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Post by **Mister Tee** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:20 pm

Thanks, Magilla and Precious Doll, for the info. Magilla, that site seems to have a number of the long-unavailable-to-me Oscar candidates (A Medal for Benny, Death of a Salesman, Private Worlds just at first glance). Would that I had the spare cash right now to buy them.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:16 pm

Still catching up on TV series and films I have to review for my DVD report, but a couple of others that I've watched in the last few days:

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Basil Dearden 6/10

Flora Robson is the whole show here as she proves Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Playing a German countess whose lover (Stewart Granger) dumps her for Joan Greenwood, the wife of the England's future George I (Peter Bull), she plots the lovers' demise. Historically questionable, but largely accurate though rather bloodless. Ripe for updating.

This Can't Be Love (1994) Anthony Harvey 5/10

Made-for-TV movie was one of Katharine Hepburn's last. Plying a retired actress pretty much like herself, she's involved in a plot by down at heel Anthony Quinn, a former co-star who was secretly married to her for five days fifty years earlier. He needs her sign-off on his pending memoirs. Slight but engaging.

Quinn did not become a star until late in his career so the alleged pairing of the two fifty years earlier hardly makes sense, but then all the major stars of the era who might actually have been Hepburn's co-stars then, Tracy, Grant, Boyer, Fonda, Olivier, were gone.

dreaMaker · Post by **dreaMaker** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:44 am

The Hangover

7/10

Very funny.

mlrg · Post by **mlrg** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:11 am

The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - Elaine May

7/10

Very entertaining and well written. Julie Berlin and Eddie Albert were very solid and deserved their oscar nominarions. And Cybill Sheperd was really hot back in her day.

Post by **Precious Doll** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:51 pm

Mister Tee wrote:
Precious Doll wrote:They Knew What They Wanted (1940) Garson Kanin 4/10
Precious, where did you find this film? I've been on the lookout for it for 30 years.

From DaaVeeDee. It's a Spainish disc with forced English subtitles. Picture and sound quality are satisfactory but any major Hollywood studio would produce a much better print.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:53 am

I got it from Ashfault's two years ago. It's not listed on their website but I would think they would still have it.

http://www.ashfaultsclassicmovies.com/productlist.html

Post by **Mister Tee** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:23 am

Precious Doll wrote:They Knew What They Wanted (1940) Garson Kanin 4/10

Precious, where did you find this film? I've been on the lookout for it for 30 years.

Post by **Precious Doll** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:22 am

The Lady with a Lamp (1951) Herbert Wilcox 6/10

Eden Lake (2008) James Watkins 1/10

They Knew What They Wanted (1940) Garson Kanin 4/10

Bad Biology (2008) Frank Henenlotter 4/10

The Hangover (2009) Todd Phillips 5/10

Post by **Okri** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:05 pm

Adoration - I quite liked it. Imperfect, but I'd watch it again.

Summer Hour/ L'heure D'ete - Also liked it.

Both are 8/10

Post by **HarryGoldfarb** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:24 pm

Fanny och Alexander - 8/10 (way different than I expected it to be! way better actually.)

Rebecca - 10/10 (just like films should be)

17 again - 6/10 (unexpectedly very funny)

The Lion in Winter - 8/10 (the film lacks some kind of narrative strength)

A House with a View to the Sea - 7/10 (beautiful)

Rent - The Final Performance - 8/10 (being a fan...)

Mutiny on the Bounty ('35) - 8/10 (interesting)

Hamlet ('48) - 8/10 (how people can have any doubt about Olivier's sexual orientation after watching this film? A great film)

Zahveed · Post by **Zahveed** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:52 am

He's Just Not That Into You - 5/10

I watched this with my wife the other night. It was charming and humorous at some points, but it seems like it tries to hard to be Allen-esque. Stereotypes are bountiful.

Post by **Penelope** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:54 pm

Happy Go Lucky (2008; Mike Leigh) 9/10

Absolutely wonderful film, with an irresistably perfect performance by Sally Hawkins.

Post by **Precious Doll** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:46 am

Okri wrote:
Precious Doll wrote:Still Walking (2008) Hirokazu Kore-eda 10/10

I don't think I've ever seen Precious grade a film so strongly. I like Kore-eda quite a bit, so this just shoots my expectations up.

I hope fans of Kore-eda get a chance to see this wonderful film. It's been doing the festival circuit for the last 12 months and does not appear to have a distributor in either the U.S. or the U.K. but it's bound to turn up sometime in the future.

It's somewhat in the tradition of Ozu's family drama's and for my money as great as the best of them. It has some contemporary humor (there is a joke about ebay) and an act of cruelty that's all too human. The acting from the ensemble is flawless (You, who played the neglectful mother in Nobody Knows way my favorite as a very mother from that one in this) though there are no with big 'look at me' emotional moments for the actors, just quiet observation that nevertheless packs an emotional punch.

I wouldn't want to see a frame of this film changed. My partner felt the same way.

Edited By Precious Doll on 1245056005

Post by **Okri** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:03 pm

Precious Doll wrote:Still Walking (2008) Hirokazu Kore-eda 10/10

I don't think I've ever seen Precious grade a film so strongly. I like Kore-eda quite a bit, so this just shoots my expectations up.

mlrg · Post by **mlrg** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:22 pm

North Country (2005) - Niki Caro

6/10

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