Burn After Reading
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Priceless
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Encounters At The End Of The World
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)
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Charles Laughton, Marueen O' Hara, Edmond O' Brien, Cedric Hardwicke. Victor Hugo's classic novel comes to fruition in perhaps the definitive film interpretation of the deformed bellringer, Quasimodo (Laughton emoting under all that grotesque make-up, effectively poignant) who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy girl, Esmeralda, and his overwhelming desire to protect her. Great production values.
Army Of Shadows
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Army In The Shadows (L'Armee Des Ombres) (1969)
Reviewed by Tom Dawson
Updated 11 March 2006 BBC
Made by the French director Jean-Pierre Melville in the late 60s Army In The Shadows is a hauntingly sombre but brilliant account of a group of mainly middle-aged resistance fighters in Occupied France during World War Two. Avoiding acts of spectacular heroism, Melville presents a twilight world, where the clandestine freedom-fighters seek to avoid capture and are forced to eliminate informants from their own ranks.
.....Melville handles with consummate cinematic mastery the suspenseful set-pieces, including Gerbier's escape from the Gestapo headquarters at the Hotel Majestic and the daring attempt dreamt up by Simone Signoret's Mathilde to rescue a tortured prisoner by posing as a German ambulance crew. In many ways Army In The Shadows resembles one of the director's own gangster pictures: hence the chilly colours, the movingly restrained performances, the blurring of moral boundaries (nowhere more evident than when a teenage traitor is strangled to death with a towel), and the iconographic details of hats, guns and cars. Above all however, it's suffused in a mood of pessimism and futility, illustrating Melville's own belief that "man is always defeated".
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)
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Charles Laughton, Marueen O' Hara, Edmond O' Brien, Cedric Hardwicke. Victor Hugo's classic novel comes to fruition in perhaps the definitive film interpretation of the deformed bellringer, Quasimodo (Laughton emoting under all that grotesque make-up, effectively poignant) who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy girl, Esmeralda, and his overwhelming desire to protect her. Great production values.
Deep Water (2007)
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This terrific documentary recounts a battle against the odds much like Touching the Void, but it ends very differently. In 1968, eight of the world's best yachtsmen set out to win the prize for the first solo, non-stop, round-the-globe circumnavigation. The ninth is an inexperienced Englishman and weekend yachtsman called Donald Crowhurst, who quickly finds himself in trouble. What follows is an incredible story of a man trapped between the deep blue sea and a series of self-made blunders.
Directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell quickly sketch Crowhurst's dilemma. Mortgaging his house and staking everything on this race, he's hailed as "the dark horse of the sea" by the newspapers. The public love an underdog, but Crowhurst's voyage begins ominously when the champagne bottle cracked against the hull doesn't break first (or second, or third) time. At sea, his self-designed boat falls apart, he's battered by bad weather and he succumbs to despair. Finally he decides to fake his journey, hiding out off the coast of South America for several months. Faced with the empty vastness of the ocean, madness sets in.
"A DEEPLY MOVING DOCUMENTARY"
Deep Water recreates Crowhurst's ill-fated trip using news footage, his journals, tape recordings and - a great coup - the 16mm footage that he shot on deck. The result is a deeply moving documentary, buoyed up by teary interviews with Crowhurst's family, friends and rivals. Stories celebrating heroic journeys are commonplace, but this is a sobering, anti-heroic tale of an ordinary man who set out to attempt the extraordinary... and failed through a cruel combination of bad luck and bad judgement.
In The Heat Of The Night
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n the movie that took home Best Picture for 1967, Philadelphia Det. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) has to solve a murder in a racist Mississippi town. The idea sounds simplistic, but director Norman Jewison knows how to do it well. First off, there's the title. It refers both to the physical humidity and temperature of this town, but also to the tension between Tibbs and Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger in an Oscar-winning role), and basically to the tension that prevailed in the South - and the country at large - at the time.
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