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Cool Hand Luke (Warners, Blu)... One of the finest studio pictures of the 60's, Paul Newman plays the irrespressible world-shaker Lucas Jackson, sent down for 2 years hard labour at a Southern prison farm... Directed with considerable flair by Stuart Rosenberg, and featuring reams of quotable Southern dialogue, the film is one of the great ensemble dramas - among the mulletheaded cons look out Dennis Hopper, Luke Askew (Easy Rider), Clifton James (Man With the Golden Gun), Anthony Zerbe (Omega Man), Warren Finnerty (The Connection) and Joe Don Baker (Walking Tall), and there's particularly fine work from Strother Martin as the Captain who bags one of the most famous lines in Cinema, an early appearance from Harry Dean Stanton who sings the blues, and career best performances from Paul Newman and George Kennedy who won a well deserved Oscar. Much has been made of the film's religious undertones, but Newman's existentialist hero is closer in spirit to Robert Duvall's THX-1138 and Jack Nicholson's Randle P. McMurphy, another loner rallying against the conformity of a soulless repressive soceity. Essential viewing.
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Also just watched: The Killer Must Kill Again - George Hilton hires Bez from the Happy Mondays to kill his wife. Hilarity ensues when two horny teems steal the car with the corpse in the boot! Luigi Cozzi directs this competent and worthy giallo which features a really disturbing sequence intercutting scenes of rape and consensual sex. Although it would have been nice to have focused more on Hilton's character under suspicion for his wife's disappearance it's still a great giallo. |
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Yeah, he does so now every time I watch The Beyond, I'm gonna have Kinky Afro in my head
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TYRANNOSAUR - Disturbing expose of the bleak side of Leeds (if another side exists, let me know). Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman give acute performances as two lost souls reaching out to one another amidst the wreckage of their lives. The abuse Colman endures at the hands of her husband (played by the brilliant Eddie Marsan) is really upsetting to behold. 'Tyrannosaur' conjures a grey vista of charity shops, dead end pubs, harsh estates and the homes of the dying that is powerful and real, but the pain (past and present) of its central characters is what registers most intensely. When I first saw it, I thought the events of the final reel were a little de trop, but on rewatching Olivia's 'secret' didn't seem too excessive, as dramatic as it is / was. 'Tyrannosaur' is an excellent film. It documents the ravages of cyclical abuse and the agony wrought whilst offering a glimpse of something less easy than redemption. Like a yorkshire Abel Ferrara doing Mike Leigh. Totally recommended.
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