what is the last movie you have watched? (theater, versus, actors)
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A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Brutal, dark and heart wrenching movie. A couple of times I found that I was holding my breath as tears rolled down my cheeks. Difficult scenes to watch but the performances were spectacular. Every character, believable. Christian Bale is amazing.
Thank you Mahrie for bringing this movie to my attention.
Brutal, dark and heart wrenching movie. A couple of times I found that I was holding my breath as tears rolled down my cheeks. Difficult scenes to watch but the performances were spectacular. Every character, believable. Christian Bale is amazing.
Thank you Mahrie for bringing this movie to my attention.
I'm so glad you liked it. Yes, it's hard to watch, but true stories often are, I find. I too need a box of tissues (or a roll of toidy paper ) to watch the movie, but it's a one-of-a-kind picture, in my opinion, and I cannot understand how the Oscar 'crew' could have missed it. Again, I'm so glad that you didn't.
I'd seen it before, but was watching it and taking notes related to a writing project. John Wayne's presence is entertaining, as always. And there are moments of exceptional cinematography in the film - not just the vistas, but the framing of shots, an aspect of film-making I always appreciate.
But other than that, it was unspectacular. It was supposed to be a progressive film for its time in that it noted that maybe, perhaps, not all of the anti-Indian racism of the era was justified. Trying to pass off the Monument Valley shooting location as west Texas always seemed silly to me, and still does. And much of the gunplay is as ridiculous as you see in a modern Die Hard of Schwarzenegger film.
The underlying story of Ethan Edwards does have some appeal. I suppose it was particularly complex for its time.
I'd seen it before, but was watching it and taking notes related to a writing project. John Wayne's presence is entertaining, as always. And there are moments of exceptional cinematography in the film - not just the vistas, but the framing of shots, an aspect of film-making I always appreciate.
But other than that, it was unspectacular. It was supposed to be a progressive film for its time in that it noted that maybe, perhaps, not all of the anti-Indian racism of the era was justified. Trying to pass off the Monument Valley shooting location as west Texas always seemed silly to me, and still does. And much of the gunplay is as ridiculous as you see in a modern Die Hard of Schwarzenegger film.
The underlying story of Ethan Edwards does have some appeal. I suppose it was particularly complex for its time.
The Unforgiven (1960), like The Searchers, is also based on the Alan Le May novel. While The Searchers tells the tale of a white girl, kidnapped by Indians and raised as an Indian, The Unforgiven is about an Indian child found by white ranchers and raised by white men. Directed by John Huston, stars Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn (plays the Indian girl, Burt's sister), Audie Murphy, Lilian Gish. At the end,
Spoiler
when Burt's character finds out Audrey is not his real sister, he talks of marriage!
Popped in 'The Man Who Never a Was'... A finely directed Brit produced WWIi film on how individuals can serve their country in wartime.....and you don't have to be alive to bring it all about.
A really great film starring Clifton Webb, Stephen Boyd and Michael Hordern and the American actress Gloria Grahame. Not a wasted frame!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier director commentary to catch The Punisher Easter egg I just heard about yesterday...
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for bringing this movie to my attention.
) to watch the movie, but it's a one-of-a-kind picture, in my opinion, and I cannot understand how the Oscar 'crew' could have missed it. Again, I'm so glad that you didn't.
