Made In England (2024)

 

MADE IN ENGLAND  (2024)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: David Hinton

Martin Scorsese plays tour guide on a journey through the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who teamed up in the 1940s on a series of movies that combined a groundbreaking use of Technicolor with undercurrents of mysticism. Clips from "A Matter of Life and Death", "Black Narcissus" and "The Red Shoes", intercut with shots from "Mean Streets", "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull", show the direct influence the Powell & Pressburger films had on Scorsese, who first started watching them as a kid on a black-and-white TV. He's been watching them ever since. 

Telefon (1977)

 

TELEFON  (1977)  ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Don Siegel

    Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasance

    Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee, Sheree North,

    Frank Marth, Helen Page Camp, Iggie Wolfington

Passable pulp spy stuff with Charles Bronson as a Russian agent dispatched to the States to stop a rogue KBG official from starting World War Three. The credibility quotient is not high, but Don Siegel brings it off with his usual efficiency, and Tyne Daly steals a scene or two as a computer analyst with the CIA. Stirling Siliphant worked on the script. 

The Crime Is Mine (2023)

 

THE CRIME IS MINE  (2023)  ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: François Ozon

    Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert,

    Fabric Luchini, Dany Boon, André Dussollier

When a starving actress is accused of murder, her flatmate, an equally hungry lawyer, defends her in court. Which is just the beginning of this screwball comedy, a period social satire with a distinctly feminist edge. It can't quite sustain the pace it starts out with, but the actors pull you along. If you aren't completely fluent in French, be ready to read subtitles real fast. 

Screen Test / Take 22

 Match the  following music performers 

with the movies they acted in:

                                         1. Mick Jagger

                                         2. Elvis Presley

                                         3. Joan Jett

                                         4. Art Garfunkel

                                         5. k.d. lang

                                         6. Bob Dylan

                                         7. Marianne Faithfull

                                         8. David Bowie

                                         9. Madonna

                                       10. Ringo Starr

                              a. "Light of Day"

                              b. "The Magic Christian"

                              c. "The Man Who Fell to Earth"

                              d. "Ned Kelly"

                              e. "Shanghai Surprise"

                              f.  "Carnal Knowledge"

                              g. "The Girl On the Motorcycle"

                              h. "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid"

                              i.  "Salmonberries"

                              j.  "Flaming Star"

ANDSWERS:

1-d / 2-j / 3-a / 4-f / 5-i / 6-h / 7-g / 8-c / 9-e / 10-b

Into the Mud (2016)

 

INTO THE MUD  (2016)  ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Pablo Pastor

    Maris Forqué, Ramón G. del Pomer

A woman wakes up on the edge of a forest, naked and covered in dirt. She slips away into the trees and a hunter with a rifle goes after her. She lures him into a pond and there's a surprise. 

Frankenstein (1952)

 

FRANKENSTEIN  (1952)  ¢ ¢

    D: Don Medford

    John Newland, Lon Chaney, Mary Alice Moore,

    Peggy Allenby, Raymond Bramley, Farrell Pelly

A rarely screened, half-hour, kinescope version of the classic horror tale, shot fast and cheap and performed live for the "Tales of Tomorrow" television series. Guess who plays the Monster?

Incident By a Bank (2010)

 

INCIDENT BY A BANK  (2010)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Ruben Östlund

    Bahador Foladi, Ramtin Parvaneh, Leif Edlund,

    Rasmus Lindgren, Henrik Vikman, Per Olaf Albrektsson

A movie about a failed bank robbery, done in a single 12-minute take (shot outside the bank) and apparently based on an actual incident. It plays like a documentary. The action looks real. The choreography is neatly worked out.