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The Fugue (2018) Agnieszka Smoczynska 4/10
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) Desiree Akhavan 6/10
Chris the Swiss (2018) Anja Kofmel 6/10
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) Terry Gilliam 3/10
Our House (2018) You Kiyohara 4/10
Sofia (2018) Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloisi 5/10
The Children Act (2018) Richard Eyre 4/10
The Guilty (2018) Gustav Moller 5/10
A Woman Captured (2017) Bernadett Tuza-Ritter 6/10
The Harvesters (2018) Etienne Kallos 4/10
Capharnaum (2018) Nadine Lakaki 1/10
Tower. A Bright Day (2018) Jogoda Szelic 4/10

Crowhurst (2018) Simon Rumley 6/10
That Summer (2018) Goran Olsson 6/10
At War (2018) Stephane Brize 7/10
Yomeddine (2018) A.B. Shawky 4/10
Asako 1 + 2 (2018) Ryusuke Hamaguchi 5/10
Nico, 1988 (2017) Susanna Nicchiarelli 6/10
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) Mohammaed Lakhdar-Hamina 6/10
Birds of Passage (2018) Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra 7/10
Everybody Knows (2018) Asghar Farhadi 2/10
The World is Yours (2018) Romain Gavras 5/10
Diamantino (2018) Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt 8/10
Infinite Football (2018) Corneliu Porumboiv 4/10
Dogman (2018) Matteo Garrone 7/10
Ash Is Purest White (2018) Zhangke Jia 7/10

Repeat viewings

Captain Blood (1935) Michael Curtiz 9/10
Summer and Smoke (1961) Peter Glenville 6/10
The Knack ...and Hot to Get It (1965) Richard Lester 7/10

You Were Never Really Here (2017) Lynne Ramsey 6/10
The Third Murder (2017) Hirokazu Koreeda 6/10

Repeat viewings

Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks 9/10
The Mean Season (1985) Phillip Borsos 6/10
Ride the Pink Horse (1947) Robert Montgomery 5/10
The Bridge (1959) Bernhard Wicki 7/10
The Great Lie (1941) Edmund Goulding 7/10
Son of Saul (2015) Laszlo Nemes 7/10
Girl with Green Eyes (1964) Desmond Davis 7/10
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) Tony Richardson 6/10

Méditerranée (1963) Jean-Daniel Pollet & Volker Schlondorff 5/10
No Date, No Signature (2018) Vahid Jalilvand 6/10
Where is Kyra? (2018) Andrew Dosunmu 4/10
Wet Woman in the Wind (2016) Akihiko Shiota 4/10
Under the Tree (2017) Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson 6/10
Ted - Show Me Love (2018) Hannes Holm 4/10
Ramparts of Clay (1970) Jean-Louis Bertuccelli 4/10
The Go Masters (1982) Ji-shin Duan, Jun'ya Sato & Shu'an Liu 4/10
Why Girls Leave Home (1945) William Berke 4/10

Repeat viewings

Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh 7/10
Come Back, Africa (1959) Lionel Rogosin 6/10
Look Back in Anger (1959) Tony Richardson 6/10

The Apartment - Billy Wilder - 1960

This is another time I used TCM as an opportunity to catch up on a celebrated film I had still yet to see.

From the beginning with Jack Lemmon's voice over, it became apparent that rapid-fire repartee would punctuate the film from beginning to end. What impressed me even more was how seamlessly this moved back and forth from comedy to pathos. Lemmon as the everyman and Shirley MacLaine as the "kept woman" are in top form playing the role types for which they were, at least initially, most known. The only thing that distracts for me, is the life-goes-on ending where the at-least-potentially desperate situations Lemmon and MacLaine's characters placed themselves in was just glossed over.

An additional interesting point is that this movie serves as somewhat of a time capsule for a time when middle-income-working people were actually able to live thoughout much of Manhattan.

9/10

Mary Shelley (2018) Haifaa Al-Mansour 4/10
G.I. Honeymoon (1945) Phil Karlson 2/10
Silver Queen (1942) Lloyd Bacon 4/10
Navajo (1952) Norman Foster 6/10
Los Tarantos (1963) Francisco Rovira Beleta 8/10
U - July 22 (2018) Erik Poppe 8/10
Tlayucan (1962) Luis Alcoriza 7/10
Border (2018) Ali Abbasi 5/10
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) Noboru Nakamura 5/10
The Important Man (1961) Ismael Rodriguez 4/10
A Very English Scandal (2018) Stephen Frears 6/10
The Ninth Circle (1960) France Stiglic 5/10
Dark River (2018) Clio Barnard 4/10

Repeat viewings

The Fountainhead (1950) King Vidor 8/10
In a Lonely Place (1950) Nicholas Ray 7/10
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) Mark Robson 6/10

I've only ever seen the original cut of Tom Jones and have never seen Richardson 1989 cut. The first time I saw it was on home video in 1992 and the tape was produced in the very early 1980s. I'm not even going to bother with the 1989 version as the original cut is near perfect.

I feel In the Mood for Love is really little more than style over substance to a large extent. I was curious to revisit the film given that it stature has grown go much in recent years but I feel exactly the same way I felt about the film back in 2001.

The drubbing of Tom Jones is largely based on the wrong-headed 1989 "director's cut" of the film which was the only version available from then until now. The Criterion and BFI DVD and Blu-ray releases contain both versions.

Richardson's 1989 re-cut of the film removed several scenes which are essential to the plot of the film. Without them the ending is too abrupt. Be sure to watch the original theatrical release version of the film and not the dumbed-down version foisted upon the world by Richardson two years before his death.

Precious Doll wrote:Tom Jones (1963) Tony Richardson 9/10
In the Mood for Love (2000) Kar-Wai Wong 7/10

Interesting to see you gave the Wong a 7 - which many think is a masterpiece. While Richardson's film has gone down in many people's estimation which got a 10 from you.

I agree with your rating for the former. Haven't seen the latter in almost 40 years. Need to watch it again to see if it holds up.

Adrift (2018) Baltasar Kormakur 4/10
Drums of Love (1928) D. W. Griffith 5/10
Music in Manhattan (1944) John H. Auer 4/10
Day Dreams (1928) Ivor Montagu 6/10
Skyscraper (1928) Howard Higgins 5/10
The Mysterious Island (1929) Lucien Hubbaud 3/10
Hunters of the Deep (1954) Ben Chapman 5/10
Sunbonnet Sue (1945) Ralph Murphy 4/10

Repeat viewings

The Sea Hawk (1940) Michael Curtiz 8/10
The Entertainer (1960) Tony Richardson 8/10
Tom Jones (1963) Tony Richardson 9/10
In the Mood for Love (2000) Kar-Wai Wong 7/10
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Karel Reisz 7/10
A Taste of Honey (1961) Tony Richardson 7/10
Frances (1982) Graeme Clifford 4/10

Ideal Home (2018) Andrew Fleming 4/10
Foxtrot (2017) Samuel Maoz 4/10
Upgrade (2018) Leigh Whannell 5/10
Incredibles 2 (2018) Brad Bird 5/10
Moon Child (1989) Augusti Villaronga 4/10
Marguerite and Julien (2015) Valerie Donzelli 4/10
Tehran Taboo (2017) Ali Soozandeb 7/10

Repeat viewings

There Was a Crooked Man (1970) Joseph L. Mankiewicz 7/10
The Men (1950) Fred Zinnemann 7/10
Marborosi (1995) Hirokazu Koreeda 5/10
Threads (1984) Mick Jackson 7/10

Terror Nullius (2018) Soda Jerk
Thoroughbreds (2018) Cory Finley 5/10
The Road a Year Long (19580 Giuseppe de Santis 5/10
Three Identical Strangers (2018) Tim Wardle 4/10
Leap into the Void (1980) Marco Bellocchio 5/10
Hereditary (2018) Ari Aster 1/10
Death Wish (2018) Eli Roth 2/10
Disobedience (2018) Sebastian Lelio 2/10
Vazante (2017) Daniela Thomas 7/10
This Special Friendship (1964) Jean Delannoy 8/10

Repeat viewings

The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Nunnally Johnson 6/10
Where's Poppa? (1970) Carl Reiner 6/10

The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) Sara Colangelo 3/10
Daughter of Mine (2018) Laura Bispuri 4/10
Three Faces (2018) Jafar Panahi 5/10
Leave No Trace (2018) Debora Granik 6/10
Samui Song (2018) Pen-ek Ratanaruang 4/10
The Wild Pear Tree (2018) Nuri Bilge Ceylan 6/10
The Heiresses (2018) Marcelo Martinessi 7/10
Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Koreeda 8/10
Woman at War (2018) Benedikt Erlingsson 7/10
Climax (2018) Gaspar Noe 2/10

Transit (2018) Christian Petzold 4/10
Cold War (2018) Pawel Pawlikowski 5/10
Mug (2018) Malgorzata Szumowska 5/10
Scary Mother (2017) Ana Urushadze 4/10
One Day (2018) Zsofia Szilagyi 4/10
Ryuchi Sakamoto: Coda (2018) Stephen Nomura Schible 4/10
3 Days in Quiberon (2018) Emily Atef 7/10
A Season in France (2018) Mahamat-Saleh Haroun 6/10
In the Aisles (2018) Thomas Stuber 2/10
The Original Sin (1948) Helmut Kautner 4/10
The Wife (2018) Bjorn Runge 4/10
Burning (2018) Chang-dong Lee 8/10

Repeat viewing

Ghost Story (1981) John Irvin 6/10

Support the Girls (2018) Andrew Bujalski 4/10
Hard Paint (2018) Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon 5/10
Tea with the Dames (2018) Roger Michel 5/10
Broadway Hostess (1935) Frank McDonald 4/10
Cobain (2018) Nanouk Leopold 4/10
Annihilation (2018) Alex Garland 7/10
The Seen and the Unseen (2018) Kamila Andini 1/10
Holiday (2018) Isabella Eklof 4/10
Zama (2017) Lucrecia Martel 6/10
Mektoub, My Love: Conto Uno (2018) Abdellatif Kechiche 6/10
Season of the Devil (2018) Lav Diaz 4/10
Puzzle (2018) Marc Turtletaub 6/10
Touch Me Not (2018) Adina Pintille 4/10

Repeat viewings

Mighty Joe Young (1949) Ernest B. Schoedsack 6/10
The High and the Mighty (1954) William A. Wellman 6/10
Wild River (1960) Elia Kazan 7/10
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) Daniel Mann 6/10
Used Cars (1980) Robert Zemeckis 7/10
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) John Huston 6/10