Better not mention Jeremy Brett then...
The Fabulous Baker Boys is one of my (many) favourites. And Michelle Pfeiffer sprawled over the piano singing Makin' Whoopee is one of my favourite scenes in it.
Not a lot of people know this but the song You're Sixteen, sung in the film as part of the brothers' reconciliation, was recorded by Johnny Burnette, getting to #3 in the UK. Burnette's earlier stuff was much better though. He drowned after falling off his boat in 1964 aged 30. (Surprising what you can find out reading the Fell Runners Forum, isn't it?)
Agreed. By a million miles
I’ve seen so many brilliant films this year. I can’t even remember them all but here’s a snapshot....
Emma
Little Women
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Uncut gems
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1917
The Half of It
Le Mans 66 (Ford vs Ferrari)
Some at the cinema and some on tv or streaming. The ‘trouble’ with Netflix is that you can never not find a brilliant film
Stanley Kubricks Clockwork orange a good study on the dangers of behavarioal psycology and psycolgical condtioning plus Malcom McDowels acting was Brilliant, combined with the soundtrack combination of classical music Particulary beethovens 9th and electonic synth was awesome.
Shindlers List is another of my Favorites, as is Alfred Alfred Hitchcocks Psyhco
There has been a few good films I have seen but the combination of Music, acting and thought provoking questions The Clockwork Orange raised makes it stand out for me.
The older I get the Faster I was
A clockwork orange is a film I think that’s not aged that well. It came out when I was an impressionable yoof and, although I didn’t go so far as a bowler hat, me and my friends all went a bit droogie at the time. And it did cause a fair bit of trouble from memory (the film got banned for a while didn’t it?). Then later I was really impressed by it - especially Beethoven’s 9th and the fact that some of it was filmed in Aylesbury’s (old concrete) shopping mall 🙄. Now though I’m not so sure - the rape scene at the country house alone definitely does the film no favours
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3 French Directors.
Le Boucher Claude Chabrol
Pierrot Le Fou Jean-Luc Godard
La Nuit Americaine Francois Truffaut
3 Italian
Blow Up Michelangelo Antonioni
1900 Bernardo Bertolucci
Death In Venice Luchino Visconti
3 USA
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Sam Peckinpah
Love & Friendship Walt Stillman
A Touch of Evil Orson Welles
3 English
Point Blank John Boorman
Get Carter Stephen Kay
In Bruges Martin McDonagh
3 Swedish
Ingmar Bergman x3
3 Japanese
Kurosawa x3
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".