Showing posts with label Sophia Loren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sophia Loren. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 April 2019

La mortadella (1971)


A couple fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the
workers' protest.

Monday, 1 April 2019

Legend of the Lost (1957)


An American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take a man on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Sophia Loren & Kim Novak


Sophia Loren and Kim Novak attend the opening of Sophia’s film The Key at the Odeon Theater in New York, July 1958

Sunday, 3 May 2015

A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)


A White Russian countess, stows away on a luxury liner at Hong Kong, determined to seek a new life in America.

Remarkably unfunny comedy, Chaplin's very last work, is stagey, repetitive and somehow has the wrong pace, although the cast definitely must have had a good time.

Halliwell (no star): "Flatulent comedy with neither the sparkle of champagne nor even the fizz of lemonade: Chaplin's writing, direction and music are alike soporific, and commiserations are due to the cast."

Maltin*1/2: "...Chaplin's attempt to make old-fashioned comedy sinks fast, though everybody tries hard...Badly shot, badly timed, badly scored. A pity, because this is Chaplin's cinematic swan song."