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  ivans xtc. 2000

  ★★★½ Watched by MovingPictures 17 Jun 2022

  IVANSXTC (2000) colour US 94m.
  Directed by Bernard Rose.

  Cast: Danny Huston, Peter Weller, Joanne Duckman, Lisa Enos, Valeria Golino, Victoria Silvstedt ao.

  TAGLINE:
  There's a fine line between success and excess!

  This film is actually a contemporary Hollywood version of Hollywood, bizarrely enough, based of the russian novella: "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886) by Lev Tolstoy.

  I have to confess that it was much harsher than I expected, but it also turned out much more fascinating than expected.…

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  Evil Roy Slade 1972

  ★★★½ Rewatched by MovingPictures 02 Jun 2022

  EVIL ROY SLADE (1972) US colour 94m.
  Directed by Jerry Paris.

  This was a rewatch. It is actually a zany american TV-film that trancends the cheesiness and vulgarity and becomes really enjoyable. You have to love Gomez Addams in the main role as a brutish gangleader in a wild west setting. Mickey Rooney is a vengeful tycoon who sends for a killer (Dick Shawn), who show up like a cross of Liberace and Bob Hope.
  Henry Gibson is Mickey Rooney's…

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  A Tale of Springtime 1990

  ★★★★ Watched by MovingPictures 01 Jan 2016 6

  COMPLETELY ENCHANTING

  Much talk.
  Nothing really happens.
  In the end nothing has changed.
  Perhaps!

  Colour code: definitely blue.

  I have loved every encounter with the cinema of Eric Rohmer this far.

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  The Thing From Another World 1951

  ★★★★ Watched by MovingPictures 21 Jul 2016 4

  KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!

  Rewatch 2016-07-21.

  The last time I watched this, several years ago, I thought it was a nice OLD horror story; entertaining but obviously old-looking.

  This time I was really surprised how well-paced, interesting and fast-flowing it felt. It works very well in 2016 as well as it must have done in 1951.
  WHAT A JOYFUL WATCH it is even now!

  Credited directors are Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks.
  Kenneth Tobey and Margaret Sheridan have top billing.…