opinion: Al (Dureya) loves Connie (Hughes), his wife. Flamarion (Stroheim) loves guns and Connie, his working assistant. Connie loves Eddie (Barclay), her lover and Flamarion´s money. Connie suggests and Flamarion kills Al, his working assistant, so he run away with her. However Connie the widow, with Flamarion´s money in her pocket, runs away ... with Eddie. Then Flamarion left alone and ruined … Continue reading The Great Flamarion (1945)
Category: Suspense
opinion: He looks like a gentleman. He behaves like a gentleman. He gambles like a gentleman. He is a broken gentleman. He is a gentleman-gangster. He is police-friend-gangster. Off course you hope that everything goes well for Bob (even the robbery), since he is a very nice guy. You don´t care about right or wrong. You … Continue reading Bob, Le Flambeur (1956)
opinion: Practically Nolan´s first thriller with borrowed USD 6.000 from his friends and I really hope they got their money back. What seems to be obvious it´s not obvious at all. After a while you still looking for film start point since it´s floating around. You lucky if you manage to find out where it starts … Continue reading Following (1998)
Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged. To inspect it, she talks Ted into accepting a gameport in his own body so he can play the game with her. The events leading up to this, and the resulting game lead the pair on a strange adventure where reality and their actions are impossible to determine from either their own or the game's perspective.;
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply.
"... I’m going through a Hitchcockian period; every week I go and see again two or three of those films of his that have been reissued; there’s no doubt at all, he’s the greatest, the most complete, the most illuminating, the most beautiful, the most powerful, the most experimental and the luckiest; he’s been touched by a kind of grace. François Truffaut, letter, 1961 ..."
It´s only a movie, he used to say! I got scared when I watched "The Birds" for the first time. I think I was 12 or 13 years old by the time. But somehow I got fascinated how this guy could produce this kind of fear on a black and white movie, when everybody wants Technicolor. … Continue reading Sir Alfred Hitchcock on my movie library
opinion: What to expect a noir with Victor Mature as top billed name? A good and entertaining filme-noir for a Saturday afternoon 🙂 Body count: only 4. A noir in Technicolor, wide screen, small town life and violence the way they never expected. Recommended; rating: 3,0 of 5; when latest: August 3rd 2016; where: S. Paulo, Brazil; quotes: “… … Continue reading Violent Saturday (1955)
Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delight when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies club as well as the bank president where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice some odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local paper about a man who marries and then murders rich widows. When two strangers appear asking questions about him, she begins to imagine the worst about her dearly beloved uncle Charlie.
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
The Movies I have seen! 