Movies: Seen and Obscure
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- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsJoel McCreaEllen DrewDean StockwellIn 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.Well done 'family' movie set in the late 1870s in Small town Texas. Joel McCrea is excellent as the minister with a gun who came there after the Civil War and ganed the trust of the town; Dean Stockwell is very good as his ward / nephew.
- DirectorRoseanne LiangStarsMichelle AngMatt WhelanJohnny BarkerThe contemporary story of Chinese New Zealand-born over-achiever Emily Chu, raised to believe she can get anything she puts her mind to. Even if 'anything' is at odds with her traditional Hong Kong born parents' wish for her to become a doctor like her two older sisters. Everything is coming up roses - until she meets James, a European New Zealander, and accidentally falls in love with him. But if her father finds out, she will face disownment. By the time Emily realises that she's sacrificing the respect of her family to follow her heart, James, too, has fallen irrevocably in love and there's nothing for it but to try and keep their relationship a secret. Happy endings don't come easy, if at all, but that doesn't mean they don't happen. But for Emily to get one, she needs to show James and her family that she has learned a lesson about the selflessness of love.Interesting autobiographical story done by a young Chinese-New Zealander filmmaker about her student film and her courtship and eventual marriage to another student who her traditionalist parents disapprove of - because he's white. You can easily feel the heart of this movie; the angst and the love in her relationships with her family and eventual husband, her student filmmaker wild ideas on her projects, and the humanness of all concerned. Very sweet film. (Warning: New Zealand accents can get hard to follow for an American, as can a lot of the local references.)
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsHugh GrantTara FitzgeraldSam NeillWhen a painting is termed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three sexually playful models living with him.Funny, deeper than you think, and plenty sensual movie about (1) a real and famous Australian painter at his mountain home, his three 'siren' like incredibly gorgeous and sensuous models, and his general Bohemian lifestyle clashing with (2)a young minister (plus wife) sent on an errand by his bishop to have the painter pull one of his pieces out of a Sydney exhibition (too blasphemous!) whose reactions to the household are intermixed shock and envy.
The main actors are wonderful. Sam Neill can be wonderfully arch in his sleep, Hugh Grant covers the sputtering cleric deftly and humanly, and the photography and writing (and bit performances, including an old profane drunk hanging outside the local pub) are perfect. Don't see this with someone who can't handle the strong romantic and sensual nature of the film, but the warmth and humor for everyone in the film just explodes. Recommended.