CHRIS: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, US, 1991)
Well, he said he’d be back. It’s a portentous title to a portentous film by the world’s most portentous film-maker, but it is teeth-rattling fun from the end to the […]
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DOM: The Terminator (Cameron, US, 1984)
It seems a bit ironic that I have been knocking Cameron before but then come back (see ‘Saving Private Ryan’) to one of his films. Now I know this is […]
DOM: High Noon (Zinnermann, US, 1952)
I can’t believe it has taken this long to get to a Western, but it has. There are many to have a go at and this won’t be the last, […]
CHRIS: Delicatessen (Caro and Jeunet, France, 1991)
Derelict buildings, apparently blitzed by unknown forces, appear in the frame, suffused with a golden glow. The camera is drawn to an illuminated shop front. It keeps going, allowing the […]
DOM: Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg,US,1998)
I thought long and hard about Spielberg, but disregarded perhaps his best film, Schindler’s List, as I just can’t bring myself to watch it that much. I finally settled on […]
DOM: Quatermass & The Pit (Ward Baker, UK, 1967)
When Roy Ward Baker died last year, all the obituaries concentrated on “A Night To Remember” (quite rightly too), his definitive version of the Titanic disaster, vastly superior to James […]
DOM: Queen Christina (Mamoulian, US, 1933)
“I have been memorising this room, in the future, in my memory; I shall live a great deal in this room” Christina (Greta Garbo) after falling in love with the […]
Dirk’s Five – Goodfellas Goodbits
If UNFORGIVEN was a 1990s revision of the Western genre, then GOODFELLAs did the same for the gangster genre which was still in the thrall THE GODFATHER and ONCE UPON […]
DOM: Goodfellas (Scorsese, US, 1990)
“Murderers came with smiles, killing people was no big deal, we were good fellas” Martin Scorsese shaved of his beard during the making of this film, he hasn’t been the […]
Dirk’s Five – Ernest Borgnine
In a prolific week of contributions from Dom-Dirk, this is an obituary Friday Five in honour of the oldest living recipetant of the Best Actor Oscar, until he died last month. […]
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