Watched last night

[woody123]

Anatomy of A murder with James Stewart,Lee Remick,George C Scott and Ben Gazzara.Hadn't seen it before and I'm glad I recorded it on Saturday afternoon as there was nothing worth watching on Sunday night and it admirably filled a two and a half hour hole.

[didi-5]

Double bill last night - the 1992 modern-set As You Like It (James Fox, Cyril Cusack, Griff Rhys Jones). OK but a bit disappointing and didn't really work. Then The Mikado from 1982 with Clive Revill as Ko-Ko and William Conrad as Mikado. Fun and well done, if flatly staged at Twickenham Studios.

[CaptainWaggett]

Double bill last night - the 1992 modern-set As You Like It (James Fox, Cyril Cusack, Griff Rhys Jones). OK but a bit disappointing and didn't really work. Then The Mikado from 1982 with Clive Revill as Ko-Ko and William Conrad as Mikado. Fun and well done, if flatly staged at Twickenham Studios.

I thought As You Like It was quite dull (and a disappointment after Edzard's previous two films) and the whole 'put a girl in trousers and everyone will think she's a boy' didn't really work in modern day docklands. But James Fox was superb And it's an interesting record of a bit of London that looks completely different now.

[Gerald Lovell]

Carry On Abroad or It's All In, etc. (1972). The team (including Aitch as a monk ) head off to Elsbels on the Costa del Pinewood for a dirty weekend. The best performance comes from Peter Butterworth and some of his exchanges with Kenneth ("stupid what?") Williams are hilarious. The Carry On swansong for Charles Hawtrey.

[Rowdon]

Carry On Abroad or It's All In, etc. (1972). The team (including Aitch as a monk ) head off to Elsbels on the Costa del Pinewood for a dirty weekend. The best performance comes from Peter Butterworth and some of his exchanges with Kenneth ("stupid what?") Williams are hilarious. The Carry On swansong for Charles Hawtrey.

Sorry to hijack your post (Ooh! I say!) but this is always worth posting:

[agutterfan]

V for Vendetta (2005). I had avoided this film until now, but it was much better than I thought it would be. Good looking above all. In fact, despite a number of good individual lines, the script is very cliche-ridden and stodgy - and it's not helped by Natalie Portman's wooden delivery: what was wrong with her? Great cast and, as I say, it looks good.

Read the graphic novel, superb! As for Natalie, she just can't act in my opinion! As for myself I watched Prophets of Science Fiction first episode on Philip K Dick, on Quest. Informative.

[Keif Howard]

Hot Enough For June (1964)
A most entertaining and amusing film. I found my self laughing out loud at Robert Morley's witicisms. Something I'm rarely prone to doing these days!

[Tigon Man]

Nothing But The Night (1972)

The one and thus far only venture from Christopher Lee and Anthony Nelson-Keys Charlemagne productions, features Sir C.Lee and Peter Cushing rushing off to a Scottish Island to prevent a group of wealthy, seemingly philanthropic orphanage trustees from taking over the minds of their children, notably Gwyneth Strong's possessed Mary.
Throw in Di Dors in a red fright wig, in an early incarnation of her mother from hell routine (See also Sweeney: Messenger of the Gods (1977) and the whole rickety script structure begins to overbalance alarmingly.
There are some effective sequences, notably the climactic bonfire scene, in which Lee is captured by a group of school children and 13 year old Gwyneth Strong is mesmerising as Mary, but this is pretty leaden stuff.
With Keith Barron, Georgia Brown, Morris Perry, Fulton Mackay, Shelagh Fraser, Kathleen Byron, Duncan Lamont, Michael Gambon.

[Gerald Lovell]

Brothers in Law (1956). A fairly blunt comedy from the Boulting Brothers with many of their usual cast going through the motions. Green as grass barrister Ian Carmichael is supremely confident at times and a blithering idiot at other times: usually when he's in court. His head of chambers is Miles Malleson, his chum is Richard Attenborough and there's also John Le Mesurier as a vicious judge, Raymond Huntley as a haughty Q.C., Terry-Thomas briefly as a very bewigged wideboy and, inevitably, Michael Ward as a camp photographer. Outcome: not proven.

[woody123]

Damn The Defiant a little slow,but excellent cast and much better than the cgi laden Master and Commander with the extra bonus of not having to watch the one-trick pony that is Russell Crowe .Followed this with The Mean Season which hasn't worn well.For a murder mystery there isn't that much mystery and it cruises along too leisurely to work as it might have done.

[Sgt Sunshine]

"A Touch of Love" 1969 Run-time 105 mins....



Starring Sandy Dennis & Ian McKellen adapted from Margaret Drabble's novel The Millstone
Getting pregnant and bringing up baby in the late 60's with plenty of the old cliches.......
Meanwhile in the background of most of the outdoor scenes the newly erected GPO Tower never fails to impress. Great to see Eleanor Bron in a film again...
7.5/10
Cheers
Sgt S

[didi-5]

A Touch of Love has the scene where Dennis is stopped from seeing her baby in the hospital and just screams until she is allowed to, I think? Good film.

Last night I watched the PBS documentary on the 1936 Olympic hero Jesse Owens and then the third episode of the 1973 documentary series The Ascent of Man, which is superb.

[Edward G]

Didi,
What channel was the Jesse Owens doc on?

[wadsy]

The Two faces Of Dr Jekyll 1960

Hammer's version of this oft filmed story has Paul Massie as the Doctor who experiments on

himself with disastrous results. This time the studious Doctor turns into a wild murderous playboy rather than

a hideous monster. I have to say I was very impressed with Paul Massie in this. He played the two roles very

well I thought. Lovely Dawn Addams as his wife & Christopher Lee as her good for nothing lover, co star.

[Sgt Sunshine]

A Touch of Love has the scene where Dennis is stopped from seeing her baby in the hospital and just screams until she is allowed to, I think? Good film.

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Yes didi your right......Its quite a scream.....and it did the trick
How things have certainly changed.......in that case for the better...
Cheers
Sgt S

[Gerald Lovell]

H.M.S. Defiant (aka Damn the Defiant!) (1962). Napoleonic nautical nonsense from director Lewis Gilbert, with a script co-written by Nigel Kneale. The period detail and staging of the battle sequences look impressive, albeit with some dodgy back projection, but for me the thing flounders due to the odd, gentle characterisation of the captain from a Nelsonic cissy-looking Alec Guinness, who is anxious that he has "a happy ship" and the odd, sadistic characterisation of the first officer from a faux butch-looking Dirk Bogarde, who is anxious that he has plenty of floggings to gloat over. Various scenes from Carry On Jack came to mind as I watched this. Lovely Christopher Challis photography though and a nice score from Clifton Parker.

[Harbottle]

With all the most excellent footy that has been on recently my film watching has suffered Mostly been imbibing in episodes of The Main Chance [S03], Mr Rose and Shadows of Fear. I'd recommend all three though Shadows of Fear is perhaps the weakest, but still worth catching for the excellent casts. Mr Rose has been rather good so far with a nice turn by William Mervyn as the haughty ex-Chief Inspector, solving crimes while he is supposed to be getting down to his memoirs. The Main Chance is ever reliable with a fine performance by John Stride as thrusting solicitor David Main, excellent drama yet again filled with telly stalwarts from the 1970's.

[dpgmel]

With all the most excellent footy that has been on recently my film watching has suffered Mostly been imbibing in episodes of The Main Chance [S03], Mr Rose and Shadows of Fear. I'd recommend all three though Shadows of Fear is perhaps the weakest, but still worth catching for the excellent casts. Mr Rose has been rather good so far with a nice turn by William Mervyn as the haughty ex-Chief Inspector, solving crimes while he is supposed to be getting down to his memoirs. The Main Chance is ever reliable with a fine performance by John Stride as thrusting solicitor David Main, excellent drama yet again filled with telly stalwarts from the 1970's.

Yes Shadows of Fear is very patchy but overall I enjoyed it

[phil]

Spider Baby (1968). Never heard of this one till I saw a bio of Jack Hill, it deserves all of it's apparent cult reputation. Lon Chaney was the perfect lead for this campy horror comedy. Brilliant rubbish.

[agutterfan]

David Bowie Night on BBC4 from 9pm until 1.30am. Thoroughly entertaining, and discovered this rare video clip from the 1973 single release of Life on Mars?, a very early pop video that TOTP declined to show. There wasn't any other place of seeing videos back then ...