise for a storyline - people stay in the safety of their homes whilst having mind control over their artificial surrogates are outside "living" their day to day lives, and then a murder takes places where not only a surrogate is "killed" but the effect is to kill the real person. It could have been a much better film but it's not. The length of the film is 89 minutes including credits which suggests to me that there was some serious problems in the making of the film and that the film was changed from the original intent.
I saw A Double Life (1947) starring Ronald Colman in an Oscar winning performance as an actor driven to madness by becoming confused between real life and the part he was playing - Othello.
Shelley Winters was also in the film in her first credited role.
Betsy Blair had a very brief role in what was her second film. She was very attractive:
She was a victim of the McCarthy era and was blacklisted resulting in very few films. She was married to Gene Kelly during this time and as a result of his insistence with the studios she appeared in Marty (1955), the film for which she is best remembered, She later married the director Karel Reisz.
Eroica (1958) 8/10
Shirin (2008) 6/10
I saw Macbeth (1948) the Orson Welles version and I saw the restored version rather than the cut one.
As was so often the case with his films, the studio savaged the film on release cutting out scenes and dubbing some of the dialogue so the cut version and the restored version are different films.
Welles got the actors to use Scottish accents, some of which were so thick that it was near impossible to hear what was said. The film was shot in 3 weeks on a small budget but that didn't really matter. The film was dark, full of shadows and menacing, but that suited the film.
Flawed, but still outstanding. Kurosawa must have had this version in mind when he made Throne of Blood
I resaw Call Northside 777 (1948) starring James Stewart, Lee J Cobb and Richard Conte. A fine drama documentary about a newspaper reporter's efforts to prove that an innocent man had been wrongly convicted. The film is largely factually correct, and for more details of the real-life story behind the film read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...ek_and_Marcinkiewicz