But that wasn't Alec Guinness was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
A cinema release with Michael Cain? Or am I imagining that?
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But that wasn't Alec Guinness was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
A cinema release with Michael Cain? Or am I imagining that?
Sorry Zoot I altered my post not realising you had replied :D I got The Honourable Schoolboy mixed up with A Perfect Spy. Both were John Le Carre novels but I don't think they have filmed The Honourable Schoolboy only done it on the radio?. A Perfect Spy was the DVD I meant to recommend.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo
I listened to the Honourable Schoolboy when R4 broadcast The Complete Smiley last year. A great going over, but I think the nature of the stories and the atmosphere suit the longer telling of the tale. Just emphasises the slow burn and gradual build-up of the story. I have yet to see the recent movie with Gary Oldman, but will watch with interest and an open mind. Be good to see what condensing the tale into less than half the time of the series (but prob. 3hrs, so 1hr longer than the radio?) will do to the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
Meek's Cutoff - Directed by the extremely talented Kelly Reichardt. Haunting film about settlers heading west in the 1840s on the Oregon trail. They decide to leave the main Wagon Train lead by Meek who apparently gets them lost. They then put their faith reluctantly in an "Indian" they capture and hope he can show them where the next water is. The ending I won't spoil for you but it does turn the film into more than just a desperate journey across America and I was still thinking about it when I got up this morning. For a film where not a lot really happens it does create a lot of thought but maybe that's the aim in the film and in particular the ending?.
Just a film about the hardships on the trail?
A feminist film (usual copout for films where there is a woman director :thunbdown: ) ?
A political metaphor for the George Bush Jnr years and the rise of Obama ?
A post death journey in the 'Ashes to Ashes' mould?
As Barry Norman used to say "you pays your money and you takes your chance" :D
I loved it!
"In an early scene with the three women walking, there was abundant Russian thistle on the ground. The film was set in 1845, but Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) wasn't introduced to the United States until arriving in South Dakota in 1870 or 1874, as weed seed in flaxseed imported from Russia".IMdBQuote:
Originally Posted by Alf
And some people think avoiding anachromisnms is just keeping TV aerials out of camera shot!
I don't quite get your references to the ending Alf - like you thought it was clever or significant in some way? I thought it looked like someone had taken a pair of scissors to the film reel at a random place roughly 1h45mins in!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
Not that I didn't like the film, I loved it.
Its a bit difficult to comment without spoiling it for anyone else so generally speaking I thought the ending was deliberately created to make you think more about the film and what it was actually about rather than a conventional ending where you just walk away from it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo
For example using the political metaphor I mentioned then Obama is still in power and the journey has not yet ended, trust has been passed but the goal has not been reached though there are signs of an improvement (the tree).
Just to really play mind games then the 'Ashes to Ashes' scenario when initially they pass over the river (death) having perished in the main Wagon Train and are picked up by their Indian Guide and transported through their confusion to the Tree/gateway of knowledge/life at the end. Meek may be a fellow traveller or someone more sinister in that scenario who has entrapped them between "heaven and earth".
Or maybe its just a film about the hardship of Settlers and an over exuberant film editor :rolleyes:
or maybe the Indian is leading them into a trap - like Meek says - and they end up all getting killed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
Meek might be an unscrupulous scoundrel. But it doesn't mean he's wrong.
Yes that's possible or Meek might be a scoundrel and the Indian takes them to the water because of the kindness that has been shown by others to him and he wants them to survive ? If either of those scenarios had occurred in the film then we probably would not be discussing it as much as we have with the actual ending so if its purpose was to make us think a bit more about it then its succeeded! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo
Watching 'Knowing' on Film4 with the sound down, looks like the usual rehashed knackers that hollywood serves up, but mesmerised by Nic Cage's bizarre pageboy hairpiece, keep waiting for the syrup to slip in the action sequences..
Thats an awful film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dubbintooth
Just watched NEDS. Great film, with a slight weird ending. I'm sure there was some significance to it, and I can think of a few possible answers. Anyone else seen it? What are your thoughts?
Today I actually went to the CINEMA....OMG!
I took my littlest man to see Arthur Christmas and it is smashing. Really good film. IN SANTA WE BELIEVE......We saw a trailer for the new Aardman film (Wallace & Gromit) called The Pirate Captain and we are both very excited about that coming to the cinema next year! It looks ace.
This evening I watched The Arbor. A film about the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar (Rita, Sue & Bob Too) and the fallout within her family of her early death. Her only daughter Lorraine (orphaned at 10) became a drug addict/thief/prostitue/victim of domestic violence and had numerous children removed from her care only then have one son returned to her who she accidentally killed by feeding him Methadone. Strangely compelling, a study of right hard living.
Just watched Peter Jackson's The lovely bones. Great film, had me fighting back the tears on more than one occasion.
Watched Mean Streets again last night.
There ain't no one cooler than Bobby D and that's a fact, yessiree ....
http://youtu.be/n-PZaK8TnWw
Disappointed to have to tear myself away from Rocky last night after the triumphant stair climb at the end of the training montage. Watching on ITV4+1 & it were getting late.
It's a great scene. Just bought my dad a picture of the jump at the top of the stairs for his 65th.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Returner (2002)
Japanese scifi borrowing unashamedly from many other scifi films and with a good slice of high body count Ninja gangster thrown in. Girl from future returns to past to try and prevent Alien invasion. Good soundtrack as well. What more do you want? Only 35% on the Tomatometer but I liked it :thumbup:
Getting excited..................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Sktgm0aD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yh6SriAjdE
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Film4+1 at 10pm...
Watched Warrior last night. Good film, but a bit hollywood. If you don't know much about MMA chances are you'll love it, if you do then you'll struggle to get past just how annoying and ridiculous the fight scenes are and thus you'll think its good but not great. For me it doesn't live up to the potential oscar hype.
Over Christmas watched Guns of Navarone, Lavender Hill Mob, and saw in New Year watching Senna, which I got for Xmas on Blu-Ray. Incredibly sad film. Also very depressing, seeing what he achieved before his death at 34. I'm only 2 yrs away from that marker, and what've I got to show for my life...?
*goes off to slit wrists*
ITV 2,3,... are a nightmare the adds get closer together near the end of the movie. I have given up watching movies on them just gets too late into the night.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
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Originally Posted by dominion
My son got me the Blu-ray version of 'Battle of the Bulge' for Christmas (Its a war movie not a fitness video :D ) . The original film dates back to pre CGI days in 1965. Trouble is the bits where they used models are much more obvious now in high definition. One listen to the 'Panzerlied' though and I am now planning to invade Bury :rolleyes:
Last night I watched Kate Windswept and Leo Di Cap in Revolutionary Road, the Same Mendes film.
All I can say is that it made for very uncomfortable watching. Excellent film though..
Got The Informers ready to V+ this Thursday of Film4. On about 11.15.
Bret Easton Ellis screenplay, Kim Basinger & Mickey Rourke reunited:confused::rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by IMDb
Might be worth a punt.
Amazingly, I couldn't find a previous mention of it...
The Truman Show. Possibly the greatest film ever made....
Good Afternoon, Good Evening... And Good Night.
I presume that is a mispelling of Citizen Kane?Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Really? Wouldn't even get near my top 100Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
No, but to humour you I've just spent £3-97 on a copy. I'll get back to you....Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Your reward is to be the first to read the opening paras of my Bill Smith article in the next Fellrunner...Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Joseph Heller the author of Catch22, which was first published in 1961 and has now sold over ten million copies, was once asked why he had not published anything nearly as good in his later writing career.
To which his famous response was “But who has?”
Orson Welles made Citizen Kane, which is consistently and correctly voted by writers on cinema to be the greatest movie ever made, when he was 26 and then spent the next 45 years in artistic decline.
So...there you have it. One of the joys of youth is that there are so many things you will still be able to experience for the first time.
Lake Tahoe [2008] directed by the talented young Mexican Fernando Eimbcke.
Initially a pretty mundane story about a young man who crashes his car and his journey to get it fixed meeting various characters along the way. About half way through though you find out the reasons for his apparent "spaced out" look and without spoiling the plot I will leave it at that but a lot of the camera shots and the main characters emotional state are reflected in the way the film is put together up to this point. Apart from a car shot the camera only really moves once independently in the whole film and the rest of the time its fixed with people wandering in one side of the screen and exiting the other side. I didn't like the "cut to black" shots much although I know some directors use them to show passage of time (in this case possibly emotional blackouts as well?) but after a while it started to annoy me. On the whole though I enjoyed it.
Didn't catch this last night, but I've seen pretty bad reviews. However anything with Amber Heard in is definitely worth a watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol at the IMAX in Bradford. Prepare to have your socks blown off.
And at the same place, the 6 minute IMAX preview for the next Batman film (the Dark knight rises) was just awesome :)
So much so, that I bought the last batman for £5 at Sainsburys in order to prepare for the screening of the new one! I just hope that I don't get such bad vertigo as I did during Mission Impossible :)
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Originally Posted by Stolly
just watched Source Code
complete nonsense, but entertaining enough and surprisingly touching near the end, plus mercifully short at about 1:25 (had to sit through 2:45 of Transformers 3 the other day :w00t: )
"there can only be one....." ?
Bought the boxed set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who kicked the Hornets nest. Includes bonus disc of the second trilogy, The Girl who prefered Lakeland Races, The Girl who favoured the Three Peaks and The Girl who couldn't give a monkey's which races she did as long as her sports bra fitted nicley.
Seriously though, half way through the first film, and very gripping, dark and gritty. Even has an English audio option so don't have to faff around with subtitles.
Great set of films, but Steve you aren't doing them justice with the awful dubbed english.Quote:
Originally Posted by stevefoster