Last Movie You Watched

[Bogey]

This is the first 100% talking gangster film.  (IMDB has it as the first feature film with all synchronous dialogue.)  Fairly wooden performances and the story is as predictable as the next DC superhero installment, but fun to take in from a historical film watching experience.



And



A silent crime/gangster movie from 1915.  This one actually had some very cool film sequences. The story held up as well,so if you are a fan of the silent era and have not caught this, you can find it in its entirety (except for one lost scene) on the web.  The shots of Sing Sing prison are actually filmed on location and the backgrounds are a treasure trove of historical shots of the time.

[Karl Henning]

Fascinating, Bill.

[Bogey]

Fascinating, Bill.

My reaction to the silent film:

[anothername]

Great acting by all.

[TheGSMoeller]

RAW, a French-Belgian horror drama film written and directed by Julia Ducourna. A coming-of-age story about a teenage vegetarian girl who discovers a hidden craving for...raw meat. I thoroughly enjoyed this little gem, but I would recommend eating dinner well before watching it. 

[LKB]

My reaction to the silent film:

Hmm... I'm guessing Turnabout Intruder?

No mutiny here,

LKB

[Draško]

A decent detective thriller, a bit slow at times. Couple of points:



Paul Newman sure could wear that mid-grey suit (and that is 18 year old Melanie Griffith)



Knit ties bleed color!

[Bogey]

For Sci-Fi Sat/Sun, a recent purchase of a 1957 "classic" that got the BD treatment:



I am a sucker for these old classic sci-fi /monster films and this was a must have. One of Willis H. O'Brien's (original King Kong) last films.  For giant bug movies, nothing tops THEM in my books, but this one was a lot of fun as well.

[SimonNZ]

More enjoyable than the dire reviews from many had led me to believe

[aligreto]

Beautiful Creatures....





Fanciful but entertaining with great performances from Jeremy Irons and particularly Emma Thompson.

[Karl Henning]

I've been on a bit of a "truncated James Bond" binge . . . after watching the entirety of Tomorrow Never Dies, I've watched the first hour of each of Octopussy and Living Daylights.  (I will, though, finish the Dalton . . . .)

At last, too, I watched Sanjuro, whose soundtrack takes some . . . curious turns.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Jonathan Pryce is hilariously over the top in Tomorrow Never Dies. I may have mentioned it more than once but the portrayal is just good enough to mention several times. 

[Karl Henning]

Jonathan Pryce is hilariously over the top in Tomorrow Never Dies. I may have mentioned it more than once but the portrayal is just good enough to mention several times. 

Yes, but never hectoring.

[Ken B]

The Hundred Foot Journey

Cute but overlong and overpredictable.

[aligreto]

The Hundred Foot Journey

Cute but overlong and overpredictable.

An entertaining watch though.

[Karl Henning]

Jonathan Pryce is hilariously over the top in Tomorrow Never Dies. I may have mentioned it more than once but the portrayal is just good enough to mention several times. 

Ebert was a treasure, he was:

There is also the obligatory Talking Killer scene, in which the madman explains his plans when he should simply be killing Bond as quickly as possible ....

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I think my favorite part has to be Carver's mocking imitation of Wai Lin's martial art moves. "Pathetic!"

[aligreto]

The Lady Vanishes

[Karl Henning]

In this interval I've watched:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  Some time ago, I watched (at last) A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.  I then stalled, which was not an artistic remark but simply the desire for a change of pace/tone.  So now I have returned to the final instalment of the "trilogy," and it really is the best of an excellent lot.

8½.  Sublime.  Why, even the 50-minute documentary about the discarded original ending (original? Or was the director was sorting it all out on the fly?) is sublime.  I can see this one becoming a slow-burn obsession with me.

Never Say Never Again.  This may and may not be my favorite Connery turn in the rôle.  The first two or three times I saw this (at first in the cinema, afterwards on the TV) I allowed myself the willing subconscious amnesia of not noting that this film "misses" (a) the gun barrel opening, (b) the iconic musical signatures (!), and the Big Theme Song Opening Credits.  I might argue that the fact that I did not miss these things is a merit on the part of the production.  (Or, maybe I am a poor Bond fan.)  It has been (was?) something of a running joke that hardly any actor played Felix Leiter twice (and it is only in the Craig era that one of the two actors who have played twice, did so with the same Bond);  so it may have been an additional jest that, while the opening maguffin is, the question of whether Bond is too old for the job, Felix seems scarcely to have aged a day.  I admit I enjoy how they remade M into a Wodehousian frivolity;  and Rowan Atkinson's character, Small Fawcett, is a coy inversion of the hamfisted Fleming trope (Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole).

[SimonNZ]

The Lady Vanishes

interesting. How was it? Does it still have the whistling thing?