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'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'
Richard Burton and Claire Bloom star in what's most likely, the best British spy film ever made. Possibly the best depiction of the "Cold War" too.
There no nonsense of the likes of which you will find in 'The Manchurian Candidate' or other American takes on the subject. Here, you will see dubious characters on both sides doing dirty deeds, with more twists and turns than a rollercoaster ride.
Everyone's on top form too, with a great and somewhat nasty turn from Burton. He's supported well by a creepy Cyril Cusack as "Control", an excellent Osker Werner, as the Jewish Communist interrogator Fiedler and quietly calm performance from Peter van Eyck as the ex-nazi Mundt.
It would be difficult to go into too much detail on the story, as doing so would give stuff away, but the basic premise is that Burton's lack of success in Germany has led to his being demoted back in Britain. Communist Party members get a hold of this information and seek him out as a possible defector, but like in all good "Cold War" yarns, nothing is as it seems.
Below is a pretty awful tailer. Sorry, it was the only one I could find.
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Batman Begins: My first DVD copy became warped due to it being watched more times than I care to remember and it's been about 3 years (hours before going to see TDK) since i've last watched it. Brilliant performances from the cast, lighting suits the grim, gritty Gotham and the tone of the movie. The score from Zimmer and Newton-Howard is also quite excellent. One problem I've always had with the film is that it doesn't delve as deep as it could or probably should have into Bruce Wayne's damaged mind due to his parents being killed, but I guess at a runtime of 2 hours 20 minutes it would most certainly bring it towards the 3 hour mark in order for it to be told in the correct way.
Looking forward to chucking in TDK tonight
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'The Third Man'
Carol Reed's famous and frankly hideously over-rated classic from 1949 stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, an American two bit Western novelist, who has gone to war torn Vienna to find his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) as he has offered him the chance of some work. Unfortunately, Martins finds out that Lime has been killed in a hit and run. Through asking around and the inquires of the British occupying forces' Military Police, Martins finds out more than he wishes to, about his dead friend.
There's much to like about 'The Third Man', but for the life of me, I'm at a loss to understand why it's considered so highly as it is. There's not an awful lot going on in it, to be honest. It's depiction of post-war Vienna is quite well done, but because it was shot in Vienna in 1948, that wouldn't be very hard, would it? The cast is well formed and everyone does their best, but the story isn't that engaging. The "twist" is seen from a mile off, even for contemporary audiences and once that reveal is delivered, the picture sort of drones on.
Speaking of "droning on", the much celebrated music that accompanies the film VERY QUICKLY gets terribly irritating. Produced on a zither only, it has great touches in certain places, but intrudes awfully in others.
On the plus side, it's quite well shot and directed with realistic touch that sets it aside from a lot of films from that period and although the rumor that Welles had more to do with the direction than Reed did is false, Reed was certainly a "student" somewhat of Welles's technique. There is also some great dialogue in the film, including the "cookoo clock" monologue and Trevor Howard has some great "irritated" moments concerning his sir name, "It's Calloway (not Callahan)...I'm English, not Irish."
Often hailed as a "Masterpiece" of cinema, I must confess, I am often left wondering why.
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Started watching The Dark Knight on tv3 on sunday. Had seen it when it came out in the cinema, thought it was a poor to be honest, way over praised and over hyped(The Prestige is infinitely better). Anyway decided to give it another try as sometimes on second viewing films improve. But no, was even worse than first time round so I turned over to find LA Confidential on RTE. Havent seen it in ages and wow, what a film. Puts the Dark Knight to shame in terms of shear class.
Great film, pretty much flawless and gets better with subsequent viewings.
Finally someone else on boards who thinks TDK was pants.
Oh and I caught LA Confidential the other night too. A modern Classic.0 -
Mike Litoris wrote: »Finally someone else on boards who thinks TDK was pants.
Oh and I caught LA Confidential the other night too. A modern Classic.
I also didn't like it much. Too much whispering and Christian Bale in general. Joker was cool but built up way too much.
Watched the Straight Story a couple of nights ago after seeing it recommended here. It was grand, had some decent points to make but they were a bit obvious and cheesey. Typical tale of triumph over adversity, sibling rivalry etc. Was in no way choked up as previous poster was. Still, a watchable film and good to see a David Lynch film that I can fully understand.0 -
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