Monday, December 28, 2009

Browsing For A Terrific Film? Check Out These Wonderful Film Reviews

By Bernard Evans

Great critiques of some of the most outstanding films that you may pick from starting here. Paul and Michelle - Why anyone would ever stay friends demands investigation. Too much has gone amiss to ever think things could be rectified. This is a premise of an unbelievably durable camaraderie. Cast includes Sean Bury, Anicee Alvina, Keir Dullea, Catherine Allegret, and Ronald Lewis. (103 minutes, 1974)

Danny Boy - Ambitious even if arrogant, inexorably boring melodrama of sax player Rea, who trades his sax for a gun after observing a triple murder. This was Jordan's directorial debut, which he furthermore did the screenplay. He and leading guy Rea later reteamed for The Weeping Game.

In Enemy Country - So-so designer of WW2 enthrall, set in France and England, filmed on a back-lot. Not particularly persuading. Cast includes Tony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid, Tom Bell, and Emile Genest.

The Gorgeous Hussy - Stars fill the cast list in this fictionalized historical drama of Peggy O'Neal, President Andrew Jackson's covert lover. The cast is marvelously costumed in well assigned settings. The flick is based on the novel by Samuel Hopkins Joyce. Cast includes Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart, Alison Skipworth, Beulah Bondi, and Gene Lockhart.

Faces - Exceedingly personal drama in regards to many infidelities is one of the few Cassel movies to become a big hit. Here's a commanding film with awesome action, particularly by Carlin and Cassel. Cast includes John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, and Val Avery.

Shooter - Retired Marine Corp Sniper Bob Lee Swagger is requested to travel to Washington, to help stalk another sniper that will try to execute the President. What happens to him next is a complete shock. The same US government people that he is helping are in reality setting him up to take the fall for the assassination. He somehow escapes when he is shot, and is now on the run. He is also set to fight back.

Skyscraper Wilderness - Fred's a pilot on leave who meets photographer Leslie; Benchley's supper talk, Astaire's "One for My Infant" and "My Beaming Hour" make this work. Cast includes Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan, and Elizabeth Patterson. (103 minutes, 1937)

Friend Farewell - Mercenaries return to Marseilles following service of Charles Cyphers. Carpenter's follow-up to Halloween is a well-prompted although obvious ghost storyline in regards to a California coastal town hexed by a hundred-year-old shipwreck. Cast includes Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Brigitte Fossey, and Bernard Fresson.

Michael - A set of doubtful journalists and a fake "angel" find that a dotty old woman's statement that the archangel Michael is living with her is real. Michael, nevertheless, turns out not to be your standard angel. Genial, sardonic film by no means goes where you expect and takes its time getting there, however the trip is appealing, and Travolta, as the sleazy, randy Michael, is impeccably cast. Cast includes John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Teri Garr, Wally Ward, Joey Lauren Adams, Carla Gugino, Tom Hodges, and Wallace Langham.

Cry the Beloved Country - Moving redo of the 1951 film based on Alan Paton's rejoiced book, in reference to a backwoods pastor (Jones) who, in 1946, makes his first ever trip to the city of Johannesburg in search of his wayward child. At the same time well-to-do landowner Harris voyages there to claim the body of his child, who has just been murdered. We see exceptional work by Jones, Harris, and a largely foreign cast. Not as understated as the first making, however powerful in its own way. Cast includes Richard Harris, James Earl Jones, Charles S. Dutton, and Vusi Kunene.

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