Run for the Sun (1956)-Good film with Richard Widmark and Jane Greer running for their lives in this jungle affair.
Escape to Burma (1955)- Standard film with Robert Ryan being pursued for murder in another jungle flick.
The Falling Man (1969)-Good Henry Silva film IMO. I liked the pace of it, but it’s predictable.
The Night Caller (1975)- Above average film with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the hunt for a serial killer.
[quote=“autephex, post:11780, topic:1923”]Right, there’s two. I was referring to The Omega Man. I’ve never seen The Last Man On Earth[/quote]The Omega Man is my favourite one out the three.
None of the movie adaptations have truly nailed Richard Matheson’s story, imho.
The Butterfly Room ( 2012).
Barbara Steele plays a lonely woman who has lost her daughter years ago and now collects… you guessed it Butterflys. Seems a longer film than it actually is, but not in a bad way for me as Steele is great in this as you never know what she is going to do next.
A Short Film About Love (1988) - 9/10
Shadows (1959) - 8/10
Coma (1978) - 7/10
Days of Being Wild (1990) - 7/10
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - 8/10
The Decalogue (1988) - 9/10
Fallen Angels (1995) - 7/10
Chungking Express (1994) - 9/10
Too Late Blues (1961) - 7/10
A Child Is Waiting (1963) - 7/10
Ashes of Time (1994) - 7/10
The Vanishing (1988) - 8/10
I Vitteloni (1953) - 8/10
The Narrow Margin (1952) - 9/10
Happy Together (1997) - 8/10
2046 (2004) - 7/10
The Meaning of Life (1983) - 7/10
A Hijacking (2012) - 8/10
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) - 8/10
The League of Gentlemen (1960) - 7/10
Victim (1961) - 9/10
Death of a Cyclist (1955) - 9/10
The Legacy - Always liked this since I was a kid, a group from a witchcraft group go to a country estate to hear the will of the dying Warlock and they gradually die (In an Omen type way), nice looking transfer on the Blu too.
Phantom - Submarine thriller with Ed Harris and David Duchovny, slow burn at first, then it turns into a really good thriller, quite brutal in parts. I enjoyed it but thought the ending was a bit weak.
Smokey And The Bandit - Seen it countless times over the years, pure fun. Jackie Gleason steals the show for me.
Always liked The Legacy aswell. Like the score by Michael J. Lewis.
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:11787, topic:1923”]Always liked The Legacy aswell. Like the score by Michael J. Lewis.[/quote]Reminds me of Donaggio’s score to The Black Cat.
MARCH OR DIE (1977, Dick Richards)
I revisited this movie, and it was better than I remembered.
By no means great, but not as bad as its lukewarm reception might suggest.
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Have a feeling it’s the kind of movie where the fantastic poster is far better than anything you see on screen.
I saw March Or Die when I was 14/15 or so and found it boring, that’s no age to judge really so I should watch it again.
Found the film alot better after a repeat viewing, although still nothing great.
My sentiment too!..I much prefer Beau Gest (1966) i remember Telly Savalas being a real prick in it.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)-D:Doug Limah, with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt
Good action sci-fi flick, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It had a cool story, character development, humor , tension and cool aliens. And…oh yeah! Emily Blount is hot, fit and kicks butt. 7.5/10
Will check out Beau Gest as not heard of before and the cast is to my liking.
Training Day - Final installment in my recent David Ayer’s viewings. He was just writer and not director for this one. Saw this film upon its initial release and was very impressed, now not so much. It was alright, but just didn’t hold up very well for me. I remembered the film having a lot of oomph to it, but now I am just waiting to watch something else mostly.
End of Watch & Harsh Times would definitely be my top Ayer’s picks, with Street Kings & Sabotage being mostly average.
[size=12pt]The Man Who Would Be King[/size] - 1975 - John Huston
Watched several films in the last weeks, actually planned to watch quite a few but taking two kids to the beach everyday did took his tool, got me too tired to complete my viewing plans, anyway some of what I’ve watch not really worth mention while other were good surprises, but let’s start by the best of the bunch.
Maybe the third time I watched this Houston classic, and always like it more after every watch, it’s a great film.
First it’s based in short story from a great writer- Kipling- then got a director that I normally appreciate. Houston was one of the few directors able to make the transition from old Hollywood studio system to the modern days. And finally the acting, great stuff from both Connery and Caine, (and also from Plummer as Kipling and Saeed Jaffery), both are just perfect as two ex-British soldiers that after fighting all over India, and leave the country to a place where no one went before, because India was becoming too small for then.
Rudyard Kipling story embraces the colonialism critique, with both Peachey and Dravant as a symbolism of the colonial powers exploration and usual arrogance toward other civilizations, the still without soldiers like Peachey and Dravant there wouldn’t be an empire – Hats on.
The historical background of the story and film, it’s based in real geographical facts, there is a region called Kafiristan and the people who live there believe to be descends of Alexander the great, and they did practice some sort of pagan religion, but where forced to convert to Islan during the late 19th century, yeah where I’ve heard that one before.
Anyway bloody great movie that I never get tired of watching, great acting, some fantastic lines, not being a comedy the comic inserts are so well done, there’s nothing of the usual political correctness (that scene in the train with Caine and the men with the watermelon would be impossible by today’s standrts), clearly one of the best Houston directing works, amazing cinematography (the intro is fantastic), and a great story to be told.
In the end it’s a sort of the ultimate buddy movie, because it’s so good that doesn’t look like a simple buddy movie. You can’t wrong with one.
I recall that a longer version of this played on TV - don’t know if this is the version available on DVD. (checks wikipedia) Link here - beware spoilers: March or Die (film) - Wikipedia
Last night: Devoured (Olliver, 2012), a low-budget psychological horror/thriller from the director of rock documentary Lemmy (2010). Very slow-moving, but I like that sort of pacing in those sorts of films. My further boring drivel on the matter HERE[url]http://letterboxd.com/lastcaress1972/film/devoured/[/url].
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013)
I liked Amer from the same authors better. I was hoping that for this movie they will keep the visual and sensory savors, but this time they will add more coherent mystery plot, but film went completely the other way and lost my attention. In the end Amer was much more suspenseful and sensual.