![]() Orson Welles filmed on Republic Pictures' western sets at night using minimalist sets and expressionistic lighting to bring his first Shakespearean adaptation to the screen. The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2013) 2.5Ģ1 Years: Richard Linklater (Michael Dunaway & Tara Wood, 2014) 2.5+ Recently released from prison, jazz-loving criminal (Tamio Kawachi) rapes the girlfriend (Noriko Matsumoto) of the reporter who helped send him in the last time. The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960) 2.5+ Love and a Bullet (Kantz & Ben Ramsay, 2002) 2 The Curse of El Charro (Rich Ragsdale, 2005) 1.5 Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan, 2005) 2.5 The Look of Love (Michael Winterbottom, 2013) 2.5Īmid several subplots, both campy and straight, motorcycle stunt driver Richard Roundtree has one of the funniest scenes. The Baytown Outlaws (Barry Battles, 2012) 2 ![]() Satellite in the Sky (Paul Dickson, 1956) 2īefore the Great Chicago Fire, honest lawyer Don Ameche visits his shady gambler brother Tyrone Power and his lover Alice Faye. And K-Pax is an old favourite I've always really liked/loved.Ĭlandestine Childhood (Benjamin Avila, 2012) 2.5+ The Guest was good trashy fun and felt like a real 80s throwback. And I sort of fell in love with Aubrey Plaza in it. Safety Not Guaranteed was a small, quirky film that took a while to grab me but really won me over. At one point the film takes a break for the character to pimp his ride and create a Wolf mobile like it's a 1980s TV show. But then that was the point of it and there was some fun stuff there. WolfCop was pretty cheap, really stupid and kind of *****. Until the film came out I had no idea who Mr Peabody and Sherman were but the film was a whole lot of fun witty, creative, colourful and willfully silly when it wanted to be. Will try it again one day in case I just wasn't in the right mood for it. He should certainly have been in the running for a Best Actor Oscar.īlue Ruin I was really looking forward to but just couldn't really get into it. If the film is a rating_3 then his performance may well be a full blown rating_5. As a film it may be tough to get too excited about it or to fall too much in love with it, but it does happen to feature an extraordinary performance from Tom Hardy. Surprisingly I was more taken with Locke. It's one of those films where I can't really pick out too many things that were wrong with it but I just didn't take to it as much I feel I should. :shrug: Do you know if it's a film of the same style you're thinking of or whether it's just a similar title?Īnd yeah The Drop was a solid flick. Any idea what I'm thinking of? :pĮh.not really. Much of the film seems to go by slowly, but it does have some rich details along the way and an almost transcendent conclusion at an airfield where the visuals and music reach an emotional crescendo.įor some reason I thought you already posted a review of The Guest in your thread, but there doesn't appear to be one. This turns out to be the tailor who's going to make Nadezhda's very boring new professional suit. Then you hear loud footsteps and a man almost seems to come through the window from the outdoors (although he actually just came from a side indoor hallway). The opening scene does get your attention as it begins inside a building but focuses on a particularly busy outside street. For the most part, this is a very quiet, occasionally-poetic drama. What joy she seems to have is connected to her memories of WW II. ![]() She has a male friend who projects very little heat and a daughter who married an older man but never even told her about it at the time. Soviet director Shepitko's debut film tells the story of school headmistress Nadezhda (Maya Bulgakova) who feels lonely and underappreciated in her current state in life, especially since during WWII, she had an exciting time as a jet pilot heroine and had a steamy affair with another pilot who died during an aerial dogfight.
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