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"The train now arriving at platform four is the 5:40 for Churley.
Advantages: Pure classic film
Disadvantages: Those accents!!!
BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
DIRECTED BY DAVID LEAN
REVIEW OF THE 2008 ITV DVD
INTRODUCTION
Continuing my ‘Lean Season’ reviews this latest review is about one of David Lean’s earlier films – ‘Brief Encounter’ released in 1945 The film received Oscar nominations for Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It is at second place in the British Film Institute Top ...
...was the fourth film that David Lean had directed.. As with his first three films, the story was based on a play by Noel Coward. Coward himself worked as a screenwriter and producer on the film.
My geographical claim to fame with this film is that the famous station scene with ‘that’ clock was shot at Carnforth station, Lancashire, which is about 10 miles away from where I live.
I always think of this film as a British ‘Casablanca’, and like ‘Casablanca’ ...
 oldchem 19.08.2009 · Read full review
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"Only two kinds of creatures get fun in the desert."
Advantages: A film in which you can smell, see and feel the desert - perfection.
Disadvantages: Some think it's too long - they are wrong!!
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
DIRECTED BY DAVID LEAN
INTRODUCTION
Anyone who has been following my recent film and DVD reviews (and if you have, thank you!!) would be forgiven for thinking that this was David Lean season!! David Lean has produced so many of my favourite films and is without doubt one of our finest directors. I am nearly at the end (stop cheering) of my reviews of his work - although there are still a couple tucked away ...
...film making ever. Lawrence of Arabia gained a grand total of 7 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Musical Score, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Art Direction) in the Academy Awards ceremony of 1962. This review is about the adaption of Lawrence of Arabia on the Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2 disc DVD released on 9 April 2001 When the original film was made it was 222 minutes long, which is close to 4 hours! ...
oldchem 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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More than met my Expectations
Advantages: Compelling, visual effects, acting and soundtrack
Disadvantages: None
...like.
Great Expectations - The Book
My recollection of the book 'Great Expectations' (by Charles Dickens if there is anyone who doesn't know!) is somewhat hazy, what with GCSEs being 11 years ago and not really paying attention to the book at the time - to be honest I'm not really a fan of Dickens, at least I wasn't at 15. I remember Phillip Pirrip (Pip), Joe Gargery and Mrs Joe. I remember Pip meeting a convict in a graveyard, and being ...
...but beautiful niece Estella. I remember Miss Havisham had been wearing her wedding dress since being jilted at the alter decades before. And, last but not least I remember Magwitch - I mainly remember him because our English teacher who once exclaimed that everything was 'peachy babe' (she was only about 22 and was trying to be 'cool' I think) pronounced his name MagWITCH. There was one incident where the whole class was in absolute fits of laughter ...
marymoose99 14.05.2008 · Read full review
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Sexual Tension… Whew [film only]
Advantages: Intriguing, great acting, stunning scenery
Disadvantages: If you don't like drama films, you might find it too long
A Passage to India [1984]
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In the film which is an almost faithful adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1924), Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) travel to India to visit the latter's son Ronny (Nigel Havers), who is also Miss Quested's fiancé. Ronny works there as a civil magistrate who is surrounded by other English employees, and these prefer to stay secluded in a milieu which they created to ...
...but this experience ends as a rather tragic one for both. They get the chance to meet Dr. Aziz who seems to have a revolutionary spirit that is not satisfied with how the English treat his fellow countrymen. When he talks to these two ladies, he notices that they are different from the rest, or so he thinks, and he invites them to go with him and discover certain mysterious caves in India. Here things take a different turn. They start by visiting ...
 sottovoce82 24.12.2007 · Read full review
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eX-rated Comedy
Advantages: Classic charm
Disadvantages: None
...My only complaint about Blithe Spirit, which is one of my all-time favourite movies, is the lack of extras on the DVD. In truth, this is hardly surprising for a movie made on a relatively low budget way back in 1945. All the main characters and the director (David Lean of Lawrence of Arabia fame) are most likely to be all dead. The playwright, Noel Coward, passed on years ago, leaving behind a wealth of literature. Even the songwriter who wrote the ...
...has left us.
Still, it would not be passed the studio to throw something together, rather than just offering the trailer.
FINALLY
For lovers of the cinema’s golden era, this is one film that you MUST not be without. It has everything for the perfect Sunday afternoon relax after dinner. ...
CRIPPLE 24.02.2004 · Read full review
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