The Gigolos (2006) Richard Bracewell 6/10
Interesting low budget British film about the lives of a couple of male gigolos. Susannah York, Sian Philips & Anna Massey have small roles as customers.
A Pain in the Ass (2008) Francis Veber 3/10
A lame rip off of Billy Wilders Buddy, Buddy
The Chaser (2008) Hong-jin Ha 8/10
A Woman of Affairs (1928) Clarence Brown 7/10
One of Garbo's best silent film performances that is beautifully shot and directed.
JCVD (2008) Mabrouk El Mechri 5/10
Invitiation of Happiness (1939) Wesley Ruggles 4/10
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--Cinemanolis wrote:Breaking Away 7/10
... I don't get Barbara Barrie's nomination (not to mention that when i started watching it i expected Barbara Harris to be in it), especially since her screen husband Paul Dooley is the one that should be nominated.
This was a feeling widely shared at the time. The answer is, supporting actress was a far more thinly populated field, and Barrie slipped in on best picture momentum, while Dooley -- who was my choice for the win that year -- was squeezed out.
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Marley & Me (David Frankel) 8/10
Quite a surprise for me. Not at all the silly dog movie I was expecting from the trailer, but a well crafted film about family life in the 90s and 00s. Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston are very believable as a couple, he a newspaper columnist and she a reporter turned housewife. Kathleen Turner has an uproarious bit as a dog trainer and Nathan Gamble (Babel, The Mist) all but steals the last part of the film as the couple's oldest child.
Tea for Two (David Butler) 4/10
1950 remake of No, No, Nanette dumbs down the original plot, which was at least quaintly naive, jettisons most of the songs and replaces them with songs by composers other than Youmans and Harburg that don't fit. The best that be said about Doris Day, Gordon MacRae and Gene Nelson is that they look wholesome. They've all done much better work, Even Eve Arden and S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall can't save it.
Quite a surprise for me. Not at all the silly dog movie I was expecting from the trailer, but a well crafted film about family life in the 90s and 00s. Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston are very believable as a couple, he a newspaper columnist and she a reporter turned housewife. Kathleen Turner has an uproarious bit as a dog trainer and Nathan Gamble (Babel, The Mist) all but steals the last part of the film as the couple's oldest child.
Tea for Two (David Butler) 4/10
1950 remake of No, No, Nanette dumbs down the original plot, which was at least quaintly naive, jettisons most of the songs and replaces them with songs by composers other than Youmans and Harburg that don't fit. The best that be said about Doris Day, Gordon MacRae and Gene Nelson is that they look wholesome. They've all done much better work, Even Eve Arden and S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall can't save it.
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--mlrg wrote:Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - John Schlesinger
9/10
Extremely well crafted film, with exquisit acting, directing and an really well written screenplay.
A movie about affections (and the lack of them) it's easy to feel connected with these characters and the movie doesn't feel dated at all.
I wonder how the movie was received by moviegoers and critics when it openned.
Extremely well. Penelope Gilliat, who wrote it, was a well known critic herself. Her reviews alternated with Pauline Kael's in the New Yorker. Her second husband was the playwright, John Osborne (Look Back in Anger).
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Cinemanolis wrote:Breaking Away 7/10
I expected to like this film more. I don't get Barbara Barrie's nomination (not to mention that when i started watching it i expected Barbara Harris to be in it), especially since her screen husband Paul Dooley is the one that should be nominated.
I saw this a few months ago and didn't connect with it. Also don't understand Barbara Barries's nomination.
It probabbly was nominated for best picture for it's box office appeal
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A Little Romance 5/10
Tender film, with a nice supporting turn by Olivier and interesting score. However the story wasn't conviencing for me.
Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? 7/10
The first half hour of the movie is hilarious, but the rest of the movie doesn't live up to the expectations created by the beginning. Very funny one-liners. Robert Morley steals the show, but Jean Rouchefort and Jean Pierre Cassell are also wonderful. Segal on the other side is monotonous.
Manhattan 7/10
Refreshing like most the early Woody Allen films. Wonderful Manhattan images and Gershwin music. Hemingway is very good, but Keaton's performance was awfully familiar. Certainly in my Woody Allen Top10, but not Top5.
Breaking Away 7/10
I expected to like this film more. I don't get Barbara Barrie's nomination (not to mention that when i started watching it i expected Barbara Harris to be in it), especially since her screen husband Paul Dooley is the one that should be nominated.
Long Good Friday 7/10
Wonderful performances by Hoskins and Mirren. Nice music score, and a memorable last shot.
Secret of Santa Victoria 6/10
It's always nice to see Anna Magniani, and there are some nice moments in this, but it never really delivers as it should have. Anthony Quinn is over the top at times.
84 Charring Cross Road 6/10
I liked the premise of a 'love story' between two people who have never met in person, but somehow the movie didn't work for me. Anne Bancroft was excellent (although i didn't understand why she was talking to the camera, especially since it was happening randomly). And why the hell did they cast Judi Dench when her role was so underwritten? Though i must say that in her one good scene, writting her last letter to Bancroft, she was magnificent.
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Tender film, with a nice supporting turn by Olivier and interesting score. However the story wasn't conviencing for me.
Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? 7/10
The first half hour of the movie is hilarious, but the rest of the movie doesn't live up to the expectations created by the beginning. Very funny one-liners. Robert Morley steals the show, but Jean Rouchefort and Jean Pierre Cassell are also wonderful. Segal on the other side is monotonous.
Manhattan 7/10
Refreshing like most the early Woody Allen films. Wonderful Manhattan images and Gershwin music. Hemingway is very good, but Keaton's performance was awfully familiar. Certainly in my Woody Allen Top10, but not Top5.
Breaking Away 7/10
I expected to like this film more. I don't get Barbara Barrie's nomination (not to mention that when i started watching it i expected Barbara Harris to be in it), especially since her screen husband Paul Dooley is the one that should be nominated.
Long Good Friday 7/10
Wonderful performances by Hoskins and Mirren. Nice music score, and a memorable last shot.
Secret of Santa Victoria 6/10
It's always nice to see Anna Magniani, and there are some nice moments in this, but it never really delivers as it should have. Anthony Quinn is over the top at times.
84 Charring Cross Road 6/10
I liked the premise of a 'love story' between two people who have never met in person, but somehow the movie didn't work for me. Anne Bancroft was excellent (although i didn't understand why she was talking to the camera, especially since it was happening randomly). And why the hell did they cast Judi Dench when her role was so underwritten? Though i must say that in her one good scene, writting her last letter to Bancroft, she was magnificent.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - John Schlesinger
9/10
Extremely well crafted film, with exquisit acting, directing and an really well written screenplay.
A movie about affections (and the lack of them) it's easy to feel connected with these characters and the movie doesn't feel dated at all.
I wonder how the movie was received by moviegoers and critics when it openned.
9/10
Extremely well crafted film, with exquisit acting, directing and an really well written screenplay.
A movie about affections (and the lack of them) it's easy to feel connected with these characters and the movie doesn't feel dated at all.
I wonder how the movie was received by moviegoers and critics when it openned.
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1948) 6/10
Highlight of the film is Mary Astor as an old and jaded prostitute.
Decoy (Jack Bernhard, 1946) 9/10
Superb, forgotten film noir from the Monogram studio with possibly the best portrayal of a femme fatale (British actress Jean Gillie..who made 2 films only and died at the early age of 34) ever.
Crime Wave (Andre de Toth, 1954) 8/10
Yet another film that proves how underrated Sterling Hayden was. Hard hitting film noir with equally superb performances by Phyllis Kirk and Charles Bronson as a sadistic thug. Warners wanted Bogart and Ava Gardner to star but director de Toth turned them down in favour of Hayden and Kirk.
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Highlight of the film is Mary Astor as an old and jaded prostitute.
Decoy (Jack Bernhard, 1946) 9/10
Superb, forgotten film noir from the Monogram studio with possibly the best portrayal of a femme fatale (British actress Jean Gillie..who made 2 films only and died at the early age of 34) ever.
Crime Wave (Andre de Toth, 1954) 8/10
Yet another film that proves how underrated Sterling Hayden was. Hard hitting film noir with equally superb performances by Phyllis Kirk and Charles Bronson as a sadistic thug. Warners wanted Bogart and Ava Gardner to star but director de Toth turned them down in favour of Hayden and Kirk.
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Cam, have you watched the extras that came with the DVD? They might help explain some of your concerns. Also, Shanley's commentary is very informative.
The sermon about gossip is an old one that goes back centuries.
According to Shanley and the actors the point of the piece is not whether Hoffman's priest was guilty or not, but that we, the audience, should examine our own tendency to be judgmental which is something Sreep's character was plainly guilty of.
Having seen this 3 times now, I have come to interpret the final scene as Streep defending her actions to Adams with her usual defenses up until she has an on camera breakdown after which admits she has doubts, the doubts being about the priest's guilt. This makes more sense within the confines of the piece than my initial interpretation that her doubts were a crisis of faith.
Although Shanley used a real life nun as his inspiration for Adams' character, the piece is a work of fiction spurred by his idea that although no one talked about sexual abuse by priests in the 60s priests were mysteriously moved from parish to parish without warning. Someone had to be reporting them, who else could it be but the nuns?
While he claims not to take sides, Shanley's sympathies are clearly with the nuns. One of the extras is an interview with four elderly members of the Sisters of Charity including the real life Sister James, now in her 70s, who in an old photo is the spitting image of Amy Adams in the film.
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The sermon about gossip is an old one that goes back centuries.
According to Shanley and the actors the point of the piece is not whether Hoffman's priest was guilty or not, but that we, the audience, should examine our own tendency to be judgmental which is something Sreep's character was plainly guilty of.
Having seen this 3 times now, I have come to interpret the final scene as Streep defending her actions to Adams with her usual defenses up until she has an on camera breakdown after which admits she has doubts, the doubts being about the priest's guilt. This makes more sense within the confines of the piece than my initial interpretation that her doubts were a crisis of faith.
Although Shanley used a real life nun as his inspiration for Adams' character, the piece is a work of fiction spurred by his idea that although no one talked about sexual abuse by priests in the 60s priests were mysteriously moved from parish to parish without warning. Someone had to be reporting them, who else could it be but the nuns?
While he claims not to take sides, Shanley's sympathies are clearly with the nuns. One of the extras is an interview with four elderly members of the Sisters of Charity including the real life Sister James, now in her 70s, who in an old photo is the spitting image of Amy Adams in the film.
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THis has been a very bad winter health-wise for me, so we are just getting around to seeing some of last year's films in DVD.
Doubt( 6/10)
Hoffman wasn't very convincng in his big scene.
The film reminded me of what a bunch of hokum the Catholic Church really is worldwide, any in any Catholic Church I have attended, I never heard anything as Folksy as that priest's sermons. The pernicious abuse of priests in the Church could have been served better than this film.
I thought Adams was good, but the ending( for Sr. Adams) left us totally flat: finally Sr. Aloyicious breaks down and says she has "doubts". What doubts? Obviously a play, not a film, and not worth the hype it got, we did not think.
In any case, Streep(who reminded us a bit of Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) was better this past year in Mamma Mia!
And --someone help me-- I do not remember transistor radios in 1964. Hell I don't even remember ear-plugs then.
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Doubt( 6/10)
Hoffman wasn't very convincng in his big scene.
The film reminded me of what a bunch of hokum the Catholic Church really is worldwide, any in any Catholic Church I have attended, I never heard anything as Folksy as that priest's sermons. The pernicious abuse of priests in the Church could have been served better than this film.
I thought Adams was good, but the ending( for Sr. Adams) left us totally flat: finally Sr. Aloyicious breaks down and says she has "doubts". What doubts? Obviously a play, not a film, and not worth the hype it got, we did not think.
In any case, Streep(who reminded us a bit of Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) was better this past year in Mamma Mia!
And --someone help me-- I do not remember transistor radios in 1964. Hell I don't even remember ear-plugs then.
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Elegy (2008) Isabel Coixet 4/10
The Houseboy (2008) Spencer Schilly 3/10
Gomorra (2008) Matteo Garrone 7/10
Oxford Murders (2008) Alex de la Iglesia 2/10
Mum and Dad (2008) Steven Sheil 4/10
The Houseboy (2008) Spencer Schilly 3/10
Gomorra (2008) Matteo Garrone 7/10
Oxford Murders (2008) Alex de la Iglesia 2/10
Mum and Dad (2008) Steven Sheil 4/10
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