I have seen this picture many times. There’s always something that I’ve forgotten, or maybe I hadn’t appreciated quite as fully, or maybe I put the parts together in my mind a little more tightly.

There is VERY LITTLE CGI in it; anything you see is done the old way in the camera, or it’s forced perspective, or it’s a model. But, as if that’s not enough, the story is old SF solid.

It’s such an incredible film.

Very highly recommended.

★★★★★
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This second novel in @cmpriest’s ‘Booking Agent’ series is a solid, entertaining read. She’s a great author, and is one of my favourites, making this series especially great as its balance of humour and pathos being right up my alley.

The characters and set-up are realistic and enjoyable.

If I wasn’t feeling so tired right now I would bounce up and down and rant about how great this book is & how you must read it.

Please imagine me doing that.

★★★★☆

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Quite possibly the best bio-pic / documentary / overview of an artist’s work I have ever seen. It’s as much a work of art as the material from which it draws and reflects.

Very highly recommended.

★★★★★

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So… the biggest differences here are the insertion of the scene in the 2nd image instead of a brief one where Marlow drops off Carmen at the door with the Butler. Then the replacement of the brief scene in the 3rd image with the lengthy, iconic one in the 4th image. There’s also a lengthy scene gone involving Marlow explaining things to the police which explains a few things to us.

I wish there was a blending of both.

…/more

★★★★☆

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For my tastes, this has just one too many twists which do not have sufficient explanatory narrative. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good twisty plot, it just needs to have supporting reasons. One suspects that the script was run through an early Cuisinart to get the full run of the novel’s high points.

Great acting, great dialogue, excellent cinematography, please fire the focus puller.

Despite all that, still highly recommended.

★★★★☆

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I’ve read the novel which was adapted for this film and found it far more rewarding than the picture. There are more twists and surprises to be had there.

Still, there’s little wrong here. Fritz Lang employs his usual long takes involving silences to great success, making the suspense build quite handily. I wish the climax involved more chase and/or answers than we get here.

Recommended.

★★★★☆

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This motion picture is full of wonderful characters, action, and plot twists.

Without a doubt, one of most satisfying endings in cinematic history, too.

I’m not sure how Mrs Stroud stays with her husband, as he clearly hasn’t much of a home life. Somehow she continues to stand by him. Lord only knows why.

If you haven’t seen this — or haven’t seen it in awhile — I highly recommend doing so.

★★★★★

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This motion picture is full of wonderful characters, action, and plot twists.

Without a doubt, one of best endings in cinematic history, too.

I’m not sure how Mrs Stroud stays with her husband, as he clearly hasn’t much of a home life. Somehow she continues to stand by him. Lord only knows why.

If you haven’t seen this — or haven’t seen it in awhile — I highly recommend doing so.

★★★★★

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I’ve seen this multiple times, but DAMN is this ever a great picture! Tonight was the first time I’ve seen the British adaptation (discovered in the BFI’s voluminous collection) and it’s surprisingly faithful, despite lacking the original’s haunting final line.

No matter which, you should see this incredible film.

Mandatory viewing.

★★★★★

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This show paved the way for “The West Wing,” “Irresistible,” “Wag the Dog,” and “Bob Roberts.” The blurring of a line between satire and reality has always been fuzzy at times but here it’s really tough to distinguish.

The acting in this is really good, as well as the editing. Owing to using early ENG equipment, the image is less than stellar, but HBO is to be commended for funding the thing in the first place.

Worthwhile.

★★★★☆

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This arrived in the post today. Also arriving today was word that #PotUS 45, ████ is running for 2024’s election. Thus, this evening’s fare is the Robert Altman / Garry Trudeau collaboration about US Presidential politics in the immediate post-Reagan era. So far, I have seen three episodes. Goodness, what a simpler time it was then. And yet, how so very much things have not changed one jot. People are still as stupid as they were.

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