Seen in theater. Released 1949.
Directed by
Robert Hamer.
Written by Roy Horniman, novel. Robert Hamer, John Dighton.
With Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness
Sibella: He says he wants to go to Europe to expand his mind.
Louis Mazzini: He certainly has room to do so.
Above is a quote from the film. One of the funniest I have seen for a long time. It's a black comedy from England. In it, the son of a disowned mother tries to achieve baronhood and avenge his mother by killing off his whole family. It is told in flashback with a memoir that he writes in prison awaiting his death sentence, so everything is hilariously detached. and deadpan.
The film started out slow, and was made difficult to understand by the quality of the sound coupled with fast speaking Brits, but I was able to get the hang of it after a while.
An interesting fact about the movie I didn't realize while watching is that Alec Guinnes played all the characters of the family who were being knocked off.
Here's a clip.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
The Dallas Buyers Club ***
Seen in theater. Released 2013.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.
Written by Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
With Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Denis O'Hare, Kevin Rankin, Dallas Roberts
McConaughy is becoming one of my favorite actors. I don't know what happened, but suddenly he's choosing good parts and not always playing the good looking, romantic lead in rom-coms.
It's hard to pick out one thinkg that I like about the film. It so solid all the way around. Perhaps my favorite part is the role that McCaughey plays, an irresponsible, wominizing, homophobic rodeo dude, tough guy. He turns out to have a heart in the end, yet keeping his gruff, macho image complete. He even threatens an ex-friend to say hi to his new transsexual friend, or he would beat the crap out of him, and he almost does.
So the main character, Ron Woodroof, finds that he has AIDS. When he learns that he can't get the drugs available to him that would help him, he takes things into his own hands and goes into the illegal business of passing out these drugs by setting up "Buyers Clubs" which is a temporary way for him stay in business. He ends up championing and heralding the better AIDS health care and medicine. The story stars to delve into the politics of medicine and businesses connections with the pharmaceutical companies. Not as dry as it sounds. Based on a true story. Here's a trailer of course.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.
Written by Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
With Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Denis O'Hare, Kevin Rankin, Dallas Roberts
McConaughy is becoming one of my favorite actors. I don't know what happened, but suddenly he's choosing good parts and not always playing the good looking, romantic lead in rom-coms.
It's hard to pick out one thinkg that I like about the film. It so solid all the way around. Perhaps my favorite part is the role that McCaughey plays, an irresponsible, wominizing, homophobic rodeo dude, tough guy. He turns out to have a heart in the end, yet keeping his gruff, macho image complete. He even threatens an ex-friend to say hi to his new transsexual friend, or he would beat the crap out of him, and he almost does.
So the main character, Ron Woodroof, finds that he has AIDS. When he learns that he can't get the drugs available to him that would help him, he takes things into his own hands and goes into the illegal business of passing out these drugs by setting up "Buyers Clubs" which is a temporary way for him stay in business. He ends up championing and heralding the better AIDS health care and medicine. The story stars to delve into the politics of medicine and businesses connections with the pharmaceutical companies. Not as dry as it sounds. Based on a true story. Here's a trailer of course.
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