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    Quote Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy View Post
    ..I kind of dozed off at one point
    I kind of done that as well. Can't deny it is long and slow but I though it really kept in the spirit of the orginal. I enjoyed it and will watch it again.

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    As I said to a colleague, criticising this movie is a bit like criticising the Mona Lisa for being small....yep, it is. But it's still a masterpiece!

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    I loved it and was transfixed. Although I think I'm probably in the same camp as that_fjell_guy as I'm an artist and am used to spending days working on minute detail for hours on end...it would take a lot to bore me! My only worry is whether or not Deckard went back for his dog!

    Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
    I know, I know. Stylistically a triumph. Sonically spine tingling. Visually gorgeous. And I'm a 100% fan-boy having got DVD's of most of the original films 'cuts' and the New York Philarmonic soundtrack of the original (because of the issues with Vangelis!). So you can imagine, I was willing to forgive all sorts of things. But, at times, I was sitting there thinking 'Oh, come ON!. I get the point, now GET ON WITH IT!' Not what I expected to feel after all the anticipation. Lingering, loving exposition is one thing, but dragging it out is another.

    maybe I need to go see it again?
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    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

    A superb little British film, which provides Annette Bening with a role to break your heart in a flawless three-handkerchief movie of understated subtlety.
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    I have heard of the actor Will Smith but never knew what he looked like.

    I do now!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Llani Boy View Post
    I have heard of the actor Will Smith but never knew what he looked like.

    I do now!
    Given that actors, as Hitchcock said, are cattle, and usually only speak lines written by someone else, follow chalk lines on the sound stage and emote according to the Director's instructions - I thought he did very well to find his way to the lectern all on his own without twenty people in support.
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    I've watched some old classics just lately...

    To Sir, With Love
    Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
    The Bedford Incident (another great Sidney Potier film)
    Buster (Phil Collins as a Great Train Robber)
    The Caine Mutiny
    The Odessa File (perhaps my favourite film i've watched since i first saw the Clint Eastwood Trio)

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    I watched Jacques Tourneur's Build My Gallows High again this evening. Made in 1947 it starred Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas and a memorable Robert Mitchum. It is a wonderful late 40s film noir.

    I looked up the review in Monthly Film Bulletin for 1947. This was the British Film Institute journal of record and still is although now titled Sight & Sound . It said it was confusing, complicated, disjointed and required so much concentration as to be unentertaining, although the performances were good.

    It is indeed some of those things.

    I looked up a review from 2016 in a reference book I respect and so consult. It said it is stylish. atmospheric, highly watchable and a highly recommended masterpiece. It rates it ***** and outstanding.

    I agree with the 2016 opinion and that is why (discerning?) people still watch the film nearly 80 years after it was made - but I suppose it illustrates how time influences opinions.

    But then Citizen Kane was not universally received well upon release in 1941 and is now regarded by all sane observers as the greatest film ever made.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    But then Citizen Kane was not universally received well upon release in 1941 and is now regarded by all sane observers as the greatest film ever made.
    After Pulp Fiction of course
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