A self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute.
Monday, 25 May 2015
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
A self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute.
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
Sunday, 24 May 2015
A New Leaf (1971)
A playboy squanders his wealth and must seek out a new source to maintain his idle rich lifestyle, and the easy way is to find a rich woman, marry her, and murder her.
Likable light comedy with an - as always- excellent Walter Matthau, but leisurely paced and with a somewhat abrupt ending.
Halliwell*: "Agreeably mordant comedy which sparkles in patches rather than as a whole."
Maltin**1/2: "Amusing comedy...Many funny moments, and May is terrific, but it's wildly uneven."
La Maman et la putain (1973)
The film focuses on three twenty-somethings in an unconventional love triangle in Paris during the summer of 1972
Blue Steel (1934)
A U.S. marshal observes a robbery and the Sheriff thinks he may be the culprit, while the town's leading citizen is planning to rob everybody blind.
Mediocre Western with a highly construed plot, even John Wayne's performance is stiff; great landscapes to be seen, though, in the background.
Halliwell (no star): "Lacklustre Western enlivened by a few stunts."
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment, and the next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.
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