Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby) Harold (Bud Cort) is young, privileged, and obsessed with death. He frequents funerals of people he doesn’t know, and stages mock suicides to his mother’s great annoyance. He has no friends. At a funeral he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Maude, [...]
Saturday, July 5, 2008
8½ (1963, Federico Fellini) In 8½, which is an autobiographical film of Fellini’s, we meet Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a film director. Guido can’t find any inspiration for his upcoming movie, and his life is spiralling out of control. He can’t get a moment’s peace, as he keeps getting accosted from all sides: actors want [...]
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (1955, Jules Dassin) Oooh, fun, another heist movie. I do so love a good heist movie. This reminded me a lot of another heist movie I saw recently: The Killing (read my review). It has some similar elements, and I enjoyed them both immensely. Here, we get to meet Tony le [...]
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese) Casino is another mafia movie from Martin Scorsese, and I thought it was inferior to Goodfellas in every possible way. Maybe I’ve just seen too many similar (and better) movies, but I was just not impressed with this at all. We get to follow Ace (Robert De Niro) and Nicky (Joe Pesci), [...]
Friday, July 4, 2008
La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz) Paris, France. The suburbs. A young man called Abdel is the victim of police brutality, and is hospitalised. Riots. Vinz (Vincent Cassel) finds a gun lost by a policeman during the riots, and wants to fight back. He vows to kill a police if Abdel dies in the hospital, as [...]
I’m back from my vacation now (best.week.ever) and have some catchin up to do. In August, I will write those last IMDb250 reviews that I didn’t get to in July, and then I’ll get back to work on my Resolutions and the Alphabet Project.
As you’ve noticed, Shoot the Glass is undergoing spring cleaning at the moment. Sorry for the mess and thanks for your patience.
I’m such a sucker for these great 50’s,60’s and early 70’s French...Funnily enough, this film is in my top ten for obvious reasons. You can quite clearly see the parallels between...
When I first saw “Hitchcount” at the top of the page, I wondered why Hanna felt the need to see any...Nice review, Hanna. I’ll agree with everything except the final rating. It gets the full five stars from...
I was amazed at how cynical the movie was. It kept amazing me that more and more people arrived. I am glad I...
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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