Strangers on a Train: A rather odd Hitchcock film, not one of my favourites. The film starts with two characters meeting on a train, where it seems fairly obvious to us that one of the people in the conversation really is rather odd, but it’s not obvious yet if he’s being serious with what he’s […]
Day: 2009/04/07
Movie: Jumper (2008)
Jumper: A film about a guy who can teleport. That’s about it. When this character finds out he can do this, it is totally by accident, in a kind of ‘fight or flight’ situation. Which seems very much like the kind of times peoples abilities manifest in most superhero type stories. It oddly seems ‘natural’ […]
Movie: The Chorus (Les Choristes) (2004)
The Chorus: A teacher has been hired by a school that has ‘difficult’ children. Only when he comes in for the first day does he realise how difficult they can be. The film actually starts off with a French musician (the actor ‘Jacques Perrin‘, also in Cinema Paradiso) in the US being told that there […]
Movie: The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Lost Weekend: A rather different kind of film. The main character in this film is an alcoholic, and, as might be obvious from the title, you are following him on a weekend. I thought this was a mostly very well done film, with the desperation coming through the character in certain situations, but, also the […]