The Ox-Bow Incident: This film starts fairly early on with the news that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The local town are up in arms and are wanting revenge straight away – however, the sheriff is currently a few days away, so a posse is formed – possibly illegally. They […]
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Movie: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bride of Frankenstein: I haven’t seen the earlier Frankenstein movie yet – it was a mistake on my part that I didn’t put a lower priority on this film on my lovefilm subscription..Anyway, I thought the introduction to this film was done a little oddly – I couldn’t tell whether the acting was purposely […]
Movie: La Dolce Vita (1960)
La Dolce Vita: I guess this really isn’t my kind of film. It made very little sense to me, I wasn’t sure where it was going, what was happening, etc. Right at the beginning, where he meets Maddelena, it all seemed fairly okay. But then, with the other parties, and the oddness with the party with […]
Movie: La Haine (1995)
La Haine: I found this film a bit difficult to watch at first – not because it was gruesome, but simply because the subtitles were white, on an often very light background, making it a problem to read. It also seemed rather slow moving, with perhaps far too much time on character development, which made […]
Movie: Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu: I was looking forward to this movie, so, perhaps my expectations were high. It’s probably the oldest movie I’ve watched. I was sorely disappointed. I found it difficult to make sense of the film, and the music was horrendous. I watched the ‘Eureka Entertainment’ restoration version, which I’ve since learned has a really crap […]
Movie: Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca: A Hitchcock mystery – the first film he made in Hollywood in fact. The film starts in Monte Carlo where the main characters of the film meet. Apart from the mystery parts of the film, I thought the young woman from an ordinary background marrying into a very rich family was well portrayed – […]
Movie: City Lights (1931)
City Lights: I’m still impressed with how Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, starred, and composed the music for this film (and for many others that he made). I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as Modern times – it’s a different kind of humour though, it is not as much out and out slapstick humour as […]
Movie: Raging Bull (1980)
Raging Bull: I did not realise this was based on a true story, of a man who is still alive even now. The performances of the characters in the film were excellent, but, I didn’t enjoy the story as much as I expected I might. It was still worth watching. Jake La Motta is the real […]
Movie: Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis: I think this is the oldest movie I’ve seen in the IMDB top 250 so far. It’s a sci-fi story set in a world where the rich have a great city, while the workers who keep the city running live underground. According to the introduction to the film, around a quarter of the original […]
Movie: All About Eve (1950)
All About Eve: As the title might imply, this movie is about a character called Eve. The movie starts with an award ceremony where she is receiving the highest award (which I forget the title of), and goes back to a few months (I think) when Eve came into the story, as a very polite, […]