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May 12, 2019 - 4:24 PM
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Interlude (1968) 7+1/10
I'm sure someone famous wrote (at least someone famous should have written ...) you shouldn't re-visit your youth ... it's never as good as you remembered!
As a youngster I recall watching, one evening, a film which meant nothing to me and any other time I might never have tuned in. The opening title music with a vocal by Timi Yuro (a voice I did not know then) caught my attention ... but it was probably 15 or 20 minutes into the film that I was totally enraptured.
Is it a great film? No ... of course not. But is it worth watching? Most definitely!
Oscar Werner is superb as the philandering husband; Barbara Ferris is gorgeous and displays some unexpected exceptional acting; and Virginia Maskell is superbly cool and aloof as the knowing wife.
Ignore the awful John Cleese (who thought he was in some other film), laugh at the inept Donald Sutherland (jobbing between episodes of Man in a Suitcase) and wallow in the innocence and freedom of London and the Home Counties (driving around and leaving open an open-top Rolls-Royce ...  )
The story-line is basic and unoriginal and there aren't any real classic moments (the restaurant meeting being probably the most significant) but this is a film I've wanted to see - again - for 40+ years ... and I'm pleased that I can now write these notes.
And did I mention the music? I'm not sure if I noticed the name Georges Delerue 40+ years ago but I found this info somewhere, along with Timi Yuro's name. Robert Lafond's 2005 re-recording is truly wonderful (Lina Boudreau's vocal is exceptionally good) ... but perhaps, just perhaps, it was the wonderful music of Brahms, Beethoven, Dvorák and Tchaikovsky which took me in hand ... not forgetting Albinoni's Adagio ...
So: 7/10 for the film with an extra 1 for the music (score plus diegetic/source pieces).
As a teenager I should have been out partying ... 40+ years later I'm so glad I stayed in to watch a film which, whilst not great, has given me great memories ... and an introduction to some of the best music I've ever known.
Don't miss it!
Mitch
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May 15, 2019 - 4:02 PM
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MusicMad
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Expresso Bongo (1959) ... 4/10
I thought I'd seen this film before but, if so, didn't recall it ... and, having seen it, can't decide just how much I like it! With my self-imposed rating system I've decided '4' as being highly enjoyable but not worthy of a another viewing ... and yet I could see myself watching it again just to relive some of the dialogue/scenes.
I've always known Laurence Harvey as a straight actor ... usually dour, serious and the sleaze-ball character was not unexpected. Hearing/seeing him break into song was far from expected. Similarly, Sylvia Sims played so against the usual character, she was mostly a delight to watch.
The inexperienced Cliff Richard wasn't bad ... in some ways his inexperience came over as right even if his character did jar on some occasions.
The songs were corny but seemed appropriate and I was surprised at how adult some of the dialogue was - several scenes, too -having expected it to play at a more family-friendly level.
Amongst the music credits: Monty Norman ... I believe he made his name a few years later
NB: according to IMDb, some releases of this film are edited, missing songs, but this TV broadcast did include the song Nausea.
Mitch
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Aquaman
2.5/10
It made me want to the throw plastic into the ocean
Travelling home has given you your brit humour back.
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Ado you are a man on fire!
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Expresso Bongo (1959) ... 4/10
I thought I'd seen this film before but, if so, didn't recall it ... and, having seen it, can't decide just how much I like it! With my self-imposed rating system I've decided '4' as being highly enjoyable but not worthy of a another viewing ... and yet I could see myself watching it again just to relive some of the dialogue/scenes.
I've always known Laurence Harvey as a straight actor ... usually dour, serious and the sleaze-ball character was not unexpected. Hearing/seeing him break into song was far from expected. Similarly, Sylvia Sims played so against the usual character, she was mostly a delight to watch.
The inexperienced Cliff Richard wasn't bad ... in some ways his inexperience came over as right even if his character did jar on some occasions.
The songs were corny but seemed appropriate and I was surprised at how adult some of the dialogue was - several scenes, too -having expected it to play at a more family-friendly level.
Amongst the music credits: Monty Norman ... I believe he made his name a few years later
NB: according to IMDb, some releases of this film are edited, missing songs, but this TV broadcast did include the song Nausea.
Mitch
50/50 split!
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Outlaws
2018
Aussie biker gang thriller about power struggle between their psychotic president and his second in command who challenges his leadership. Elements of macbeth in that the women behind the men are the most scheming and troublemaking, manipulating the men into conflict.
Watchable.
7.3 out of 10.
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What is it with you and 4 hour director cuts by Italians?
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What is it with you and 4 hour director cuts by Italians?
I know - great, isn’t it?
Have you seen 1900?
Completes the ' trilogy of tedium'
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