Originally posted by LMcD
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I finally saw Shoot the Piano Player yesterday. I had been curious about it ever since the early seventies when Elton John released Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player. I think the only Truffaut film that I had previously seen was The Last Metro, and that was so long ago that I barely remember it. I fell in love with Marie Dubois-what a beauty. And a great flic with a determinedly non Hollywood vibe
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI don't know if the ITV Forsyte Saga is available in any form (I have it onVHS tapes!) . Gina McKee fans will appreciate her Irene, one of the best things in that somewhat uneven production (though Rupert Graves' Young Jolyon deserves a mention).
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostI finally saw Shoot the Piano Player yesterday. I had been curious about it ever since the early seventies when Elton John released Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player. I think the only Truffaut film that I had previously seen was The Last Metro, and that was so long ago that I barely remember it. I fell in love with Marie Dubois-what a beauty. And a great flic with a determinedly non Hollywood vibe
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All of Us Strangers is a skilfully made film that becomes an increasingly dreamlike fantasia as it progresses. Adam, played by Andrew Scott, is a lonely gay author with writers block and in a rut, who commences an affair with a younger man, played by Paul Mescal, who is the only other occupant of a huge tower block. Adam feels compelled to revisit his childhood home to inspire a script he’s trying to write, whereupon he discovers his parents still in situ despite their having been killed in a car accident when he was a boy. He is now the same age as his parents were when they died, and what follows is an exploration of what they all left unsaid - it’s very clever and touching. So it’s a ghost story, of sorts. To reveal anything more would spoil the plot. Indeed, it recalls a film, that were it even named, would itself be a spoiler. The performances are uniformly superb. It’s a film that is so carefully constructed that it demands a second watch to see how it fits together and to unearth the visual and aural signals and references. It invites several interpretations. Despite its ineffable sadness, the ending recalls that of Complicité’s theatre production of The Master and Margarita, which is of cosmic beauty.
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Originally posted by Belgrove View PostAll of Us Strangers is a skilfully made film that becomes an increasingly dreamlike fantasia as it progresses. Adam, played by Andrew Scott, is a lonely gay author with writers block and in a rut, who commences an affair with a younger man, played by Paul Mescal, who is the only other occupant of a huge tower block. Adam feels compelled to revisit his childhood home to inspire a script he’s trying to write, whereupon he discovers his parents still in situ despite their having been killed in a car accident when he was a boy. He is now the same age as his parents were when they died, and what follows is an exploration of what they all left unsaid - it’s very clever and touching. So it’s a ghost story, of sorts. To reveal anything more would spoil the plot. Indeed, it recalls a film, that were it even named, would itself be a spoiler. The performances are uniformly superb. It’s a film that is so carefully constructed thatit demands a second watch to see how it fits together and to unearth the visual and aural signals and references. It invites several interpretations. Despite its ineffable sadness, the ending recalls that of Complicité’s theatre production of The Master and Margarita, which is of cosmic beauty.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
‘Day for Night’ is a wonderful movie.
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
Which I recently discovered was filmed in Nice - and, in the scenes featuring the car being driven in a gorge, the road between here and Nice which snakes through the Vallée de la Vésubie. There is a good quality copy - with English subtitles - on YouTube.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
On Boxing Day we were staying at our daughter's and she suggested going to a mid-day preview of Alexander Payne's new movie The Holdovers at the Ritzy in Brixton, about which she had heard very good reports. A dozen other audience members were in attendance. We really enjoyed it. Fine script, rewarding narrative full of subtle detail and great performances from the three main characters. Working in schools I came come across many a schoolmaster similar to Paul Giamatti's Ancient History teacher at a New England prep school. Plenty to discuss over a pint in the Trinity Arms afterwards. In the evening we watched Maestro on Netflix. Well worth watching but we agreed that we had got more from Holdovers. I'm delighted to see that Giamatti has just won a Golden Globe.
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