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Post by OldAussie on Oct 16, 2017 3:00:20 GMT
Another fan of My Cousin Rachel (1952) here.
Looking forward to the new version which I have on hold at the library but I guess I'll lower my expectations.
Sounds like Far From the Madding Crowd with the 60s version SO much better than the recent one.
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Post by howardschumann on Oct 16, 2017 3:34:56 GMT
I haven't read the novel but it is a beautiful film, best film I've seen this year by a mile. Not scheduled for release until the end of November but I hope you can get to see it. I think it is Oscar worthy though it might be a stretch for some of the old fogey judges. I hope I do too but due to the subject matter it's unlikely to get a release here in Singapore unless it becomes a major awards contender. Possibly I'll have a chance to catch it when I visit my folks in the UK at Christmas, although with its late October release date it could well be gone from local cinemas by then. I do feel that it will factor into the awards race. The Academy has broadened its membership in recent years to include a younger and more diverse membership - and time, inevitably, is thinning out the 'old fogey' establishment. Twelve years ago Brokeback Mountain, a very conventional (though excellent) film, was unable to win... this year, we saw victory for the far less vanilla Moonlight. I do feel that James Ivory will be the frontrunner for the adapted screenplay Oscar. He is a multi-nominated veteran who has never won and the fact that at 89 he would be (correct me if I am wrong) the oldest competitive Oscar winner ever would be quite the story. Do try to check out André Aciman's novel if you have the chance. It really is a thing of beauty.  I would like to read Aciman's novel but I'm not sure I want to go through the ringer again. My experience with the film was so perfect that I'm not sure whether the novel would add to it. Maybe next year after the dust settles. |
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Post by claudius on Oct 16, 2017 11:09:43 GMT
Kijii, the film's original running time was around 4hr and a half. I always wondered what the deleted footage was, although from what I read, the footage may have been mainly traveling scenes (although one original viewer commented that Jesus' death scene was longer then the freeze-frame).
And Burns and Allen, being vaudeville dancers, did their own steps. The Broom part dance was their idea, and they taught it to Fred.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 17, 2017 2:23:33 GMT
Fireworks [2017] - decent, teen animated drama with light fantasy elements, 7/10
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards - manic crime actioner from genre-master Seijun Suzuki, 6/10
Youth of the Beast [rewatch] - another wilfully confusing, stylised crime drama from Suzuki starring the charismatic Joe Shishido, 7/10
Carmen From Kawachi - another Suzuki, slight change of pace, this time a blackly comic feminist tale, again steeped in his signature modernist style. One brilliant sequence in particular appears to take place in a Gothic Dollshouse, 8/10
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion [rewatch] - lesser Allen, but held up a little better than I remembered, a fun caper, 6/10
Louie season 3, episodes 9-13
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Post by kijii on Oct 17, 2017 22:16:29 GMT
CALL ME BY YOUR NAMESeen at the Vancouver International Film Festival GRADE: A+ is one of my favourite contemporary novels - an absolutely beautiful, shattering work. I am so thrilled that the film appears to do the novel justice... this is my most anticipated of the year by a long way! BUT, if you search the IMDb, this is why most of us can't see it yet: That is more than a month away.. |
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