Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings

[Reza]

Suddenly, Last Summer (Richard Eyre, 1993) 3/10

Despite Maggie Smith's Emmy nominated turn this is such a boring remake. The 1959 starry version is a masterpiece in comparison.....and Hepburn is much more predatory than Maggie.

Never liked Natasha Richardson with an American accent.....pity most of her film career was spent putting on this accent!!



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[Precious Doll]

Alice in Wonderland (1933) Norman McLeod 4/10

Remember Last Night (1935) James Whale 4/10

This Is The Night (1932) Frank Tuttle 6/10

[mlrg]

Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (1974) - Michael Cimino

6/10

Fairly entertaining film with fine performances overall, especially from the nominated Jeff Bridges.

[Big Magilla]

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Vincente MInnelli, 1962) 6/10

Visually stunning, if overlong remake of the film that made Rudolph Valentino a star, updated from World War I to World War II France.

Glenn Ford at 45 was almost twenty years older than Valentino at the time he made the original and way too long in the tooth to be believable as the carefree young man he plays, especially when Karl Boehm at 33 is supposed to be the cousin he grew up with and Yvette Mimieux at 19 is supposed to be his sister.

Ford's credibility aside, the film features top flight performances from a trio of stars of another era - Charles Boyer as Ford's weak French father, Paul Lukas as his Nazi general uncle and Paul Henreid as the Resistance leader husband of Ford's paramour played by Ingrid Thulin whose voice is dubbed by Angela Lansbury.

Lansbury was only 36 at the time but she had already played so many middle-aged women it has always been disconcerting hearing her wax romantic to Ford the same year as All Fall Down and The Manchurian Candidate.

But it's a Vincente Minnelli film and Minnelli's films are never boring. He fills every inch of the wide Cinemascope screen for all two hours and thirty-three minutes of its running time.



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[inky]

Last whole week ...

Call Me If You need Me (2009; Malaysia) - 6
Sugar is Not Sweet (1965; Thailand) - 3.5
Disgrace (2009; Australia/S. Africa) - 6
The Shinjuku Incident (2009; HK) - 5
L.O.V.E. (2009; Taiwan) - 5.5
The Sniper (2009; HK) - 5
Confession of a Shopaholic (2009; USA) - 4
Notorious (2009; USA) - 4
Girl Inside (2007; Canada - documentary) - 5.5
Knowing (2009; USA) - 3.5
The Opppsite Sex (1956; USA) - 3.5
Cream Lemon (2004; Japan) - 6

[Heksagon]

I see I haven't post in ages in this thread. Here's a few of the most recent films I've seen.

Singles (Cameron Crowe, 1992) 7/10
---The second time I've seen this film. It was better than I remembered it to be.

Henry V (Laurence Olivier, 1944) 8/10

The House Bunny (2008) 1.5/10
---I don't usually watch films just to see a specific performance, but the reason I watched this film was to see if Anna Faris is as good as I had heard ...She's fine, but with this material, nobody's going to impress me.

Pieces of April (Peter Hedges, 2003) 5.5/10

The Art of Crying in Choir (Peter Schønau Fog, 2006) 4.5/10
---I expected it to be better

[Big Magilla]

Phffft (George Axelrod, 1954) 4/10

Shrill, occasionally amusing comedy with Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon as divorced couple obviously meant for each other. Kim Novak gets star billing for a minor role, but she's actually quite good playing a dumber blonde than Holliday.

Goodbye, My Fancy (Vincent Sherman, 1950) 6/10

Joan Crawford is actually more believable as a Congresswoman than she is as the center of a romantic triangle involving college president Robert Young and reporter Frank Lovejoy. Eve Arden's acerbic wit helps make it a pleasant experience.

Mrs. Parkington (Tay Garnett, 1944) 5/10

Flawed, episodic melodrama goes back and forth between the present (1938) and the past (1872 onward) to tell the not very interesting story of grand dame Greer Garson's life as the wife of millionaire Walter Pidgeon. Agnes Moorehead as Garson's friend and Gladys Cooper in a role reversal as Garson's sixty year old daughter in the "present" steal every scene they're in.



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[Precious Doll]

The Juggler (1953) Edward Dmytryk 4/10

Scent of a Woman (1974) Dino Risi 4/10

Lady Jane (2008) Robert Guediguian 3/10

Fay Grim (2007) Hal Hartley 3/10

[Sabin]

Fast and Furious (Justin Lin) - ?
No idea. Wasn't really paying attention. Looked like it could be fun.

[Precious Doll]

Break the Power of the Manipulators (1968) Helke Saner 6/10

Easy Virtue (2008) Stefan Elliott 4/10

Skippy (1931) Norman Taurog 610

Elite Sqaud (2007) Jose Padiha 4/10

[dreaMaker]

Blindness (Fernando Merielles), 2008

3.5/10

Dull and disappointing.

[mlrg]

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) - John Hancock

5/10

Nothing much to care about this film other than Robert de Niro and Vincent Gardenia performances. Although I think Gardenia gave a pretty solid performance, de Niro should have been nominated instead. And Michael Moriarty's acting is dreadful.

[Sabin]

Nobody's Fool - 9.5/10

There comes a place on film where we leave our legends. I leave Marlon Brando screaming STELLA in Streetcar. I leave Humphrey Bogart drinking alone in Casablanca. I leave Cary Grant smiling like an asshole as he watches Irene Dunne dance with her buffoon fiance in The Awful Truth. There are many places Paul Newman has carved out for himself in cinema, but I leave him at the end of Nobody's Fool. I won't spoil the shot but anyone who has seen this film knows it. It's a lovely gracious image for a man whose spent the better part of a fifty year career making it all look easy.

This is such a wonderful little movie that just moves along so organically, setting up and paying off, as Howard Shore's sweet score just keeps it moving along, perhaps the great composer's most underrated composition ever. It's a true middle-aged coming of age movie where a man learns he had it in him all along and learns to appreciate what he ran away from. Nobody's Fool knows that nothing curdles sentiment more than schmaltz, and nothing keeps it fresher than humor. Sully is an asshole, a great Paul Newman asshole whose entire life has been a faux pas, but writer/director Benton (and author Russo) keeps this acknowledgment humble and subtle. The closest to an admission occurs between Newman and Griffith where we see how truly he has changed and wants something more. It's not just that Paul Newman is a perfect fit to the character, but that the film is a perfect fit for both the actor and the party and moves forward as if (as the ads declare) worn to perfection.

[Big Magilla]

Lily Tomlin's character in Nashville was written by/for Louise Fletcher whose husband Jerry Bick who had produced Altman's The Long Goodbye and Thieves Like Us, but when Altman and Bick had a falling out Altman recast the role with Tomlin.

One wonders what the 1975 Oscars might have been had Fletcher kept the part and Anne Bancoft, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury or Colleen Dewhurst, all of whom turned it down, had played Nurse Ratched instead of Fletcher.

[Penelope]

You know, the praise for Lily Tomlin in Nashville has always mystified me; sure, the scene in the nightclub, when she's listening to Keith Carradine sing, is exquisite, but, overall, I think any of the other Nashville ladies, from the nominated Ronee Blakely to the non-nominated Gwen Welles and Barbara Harris, were far superior.