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RE: Last film you watched
So Dark The Night (1946) Steven Geray stars as a Paris detective, who while on holiday in rural France, investigates the disappearance of a young couple. A rather lifeless first half of the film with stilted and awkward scenes, a dull script and a poor lead performance from Micheline Cheirel gives way to a far fetched but entertaining, noirish second half with an odd bit of shadowy cinematography and clever camerawork. Geray shines through the whole of the film with a sympathetic,rich,versatile performance. Also starring Eugene Borden,Ann Codee,Helen Freeman,Gregory Gaye,Jean Del Val and Louis Mercier. 5.5/10
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M-L-L
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RE: Last film you watched
Escape to Victory 1981 : gritty realist documentary-style depiction of true events during WWII when an Allied POW soccer team thrashed the Nazis in a propaganda match in Paris which changed the whole course of the war and led straight to D-Day....
no sorry I can't do this with a straight face : it's complete tosh.
How did this ever get made ?
Revealing probably for how Britain - pre Falklands War jingoism - was still desperately clinging to the wreckage of an image of former "greatness" in a time of economic doldrums and World Cup failure. At least they could stick it to Germany in the films !
Surely ripe for a Brexit-era remake now that the UK's picked up its ball sulkily from Europe and declared itself not to be playing anymore ?
They could remake it with CGI representations of the 1966 England team ?
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*Kal-El*
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RE: Last film you watched
"No Clark I know Everything About You, I Didn’t Just Borrow Your DNA, I Have All Your Memories All Your Thoughts......Every Last Twisted One of Them”.
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rpj316
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RE: Last film you watched
Big Trouble In Little China(1986)
An eighties cult classic from John Carpenter that brings the best of western cowboy films and fuses them together with martial arts action sequences.An utter failure on its release but bursting with quotable one liners,iconic moments and more ideas,creativity and ingenuity in a single scene than most Hollywood blockbusters mange in their entirety.All held together by the charm and charisma of Carpenter regular Kurt Russell as the clueless hero.
8/10
(This post was last modified: 03-09-2017 16:39 by rpj316.)
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rpj316
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RE: Last film you watched
House Of Usher(1960)
Adapted by Richard Matheson from the Edgar Allan Poe story and directed by Roger Corman as a part of a series of Poe works that he brought to the big screen.Although cheap looking in places,Vincent Price saves the film with a strong lead turn as Roderick Usher.Who turned his wife insane after burying her alive.
6.5/10
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