Letterboxd — Your life in film

This film is soooooo heavy-handed thematically, which ruins the otherwise great look and feel of the film. If you listen to them, the conversations are (usually) far more important than the violence, and they should've been allowed to do most of the heavy lifting. The Pitt/Jenkins scenes provide a nice comedic element while at the same time reinforce the theme far more than blaring TV and radio reports on the economy. This should've been great.

I often complain about movies that are too long, but here's one that would've benefited from a longer running time. Some interesting directorial decisions, plus Cromwell would return to a prison setting in 1950 for CAGED, although that film has far more prison sequences than this one. ANN VICKERS is definitely worth a look.

If only the script had been better... Most everything else works in this, especially the cast. Carole Lombard is certainly given it her all.

The script is pretty pedestrian, but the cast does remarkably well with it. Beverly Garland does some good work with the one scene she's given that has some teeth. Although he's uncredited here, the film includes a good Jack Lambert appearance.

Revisiting this for the first time I saw it in theaters in 1986. A brilliant decision to remake the original from 1958. While the clothes and hair are all '80s, everything else about the film holds up wonderfully.

I hope to write a full review of this one, a film with several strengths, but also several weaknesses.

This was bonkers, but I had a great time with it.

Review forthcoming at Video Librarian:
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I can't remember the last time I experienced a three-hour film that moved so rapidly. There's so much to unpack here, but doing so will probably involve another viewing in a theater better equipped to handle the sound than the venue I attended. My initial worry that Nolan was simply going to cliche himself for three hours was put to rest sometime during that first hour, again, something I plan to explore in an upcoming review. See it on the largest screen you can with the best sound system you can find.

I have no idea what to do, think, or say about this movie, but I will definitely watch it again, maybe while hypnotized.