rpj316
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RE: Last film you watched
The Florida Project(2017)
Director Sean Baker's follow up to Tangerine is set during a stifling summer in the shadow of Disney World,although very vibrant it accurately depicts life on the bread line.The story follows Moonee and Halley,a mother and daughter combo who instead of feeling sorry for themselves,try and live life to the full around the dilapidated Magic Kingdom Hotel they call home.Despite the very sullen and real subject matter this was one of the best feel good films of last year due to the brilliant script and wonderful acting from Brooklyn Prince and Brie Vinaite.
8.5/10
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HannahsPet
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RE: Last film you watched
True Supporter of Girls and Not Channels !!!!!
I always Keep getting accused of thinking the world revolves around me. . i know it doesnt . . it revolves around the sun which shines out of my arse !!!!!
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M-L-L
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RE: Last film you watched
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970s effort starring Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely currently doing the rounds on TCM. Christopher Lee appears as Mycroft, showing where the modern Sherlock stole its idea of him having a shady position in the Government spook world and warning Sherlock off investigating/meddling in certain things.
Slightly odd mix of comedy and mystery, and feels a bit episodic. The director Billy Wilder apparently wanted to make it 3 hours long and have other "mysteries" added into it. I think the studio was wise to nix this idea : you could easily miss out the first half hour which has really nothing to do with the rest of the plot and just seems like an over-extended excuse to make jokes about whether Holmes and Watson were a gay couple (Holmes pretends to be to get out of an embarrassing proposition to father a child with a retiring Russian ballerina. Watson is not amused). It seems a bit too much like this sub-plot was included to justify the film's title and some cheap laughs.
The story does not really get going until after all that, when a mysterious amensia-suffering woman is delivered to Baker Street, having been fished out of a river.* Then it gets more interesting as they follow a trail of clues up to Scotland in search of the woman's missing husband.
Robert Stephens is a fairly creditable Holmes, though he apparently had a nervous breakdown during the filming.
(*An idea, incidentally, recycled in the other 1970s Holmes film "The Seven Per Cent Solution" , where Holmes goes to Vienna to be cured of cocaine addiction by Sigmund Freud, and ends up investigating a similar case of an unidentified woman rescued from a river after apparently having been deliberately dumped and left to drown ).
Oh - and if you do watch it on TCM, for God's sake record it and/or use "Live Pause" for a bit to be able to fast forward through all the commercial breaks, or you'll be there forever !!!!
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rpj316
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RE: Last film you watched
The Beguiled(2017)
Sofia Coppola's seductively feminist take on Thomas Cullinan's novel sees a wounded union soldier nursed back to health at an all girls school only to become an object of the students desires,without really putting up much of a protest.Well acted by all the cast especially Colin Farrell,Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning.Just as effective as the excellent Clint Eastwood version.
7.5/10
(This post was last modified: 19-01-2018 00:56 by rpj316.)
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19-01-2018 00:35 |
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