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[Reza]

I love that Reza gave his daughter the name Lara.

Sadly most people here ask if she was named after Brian Lara.

[ITALIANO]

I love that Reza gave his daughter the name Lara.

[Reza]

You can tell her that Gladys Cooper was the great beauty of her day.

Boys walking out reminds me of an instance a few years ago when I was showing the 1952 version to my much younger brother and his then 13 year-old son who were visiting. I dozed off for a few minutes and woke to see them replacing the DVD with Kill Bill.

I'm sure Lara will be thrilled to hear about the beauty part as she considers herself to be ''hot'' too.............and she is beautiful even if I, as her Dad, say so myself. She is Gwendolyn on the exterior but Lady Bracknel on the interior. Has all the boys around her little finger and moving to her beat.

Yes the Kill Bill move by your brother and his son was brilliant. Lol.

[Damien]

You can tell her that Gladys Cooper was the great beauty of her day.

Boys walking out reminds me of an instance a few years ago when I was showing the 1952 version to my much younger brother and his then 13 year-old son who were visiting. I dozed off for a few minutes and woke to see them replacing the DVD with Kill Bill.

Brilliant!

[Big Magilla]

You can tell her that Gladys Cooper was the great beauty of her day.

Boys walking out reminds me of an instance a few years ago when I was showing the 1952 version to my much younger brother and his then 13 year-old son who were visiting. I dozed off for a few minutes and woke to see them replacing the DVD with Kill Bill.

[Reza]

The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker, 2002) 2/10

I finally caught up with this version after my daughter told me that she had been cast in the role of Gwendolin in her high school play. I immediately told her she should insist on playing Lady Bracknell instead as she was the most memorable character in the play. Unfortunately for this, and most other film versions of the play, Lady Bracknell was definitively performed by the great Dame Edith Evans in the '52 version. I thought Judi Dench would be great in the part but she pales in comparison. I can understand why Dench decided to underplay the famous ''handbag'' scene but by throwing away the line in muted tones she destroys the comic element of her reaction. The cast sounds great on paper (Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O'Connor, Anna Massey & Tom Wilkinson) but there is something very flat and wrong about this whole film. And what was Reese Witherspoon doing here?

Reza, Gladys Cooper played Gwendolyn in the first London revival in 1912 and it didn't hurt her career any.

Lara has agreed, very reluctantly, to play the part of Gwendolyn now. It seems she was aprehensive not because of the part but because she felt Wilde's lines would go over the heads of her classmates (read....boys) in the audience and she feared they would walk out. That, she felt, would disturb her performance.

Can't tell you the amount of teenage hysteria one has to deal with on a daily basis. But it's great, nevertheless, at the same time.

I'll tell her about Gladys Cooper. Only I know she'll just roll her eyes.

It is obvious that Lady Bracknell is not such a fool proof part after all considering what a hash an actress of Judi Dench's stature makes of it in the Oliver Parker film version of the play.



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[Big Magilla]

The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker, 2002) 2/10

I finally caught up with this version after my daughter told me that she had been cast in the role of Gwendolin in her high school play. I immediately told her she should insist on playing Lady Bracknell instead as she was the most memorable character in the play. Unfortunately for this, and most other film versions of the play, Lady Bracknell was definitively performed by the great Dame Edith Evans in the '52 version. I thought Judi Dench would be great in the part but she pales in comparison. I can understand why Dench decided to underplay the famous ''handbag'' scene but by throwing away the line in muted tones she destroys the comic element of her reaction. The cast sounds great on paper (Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O'Connor, Anna Massey & Tom Wilkinson) but there is something very flat and wrong about this whole film. And what was Reese Witherspoon doing here?

Reza, Gladys Cooper played Gwendolyn in the first London revival in 1912 and it didn't hurt her career any.

[Reza]

Bear Island (Don Sharp, 1979) 4/10

Tepid Alistair MacLean thriller about a scheme to steal long forgotten gold in a remote Nazi outpost in the Arctic. The wonderful cast - Donald Sutherland, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Parkins and Christopher Lee - makes it worth sitting through. Most surprising is to see Vanessa Redgrave in a film of this sort. It was obviously a means to collect money for the Palestinian cause. The Alaskan locations are stunning to look at.



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[Precious Doll]

Film Socialism (2010) Jean-Luc Godard 5/10
Morning Glory (2010) Roger Michell 1/10
Unstoppable (2010) Tony Scott 1/10
Warrandale (1967) Allan King 7/10
Dying at Grace (2003) Allan King 9/10
A Married Couple (1969) Allan King 4/10
Come on Children (1972) Allan King 5/10

Repeat Viewings

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terrence Davies 9/10
Comrades (1987) Bill Douglas 9/10
Forbidden Planet (1956) Fred M. Wilcox 4/10



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[Precious Doll]

The Tourist (2010) Florian Henckel von Domersmarck 4/10
South of the Border (2010) Oliver Stone 7/10
Bear City (2010) Douglas Langway 2/10
Is It Just Me? (2010) J C Calciano 5/10
Terribly Happy (2008) Henrik Ruben Genz 3/10
Flesh of the Orchid (1975) Patrice Chereau 6/10

Repeat Viewings

Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang 10/10 (150 minute restored version)
Happiness (1998) Todd Solondz 9/10
Life During Wartime (2010) Todd Solondz 9/10



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[Reza]

Hot Enough For June (Ralph Thomas, 1964) 5/10

Yet another spy caper / spoof that came in the wake of the Bond films. Attractive leads in Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina make it worth watching. Robert Morley is a delight each time he appears.

[Okri]

The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)

5.5/10

The film is good. Could have been far more better.
Somehow trashy, dunno. Performances were more than okay.
I was actually stunned by how people and critics loved the music which is unbelievably incapable of following the film's story. Themes itselves are beautiful, BUT hearing that music while watching the film was utterly horrible. It doesn't fit at all and is, actually, pretty annoying.

One of my dad's favourite pieces of music was the score to Last of the Mohicans. I'd heard the music for a good decade before I saw the film. Love the music. Film is so-so.

[dreaMaker]

The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)

5.5/10

The film is good. Could have been far more better.
Somehow trashy, dunno. Performances were more than okay.
I was actually stunned by how people and critics loved the music which is unbelievably incapable of following the film's story. Themes itselves are beautiful, BUT hearing that music while watching the film was utterly horrible. It doesn't fit at all and is, actually, pretty annoying.

[Cinemanolis]

Never Let Me Go 7,5/10
I Am Love 7/10
Heartbeats 7/10
Flipped 6/10
Of Gods and Men 4/10
Father of My Children 6,5/10
Letters to Juliet 3/10
Cyrus 4/10
Love Ranch 3/10
Scott Pilgrim Vs the World 7/10

[Precious Doll]

The Given Word (1962) Anselmo Duarte 7/10

Beautifully made adaptation of a play about a peasant from Brazil who carries a crucifix to a church in a big city to honor a promise made to Saint Barbara for the recovery of his beloved donkey from an illness. Once in the city he is met with hostility from the church's priest and events play out until the tragic finale. Was Oscar nominated for Foreign Language Film under the title, Keeper of Promises.

Repeat viewings

Salon Kitty (1976) Tinto Brass 3/10

I was curious to revisit this film, particularly now that it is available in a 'director's cut' on DVD. My memory of it (having not seen it since 1980) consisted of a number of shocking and distasteful sex scenes. Well they are still there with more included. The first half hour of the film is amusing but the whole thing starts to wear thin. And typical of a Tinto Brass film, it becomes very boring which is also true of most of the Nazi exploitation films made in Europe during the 1970s.. Funniest scene has Ingrid Thulin trimming the pubic hair of one of her girls with a tiny pair of scissors.

Three of my repeat viewings were in memory of three actors who passed away during the last couple of months: Simon MacCorkindale, Ingrid Pitt & Jill Clayburgh.

Death on the Nile (1978) John Guillermin 7/10

The best of all the Agatha Christie adaptations. Death on the Nile holds up very well and despite knowing 'who did it' this time around I was immensely entertained as I was 32 years ago. Great cast (Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow, Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, David Niven, Angela Lansbury), sets and locations with some smart snappy dialogue. It was also the only memorable film that Simon MacCorkindale made and he more than holds his own up against a high voltage cast.

Vampire Lovers (1970) Roy Ward Baker 7/10

I saw this Hammer classic several time as a teenager and it's nice to see that it holds up very well all these years later. It's probably Ingrid Pitts best role, though some would make a case for Countess Dracula, made the year after this. This is also one of the most overtly sapphic vampire flicks every made and Ingrid Pitt was never more voluptuous in her see through night gown and bulging chest. Jon Finch and Peter Cushing also appear.

An Unmarried Woman (1978) Paul Mazursky 7/10

Jill Clayburgh's wonderful performance in her signature role and Paul Mazursky's best film also hold up very well 32 later. Clayburgh was even more brillant then I had remembered and Erica is her most beautifully realised performance. The women that play her friends were also impressive as well as Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy & Lisa Lucas. However Alan Bates sits oddly in the film and is the weakest aspect of it. One of the reasons it's all still so fresh is that much of it still resonates today.