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A perfect album.
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It is like an 80-minute Fistful of Yojimbo, made in the mid-fifties, with George Montgomery as The Man With No Charisma. Had a great time watching it.
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Ronald Colman, again, gives a really good turn as the rather diffident cad. Barry is great (another sad real life end to an actress), and Francis isn't.
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I watched it last night, and it is the age-old story. A wife shouldn't accompany her sister to Venice to get away from a parachute jumper, leaving her husband alone to pick up a shopgirl in an Italian restaurant. Swimsuit modeling, Charlie Chaplin films, and disaster ensues. I quite liked it.
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I just started watching it this week, after being pretty sceptical about it and never really being a Star Wars person, and it is really superb. Just got to episode 10 of season 1 - it is really tense, with a great ensemble, and brilliantly written.
Couldn't be more shocked!
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After thinking about this all morning, Tokyo Pop really is about as much fun as I've had with a film this year.
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The best restoration title card I've seen for a film
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I didn't know Carrie Hamilton was Carol Burnett's daughter, and I didn't know she died at 38. She is wonderful in Tokyo Pop. Such an easy way in front of the camera, with a performance full of energy absolutely to be enjoyed.
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My Kore-eda list from favourite to least favourite. A remarkable filmography.
I've even watched a couple of his Netflix TV shows - neither of which are as good as his worst films.
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I didn't realise the third act was a "twist" going in. I knew the reveal from the Cannes coverage 2 years ago. It would have worked better knowing nothing of the structure and mystery. But, it still worked pretty great, nonetheless.
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Sakura Andō is great in the opening act. The mix of confusion and faultless aggressive persistence really drags you into the film. It is almost a shame that she fades with necessity to the structure. However, arguably, the film gets better as it goes along, and it ends with a really striking 3rd act
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I Wish and Like Father Like Son are on one side of Kore-eda divide and I feel like Nobody Knows and Monster are on the other. I'd rewatch I Wish or Like Father Like Son tomorrow, not sure I can muster the hardened heart to revisit Monster or Nobody Knows in the next 20 or so years.
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The album I have listened to the most in the last couple of years is 12 by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and his soundtrack here echoes that with an almost lilting perfection. It makes a deeply affecting film deeply moving.
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He is still one of the best directors working today, and no-one is better with child actors. This feels like a colder film than much he has done - and there is a degree of rigorous unease throughout. I read the ending completely literally but I can see the other reading probably makes more sense.
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Sam Elliott played Travis McGee in a TV movie in the 1980s, and apparently I liked that as well.
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My favourite Hitchcock. Maybe it isn't the best, but it really is my favourite.
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The Trouble With Harry
Is there such a thing as underrated Hitchcock, especially from the 40s and 50s? I think this black, black comedy about several residents of a small town trying to deal with a problematic corpse fits the bill. Dry and droll throughout, and a great debut for Shirley MacLaine.
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This sounds great! After reading that, I now have an urge to see it immediately.
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I bet there are a few more, which I have either seen or not heard of. PJ, Marlowe, and Hickey & Boggs are worth seeing as well. Might do some extra googling to see what else is out there.
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Darker than Amber is an adaptation of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee character, and it has one of the wildest fight sequences I've ever seen.
Paul Newman was never cooler than he was as Harper. Worth seeing again and again and not just for Pamela Tiffin's dancing.
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I have an endless amount of time for these films. Sunshine mystery private eye films. Like to file them alongside Harper and Darker than Amber. Could watch them on a loop.
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Yeah, I was impressed by Mulligan. She must have been channeling her home life with Mumford and/or Son.
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Did anyone in your cinema laugh? Did it break the Edinburgh propensity for silence?
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Glad you liked it. Thought you would. It is a really fun film. Couldn't have laughed harder at the line - "To paraphrase the Beatles, ‘there goes the sun’”
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Verdict?
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He directed an episode of a noir TV show Fallen Angels back in the early 1990s starring Peter Gallagher. I thought it was quite good when I watched it last year. Be intrigued to see what he would do with a film.