Let me start by saying I’m not that much of
a film buff. I do watch a few movies here and there, and some of these below I
may have watched some time ago, not like this week or anything! Some are fairly
modern, some are not. But I highly recommend all of the following…
This is one of those claymation efforts,
like Wallace and Gromit, though it’s not for kids, well, young kids anyway.
Brilliantly funny, amazingly animated, and a true story. It’s narrated by Barry
Humphries, who you may know better as Edna Everidge. Mary is a young girl in Melbourne, who
decides, at random, to write to a stranger in the USA.
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
This is a TV movie about the Sobibor Death Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in WW2, with Rutger Hauer and Alan Arkin - both solid actors,. Way better than your usual made-for-TV productions, it pulls no punches about the bleakness and harsh realities of a death camp in WW2. Hardly cheerful, but very good. Unavailable on DVD I believe, but it’s downloadable, and also the whole thing is on YouTube.
Match Point (2005)
Written and directed by Woody Allen, though not a comedy, and not the kind of movie you’d typically associate with him. A dialogue driven thriller, full of twists and turns, with a great finale. In my opinion a good movie starts and ends with a good script. This is one of those movies.
This is a TV movie about the Sobibor Death Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in WW2, with Rutger Hauer and Alan Arkin - both solid actors,. Way better than your usual made-for-TV productions, it pulls no punches about the bleakness and harsh realities of a death camp in WW2. Hardly cheerful, but very good. Unavailable on DVD I believe, but it’s downloadable, and also the whole thing is on YouTube.
Match Point (2005)
Written and directed by Woody Allen, though not a comedy, and not the kind of movie you’d typically associate with him. A dialogue driven thriller, full of twists and turns, with a great finale. In my opinion a good movie starts and ends with a good script. This is one of those movies.
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
As bleak a movie as you will ever see, and mesmerising with it. It’s about the sex trade - not a fun topic. Set in Estonia, and all in Russian, this gives an insight to everyday life in a poorer part of Eastern Europe, and what fate might bring if you take a wrong turn. Very, VERY grim from start to finish, but spellbinding and heart-wrenching nonetheless. Incidentally, despite the subject matter, there’s barely any nudity in this movie; having said that, it’s definitely not for the faint hearted, easily offended, or youngsters. It will stick in your head for days.
As bleak a movie as you will ever see, and mesmerising with it. It’s about the sex trade - not a fun topic. Set in Estonia, and all in Russian, this gives an insight to everyday life in a poorer part of Eastern Europe, and what fate might bring if you take a wrong turn. Very, VERY grim from start to finish, but spellbinding and heart-wrenching nonetheless. Incidentally, despite the subject matter, there’s barely any nudity in this movie; having said that, it’s definitely not for the faint hearted, easily offended, or youngsters. It will stick in your head for days.
Yes that does say 1944! I saw this a few months
ago as it’s listed on IMDb’s Top 250 at number 54 – i.e. very highly regarded,
and rightly so. Walter is an insurance salesman, and an ‘average Joe’, who has
an affair, and together they plot to kill her husband and collect the
insurance. It has one of those jaw dropping plot twists in the middle which I
love. A great movie, with wisecracking 1940s dialogue all the way through,
which, if I’m honest, dates the movie terribly, but even that cannot detract
from a masterpiece.
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