Inglourious Basterds, 2009..
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Inglourious Basterds, 2009..
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Heist, 2001..
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Train Of Events, 1949..
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Peter Finch and Laurence Payne received "and introducing" credits.
Composite melodrama, hinging on a railway crash. It's made up of four complete stories and each, extremely well acted, staged and directed, subtly heighitens the other without becoming detached from the main thread.
Diamond Geezer, 2005.
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The Way Ahead, 1944...
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In the U.K., this was released on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
At the time the movie was made, David Niven, who played a Lieutenant, was a British Army Major serving on operations in World War II. He was a 1930 graduate of Sandhurst, the British Army military academy.
Peter Ustinov, who wrote the film and played the Anglophobic café owner Rispoli, was only a private in the British Army, so to explain his presence on-set to visiting senior officers, he was said to be Major David Niven's batman (officer's servant, a kind of military valet). Ustinov served with the British Army Film Unit for most of the war.
The Third Man, 1949..
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The Vienna Police Dept. has a special unit that is assigned solely to patrol the city's intricate sewer system, as its network of interlocking tunnels make great hiding places for criminals on the run from the law, stolen property, drugs, etc. The "actors" playing police officers in the film were actually off-duty members of that unit.
There are many oblique angles in the movie, where the camera is tilted so the horizon line is not horizontal, to give a feeling of awkwardness and uneasiness (in film theory these are called Dutch Angles). After he saw the movie, William Wyler, a friend of Carol Reed, sent him a spirit level with a note: "Carol, next time you make a picture, just put it on top of the camera, will you?"
During meetings between Graham Greene and Carol Reed with David O. Selznick, Greene was less than impressed with Selznick, who had (according to Selznick's own son) "become something of a parody of himself". Greene later mocked Selznick's dependency, at that stage, on the drug Benzedrine, better known as "speed". Reed also became hooked on Benzedrine while shooting the time-consuming film. Both Reed and Selznick were operating on as little as two hours of sleep a day.
One of the best films ever made in my opinion!Quote:
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yes its up there... very good restored version too. sharp and good tonesQuote:
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