Movies, Mom & Me

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  • Infernal Affairs
      

    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Andy Lau	Sr Inspr Lau Kin-ming	Edison Chen	Young Lau Kin-ming	Tony Leung	Chan Wing-yan	Shawn Yue	Young Chan Wing-yan

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of this film.
      Release Date: 2002
      Directed by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak.
  
  
  • Infernal Affairs II
      

    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Anthony Wong	Wong Chi-shing	Eric Tsang	Hon Sam	Carina Lau	Mary Sam	Francis Ng	Ngai Wing-hau

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of this film.
      Release Date: 2003
      Directed by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak.
  
  
  • Infernal Affairs III
      

    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Andy Lau	Sr Inspr Lau Kin-Ming	Edison Chen	Young Lau Kin-Ming	Tony Leung	Chan Wing-Yan	Shawn Yue	Young Chan Wing-Yan

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of this film.
      Release Date: 2003
      Directed by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak.
  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film series.
    Release Date: 2002, 2003
    Directed by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak.

Labels: §5, Criterion5, detective1, neo-noirB

# posted by gail @ 11:05    0 comments    email......this post

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    I recently acquired this movie through one of those "I can't believe it" half off sales that Barnes & Noble occasionally launches. It was a movie on my Movies I've Seen, Do Not Own but Can't Forget list. Immediately below is what I said about my interest in this movie in that post.
    "For clarification, since there are several movies named 'Cure', or 'The Cure', this movie is the Japanese production written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This is a movie I haven't yet seen. In fact, I didn't even know of its existence until yesterday, 11/24/2021. It's a movie that was named as a favorite by Bong Joon-Ho (whose work I happen to be fascinated by, at the moment) in an interview that took place at a showing of Snowpiercer soon after it was released. [Yes, I know, I haven't really written up Snowpiercer yet, but that's because I watched it just yesterday, 11/24/2021, so, if you're interested, stay tuned.]
    "The premise, according to Bong Joon-Ho and the little information I've been able to glean about it, sounds intriguing, wildly mysterious and horrific, kind of like Midsommar; a type of horror movie right up my alley. I'm so curious about it. Maybe, during the holiday season, the one site at which I found it will drop the price for a bit, fingers crossed. I'm definitely going to check it out tomorrow.
    "Once again, I'm surprised that Criterion hasn't yet taken on the challenge of reproducing and distributing this movie. Although their editions are very pricey, this is one movie for which I'd be glad to pay, even at Criterion prices, especially because of their stellar treatment of movies on which they focus."
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Kōji Yakusho	Takabe	Masato Hagiwara	Mamiya	Tsuyoshi Ujiki	Sakuma	Anna Nakagawa	Takabe's wife
  Yoriko Dōguchi	Dr. Akiko Miyajima	Yukijirō Hotaru	Ichiro Kuwano	Denden	Oida	Ren Osugi	Fujiwara

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1997
    Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Labels: §5, Criterion5, horror2, psychological2, thriller3

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    Link to interview with director about this film.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Adrian Titieni	Romeo Aldea	Maria Drăguș	Eliza Aldea	Lia Bugnar	Magda	Mălina Manovici	Sandra

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 2016
    Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Labels: §5, Criterion4, tragedy2

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Joan Fontaine	2nd Mrs. de Winter	Laurence Olivier	George Fortescue Maximilian de Winter	Judith Anderson	Mrs. Danvers	George Sanders	Jack Favell
  Reginald Denny	Frank Crawley	Gladys Cooper	Beatrice Lacy	C. Aubrey Smith	Colonel Julyan	Nigel Bruce	Mjr Giles Lacy

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1940
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Labels: §5, alfred-hitchcock, Criterion4, film-noir1, melodramaA, psychological2, thriller3

# posted by gail @ 08:20    0 comments    email......this post

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    More information about this movie at this link.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  M’Bissine Thérèse Diop	Diouana	Anne-Marie Jelinek	Madame	Robert Fontaine	Monsieur	Toto Bissainthe	Diouana's voice

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1966
    Directed by Ousmane Sembène.

Labels: §5, colonialism, Criterion4, social-hierarchy

# posted by gail @ 07:45    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Sanjuro Tsubaki	Tatsuya Nakadai	Hanbei Muroto	Yūzō Kayama	Iori Izaka	Reiko Dan	Chidori
  Takashi Shimura	Kurofuji	Kamatari Fujiwara	Takebayashi	Takako Irie	Mutsuta's wife	Sachio Sakai	Ashigaru

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1962
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: §5, akira-kurosawa, Criterion4, samurai, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Kuwabatake Sanjuro	Eijirō Tōno	Gonji	Tatsuya Nakadai	Unosuke	Kyū Sazanka	Ushitora

  
    One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1961
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: §5, akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, samurai, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Matthew K. Lane	John Green	Coral Fiedler	Natalie Ghoulson	R. Scott Purdy	Bradford Guinness	Guy Wicke	Hodges
  Shane Rhoades	Tim Thompson	Jennifer Cheung	Evelyn	Max Fabian	Greasy Dude	Erin Ellagood	Cheating Wife
  William Ellagood	Cheating Husband	Vito Glazers	Accountant	Kat Bäckstrom	Receptionist	Serge Bodnarchuk	Man with No Taste

  
    Here's a link to the FilmiFeed write-up of the film. Wikipedia doesn't have a write-up of it, yet.
    Release Date: 2017
    Directed by Serge Bodnarchuk.

Labels: §5, detective1, dramedy3, goflexB

# posted by gail @ 08:40    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Michael Caine	John Preston	Pierce Brosnan	Major Valeri Alekseyevich Petrofsky/James Edward Ross	Ned Beatty	General Pavel Petrovich Borisov	Joanna Cassidy	Irina Vassilievna
  Julian Glover	Brian Harcourt-Smith	Michael Gough	Sir Bernard Hemmings	Ray McAnally	General Yevgeny Sergeyevich Karpov	Ian Richardson	Sir Nigel Irvine
  Anton Rodgers	George Berenson	Caroline Blakiston	Angela Berenson	Joseph Brady	Carmichael	Matt Frewer	Tom McWhirter

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1987
    Directed by John Mackenzie.

Labels: §5, goflexA, michael-caine, ned-beatty, nuclear, spy, thriller3

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Jeffrey Falcon	Buddy	Justin McGuire	The Kid	Stephane Gauger	Death	Lex Lang	Voice of Death

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1998
    Directed by Lance Mungia.

Labels: §5, apocalyptic, comedy3, goflexB, nuclear, satire3

# posted by gail @ 15:46    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Ed Flanders	John Woodley	Kathryn Walker	Susan Myles	Christopher Allport	Steven Levitt	David Clennon	Dr. Bruce Lyman
  Rosalind Cash	Frieda Barton	Roxanne Hart	Megan Barclay	David Rasche	Dr. David McKeeson	Lane Smith	Morton Sanders
  Ebbe Roe Smith	Jim Seaver	Roberta Maxwell	Diane Silverman	George Morfogen	Dr. Morse Mansfield	Michael Madsen	Jimmy Lenox

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1983
    Directed by Edward Zwick.

Labels: §5, goflexB, michael-madsen, nuclear, tragedy2, TV3

# posted by gail @ 15:23    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Peggy Ashcroft	Hilda Bloggs	John Mills	Jim Bloggs	Robin Houston	Radio 4 Announcer
  James Russell	Additional Voice	David Dundas	Additional Voice	Matt Irving	Additional Voice

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1986
    Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami.

Labels: §5, animated, apocalyptic, goflexC, nuclear, tragedy2

# posted by gail @ 14:31    0 comments    email......this post

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    No, I'm not a Mormon, nor anything religious, for that matter, but I am always curious about religious movies, including those that are promotional. Although I haven't yet seen this one, from what I've read about it, it is surely promotional of the LDS faith. That should be fun! Of course, I'll report back.
    BTW, although the review attached to the title of this post is of the 2016 remake of the original play and this movie is a filmed version of a 1989 stage production, the review is interesting and revealing about the play, regardless of how it was made. It was also the most complete review I could find, and, a big plus, it's by a querulous Mormon.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Erik Hickenlooper	Jimmy	Cori Jacobsen	Julie	Davison Cheney	Tod	Bart Hickenlooper	Wally
  D.L. Walker	Harold Greene	Marianne Thompson	Pam	Marvin Payne	Dad	Gay Parvis	Mom

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1989
    Directed by Bob Williams.

Labels: §5, goflexB, popcorn-and-soda7, religion2

# posted by gail @ 13:45    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Jennifer Jones	Ruby Gentry	Charlton Heston	Boake Tackman	Karl Malden	Jim Gentry	Tom Tully	Jud Corey
  Barney Phillips	Dr. Saul Manfred/Narrator	James Anderson	Jewel Corey	Josephine Hutchinson	Letitia Gentry	Phyllis Avery	Tracy McAuliffe
  Herbert Heyes	Judge Tackman	Myra Marsh	Ma Corey	Charles Cane	Cullen McAuliffe	Sam Flint	Neil Fallgren

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1952
    Directed by King Vidor.

Labels: §5, charlton-heston, goflexB, karl-malden, melodramaB, romance5, southern-gothic, tragedy2

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Ellen Burstyn	Edna Mae McCauley	Jeffrey DeMunn	Joseph McCauley	Roberts Blossom	John Harper	Eva Le Gallienne	Grandma Pearl
  Lois Smith	Kathy	Sam Shepard	Cal Carpenter	Richard Hamilton	Reverend Earl Carpenter	Richard Farnsworth	Esco Brown

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1980
    Directed by Daniel Petrie.

Labels: §5, ellen-burstyn, goflexB, lois-smith, psychological2, reflective, religion2, sam-shepard

# posted by gail @ 12:41    0 comments    email......this post

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    This is about the Soviet war drama released in four installments from 1966-67. The cast is huge. I should probably treat it as a series in four parts, thus being able to highlight more cast members and commentary specific to each part. Stay tuned for that.
    The director of each part of the series, by the way, is the same for the entire series. That information is reflected in the final Wikipedia link at the very bottom of this write-up.
  
    Part I - Andrei Bolkonsky
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Sergei Bondarchuk	Pierre Bezukhov	Vyacheslav Tikhonov	Andrei Bolkonsky	Nikolai Tolkachyov	Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov	Boris Zakhava	Mikhail Kutuzov
  Irina Skobtseva	Hélène Kuragina	Oleg Yefremov	Fyodor Dolokhov	Vasily Lanovoy	Anatole Kuragin	Anastasiya Vertinskaya	Lisa Bolkonskaya

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of Part I.
    Release Date:1966
  
    Part II - Natasha Rostova
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Ludmila Savelyeva	Natasha Rostova	Vyacheslav Tikhonov	Andrei Bolkonsky	Anatoly Ktorov	Nikolai Bolkonsky	Vasily Lanovoy	Anatole Kuragin

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of Part II.
    Release Date: 1966
  
    Part III - The Year 1812
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Boris Zakhava	Mikhail Kutuzov	Vladislav Strzhelchik	Napoleon	Vyacheslav Tikhonov	Andrei Bolkonsky	Sergei Bondarchuk	Pierre Bezukhov

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of Part III.
    Release Date: 1967
  
    Part IV - Pierre Bezukhov
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Viktor Stanitsyn	Ilya Rostov	Ludmila Savelyeva	Natasha Rostova	Vyacheslav Tikhonov	Andrei Bolkonsky	Sergei Bondarchuk	Pierre Bezukhov

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of Part IV.
    Release Date: 1967
  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the entire series.
    Release Date: 1966-67
    Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.

Labels: §5, Criterion4, dramaF, historical4, period7, romance5, violence5, war3

# posted by gail @ 20:58    0 comments    email......this post

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    Roger Ebert christened this movie as one of his Great Movies.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Cary Grant	T. R. Devlin	Ingrid Bergman	Alicia Huberman	Claude Rains	Alexander Sebastian	Leopoldine Konstantin	Madame Anna Sebastian
  Louis Calhern	Cpt. Paul Prescott	Reinhold Schünzel	Dr. Anderson	Moroni Olsen	Walter Beardsley	Ivan Triesault	Eric Mathis
  Alexis Minotis	Joseph, butler	Wally Brown	Mr. Hopkins	Sir Charles Mendl	Commodore	Ricardo Costa	Dr. Julio Barbosa
  Eberhard Krumschmidt	Emil Hupka	Fay Baker	Ethel	Bea Benaderet	File Clerk	Friedrich von Ledebur	Knerr

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1946
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Labels: §5, alfred-hitchcock, cary-grant, claude-rains, Criterion4, film-noir2, ingrid-bergman, melodramaB, spy, thriller3

# posted by gail @ 20:29    0 comments    email......this post

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  Commentary:  Under construction. For the full TCM write-up, click into the beginning of the article featured at the link in the title of this post.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Chang Chen	Xiao Si'r	Chang Kuo-chu	Xiao Si'r's father	Elaine Jin	Xiao Si'r's mother	Lisa Yang	Ming
  Wong Chi-zan	Cat (Wang Mao)	Lawrence Ko	Airplane	Tan Chih-kang	Ma	Lin Hong-ming	Honey
  Hung-Yu Chen	Sly	Wang Chuan	Xiao Si'r's eldest sister	Chang Han	Lao Er (elder brother)	Chiang Hsiu-chiung	Xiao Si'r's middle sister
  Stephanie Lai	Xiao Si'r's youngest sister	Ming-Hsin Chang	Underpants	Chun-Lung Jung	Bomber	Hui-Kuo Chou	Tiger

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1991
    Directed by Edward Yang.

Labels: §5, Criterion4, political5, violence5

# posted by gail @ 17:29    0 comments    email......this post

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  Commentary:  This film is included as a Special Feature with Blow Out. I just found this out (9/23/22). It came as a surprise to me, so I have not yet watched it. The film is talked about as "25" in a list of De Palma films (with short reviews for each film) at the link attached to the title of this post. More later.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Andra Akers	Tracy	William Finley	Otto	Margo Norton	Karen	Jared Martin	Chris
  Ken Burrows	Wiley	Jennifer Salt	Bird	Lorenzo Catlett	Policeman	Jack L. Harrell	Salesman

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1968
    Directed by Brian De Palma.

Labels: §5, brian-de-palma

# posted by gail @ 17:46    0 comments    email......this post

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  Commentary:  I saw this movie a long time ago, shortly after I became my mother's companion, during the period when she and I pursued our separate lives (mine included work, at that time) and lived together for her emotional comfort and to my enjoyment (my mother and I have been friends since I was a young adult). I didn't see it when it was first released, but a few years later at an art house theater. My memory of it is fuzzy, but my memory of my reaction to it has been very clear ever since that viewing. I think of it as a kind of Dazed and Confused for the "more mature" set. Since I began to investigate my mother's collection of movies on DVD, I've sporadically tried to hunt it down, not knowing if it had even been burnt to disc. Suddenly, today, as it turns out, I watched this video by Daisuke Beppu and, low an behold, there was my movie! Not only that, but he talked about not only the most recent release, but the old one with a booklet of Raymond Chandler's short stories, the edition for which I've been searching all these years!
    Criterion no longer carries their original release of this film (with the booklet). The last place I considered looking was Amazon, but when I ran a search through my favored search engine, that's where it turned up! It's winging it's way to me, as I write, and should arrive a week from tomorrow. Its page indicates that the movie, itself, is "new", which I didn't expect at all, so I'm very excited!
    I have to admit, it's more expensive than the movies I usually buy, but not for a Criterion movie (which I only buy during sales at reduced prices from other places besides Criterion) but, frankly, I consider its price a bargain, considering everything. It is still cheaper than your average, off-sale price of a Criterion movie sold at the Criterion website.
    It's done in what has become known as Robert Altman's style (like Nashville, which I own and love and watch semi-regularly). As is true of a typical Robert Altman work, it features loads of actors, famous, not-so-famous and infamous, and sets each of them in situations which play to their acting strengths. There is an overall "theme", but not like Nashville.
    It's been a long, long time since I've seen it, so watching it will be akin to my memory surprising me over and over. I'll be back, later, to catalog my reaction to seeing it again.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Andie MacDowell	Ann Finnigan	Bruce Davison	Howard Finnigan	Julianne Moore	Marian Wyman	Matthew Modine	Dr. Ralph Wyman
  Anne Archer	Claire Kane	Fred Ward	Stuart Kane	Jennifer Jason Leigh	Lois Kaiser	Chris Penn	Jerry Kaiser
  Lili Taylor	Honey Piggot Bush	Robert Downey Jr.	Bill Bush	Madeleine Stowe	Sherri Shepard	Tim Robbins	Gene Shepard
  Lily Tomlin	Doreen Piggot	Tom Waits	Earl Piggot	Frances McDormand	Betty Weathers	Peter Gallagher	Stormy Weathers
  Annie Ross	Tess Trainer	Lori Singer	Zoe Trainer	Jack Lemmon	Paul Finnigan	Lyle Lovett	Andy Bitkower
  Buck Henry	Gordon Johnson	Huey Lewis	Vern Miller	Charles Rocket	Wally Littleton	Michael Beach	Jim Stone

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1993
    Directed by Robert Altman.

Labels: §5, Criterion4, dramedy3, jennifer-jason-leigh, julianne-moore, matthew-modine, robert-altman, robert-downey-jr, tim-robbins

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