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Post by countjohn on Aug 14, 2019 2:53:43 GMT
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957)
Watched a movie I hadn't seen with my beloved Deborah Kerr starring with Robert Mitchum in a John Huston film. Both the lead performances are very good and they have unexpectedly good chemistry with subtle sexual tension fitting for the two roles. A similar dynamic to The African Queen which I also watched recently, but to be honest I thought this was slightly better despite that one's better reputation.
8/10
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Post by Viced on Aug 14, 2019 3:08:04 GMT
Hepburn being so in love with old man river Cary Grant for most of the movie was a little cringey Putting her with Bogart/Astaire/Cooper when she was so young in the 50's was a stretch. But come on, this is Cary Grant! I'm sure lots of women of a wide range of ages were still in love with him in the early 60's. True... I should have said "Cary Grant playing a character that appears to be shady for the majority of the movie." |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 14, 2019 14:28:30 GMT
He Ran All The Way (1951) re-watch ........but hadn't seen it in ages ....... Bare bones noir with John Garfield (greatish, his last film) and Shelley Winters. You might call it formulaic but still it's a great formula (guns, girl, cash) and says a lot about male-female dynamics and isolation. You could remake this great too but to remake you'd have to show the male being physically abusive to her so of course you really could not make that film now (like the (much) better In A Lonely Place from the same year, see how complicated and smart we are now compared to then? Sarcasm.) ~7/10 
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 16, 2019 22:30:01 GMT
 The Sergeant (1968) TCM played over ten Rod Steiger movies yesterday! 5ish or 6/10 - mainly for Steiger in his first post-Oscar perf, for which he took a pay cut in order to play the role, a role as daring if not more so than Brando taking (the similar, infinitely better) Reflections in a Golden Eye bc audiences had already ridiculed that one and Steiger didn't have John Huston or Liz Taylor to back him up. The filmmaking is messy except when it accidentally works like how the camera jitters during one of his tirades against the soldiers under him, and the other acting especially the younger co-lead is awful. But the Steiger perf is the point - a challenging unsympathetic role - delivering a direct emotional tension that is checked, retracted, and fitfully released; he carries the pic. |
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Post by longtallsally on Aug 17, 2019 19:54:29 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 18, 2019 18:43:33 GMT
Curious to know what you think since most folks seem to hate this movie. I found it quite charming and hilarious and loved pretty much every minute of Richardson's madcap take on the novel, and of course young Albert Finney is just to die for.  |
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Post by longtallsally on Aug 18, 2019 20:39:59 GMT
Curious to know what you think since most folks seem to hate this movie. I found it quite charming and hilarious and loved pretty much every minute of Richardson's madcap take on the novel, and of course young Albert Finney is just to die for. I didn't hate the film but didn't like it either. Not the kind of film I'd have watched if it wasn't for the Best Picture win. Albert Finney was fantastic, and Hugh Griffith, too. Apart from that, the film was too slow-paced and the story too predictable (don't know the novel) to keep me fully interested for two hours. Btw, great profile photo |
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Post by longtallsally on Aug 18, 2019 20:49:30 GMT
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