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. 

Wolfs (2024)

 

WOLFS  (2024)  ¢ ¢

    D: Jon Watts

    George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams

Clooney and Pitt play rival cleanup men called in to make a dead body in a luxury hotel suite disappear. It gets more complicated than that, but not in a way that's ever very interesting. Brad and George trade wisecracks throughout, but they don't look like they're enjoying it all that much, and everything about the movie feels old and tired, from the derivative "Pulp Fiction" setup to the recycled "Butch Cassidy" conclusion. Visually, there's an awful lot of darkness. The musical score's not bad. 

Strongroom (1962)

 

STRONGROOM  (1962)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Vernon Sewell

    Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon, Ann Lynn,

    Keith Faulkner, William Morgan Sheppard

Three bank robbers pull off a heist and make their getaway, leaving two people - the bank's manager and his secretary - locked in the vault. They're home free, till they realize it's a holiday weekend, the vault is airtight, and by the time the bank opens on Tuesday morning, those two people will be dead. Not wanting to add murder to their rap sheet, they decide to break back into the bank before it's too late. Implausible, to be sure, but a nifty, little, low-budget thriller starring nobody you've ever heard of, except maybe Derren Nesbitt, who would later play the arrogant Gestapo officer in "Where Eagles Dare". The final closeup shot is both comical and - for the bank robbers - devastating.