Shampoo (1975) - Hal Ashby
8/10
A gem. Trully wonderfull film with great performances from all the cast. The dialogue is really very weel written as well. I haven't seen George Burns not Burgess Meredith from the BSActor nominees of 1975, but Jack Warden really deserved the Oscar for this.
Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
Lately cut down attending media screenings and instead watching screeners intensively at home - for Singapore Int'l Film Festival
Films that I watched in last 4 weeks ...
Distant Thunder (1973; India) - 7/10
Still Waking (2008; Japan) - 7/10
Thor at the Bus Stop (2008; USA) - 6.5/10
This Too Shall Pass (2009; Singapore - documentary) - 6/10
The Wackness (2008; USA) - 7/10
Wendy and Lucy (2008; USA) - 6/10
The Departures (2008; Japan) - 6.5/10
The Boat House (1961; Thailand) - 6/10
Climber's High (2008; Japan) - 6/10
Birdsong (2008; Spain) - 7/10
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (2009; USA) - 3/10
Yuri's Day (2008; Russia) - 7.5/10
Laila's Birthday (2008; Palestine) - 7/10
The Unborn (2009; USA) - 3/10
Gulabi Talkies (2008; India) - 6.5/10
Fifty Pills (2006; USA) - 5/10
Savage Grace (2007; USA) - 6/10
Helen (2008; UK) - 6.5/10
The Story of Mr. Sorry (2008; S. Korea - animation) - 7/10
Dragonball Evolution (2009; USA) - 3/10
Sell Out! (2008; Malaysia) - 7.5/10
Jalaninur (2008; China) - 6.5/10
Sincerely Yours (2008; Taiwan) - 7.5/10
Breathless (2008; S. Korea) - 7.5/10
The Vengeful Beauty (1977; HK) - 4/10
Six Degrees of Separation (1993; USA) - 6.5/10
The Fate of Lee Khan (1973; HK) - 6.5/10
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009; USA) - 4/10
Beautiful (2008; S. Korea) - 5/10
Hotel for Dogs (2009; USA) - 3.5/10
Watchmen (2009; USA) - 6.5/10
Films that I watched in last 4 weeks ...
Distant Thunder (1973; India) - 7/10
Still Waking (2008; Japan) - 7/10
Thor at the Bus Stop (2008; USA) - 6.5/10
This Too Shall Pass (2009; Singapore - documentary) - 6/10
The Wackness (2008; USA) - 7/10
Wendy and Lucy (2008; USA) - 6/10
The Departures (2008; Japan) - 6.5/10
The Boat House (1961; Thailand) - 6/10
Climber's High (2008; Japan) - 6/10
Birdsong (2008; Spain) - 7/10
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (2009; USA) - 3/10
Yuri's Day (2008; Russia) - 7.5/10
Laila's Birthday (2008; Palestine) - 7/10
The Unborn (2009; USA) - 3/10
Gulabi Talkies (2008; India) - 6.5/10
Fifty Pills (2006; USA) - 5/10
Savage Grace (2007; USA) - 6/10
Helen (2008; UK) - 6.5/10
The Story of Mr. Sorry (2008; S. Korea - animation) - 7/10
Dragonball Evolution (2009; USA) - 3/10
Sell Out! (2008; Malaysia) - 7.5/10
Jalaninur (2008; China) - 6.5/10
Sincerely Yours (2008; Taiwan) - 7.5/10
Breathless (2008; S. Korea) - 7.5/10
The Vengeful Beauty (1977; HK) - 4/10
Six Degrees of Separation (1993; USA) - 6.5/10
The Fate of Lee Khan (1973; HK) - 6.5/10
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009; USA) - 4/10
Beautiful (2008; S. Korea) - 5/10
Hotel for Dogs (2009; USA) - 3.5/10
Watchmen (2009; USA) - 6.5/10
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Oh, I think Burstyn perhaps should have won. It's a sharp, enigmatic performance with a lifetime behind it. It might be my favorite Burstyn performance outside of Requiem for a Dream. The Last Picture Show is one of the few movies I'll go 10/10 for.
Barton Fink - 8.5/10
Love it. Rosenbaum's review is brilliant but this is the Coen Bros. film that needs to be devoted entirely to fraudulence.
Barton Fink - 8.5/10
Love it. Rosenbaum's review is brilliant but this is the Coen Bros. film that needs to be devoted entirely to fraudulence.
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Four 1933 films from from William Wellman:
Frisco Jenny (7/10)
Ruth Chatterton in an interesting variation on her Madame X character. She plays a pregnant girl whose fiance (The Crowd's James Murray) is killed in the San Francisco earthquake. She becomes a madam to support her son then gives him up to be raised by a respectable family. Years later he is the D.A. who prosecutes her for murdering gangster Louis Calhern, not knowing she is his mother.
Midnight Mary (7/10)
In her later career Loretta Young specialized in playing women of high moral purpose and character. Not in this film, made at the age of 19, where she effectively ages from 9 to 27, going from depression child to gangster's moll to angelic secretary to sophisticated lady to reluctant murderess. It was her own favorite film.
Heroes for Sale (9/10)
Richard Barthelmess is a World War I hero addicted to morphine who spends five years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit and ends up a "forgotten man". Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon and Gordon Westcott co-star along with a gallery of familiar faces. One of the three great Warner Bros. depression films along with Mervyn LeRoy's I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and this one...
Wild Boys of the Road (9/10)
Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips take to the rails when they realize their parents can no longer afford to care of them. There they meet hundreds of other adolescents in the same predicament including Dorothy Coonan, a 17 year-old chorus girl in 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 who Wellman cast in the role and who upon completion of the film became his fourth wife and mother of his seven children. According to Bill Wellman, Jr.'s commentary, the dance from 42nd Street which she reprises here she was still able to perform on her 90th birthday.
Wellman reportedly hated the studio imposed happy ending but it suits the material. After watching these kids go through hell for two hours you want them to have a chance at something better even if it is only menial work.
Frisco Jenny (7/10)
Ruth Chatterton in an interesting variation on her Madame X character. She plays a pregnant girl whose fiance (The Crowd's James Murray) is killed in the San Francisco earthquake. She becomes a madam to support her son then gives him up to be raised by a respectable family. Years later he is the D.A. who prosecutes her for murdering gangster Louis Calhern, not knowing she is his mother.
Midnight Mary (7/10)
In her later career Loretta Young specialized in playing women of high moral purpose and character. Not in this film, made at the age of 19, where she effectively ages from 9 to 27, going from depression child to gangster's moll to angelic secretary to sophisticated lady to reluctant murderess. It was her own favorite film.
Heroes for Sale (9/10)
Richard Barthelmess is a World War I hero addicted to morphine who spends five years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit and ends up a "forgotten man". Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon and Gordon Westcott co-star along with a gallery of familiar faces. One of the three great Warner Bros. depression films along with Mervyn LeRoy's I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and this one...
Wild Boys of the Road (9/10)
Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips take to the rails when they realize their parents can no longer afford to care of them. There they meet hundreds of other adolescents in the same predicament including Dorothy Coonan, a 17 year-old chorus girl in 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 who Wellman cast in the role and who upon completion of the film became his fourth wife and mother of his seven children. According to Bill Wellman, Jr.'s commentary, the dance from 42nd Street which she reprises here she was still able to perform on her 90th birthday.
Wellman reportedly hated the studio imposed happy ending but it suits the material. After watching these kids go through hell for two hours you want them to have a chance at something better even if it is only menial work.
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Jiyan (2002) Jano Rosebiani 4/10
Salvation (2009) Paul Cox 6/10
Duplicity (2009) Tony Gilroy 5/10
12 Rounds (2009) Renny Harlin 1/10
Salvation (2009) Paul Cox 6/10
Duplicity (2009) Tony Gilroy 5/10
12 Rounds (2009) Renny Harlin 1/10
"I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation! Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?" Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters' Desperate Living (1977)
Enchanted April (1992) - Mike Newell
6/10
Fine little british film that looks like a made for television film from the BBC. Overall the cast is very good and the real standout is Joan Plowright who really deserved her oscar nomination.
The 1992 BSA race was really tight. My choice still is Judy Davis, but I wouldn't mind any of the other four winning.
6/10
Fine little british film that looks like a made for television film from the BBC. Overall the cast is very good and the real standout is Joan Plowright who really deserved her oscar nomination.
The 1992 BSA race was really tight. My choice still is Judy Davis, but I wouldn't mind any of the other four winning.