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In Peter O'Toole they found a much more striking eponymous villain than Derrick de Marney but in every other sense it is the monochrome 'forties version that gives me the stronger pleasure.
But from the vantage point of someone who isn't horrified by incorrect costumes and hairstyles, I thought this was an excellent movie with many striking scenes.
It's an interesting curio for film buffs, and there are some striking images, but don't kid yourself; this isn't even remotely what Welles would have created.
The acting was solid throughout with wonderful performances by the Polish brothers and a luminous Michele Hicks, but even more striking to my mind was the intelligence and thoughtfulness of the script, the evocation of grief and loneliness and the candor of the film's portrayal of at least a portion of the conjoined twin's experiences.
It is a striking and original portrayal of both intimacy and isolation.
It includes little-seen film footage of the pre-World War II years, and striking images throughout.
Filled with striking characters and cunning plot twists, this film keeps you on your toes.
In addition, the striking images of prison life juxtaposed with girls at play are a powerful reminder of the film's for problematic.
The most striking thing is the sets used.
Striking a balance between too childish and too wrapped up in your own irony is a tough gig and I think Freak Out just sails wide of the bullseye.
Also you always have to be careful about flashbacks piled upon flashbacks, the way this baby kept stacking them up: another movie that revolves around a disappearance, though without a single flashback, and gets it effects a lot more successfully , L"Aventura, in fact there are certain parallels that are fairly striking, even down to the girl friend and boy friend of the gone one winding up in each others arms, though one is a masterpiece, mostly, and this one a mismash.
Kate Winslet however turns in her usual striking performance.
worth noting is uma thurman's striking portrayal of june miller.
What is striking, it is to see the life gradually escaping the character literally from film.
And testimony's of the torturers are striking of refusal.
The striking motif of self-destruction in this movie is similar to the one that exists in the Balkan and beautifully presented in some Kusturica movies, so despite the Irish environment, the director's (Goran Paskaljevic from Serbia) origin is clearly felt.
The most striking independent feature seen by this reviewer since Reflections Of Evil, the interrogatively titled ? shares some themes in common with that earlier film.
It's not the "Irish Rocky" - despite sporting some very striking similarities in the plot, Danny never really fills you with much confidence.
And even the animation didn't seem as bold or striking as it was in the first movie, with fewer bold choices like the "Beethoven" montage from that movie.
Most Fleischer shorts were quite visually striking, to be sure, but Betty Boop only had one color cartoon-this one.
It's a shame that A&E's pitifully-edited version of Framed is the only one most American audiences have seen; for it showcases one of Timothy Dalton's most striking performances.
The realism is striking, especially in scenes which depict illness or poverty, and the tenderness in the relationships between the characters (or the harshness in some cases) is a feat not often achieved in family television drama.
A notable performance by African-American actor Canada Lee is striking - considering this is 1947 and is treated as an equal by the white actors.
There are some striking, disturbing visuals, like when Moore does some kinky posing with mannequins for a photographer.
The final image of the movie is striking, a reaffirmation of Mendy's religious roots despite his abandonment of the Hasidic way of life.
The cinematography is striking.
First of all I love pretty explicit and audacious lesbian vampire flick "Vampyres"(1974),but more rare and obscure "Symptoms" is even better and certainly different in tone.It's a very subtle,calm and restrained horror film with plenty of mysterious atmosphere.Helen Ramsey arrives back from Switzerland to her old-fashioned family home,accompanied by a friend Ann West.It quickly becomes clear that Helen suffers from a nervous disposition.At night both Helen and Ann hear voices in the house and Helen seems convinced that there is something in the attic,a trap door to which is in the ceiling in a corner of her room."Symptoms" is a genuinely frightening horror film about a woman slowly slipping completely into madness.The cinematography is striking,the interior sets are terrifyingly dark and the acting by Angela Pleasence is fantastic.I fell in love with this film and can't praise it enough.
Lynch's segment is magnificently skillful and striking, with a potted narrative of police, a 50's style family, and a bunch of space aliens holding a captive woman - it's almost as effective as the whole of Lost Highway and utterly distinctive.
Trying to con Harry Canyon in futuristic New York City ("big deal"), striking a deal with Den, having sex with a robot (or, as he puts it, using "mechanical assistance"), bribing Hanover Fiste to testify on your behalf in court, praying for Taarna to save you.
Cooper is, as always, a breathtakingly beautiful man but he spends a great deal of this film striking "attitudes" and pursing and pouting his lips in a way I've never seen him do in any other movie.
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