It's confusing: this film is actualy directed by Steven Soderbergh. Among the actors I missed a few who are important. Mathew mcConaughy for example. In stead of him you mention a row of unimportant female actors that don't play a role of any importance. Some of them look so alike, that it is confusing which caracter you are dealing with. I could appreciate this film only after a second viewing. But it is a good film after all. Better correct this site.
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28 Reviews
George Takes the Air
(1938)
Great music
21 January 2021
My mother took me out to cinema when I was 4 years old. It was this film that made great impression on me. Now, 75 years later I still remember the tune of this film: it's in the air. The film is dated, but George Formby songs are as fresh as when I first heard them. A realy fine memory
Hell's Angels
(1930)
Costly film
9 December 2020
Hell's angels is a costly film. Great aviationstunts, great actors and interesting story. It is interesting to see what Hughes has done with sound and color. It makes the film rather modern. Thanks to John Wayne we can enjoy this movie. Reallifesoap a great film.
The Young Lions
(1958)
Interesting film
1 December 2020
This is a solid film. Well directed and keeping your interest till the very end. All the actors are well casted. It's interesting to see their different styles of acting, espcially Brando and Clift. Both are Actorstudio actors and both do it a different way. A fine film and interesting film to see.
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
Birth of editing
28 November 2020
This monumental film is outdated as far as it concerns acting, but becomes more and more interesting qua editing. The first part is rather conventional, but as soon as there is more action, Griffith becomes more able and the film gains posess. It is as if Griffith is covering the effects of editing. The end has an exiting editing. It's a prelude to Intolerance.
Skin
(V) (2018)
Haunting
3 November 2020
This is a grim and haunting film. All characters are well acted and grim. The camera is gloomy and the sound uneasy. I wonderen how Jamy Bell would be in this film. He shows consistent and good acting, enough to bear this film. The story is in fact unpleasant and not very uplifting, but it's all well done: it keeps your attention until the end.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
(2014)
Entertaining film
2 November 2020
A nice and entertaining film. Chris Pine is OK for the role. The others too. The only disappointment is the script. There are good fellows and bad, that makes the story simpel and flat. The action is OK. Not a great film, but entertaining. Anyhow I liked this film.
Alpha
(II) (2018)
Nice story of a tough and clever youngster
21 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This film gives a fair image of life 20.000 years ago. The need to make fire, the hunt, the survival, it's a tough life. You see men struggle in primitive circumstances. Inspite of that you admire men's cleverness and organization at the hunt. A young men falls from a cliff and is abandoned by his group. He manages to survive thanks to all the skills he has acquired, and with the help of a wounded wolf he treats and feeds. After a long and exhausting road, he manages to reach his settlement. His fellow men than learn to hunt with the help of domesticated wolves.
Little Women
(2019)
Z'n old story in a new setting
18 October 2020
The beginning of this film is a mess. The editing is chaotic. The girls are very noicy and not well defined. But as the story develops the film becomes better and you can indentify the girls. There is a special role for Timothee Chalamet, who is excellent for this role. The film is longer and more emotional than earlier verslons, but also better. Any way, it's a is really a modern version of this old story.
Cheyenne Autumn
(1964)
Ford's 70mm film
15 October 2020
Cheyenne Autumn is filmed on 70mm and it's interesting how Ford has used this system. The overall image of film gives a feel of space, different from earlier films from Ford wich give more a feeling of composition. It suits the story well. The part of Wyat Earp is a funny side-show. It's a humoresque intermission of this otherwise sad story. Don't see this film as an accurate historytale but as a adventure developing in the West, like all Fords films. This makes it another masterpiece from his hands.
Damn Yankees
(1958)
A sublime musical.
12 October 2020
This musical is splendid. A lot of great songs and dancing. The ballets are realy spectacular. Bob Fosse knows how to choreograph
and Stanley Donen knowns how to film them. Tab Hunter is refreshing and Gwen Verdon sexy. The story is entertaining and crisp. The film is one of the best musicals I saw.
One and Two
(2015)
Mystic
7 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This film is a mystic story about a boy and a girl with supernatural gifts. The family lives in an enclosure surrounded by a high fence. The mother dies of an epileptic seisure and their father mistrusts his siblings. He tries to kill his daughter by leaving her in a boat on the river. She wakes up in a 20th century town, far from home. The boy is threatened by his father, who tells him that his sister is dead. In a fight the boy kills his father. He and his sister communicate and they are reunited. The film is haunting. The acting is very good, especialy Timothee Chalamet, who has the gift to let you feel his inner emotions.
The Song of Songs
(1933)
Great film
5 October 2020
Ruben Mamoulian surprised me with this film. It's a melodramatic story, but very well edited, both image and sound. Therefore the film looks amazingly modern. There is good rythm in the scenes. Marlene Dietrich is rather natural compared with her later films. She is not the sexgoddess as we know her. It is a gift Mamoulian has over the 1930 divas. I never thought he was a great director, but since Becky Sharp I find his films interesting and great works of art.
Night and Day
(1946)
Not a grand Curtiz film
14 October 2019
This is a mediocre entertainening film about the talented Cole Porter. Great melodies and music. But it all lacks posass. The ballets are dull. The film lacks the hand of a good musicproducer. Cary Grant is very uneasy in his role. The script has no fine humour. It's certainly not Micheal Curtiz best film.
Anything Goes
(1956)
Never contract a french girl
8 September 2019
This is a fair and nice musical comedy. Bing in last role for Paramount. It's a goodbye to him. Mitzi Gaynor is fresh and sizzeling in her performances. Donald O'Connor is humourous and his acrobatic dancing is spectacular. Zizi Jeanmaire is a real miscast. Her songs and her speaking is inaudible. Her french accent is heavy and misses charm. She really stops the rythm of the movie every time she appears on the screen. The ballets of her husband, Roland Petit are too intellectual for this musical.
Maurice
(1987)
Maurice
7 September 2019
What a beautiful and sensitive film ! In sober but effective images the story of an early outcoming is told. And all in a beautiful context of the early 20th century. It's about repressed feelings and an anxious society, in which in the end true feelings prevail. It's a tiny masterpiece.
Privilege
(1967)
Privilege, after all those years
10 June 2019
I first saw this picture In 1967 in a cinema. I was really impressed and never forgot since. This year I happened to find it's dvd and found out it had not lost it's power. I still like this film very much. At first I thought the performance of Paul Jones lacked power, but it in all it's just good. A fine film and still very good after all those years.
War and Peace
(1965)
Warand Peace an interesting sit.
24 April 2019
A good film as for acting and litterature. It's more Tolstoy than other versions. Technicaly it is a mess. There is no scene which is not blurred or sharp. There is no advantage of the 70 mm use, exept for the massscenes, but the are not sharp and soft. I enjoyed the third part: the battle of 1812.
The Immortal Story
(1968 TV Movie)
Immortal story
2 December 2018
This is really a gem. This film is the only film in colour by Orson Welles. And he used it very interesting. It is story about legend and reality. Of power and feelings. Jeanne Moreau is ever young an brilliant and her beau is really beautiful an sexy. And Orson plays his role with much authority and presence. A film to recommend.
King of Kings
(1961)
An underestimated film
30 November 2018
Kings of kings is not the sundayschool image film I thought it to be. It is very good and honest film about life of Jesus, in many ways more touching than George Stevens' film The Greatest Story ever told , on the same subject. Ray has made a clever use of the 70mm filmframe. The roles are very convincing and not exagerated. The film shows Jesus in full, without any hiding as in other films like Ben Hur. This is a fine and great film with great acting by mostly unknown actors. Very recommended.
Green Mansions
(1959)
Wasted talents
14 November 2018
For years I have searched for this film. What a waste of talents it is. Top actors, top cinematographer, and yet it is a bore. A cheap story in a artificial jungle. Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins act very unemotional an stiff. Burl Ives and Setsue Hyawatha are unrecognisable. Joseph Rutteberg' cinematography is good but sparkling. It's really a pity.
Brimstone
(2016)
Brimstone smells of dutch gin
7 October 2018
Brimstone is a brave attempt to make a western, but it lacks the character of the West. It's a European film and not very American. Yes, it's situated in West America but both the storyline and the chacters are dutch. It is too pretentious and lacks reality. No John Ford realism or the simplicity of Clint Eastwood. Nice try, but keep making European movies mr Koolhoven.
Daddy Long Legs
(1955)
ItWhen young falls in love with old
27 August 2018
It's a charming film with Leslie Caron and the ever young Fred Astaire. Leslie is a french waif and is sponsored en spoiled by Fred, who does it anonimously. Against all odds they fall in love. It misses the Arthur Freed touch, but it's fair and pleasant movie, with a lot of dancing and singing in CinemaScope and nice Colors. In all an entertaining film
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