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A Matter of Life and Death: Life and Death and So Much More.

A Matter of Life and Death: Life and Death and So Much More.

Released: December 1946 Directed by: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Abraham Sofaer, and Raymond Massey as Abraham Farlan. First time viewing. A Matter of Life and Death is a movie about love, but it also about so much more. Life and death to be sure. The afterlife without theology to gum up the works, but rather humanity as a whole needing to embrace and begin…

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Crossplot: The Forgettable Movie I Can’t Get Out of My Head.

Crossplot: The Forgettable Movie I Can’t Get Out of My Head.

Released: November 1969 Directed By: Alvin Rakoff Cast: Roger Moore, Claudie Lange, Martha Hyer, Alexis Kanner, Derek Francis, Ursula Howells. Bernard Lee. I hadn’t planned on writing anything about Crossplot beyond my blurb on Twitter (I refuse to call it ‘X’) and Letterboxd, referring to the film ultimately as forgettable. However, a Twitter follower commented on my blurb thinking the movie poster and the plot looked interesting. I replied saying the plot was very Hitchcock-like and the film itself was…

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Tunes of Glory: Mills. Guinness. An Epic Clash of Wills.

Tunes of Glory: Mills. Guinness. An Epic Clash of Wills.

Released: 1960 Dir.: Ronald Neame Acting Col. Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) is in command of a Scottish Highland Regiment in the peacetime years following the Second World War. He took command when the regiments Colonel was killed during the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa and saw the battalion through to the wars end and beyond. Jock is a hard drinking career man who worked his way up the ranks the hard way, beginning as a regimental piper. If…

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The Way to the Stars: Life, Love and Loss.

The Way to the Stars: Life, Love and Loss.

Released: 1945 Dir.: Anthony Asquith We’ve all seen films and documentaries showing B-17 and Lancaster bombers peppered by AA fire, attacked by FW-190 fighters, and crippled aircraft limping back home to make a miraculous landing, or tragically falling short. The Way to the Stars is the flipside of those films, about life, love and loss, told poetically and with heart. In 1940 RAF Station Halfpenny Field, home of No. 720 Squadron, flying Bristol Blenheim bombers, is a constant target of…

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A Night to Remember: The Best Film of the Titanic Disaster.

A Night to Remember: The Best Film of the Titanic Disaster.

Released: 1958 Dir.: Roy Ward Baker Of the many movies about the sinking of the Titanic, 1958’s A Night to Remember is the best. Mostly because it is one of very few Titanic movies that doesn’t rely on fictional characters to tell the story. Opting instead to keep it real, and dramatize the story of the real people involved, using 2nd Officer Lightoller (Kenneth More) as our eyes and ears for much of the story without diminishing the scope of…

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