Starring: Philip Davis
A family of contrasting types gather to celebrate their mothers birthday.
This movie is all about charachterisation. It's a quirky look at a family, their friends and neighbours in London and is actually really sad in places but also has some touching moments. Edna Dore as the mother who's just letting life go on around her is wonderful as is her daughter in law Shirley. The stray traveller from Bagshot and the snooty neighbours are too over the top and just didn't come across as at all realistic. Never gets too far as amovie but when it is downplayed, it's brilliant. 6/10
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
The Misfits 1961
Starring: Marilyn Monroe
Cowboys gather in the Nevada desert to rope wild mustangs, and a divorcee becomes involved with one of them.
This movie will always be remembered as the last made by both Monroe & Clark Gable who both died shortly after its completion. Monroe fittingly plays a completely screwed up girl whilst Gable, well, he's the same as always. The scenes with the mustangs are very effective and slightly disturbing whilst Thelma Ritter livens up the early moments. It's fascinating to watch for its notoriety, otherwise it's a unmemorable rather sad melodrama. 6/10
Cowboys gather in the Nevada desert to rope wild mustangs, and a divorcee becomes involved with one of them.
This movie will always be remembered as the last made by both Monroe & Clark Gable who both died shortly after its completion. Monroe fittingly plays a completely screwed up girl whilst Gable, well, he's the same as always. The scenes with the mustangs are very effective and slightly disturbing whilst Thelma Ritter livens up the early moments. It's fascinating to watch for its notoriety, otherwise it's a unmemorable rather sad melodrama. 6/10
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Pygmalian 1938
Starring: Leslie Howard
A Professor of phonetics takes a bet that he can turn a cockney flower seller in six months into a lady who can pass as a duchess.
A nice adaptation of a classic tale. The Covent garden scenes although clearly shot on a set, are wonderful. Leslie Howard is utterly disagreable as Higgins whilst Wendy Hiller is superb as Eliza Doolittle. This part must be difficult enough to play, but she not only changes the way she talks, she also changed the way she walked, looked and even thought. Hiller was so impressive that the movie lost pace every time she was off screen. 7/10
A Professor of phonetics takes a bet that he can turn a cockney flower seller in six months into a lady who can pass as a duchess.
A nice adaptation of a classic tale. The Covent garden scenes although clearly shot on a set, are wonderful. Leslie Howard is utterly disagreable as Higgins whilst Wendy Hiller is superb as Eliza Doolittle. This part must be difficult enough to play, but she not only changes the way she talks, she also changed the way she walked, looked and even thought. Hiller was so impressive that the movie lost pace every time she was off screen. 7/10
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Cattle empire 1958
Starring: Joel McCrea
A trail boss out of prison gets a new assignment and signs up helpers who had previously made life difficult for him.
An enemy of the town is 2 horse drags away from death until saved by an unlikely source, he is then hired to lead a cattle drive which will save the town from financial ruin. During this drive, the true events of the past come to light. A watchable yarn which has some truely dodgy acting with the exception of McCrea. Lots of continuity errors, my favourite being when a blind man is told that the stars are out when all you can see is thick cloud cover. An instantly forgetable but harmless movie. 5/10
A trail boss out of prison gets a new assignment and signs up helpers who had previously made life difficult for him.
An enemy of the town is 2 horse drags away from death until saved by an unlikely source, he is then hired to lead a cattle drive which will save the town from financial ruin. During this drive, the true events of the past come to light. A watchable yarn which has some truely dodgy acting with the exception of McCrea. Lots of continuity errors, my favourite being when a blind man is told that the stars are out when all you can see is thick cloud cover. An instantly forgetable but harmless movie. 5/10
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