On my way to a grindhouse double feature screening with GH Releasing’s bob murowski in attendance. The films are Combat Shock, with the director present, and Hollywood 90028
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Not really a film, but on recommendation from my dad (re)watched “Star in the Night.” Great Christmas short film from 1945, highly recommend to anyone who has twenty minutes to spare.
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Nice
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Some incredible moves, yes
Watching Cliff Hanger now with the venerable Sylvester Stallone. I find it funny that all the bad guys keep stabbing each other in the back before they even get to Sly.
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saw The Fablemans… not a masterpiece but a great time at the movies
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Just got done watching A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die for the first time, the 113 minute cut. Cracking film!!! Now I want a blu-ray release of this. The Kino 92 minute cut has to be missing a ton of great scenes or all the character building.
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I have so many Spaghs on my mind so I can’t decide XD I want to watch “The Unholy Four” but I think I’ll watch it this weekend. I’d also like to watch more Gianni Garko, Giuliano Gemma, George Hilton and George Eastman westerns.
Right now I want to make an edit of “A Man Called Django” so I’ll watch it to get some edit material. It was the first Anthony Steffen movie I saw. The film didn’t impress me the first time I saw it but hey, I found a new favorite actor: Anthony Steffen
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That film was actually my first exposure to the glorius non-acting of Anthony Steffen. Honestly the best part for me is the fact that the dubber for him on the English language export dub track sounds just as apathetic as Stiffen looks in that film.
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I’ve not seen this unsettling true-life British shocker for years…Not an easy watch, but an undeniably well-made one, with a career-best performance from the late, great, Sir Richard Attenborough…
Mention, also, must be made of the late John Hurt, whose performance in this chiller is one of his best. He portrays a character truly on the edge after his life is torn apart by the murderer, Christie.
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A sober watch indeed and about as authentic as it gets. One scene was filmed inside No. 10. An ITV documentary in 1962 had access to the property and the profoundly creepy footage can be viewed on YouTube.
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Restarted my journey through film with 1943.
Crash Dive (Mayo / 1943)
We Dive at Dawn (Asquith / 1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock / 1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wood / 1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (Neill / 1943)
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell / 1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman / 1943)
Mr Lucky (Potter / 1943)
Crash Dive and We Dive at Dawn were interesting to see back to back. Both are submarine dramas. One American, one British and both share some identical scenes and plot devices. The British one stands up as much the better film I think. A little more attention paid to the rest of the crew and a better balance of light and dark sequences.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man just continued the descent of the original Frankenstein series into the cheap and unmemorable. Shadow of a Doubt is a solid Hitchcock psycho-thriller which still holds up largely I think. For Whom the Bell Tolls less so although it has its moments.
Mr Lucky is one of those largely forgotten Cary Grant films which is still quite enjoyable because of, well, Cary Grant. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp has some surprisingly forgiving elements for its time in terms of what war and patriotism do to people and how this often doesn’t reflect on people’s real characters but is also pretty dated now.
The best film of the bunch for me was The Ox-Bow Incident. Great story, great script, great direction and just an all-round well made film which hasn’t aged a day. Have always thought this was a great film and this re-watch just confirmed it further for me.
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Is this movie based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway?
I’d agree. So good.
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Yes
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And it is maybe the first anti-western, and its passive protagonist (Henry Fonda) the first anti-hero in a western.
Good film, indeed.
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Venturing into hong Kong tonight
- The Heroes. Meh
- Blind Detective. Not bad, Lau is on fire
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Thank goodness, I thought you were disagreeing when I saw you’d replied.
I hope I saved the year for you by that …
Yep, this is turning out to be a strange year. Where there’s a grain, stanton usually goes against it 
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