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December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)

Dec7 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Addicition, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Drama, Film Noir, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Stalker, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged Akira Kurosawa, class issues, detective, Ed McBain, heroin, industrialist, Japan, kidnapping, mistaken identity, noir, ransom, rock and roll, shoes, Sixties, Toshiro Mifune

October 21st, 2014: Chihwaseon a.k.a. Painted Fire (2002)

Oct21 by bellabone

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Addicition, Arthouse, Biopic, Coming of Age, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, Tragedy Tagged alcoholism, art, Best Director (Cannes), class issues, Harvard, Im Kwon-taek, Jang Seung-up, Korea, nineteenth century, painter, Palme D'Or Nominee, peasant, prostitutes, Sackler Museum

August 26th, 2014: Seven Samurai (1954)

Aug26 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adventure, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Last Stand, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged Akira Kurosawa, bandits, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, class issues, drag, forbidden love, homage, Japan, master swordsman, old timer, orphan, peasants, Ronin, Samurai, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Toshiro Mifune

May 22nd, 2014: Sleuth (1972)

May22 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Crime, Drama, Heist, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Thriller Tagged battle of wits, Best Actor Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Britain, class issues, clowns, co-production, country estate, double cross, double nominee, gimmick, hairdresser, it's not over, jilted lover, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, mystery writer, Palomar Pictures, prejudice, thief, twist, writer

December 7th, 2013: From Here to Eternity (1953)

Dec7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, boxing, bugle player, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claude Akins, Columbia Pictures, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnerman, George Reeves, hard ass seargant, Jack Warden, James Jones, Montgomery Clift, Pearl Harbor, prostitutes, World War Two

November 26th, 2013: Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Nov26 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance Tagged ball, BBC, Britain, class issues, Colin Firth, elopement, father, father-daughter relationship, gentleman, Jane Austin, Julia Sawalha, Lucy Davis, mini-series, mother, mother-daugther relationship, overbearing mother, sisters, spoiled rich kids

October 4th, 2013: Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Oct4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Disaster, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Silent, Slapstick Tagged boat, Buster Keaton, class issues, college boy, cyclone, father-daughter relationship, father-son relationship, jail, meet cute, overbearing father, prison break, river, shopping for clothes, steamboat, storm

July 29th, 2013: The Devil-Ship Pirates

Jul29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Pirate, Swashbuckler, War Movies Tagged Andrew Keir, blacksmith, Britain, Christopher Lee, class issues, collaborators, Hammer, homefront, Jimmy Sangster, low-budget, Michael Ripper, prisoner, Spanish Armada, Thames River

June 27th, 2013: Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Jun27 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, Whodunnit Tagged accidental death, adultery, birthday, Canada, Canadian Film Development Corporation, cash-in, class issues, Columbia Pictures, Famous Players, flashback, Glenn Ford, gore, high school, J. Lee Thompson, low-budget, Melissa Sue Anderson, private school, punishment worst than death, revenge, sex=death, shish kabob, teens, the declining years, TV actors, twist

April 29th, 2013: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Apr29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Comedy, Drama, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged arranged marriage, before they were famous, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Britain, Channel Four Films, class issues, Daniel Day-Lewis, immigrants, laundromat, mistress, Pakistanis, poverty, racism, racists, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field, Stephen Frears, Stephen Marcus, Working Title Films

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