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This popped up on FilmFour the other night. Had seen this in the cinema when first released, but had totally forgotten about it. Jamie Lee Curtis is the newly appointed Cop, who becomes the infatuation of psycho Ron Silver, who begins a murder campaign in her name. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, The Hurt Locker), its not as impressive as her debut 'Near Dark', but is watchable enough mainly for Curtis!
Not the best Hardy&Laurel short, either, but definitely some really funny moments.
The type of film that I put off watching but I'm so glad that I did.
'Payback' is enjoyable, and Mel is great in it, but its not a patch on ' Point Blank' , of which its a remake of!
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Spencer Tracy is, IMO underrated in this and chilling in her interpretaion of Hyde.
Although it's merely a remake of the 1932 Fredic March film, this is the adaptaion I grew up with (alongside the Jack Palance television film). Holds a special place in my heart.
The real reason this is my favorite adaptation..............
Alongside the lovely Lana, there's the wonderful Ingrid Bergman.
Both could've been Bond girls in the 1940's.
Excellent film......though I do need to upgrade to the recently released Blu-ray. Flipper disc DVDs are lacking.
I’ve never seen the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but I’ll have to add it to my future watch list. This week I’ve been busy sampling the films of Shelley Winters (LOLITA, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER), Joan Crawford (POSSESSED, QUEEN BEE, MILDRED PIERCE) and Toshiro Mifune (RASHOMON, SEVEN SAMURAI). For the latter, I wanted to also watch HIGH AND LOW (1963), but it was way past my bed time! :D
While I’ve always known that Lois Maxwell played a nurse in LOLITA, I just realized that Cec Linder was one of the doctors in the scene where Humbert (Mason) discovers that Lolita has been checked out of the hospital by Quilty.
You are – of course – correct about both Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner being “Bond Girl’ material (if the series had started back then).
The plot is pretty Hitchcockian, and there are two big twists in the later part of this film.
The orginal, and still best. Great dumb fun! Arnie and his team decimate half a rainforest to retrieve a missing Dignitary, but ended up being hunted for sport by a Rasfarian alien! You can see how Director John McTiernan got the 'Diehard' gig, on the back of this. The first half is rather by the numbers, but when the team start getting offed by the Predator, things hot up, and then we have that magnificent climax, with Arnie going mano a mano against the "ugly mother....." I havent seen 'Prey' yet, I hope its more like this than the naff sequels!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go, as I need to get to da choppa!
A million miles from something like 'Predator'! Ken Loachs wonderful film about a young boy, Billy, growing up in a working class area, whose only mission in life will be to end up "down pit" like his bullying older brother Judd! He discovers a Kestrel at a local farm, catches, and tames it, which gives him something to hope for! Loach captures marvellous scenes with young actors, and comical/tragic sequences such Brian Glovers sadistic P E. Teacher organising a 'football match'! One of my favourite scenes is Billy reading a page of 'The Dandy' about 'Desperate Dan'!
The ending of the film is heartbreaking! Classic film making at its best!
This film has more Brosnan-isms than even TAFFIN . Sometimes I'm just in the mood to see Pierce be Pierce in all his glory. This one delivers as Brosnan plays a college professor teaching his students the art of murder. Things go awry.
"Let's just say, not everyone will survive the course."
Another one for my watchlist.
Haha! Good one. Yeah, this film is a lot of fun. Some of his television films are massively entertaining.
Have you seen Night Watch? I've been meaning to watch that again forever. It's been years since I saw the first half hour.
(2007)
The first time I saw this, I was amazed and thought it was perhaps Burton s best. I still find it to be a great movie, but am a bit more reserved. Parts of this is just too tragic and unpleasant for me to enjoy it as much as before. Fantastic performances, though-from Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman and the rest.
Is this your friend?
And dont forget Henry Mancinis wonderful score!
As with Sweeney Todd and several other Burton movies, I probably liked this better on the first watch. It s still one of Burton s better movies, but the finale drags it down. Thankfully it doesn t last long, and up until that point there is much excellence. Maybe it s just me, but the so called "climax" is so often the weakest parts of movies for me. Eva Green is particularly lovely and horrible at the same time here, and it s cool to see Christopher Lee in a small cameo.
Best line "The ugliest woman I have ever seen."
Speaking of CHARADE and Cary Grant, on Sunday, August 28th, Turner Classic Movies programmed a 24- hour block of his films as part of their “Summer Under the Stars” series. And while they didn’t program CHARADE, I did get to spend a pleasant day and evening watching THE PHIALDELPHIA STORY, SUSPICION, NORTH by NORTHWEST and Mr. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE. I have a particular fondness for MR. BLANDINGS since that film also served as the basis for Tom Hanks’ 1986 movie THE MONEY PIT - which is one of my all-time guilty pleasures.
FYI, a nice remembrance by Jennifer Grant (Cary Grant’s daughter) for TCM.
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BTW: CHARADE was included in TCM’s 24-hour block of Audrey Hepburn films earlier in the month.
There's no way to forget Henry Mancini's wonderful score. :-)
For DTV films, there was a fair ammount of vehicular carnage in both films.
But yes, Henry Mancini's score is wonderful in this one as well.
Beautiful Blu-ray transfer of a Reynolds movie I've never seen before.
Rather enjoying this one. Burt has some Bondian qualities here and I can see why Guy Hamilton thought he might've made a decent 007 (although he was American).
Miko Mayama's role ended up shorter than I thought it might be. She was memorable, though. I enjoyed this film.I like this period in Burt Reynolds' career.
Oh, and it is photographed by Hoyt Van Hoytema! The film looks terrific.
I'm pretty early in and so far it's not bad......................