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Apartment Zero

review: Apartment Zero, Saturday 13. March 2010, 22:33

This film has more layers than I can delve into. And I like that. Let's take the name of the movie. Adrian LeDuc (played by Colin Firth) lives in Apartment 10, but the 1 fell off the door and was ...

sketchbook Saturday 13. March 2010, 23:18

Is this the Argentine pic that won best forn Oscar? ...

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The Third Man, comment, Monday 08. March 2010, 20:31

> Trevor Howard & Alida Valli dont really matter? We're > meeting at the Cafe Mozart. Tell them I said ...

The Third Man

review: The Third Man, Sunday 07. March 2010, 00:22

An excellent, depressing look at Vienna soon, too soon, after World War II, "The Third Man" was shot largely in that city and starred Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, and some other major actors who don't really matter. This movie makes ...

sketchbook Sunday 07. March 2010, 00:59

Why use the word 'depressing' when it's a thrilling noir? ...

sketchbook Sunday 07. March 2010, 19:39

Trevor Howard & Alida Valli dont really matter? We're meeting ...

philip Monday 08. March 2010, 20:31

> Trevor Howard & Alida Valli dont really matter? We're ...

sketchbook Monday 08. March 2010, 21:20

Too much cloak n dag at Cafe Mozart to relax...misunderstood ...

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The Night of the Hunter, comment, Wednesday 03. March 2010, 04:46

> Too bad Laughton never got a chance to direct again. I'm disappointed, too.

The Night of the Hunter

review: The Night of the Hunter, Saturday 27. February 2010, 23:29

This interesting failure was directed by Charles Laughton in his only directing foray and stars Shelly Winters and Robert Mitchum. You may also recognize Lillian Gish and Peter Graves. There's some dispute on how to characterize the film (film noir, ...

sketchbook Sunday 28. February 2010, 04:23

'Hunter' is a truly frightening pic and, w a script ...

philip Wednesday 03. March 2010, 04:46

> Too bad Laughton never got a chance to direct ...

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The Reader, comment, Sunday 21. February 2010, 02:39

> What also felt very fake to me is the fact that a Nazi > criminal spoke English I read ...

The Reader

review: The Reader, Saturday 20. February 2010, 23:12

"The Reader" is about damage, betrayal of unimaginable breadth and depth, and the fantasy of undying love. David Kross plays Michael as a youth, Ralph Fiennes plays Michael as an adult, and Kate Winslet plays Hanna. NOTE: There are spoilers ...

michuk Sunday 21. February 2010, 02:04

Nice recap of the movie. I also found the story ...

philip Sunday 21. February 2010, 02:39

> What also felt very fake to me is the ...

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Cat People (1942), comment, Wednesday 17. February 2010, 19:34

> By contrast Schrader aims for the easy erotic. Yeah, but he nailed it. :-> The two versions are so ...

Delicatessen

review: Delicatessen, Saturday 13. February 2010, 21:28

Brilliantly inspired lunatic genius. This movie is set in another universe that looks like maybe a post-apocalyptic French village. It's along the same lines as Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," a world in which too much has gone wrong and there's an ...

Cat People (1982)

review: Cat People, Tuesday 09. February 2010, 20:26

This is an archetype erotic film with the beautiful Nastassja Kinski as the sexually conflicted Irena Gallier, Malcolm McDowell as her brother, Paul Gallier, and John Heard as Oliver Yates, her would-be lover. This is not a remake of the ...