This film caught me a bit by surprise. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I saw Bob Odenkirkâs live comedy show in April, and he said they are working on a Nobody sequel. Not sure if thatâs common knowledge by now
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I hadnât heard that but I thought it was a prime candidate for a sequel. Hopefully, they take their time and make it good and donât go for the quick buck.
And, by the way, how was the show?
Really good. It was more of a talk show, where he discussed his career, told some hilarious stories, and took audience questions. Also got a free copy of his book upon entry.
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I watched this, my favourite âBondâ film last night - exactly 50 years ago to the day that I first saw it on the big screen at my local cinema - August 2nd, 1973.
It is just as good now as it was thenâŚ
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Jane Seymour was just so gorgeous in this film. Yaphet Kotto was such a vastly underappreciated actor.
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I have not seen that one, only the original from 1933. Such a fantastic film.
On another note, I saw Barbie. Actually quite a fun film, but not anywhere near the level of Oppenheimer.
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Just completed the 1945 leg of my chronological trip through cinema.
Spellbound (Hitchcock/1945) 7/10
The Way to the Stars (Asquith/1945) 6/10
Escape in the Fog (Boetticher/1945) 5/10
Dead of Night (Cavalcanti, Chrichton, Dearden, Hamer/1945) 9/10
Blithe Spirit (Lean/1945) 8/10
Brief Encounter (Lean/1945) 8/10
I Know Where Iâm Going (Powell/1945) 6/10
Mildred Pearce (Curtiz/1945) 7/10
The Lost Weekend (Wilder/1945) 8/10
Scarlet Street (Lang/1945) 7/10
The Wicked Lady (Arliss/1945) 6/10
Along Came Jones (Heisler/1945) 6/10
House of Dracula (Kenton/1945) 3/10
Rome, Open City (Rossellini/1945) 8/10
The Lost Weekend swept the Oscars that year and it is very good and still holds up well I think. Well, you can never go far wrong with Billy Wilder. Rosselliniâs film is impressive if only by the fact he shot it all on snippets of scrounged film and managed to start a whole movement in the process. David Lean proved himself able to handle very different genres and turn out excellent films in both comedy and romantic drama and Noir continued to grow and develop as a style.
But my stand out film of the year despite some great competition was Dead of Night. The first portmanteau horror film? I donât know but definitely one that set the style for some many classic British horrors of the 60s and 70s and left a lasting impression long after Iâd finished watching it again. Apart from anything else, for a black and white film from the 40s, and despite the clipped british dialogue andvoices of the time, it remains genuinely and effectively creepy. The final nightmare scene is a classic and proper scary.
All in all, a pretty good year
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Last 10:
- Ivory: The Remains of the Day 8/10
- German: Hard to be God 9/10
- Sturges: Eagle Has Landed 6/10
- Kokkonen: Pohjantähteet 7/10
- Fleischer: Spikes Gang 5/10
- Landis: Blues Brothers 6/10
- Hardy: Wicker Man 10/10
- Clement: La bataile du rail 6/10
- Argento: Four Flies on a Grey Velvet (cinema) 6/10
- Clement: Les maudits 7/10
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Yesterday, I opened a bottle of red wine (or two), and settled down to watch a very long double-bill of lavish, outrageous spectacle from 1963âŚ
Followed by a good old British comedy to end the eveningâŚ
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Another âepicâ yesterday; and , unlike âCleopatraâ, âLawrenceâ didnât drag in places. It was thoroughly engaging throughout, and comes from a time when a trip to the cinema was a major event.
No fakery with CGI in 1962, just a cinema screen filled with the jaw-dropping spectacle of thousands of extras - they really donât make them like this anymore.
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Itâs always the film that comes to mind when I think of the word âepicâ.
âNothing is written!â
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I just saw Le Doulos from Jean-Pierre Melville. I really enjoyed it and can definetly reccomend it to fans of French cinema.
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I watched the classic film noir Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) for the first time last night. Great stuff, didnât feel dated in the slightest (with the amusing exception of the marijuana related scenes). My only (small) qualm was that Janet Leigh wasnât given a whole lot to do in the second half; she was absolutely fantastic, especially in the early scene where she refuses to be intimidated by the gangsters.
Great performances all around. Iâve never seen Welles better, and even without an accent Heston delivered as he always did. Dennis Weaver as the night man deserves a mention also, inspired casting.
Loved seeing Wellesâ old buddy Joseph Cotten get a brief cameo in the beginning as well. Fantastic movie.
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I just came back (haha) from a screening of Carpenter´s Halloween. The film, despite a low budget, looks great and the characters were surprisingly great (although with some cheezy dialogue). The music was great and really added a lot to the film. I like that Myers was portrayed as completely emotionless, which made him scarier. Overall I really enjoyed the movie, but I wasn´t the only one. The woman sitting next to me was REALLY scared to the point that she multiple times started crying. Luckily she was (relatively) quiet, and I found it to be really funny. She acted as though if she were a character in the film.
What other John Carpenter films do you reccomend (I have also seen The Thing)? Escape From New York looks interesting and with none other than Lee Van Cleef.
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First, Big Trouble in Little China and then They Live. Escape from New York is a must watch but itâs sequel, Escape From L. A. not so much. Prince of Darkness offers a few chills. While not a horror film, I really liked Assault on Precinct 13. There are several others as well that are worth a watch.
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Carpenter is one of my favorite directors, so this is going to be a wall of text, hopefully it doesnât overwhelm you too much haha.
Escape from New York is great and has one of his best casts. Other than Kurt Russell & LVC youâve got Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasance, Isaac HayesâŚthe setting has some great world building as well.
His âapocalypseâ trilogy consists of the Thing, Prince of Darkness & In the Mouth of Madness. The latter two arenât as highly acclaimed as the Thing, which is truly one of the greatest horror movies ever but theyâre really solid and fun movies in their own right. In the Mouth of Madness is a personal favorite of mine, and his most explicitly Lovecraftian movie if youâre into that kind of thing (I am).
Big Trouble in Little China & They Live are both just really fun. They Live has a bit more to it, thereâs legit social commentary there, but at the same time it has a ten plus minute long fist fight between Roddy Piper and Keith David that has to be seen to be believed. BTILC is probably the funniest Kurt Russell has ever been.
Assault on Precinct 13 is one of the best no budget thrillers youâll ever see, really tight script with solid characters and suspense. Thereâs an also a scene early on thatâs very shocking.
Vampires is a trashy, borderline misogynistic mess of a movie, but at the same time itâs loads of fun. James Woods absolutely devours the scenery. The opening scene is legitimately awesome though.
Ghosts of Mars is shit, but it also has Ice Cube as a character named Desolation Williams, a very horny Jason Statham hitting on Natasha Henstridge practically the entire movie,
and villains that look like extras from a Slipknot video. Again, itâs crap, but itâs amusing crap.
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This being a Western forum it should also be mentioned that Assault on Precinct 13 is a variation of the Rio Bravo template.
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