Great film.
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The incredible Mark Rylance leads in this very theatrical one set story.
He is a maker of fine suits for the only inhabitants of Chicago that can really afford them. Mobsters.
He gets drawn into their schemes but the twists and turns in the script are easy to follow.
I watched a Bluray. The photography and soundtrack quite muted.
Recommended. Apple or Prime for £3.49
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Had to rewatch this as I have been intrigued every time I drive down a road in my town which is at least once a week there is a guy walking three spaniels - every time without fail. Then yesterday it was two spaniels and a basset hound.
I thought ah! Caught you out.
The Truman Show
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The Truman show was a bit ahead of it’s time and somewhat prophetic albeit the shape of mass reality TV was possibly easy to predict. This was of course before Big Brother and all that banal rubbish.
I still think it’s a masterpiece of cinema.
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Three years after it won the best picture Oscar, we got round to watching this last night. A bit formulaic in places, but overall excellent. Tears were shed.
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The Doors - Immersed 1967-1971 Atmos BluRay
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Classic, high-testosterone, Sergio Leone Western. It has one of the best Western movie opening scenes ever.
Plus several actors with amazing faces just oozing with character - Elam, Bronson and Fonda.
Not to mention the lovely Claudia Cardinale (RIP as of September 2025).
They don’t make 'em like they used to!
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A Company of Wolves
Watched this the other evening for the first time in decades. An early Neal Jordan outing with early animatronics.
The film uses narrative elements from fairy stories to tell a more adult centered story.
I think this material was more amusingly and entertainingly covered by ‘Into the Woods’.
Angela Lansbury has fun with her role as Granny, and the cast is good, but I don’t think the film really sticks the landing.
In essence I BELIEVE the film is telling that tale of pubescence. With a young girl awaking to adult life. The film contrasts the safer village boy with the mysterious and dangerous ‘wolves’.
For me there was only one moment that truly struck home. The girl questions her mother about Granny’s warnings about ‘wolves on the inside’. Her mother said, “If men can be wolves on the inside then this is matched by women’s”.
Flawed, but with some interesting elements.
M
North by Northwest
A brilliant movie on a number of levels, with one of the sexiest scenes ever committed to celluloid.
…….and Hitchcock never received an Oscar.
M
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Judgment at Nuremberg
This is the most engrossing film I have watched this year, made in 1961.
Spencer Tracy plays a second string Judge that comes to Germany after all the big fish have been dealt with. His first trial? The judiciary who oversaw the courts during the Third Reich.
Cleverly, the prosecutor, Richard Widmark, is unsympathetic, whilst the defence, Maximillian Schell, is easier to warm to.
The film deals in nuance, as well as hard hitting pogrom.
A film that will live with you long after watching it.
M
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Thank you for posting this. Not a film that I have seen, but a quick internet search adds it to my list. Carried out within the new regimes new laws. Makes you think.