faustus: (culture)
( Jul. 29th, 2008 12:30 am)
Three propoganda films, of varying shades. And a film so bad it made Da Davinci Code seem interesting. No really, that bad.

LXXXVI: Destination Tokyo (Delmer Daves, 1943) )
LXXXVII: Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966) )
LXXXVIII: 49th Parallel (Michael Powell, 1941) )
LXXXIX: The Oxford Murders (Álex de la Iglesia, 2008) )

Totals: 89 (Cinema: 33; DVD: 51; TV: 5)
faustus: (cinema)
( May. 22nd, 2008 12:51 am)
Having inexplicably got hold of two free copies of A Matter of Life and Death in the Daily Hate Mail war movie DVD giveaway, I failed to get the other two Powell and Pressburgers. The boxset at a tenner put that right and more - and has all four films from the Top 100 Project.

XLVI: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death (1946) )

XLVII: Michael Powell, They're a Weird Mob (1966) )


Totals: 47 [Cinema: 16; DVD: 29; TV: 2]
faustus: (lights)
( May. 18th, 2008 12:55 pm)
XLI: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death (1945)

Lancaster pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is trying to get his damaged plane back to base, knowing that his undercarriage is damaged and he hasn't got a parachute to bail out in. He makes radio contact with June (Kim Hunter), and decides he will jump - preferring to freeze than burn. However, he survives the fall and meets up with June, an attractive American.

Of course, he has cheated Death, who now comes after the other survivors of the crash, killing them in increasingly elaborate ways because the final face to face between Death and Carter. Much better than the rest of the trilogy.
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