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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:08 am
by mlrg
Carnal Knowledge (1971) - Mike Nichols
8/10
Great film with a tremendous performance by Jack Nicholson, who really is the stand-out here. Another slick direction by Mike Nichols with a subject matter common to his other films.
1971 is fastly becoming one of my favourite years
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:08 pm
by Hustler
I´m adding L´Intrus (Claire Denis) 4/10
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:07 pm
by Hustler
Treeless Mountain 8/10
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:35 pm
by Zahveed
I Love You, Man - 7/10
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:16 pm
by mlrg
American Graffiti (1973) - George Lucas
8/10
Lucas's most personal film is indeed a very good one with a charming screenplay and greatly acted by everyone. Cindy Williams should have received a nomination instead of Candy Clak IMO. The editing of the film is also top notch.
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:39 am
by inky
A Big Road (2009; China/Singapore) - 6.5/10
Fish Eyes (2008; China) - 6.5/10
Ploy (2007; Thailand) - 7/10
The International (2009; USA) - 4/10
12 Rounds (2008; USA) - 3/10
Kabei - Our Mother (2008; Japan) - 6/10
Claustrophobia (2008; HK) - 6/10
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:54 am
by Precious Doll
Palermo Shooting (208) Wim Wenders 1/10
Camino (2008) Javier Feser 7/10
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2008) Mark Herman 4/10
Westbound (1959) Budd Boetticher 6/10
The George Raft Story (1961) Joseph M Newman 4/10
I haven't seen Jayne Mansfield in anything for years and I'd forgotten just how bad she could be.
The Devil is a Sissy (1936) W S Van Dyke 7/10
The Mass is Ended (1985) Nanni Moretti 4/10
Tulpan (2008) Sergei Dvortsevoy 4/10
Clara (2008) Helma Sanders-Brahms 5/10
This was a major disappointment. I expected something more dynamic then a standard bio-pic from Sanders-Brahms. Had her name been removed from the credits and I was shown the film I never would have guested that Sanders-Brahms had directed it.
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:38 am
by Big Magilla
Joy of Living (Tay Garnett, 1938) 4/10
Highly disappointing considering all the talent that was squandered on this combination screwball comedy/musical by no less than Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lucille Ball, Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee and Jean Dixon are all let down by the lame story about a Broadway star and her deadbeat family.
Having Wonderful Time (Alfred Lantell, 1938) 6/10
Fairbanks fares much better opposite Ginger Rogers in this light comedy about a secretary on vacation in the Catskills, the basis for the later Broadway musical Wish You Were Here. Lucille Ball, Lee Bowman, Eve Arden and Red Skelton all have their moments.
The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage, 1938) 7/10
Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas and Fay Bainter all turn in impressive performances in this family melodrama from a 1934 Broadway play that starred Gladys Cooper, Adrianne Allan and her husband, Raymond Massey in the Crawford-Sullavan-Young roles. Though Crawford holds her own, Sullavan in the third of her four films directed by Borzage, and Bainter, a double Oscar nominee for two other roles that year, are the real standouts.
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:49 pm
by Zahveed
Campfire (2004) - 7/10
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:02 am
by dreaMaker
The Strangers (2008)
8/10
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:58 am
by dreaMaker
Gran Torino
10/10
Clint is The Genius.
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:55 am
by dreaMaker
Marley & Me
8/10
Mediocre at first half an hour, but later it becomes a bittersweet surprise.
Not a comedy at all.
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:56 am
by mlrg
--Reza wrote:--mlrg wrote:1983 really is a weird year
Why?
IMO because there is no film truly deserving of oscar recognition apart from probably Terms of Endearment and Tender Mercies
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:12 am
by Franz Ferdinand
--Reza wrote:--mlrg wrote:1983 really is a weird year
Why?
Probably because I was born 
Edited By OscarGuy on 1240662399
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:50 am
by Reza
mlrg wrote:1983 really is a weird year
Why?