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, June 14, 2008
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer) This was the most entertaining movie I’ve seen in a while. It’s a classic British film by Ealing Studios, and I liked it better even than The Ladykillers. It tells the story of a man called Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), whose mother belonged to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but [...]
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplin) I must admire Charlie Chaplin. This movie, in which he mocks Hitler and the Nazis (as well as Mussolini), came out as early as 1940. According to IMDb, Chaplin said that had he known the true extent of Nazi atrocities, he “could not have made fun of their homicidal [...]
Saturday, June 7, 2008
The Kid (1921, Charlie Chaplin) When you watch a movie by (and starring) Charlie Chaplin, you can be sure of two things; it’s going to be funny, and it’s going to have a heart. At least that’s true of all his movies I’ve seen so far. The story is a simple one. The titular kid (an [...]
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa) Before this, I had only seen two movies by Akira Kurosawa: Rashômon and Seven Samurai. And even though I found the former to be pretty standard (especially having seen the same technique used many times since) and the latter to be drawn-out and rather dull, I was impressed by both. There’s [...]
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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