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55 DAY'S AT PEKING. loved every single frame of it. with all the problems going on , i dont see how they even finished the film. everyone was just as u would have expected they would be , right down to the little girl. i was glued to the film from start to finish , and its a shame it wasnt the success they had hoped for. but i am a politic , so i could watch it anytime . too bad about the demise of the release of the MIRIAM COLLECTION DVD.
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Watched "An Affair To Remember" on TCM a few nights ago. Hell, I thought Deborah Kerr was killed on her way to meeting Cary Grant atop the Empire State building and not just seriously injured. Left crippled and unable to walk I wondered if she still had control of her bowels.
The end scene when Cary Grant discovers her disability after pouting like an angry, rejected child was really touching. So much so I touched myself.
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Watched "An Affair To Remember" on TCM a few nights ago. Hell, I thought Deborah Kerr was killed on her way to meeting Cary Grant atop the Empire State building and not just seriously injured. Left crippled and unable to walk I wondered if she still had control of her bowels.
The end scene when Cary Grant discovers her disability after pouting like an angry, rejected child was really touching. So much so I touched myself.
Did you see Warren Beatty's remake LOVE AFFAIR (1994)? That same scene was even more touching in that version IMO (punctuated by a lovely Morricone score).
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Aug 20, 2009 - 12:46 PM
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Valkyrie - 7/10
I'm not much of a Bryan Singer fan (though I really dug Superman Returns), but I thought this was pretty good, if not a little too slow. It took about 50 minutes or so before it felt like it was really getting going, but once it did it was pretty entertaining. I wasn't very familiar with Operation: Valkyrie beforehand, so it was fascinating to see what exactly it consisted of. I had no idea just how close they apparently came to actually killing Hilter. As for the lack of accents, especially from Tom Cruise, I admit it was odd at first, but as the movie progressed and I was pulled into the story and performances, I wasn't bothered by it anymore.
Race To Witch Mountain - 5/10
I was really disappointed by this. I really wanted to like it because I thought the trailer and TV ads were a lot of fun. It seemed like it was constantly on the verge of becoming really good, but just never quite made it. The Rock was great, as usual, and I enjoyed the two actors playing the teenage aliens. But I thought the stereotypical "shady government agents" were a huge distraction, and the lead actor in charge of them severely annoyed me with his performance. I would have preferred that the movie had dumped them entirely and just focused on The Rock trying to protect the kids from the alien assassin on their trail as they raced to complete their mission.
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For the umpteenth time. Nothing really needs to be said here. Films such as this exceed the 1 - 10 rating system pretty much.
I first saw Citizen Kane in high school in a class called "Media Writing" in early '89. After we watched it, we were asked to write an essay as to why we thought it was hailed as the greatest movie ever made. Nearly EVERY kid in that class (a group of seniors) hated it, of course. I loved it, and the teacher, who often made a spectacle out of me because I was the only one in the class who actually put effort into the writing, read my essay to the class, and they all looked at me with "pffff"ts and eye-rolls as if I was a 60-year old fuddy duddy. But I tell ya, I'll never forget that first screening and how mesmerized I was by every single shot. I could watch this film weekly.
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Aug 21, 2009 - 9:08 AM
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Last night I watched Hardware (1990), Richard Stanley's ode to the cyberpunk genre.
For a film that cost around £900,000, it's damn impressive. Excellent production quality, fine acting for the most part and filmed here in London and in Morocco. I gather the film has only just been properly released on DVD here in the UK. That's a damn crime, it should have come out years ago. I can see why it's acquired cult status and I love the appearance by William Hootkins, who played Jek Porkins in Star Wars. Here, he's a slimy pervert who ends up singing the "Wibbly Wobbly" song, the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard on film. Just before he suffers a truly horrific and gory death. Nice.
If it owes a little to Blade Runner and The Terminator, so what? I love it. Simon Boswell's score is impressive too, I have to consider tracking down the long OOP Varese CD.
I gather after "Dust Devil" and being booted off "The Island of Dr. Moreau" Stanley never made another film. Can't think why, this guy has more imagination then all the remake hacks in Hollywood combined.
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Aug 21, 2009 - 10:57 AM
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For the umpteenth time. Nothing really needs to be said here. Films such as this exceed the 1 - 10 rating system pretty much.
I first saw Citizen Kane in high school in a class called "Media Writing" in early '89. After we watched it, we were asked to write an essay as to why we thought it was hailed as the greatest movie ever made. Nearly EVERY kid in that class (a group of seniors) hated it, of course. I loved it, and the teacher, who often made a spectacle out of me because I was the only one in the class who actually put effort into the writing, read my essay to the class, and they all looked at me with "pffff"ts and eye-rolls as if I was a 60-year old fuddy duddy. But I tell ya, I'll never forget that first screening and how mesmerized I was by every single shot. I could watch this film weekly.
The first time I saw it was in the late 70s in college at one of those weekly film screenings in the University Center and just sat there transfixed. So much amazing stuff was contained in just one film and it forever changed my thinking about film as an art form. Every time I watch it I see something new to amaze me. I can just wallow in the cinematography and editing as well from now until I die!
Herrmann's dark, dark score was pretty ground breaking at the time. When I was at NYU film school a number of years later, I wrote my cinema studies semester paper on it and of course spent the lion's share discussing the score as it worked in the film. I had become a Herrmann fanatic many years before and funneled that enthusiasm into my paper. I was one of the only one's in the class that got an A. Thanks Benny!
All artistic and technical greatness aside, it's an amazing look at the near entirety of a person's life contained within a two hour film. I knew, and for the most part understood, Kane by film's end.
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The River Wild (1994) - 8/10
Mr. Majestyk (1974) - 10/10 (for the 800th time)
Theatrically:
Inglourious Basterds (2009) - haven't determined a rating yet. It's definitely mixed.
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