Drama > 1969 Drama

A boy and a bird (Kes)

Advantages: very moving story
Disadvantages: can find any

Kes, is a moving story, about a young boy 15 year old Billy Casper (David Bradley}. Billy finds enjoyment in his hard drab life, through rearing and training his pet kestrel. (Kes). Billy, who is in his final year of School, is about to face the harsh realities of adult hood, and the hard life as a Yorkshire coal miner that is beckoning him. I find the portrayal of his school life to be frightenly accurate, It was so life like, it could have been ...
...Boys Baggy canvass Blue shorts, and who can forget the elasticated front black plimsoll's. Even the portrayal of the teachers was spot on. Tweed jackets, smoking pipes and cigarettes and all seemingly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And the always bullying and slightly insane sports Teachers. Billy also has the daunting task of facing the Employment officer, just the same as I remember them to be like, bloody useless. The film picks up a ...

dreamscancometrue 04.01.2006 · Read full review
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An Arousing, Sensual Film

Advantages: story, cast, script
Disadvantages: see review

...movie. This film is called Women In Love, based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. The setting is 1920's England which involves a free spirited artist named Gudrun(Glenda Jackson) and her sister Ursula(Jenne Linden)who make friends with two men named Gerald(Oliver Reed) and Rupert(Alan Bates). The four friends attend a picnic honoring a pair of newlyweds. The newlyweds suddenly drown in a nearby lake. Gerald and Rupert suddenly decide to participate ...
...out want makes men and women really "tick". This film really explores the sexual relationship of these characters. The cinematography and lighting helped make Reed's and Bates famous nude wrestling match quite exciting in the film. The film Woen In Love becomes an international hit and gets an Oscar win for Jackson. So if you're going to see Women In Love, I suggest you make sure the kids are asleep and see this film as a couple. ...

kagito 29.05.2003 · Read full review
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Hamlet film

Advantages: great story, with great actors
Disadvantages: need to know the background of the story and a bit of old english

I think Kenneth brannagh is the best 'Hamlet' since Mel Gibson, he is very funny, interesting and weird in this production. With Kate winslet as his girlfiend, they both make a good pair as they both turn mad...(not to give the plot away) i would recommend this version to anyone who needs to watch 'hamlet' for school use, private use or any other purpose.... Although every version has a different way of portraying hamlet's character, in my opinion, ...
...is in old english, you should know the background of the story and a bit of old english, otherwise it is easy to understand. I believe it is one of Shakespeare's best plays. It also sticks to the original play very well but in alot of ways it is better. Also, nominated for 4 oscars so then you know its good!! ...

pleasedtohelp 21.01.2007 · Read full review
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Midnight Cowboy : A piece of cinematic genius from all involved

Advantages: Superb acting & directing, highly atmospheric, something for everyone
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...SCREENPLAY: Waldo Salt Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 movie adaptation of James Leo Herlihy’s novel of the same name, and I believe this novel was first published at some point in the early 1960s. My first viewing of the film Midnight Cowboy was in about 1973-ish when it was doing its second cinema run in the UK. I’d recently read the novel, and hadn’t been too impressed with it. I was thus a little dubious as to whether I’d like the movie or not, but ...
...definitely love the film. Midnight Cowboy tells the story of Joe Buck, a young and naïve pseudo cowboy Texan dishwasher who decides to move to New York, having heard that a lot of money can be made there through working as a stud for rich women. Feeling that sex is the only thing he’s ever in his life been good at and thus seeing countless dollar signs in front of his eyes, Joe leaves Texas on a Greyhound bus, dressed in full cowboy gear, carrying ...

CelticSoulSister 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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The Best Tudor Historical Film I have ever seen

Advantages: A fantastic, award winning film which I wish they had showed me when I was studying Tudor history!
Disadvantages: Not watching it, may be a bit ´weepy´for men !

...had had a relationship with Anne Boleyn´s sister, Mary - and then the younger sister Anne returned from the french court. Henry was transfixed, her dark eyes, slim figure and educated manner were something to which he was not accustomed, but more than that he was not accustomed to being refused by any woman. Anne did refuse him, for three long years he chased her, his ardour growing into obsessed love until finally the only option open to him was ...
...death. Henry was sure Anne would bear him the ever longed for son and heir he had waited all his life for. She did not, Anne bore him a girl, Elizabeth, later to become one of our greatest monarchs, Elizabeth I. Henry, although dissapointed, agreed that next time it would be a boy, but began philandering with other women and contemplating how to escape from Anne whom he began to believe had seduced him by witchcraft. Whilst Katherine still lived, ...

dosolivos 17.07.2009 · Read full review
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